Oh the feels! This was a wonderful story of 'townie girl' meets 'vacationing rich boy'. In this case, the townie girl (Poppy) is a sweet and optimistic single mom eeking out an existence by trying to reestablish her family's dilapidated mountain cabins and the vacationing rich boy (Ryan) happens to be a notorious ex-child-star running from his own personal tragic past. The characters are absolutely brilliant. The author breathes life into a wonderful cast that includes Poppy's endearing preschool son Mason as well as a secondary love story with Poppy's cousin Charlie and Ryan's brother Linus. The story itself has a few twists and turns, a nice amount of steamy sexy goodness, and as the story is nearing the finish line...the tugging of the heartstrings commences. Being a single mom myself, I could almost feel my heart being torn in two as I read, tears staining the pages as I foraged on. Thank goodness for authors who adore happy endings like I do! I'm looking forward to the next book in this series and this time, I will be prepared with my box of tissues!
FTC Advisory: I won a copy of this book through the GoodReads First Reads program. No compensation for my review was given.