Making a Splash
Making a Splash by Joanne RockIn this Murphy family series, Jack is back from his Navy military service and he has been thrown together with the woman he left 5 years ago, just walked out on her and joined up.
She has had some dates with others but nothing that lasted. She wants a B&B in Bar Harbor, Maine-to get away from all the family. They've been nice to her over the years including her in
with other family activities. She also plans to survive by running her water sports business. She had wanted Keith's input on the B&B but he though Jack could do with a vacation by taking the yacht up to Maine while he takes the sailboat down south to try to sell it.
Love the family activities: the men sports and how they joke around with one another.
Love the water travels and it does sound like a trip I'd like to take someday.
Alicia LeBlanc grew up next door to the Murphys and was romantically involved with Jack before he joined up with the Navy.
They are becoming sexually involved on the trip up north. She just wanted a second opinion not a love affair.
She just wants to get on with her life. He offered to loan her the money for her dreams.
He finally opens up to her and explains why he joined the military...
He was going overseas and visiting influential people while disguising it for company business of global properties. Now that he's back his dad is trying to persuade him to work with the family resort business again.
They make a deal on their journey that the other has to answer all the questions posed to them. He's not told her his plans for all the bars he's been buying up and she's not telling him why she wants to buy the B&B 3 states away. Winner takes all.
Living the Fantasy by Joanne Rock
This Murphy family series is about Ryan and he is in charge of the global properties, a specific one: Venus Hotel in Fiji.
Keira is there to do battle with him.
Love the detailed lush descriptions of the fauna and wildlife on the island. Makes we reach out to touch the flowers as she walks by listening to the birds...
They had been lovers for 14 days in their college days as they backpacked across Nepal.
She is there to protest that now her funding for the school for undeserved children would lose their chance at an education.
She's agreed to stay at a hotel villa since she's stranded there for 3 more days due to lack of ferry runs. Maybe she can talk him into funding the school.
They both remember the good ole days and when he asks if she wants to resurrect their love she agrees...
She tells him what she's been doing for the past 8 years and he sums it up by saying sorry her family hasn't been so supportive of her career.
She also agrees to accompany him back home to Cape Cod for a family lobsterfest to show her what real family is like as many of the others will be there.
That will give Ryan time to explain to her why he is in the Fiji Island area. Hot steamy sex scenes only add to the appeal of reading this book.
Love the descriptions of the hand made necklaces and their significance.