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The Friendship Pact by Jill Shalvis
4.0
emotional hopeful medium-paced

 I can always count on this author to write a feel-good romance. She never fails me. Her books are definitely comfort reads for me. I enjoyed this second book in the Sunrise Cove series.

While this is a series, it's only a series based on location--Lake Tahoe. It can be read as a standalone without any difficulties. Besides being a second chance romance for Tae and Riggs, it is also a story of Tae finding her father and her relationship with her mother.

Tae has always wondered about her father. Her mother, April, got pregnant as a teenager and told Tae that her father died. Upon seeing her birth certificate with no father listed, Tae starts to question that some more. At the same time, her childhood friend/one time sex partner in high school, Riggs Copeland, has returned for the summer to help out with his brother and his business. Seeing Tae again brings back old feelings, but they decide on a friendship pact as Riggs is not staying in town.

I love the blossoming romance between Riggs and Tae, but I also love the relationship with Riggs and his older brother, Jake. I kept thinking that Jake's story would have made an awesome Jill Shalvis book and was hoping I hadn't missed it! LOL

Thank you to the author, Avon Books and Get Red PR for an advanced readers copy. All thoughts and opinions are my own.