This is a contemporary, clean romance. It is categorized as Christian, but I would have liked to have seen more dependance on faith than is written.
The characters are very believable, each with their own strengths and weaknesses. Meg Whitaker grew up in her family’s successful lobster business. She never took much interest in it except for what it provided for her. The story opens with her returning home because her mother is ill and her father has made a big decision that he wants to tell her. He informs her that he is thinking of selling the business but not to her. She isn’t too upset about that since she never took much interest in it anyway. That is, until she hears who her father wants to sell to. He wants to sell it to the boy in high school, who she thinks spoiled her chances at an important college scholarship, Oliver Ross. Now, as a grown, successful woman, she is still holding a high school grudge against him and vows to stop him from buying.
This is from the publisher's website:
When Meg Whitaker's father decides to sell the family's lobster fishing business to her high school nemesis, she sets out to prove she should take it over instead. Though she's never had any interest in running the small fleet--or even getting on a boat due to her persistent seasickness--she can't stand to see Oliver Ross in charge. Not when he ruined her dreams for a science scholarship and an Ivy League education ten years ago.
Oliver isn't proud of what he did back then. Angry and broken by his father walking out on his family, he lashed out at Meg--an innocent bystander. But owning a respected fishing fleet on Prince Edward Island is the opportunity of a lifetime, as well as a way to provide for his mother, and he's not about to walk away just because Meg wants him to.
Meg's father has the perfect solution: Oliver and Meg will work the business together, and at the end of the season, he'll decide who gets it. Along the way, they may discover that their stories are more similar than they thought . . . and their dreams aren't what they expected.
This is a clean, heartwarming story of two people who have to overcome their pasts in order to find happiness. . It’s a story about maturing and dealing with life’s ups and downs.
I must admit, I wasn’t overly interested in the lobster hauling industry, but I never realized how cut-throat it could be.
There is a bit of mystery in the story with a twist in the end.
I will look forward to reading more from this author.
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