Last Nora Roberts review for a bit, I promise! Not that it matters - it's my cannon after all, but still. I need to shake things up!
This is the second book in the Inn Boonsboro Trilogy, which, honestly, serves as a way to advertise the totally kickass inn that Nora Roberts owns, as well as the area surrounding it. However, it's successful, as I enjoy the stories AND want to go stay there - so good work Roberts!
This volume focuses on the relationship between Owen and Avery. Owen is the most organized of the Montgomery brothers - Type A to the bone. Avery is less organized in her personal life, but has to be fairly detail oriented to balance everything she has going, which includes running Vesta, the killer pizza joint across the street from the Inn Boonsboro (which we get to see open in this one!). Avery and Owen have a history, as they "dated" as kids, and both have harbored feelings for each other for years. In addition to entering a new business partnership over the course of this book, they also pursue a romantic relationship, which is complicated by Avery's emotional baggage.
Avery's story takes a leaf out of Vision in White with mommy issues. Mac's mom may not have walked out on them, but she was slutty and emotionally destructive, and her damage hurts Mac's ability to truly give herself to a relationship. Avery's mom walked out on her and her father when Avery was 12. It's left her feeling she's likely to fail in romance like she did, and she's afraid of hurting Owen. Not a shock that they overcome this.
Extra bonus material on this is the progression of Lizzy's story. Lizzy is the ghost at the Inn, who saved Clare in the last volume by warning Beckett that she was in danger. Owen manages to actually see Lizzy in this one, and Lizzy gives Clare something of hers near the end. They start to establish who Lizzy is, who she is waiting for, and how she is connected to the people present.
I'm interested to see how everything wraps in the next story, which will be about Hope and Ryder. That's due out in November, so expect to see a review of that before the cannon wraps!
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