All Summer Long is one of those lighthearted books you enjoy reading when you want to kick the lazy days of summer into high gear. It is a story about Tia and Leo, two people who met casually at a sailing camp ten years before our story begins. As everyone said goodbye on the last day of camp, Leo planted Tia with a kiss. Years later, with that kiss on her mind, Tia is moving to San Francisco to help her aunt open a boutique restaurant on a luxury yacht. The excitement of playing a pivotal role restoring the yacht and designing the ultimate galley kitchen and dining room play on her mind as she arrives in San Francisco. Instead of her aunt, a handsome young man is waiting to pick her up. Not just any handsome man but an older version of the teenage boy who gave her that memorable kiss all those years ago.
As fate would have it, she and Leo will be thrown together often as they manage the work needed on the Pacific Pearl. Her uncle's pressing need heart surgery and her aunt's natural desire to stay at his side compels the pair to work together to complete the work.
The work needed is significant but takes second place in the plot to Tia and Leo's story. We can almost feel the fog roll in and the wave lapping on the side of the yacht, docked in the bay. The author, Melody Carlson is very adept at setting us right in the middle of the story. From the start Tia enjoyed meeting Leo again, deciding that moving from northern Washington state was the best decision she'd made since graduating from culinary school. The only bump on the road was Natalie, Leo's fiance. Naturally, Tia is disappointed but can she work with Leo to oversee all the work needed to turn a 1980's remodel job gone bad into her aunt's vision of the Pacific Pearl? Can she stand by and watch a man she is falling for marry another woman? Even if the other woman has also become her friend?
Read it and find out! All Summer Long is another good book to add to your summer reading list. And if your vacation plans are on water, all the better to grab your copy of All Summer Long from your favorite local bookseller. Melody Carlson is an award winning author of more than 200 books. She was awarded a Romantic Times Career Achievement Award in the inspirational market. All Summer Long is book 2 in her Follow Your Heart Series. For information on Melody and her books check out her website at: http://www.melodycarlson.com
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