Sandpiper Shore

April 16, 2018
The breakneck pace of Mason’s screwball sixth Harmony Harbor romance sometimes becomes a little too dizzying. Jenna Bell, wistful tag-along to her family’s wedding empire, has lost her matchmaking business to her usurping stepmother, Gwyneth. Her own wedding is providing a little brightness in Jenna’s life—until, at a dress fitting, her fiancé announces that Jenna needs to hand over ring and dress, because he’s going to marry Gwyneth instead. A street brawl ensues, followed—with more whimsy than logic—by a mass arrest, sprained ankle, pole dance, and apartment lockout. Jenna ends up spending the night on the beach with gorgeous Logan Gallagher, a Secret Service agent who’s 10 years her senior. A malicious cop included Logan in the arrest, charging him with assaulting Jenna’s ex, and that doesn’t look good on his record. Jenna knows that Gwyneth will either hand over her business or drop the charges in exchange for the engagement ring; now she has to decide which to ask for. For any fan of light contemporaries, the central plot of Jenna’s misadventures can stand alone, but Mason is not adept with backstories, and the thicket of established connections surrounding the main story won’t make much sense to newcomers.

June 15, 2018

From the moment Secret Service Agent Logan Gallagher pulled Jenna Bell out of the path of an oncoming car and then decked her smarmy former fiancé, he's been her knight in shining armor. Despite the obvious magnetism, Logan isn't the marrying kind. Then he finds himself engaged to a princess he had been guarding but, owing to a knock on the head, doesn't remember. To top it all off, Jenna is planning the wedding. A complex, multilayered plot keeps the pages turning, while a meddling, ghostly great-grandmother adds a whimsical touch. VERDICT Quirky, funny, sweet, and overflowing with a colorful cast, this welcome installment in this popular seaside series is complete in itself, but because of a number of continuing characters and plot threads, readers may wish to begin with the first title, Mistletoe Cottage. Mason (Driftwood Cove) lives in Ontario, Canada.

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