4 1/2 STARS!
Sometimes you find what you always knew you wanted in the least likely place! A sweet friends-to-lovers romance that shows how overcoming loss and finding your way through to try again can be the best thing you ever did.
Holly Tyler has always felt like Seashell Bay Island was”home” even though she’s been living in Boston for years. Everyone she knows and loves are there waiting for her when she makes her yearly visit. This time she’s arriving under disturbing circumstances though, and she’s got to try to get her family healthy again and get the dilapidated business they’ve been running back in better shape before she heads back to Boston.
Micah Lancaster is a deputy on the Island, and has been one of Holly’s best friends for years. Last summer they spent a lot of time together when she was here and sparks were flying. He knows she’s got a boyfriend, but he doesn’t shy away from letting her know he’s interested when she arrives this time.
Will Holly do what she needs to do and head back to the city, or will she decide everything she’ll ever need is right there on the Island?
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See You at Sunset
Seashell Bay # 3
By: V.K. Sykes
Releasing February 23, 2016
Forever / Grand Central
BLURB:
DEEPER THAN ANY OCEAN . . .
All Holly Tyler wants is a fantastic career, a not-too-committed relationship, and a city where there are no painful memories. Instead, she’s called back to her hometown of Seashell Bay to help with her family’s struggling general store. It’s a town where everyone knows everyone, and where one man could sink Holly’s careful plans.
Deputy Sheriff Micah Lancaster has wanted Holly for as long as he can remember. He knows she has a life on the mainland-and a boyfriend-and that there’s no real future with her. But now Holly is back and the attraction still flickers between them, a promise of something more. Their desire is stronger than any undertow . . . and once it pulls them under, it won’t let go.
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EXCERPT:
Micah gave Holly lots of space as she made her way across the room to the shuffleboard table. It wasn’t like him to jump in like that, accepting Ryan’s challenge—not when it was clear that Holly was about to decline. But he just hadn’t been able to resist the temptation to get close to her. He never could when it came to Holly Tyler.
Not that he wasn’t tempted to whack Ryan upside the head for being so obvious. His buddy knew exactly how conflicted he was about Holly, and yet he still hadn’t been able to resist playing matchmaker. Like plenty of islanders, Ryan wanted Micah and Holly to hook up. Not just for his sake but because it might pull her back to Seashell Bay.
Too bad Holly wasn’t down with the program. Nor was she the type to want a casual summer fling. And when it came to Holly, neither was Micah. He wanted more than that, and was pretty well convinced he would never get it.
And she has a boyfriend. Micah forced that unpleasant thought away.
He kept his eyes pretty much glued to Holly’s perfect ass as she slipped through the crowded tables. Her short, red skirt was hot enough to peel the paint off the Pot’s walls. Her form-fitting white blouse showcased her trim waist and dynamite rack. Not for the first time, Micah couldn’t help thinking that, looking the way she did—not just tonight but all the time—Holly could have virtually any man in the world.
By the time he caught up with her, Holly was already lining up the shuffleboard pucks at one end of the fourteen-foot wooden table. “Ryan, since you issued the challenge,” she said with a sly smile, “I assume you have no problem with Micah and me having the hammer to begin?”
Micah swallowed a grin. Players usually flipped a coin to see who would have the advantage of throwing the last puck—called the “hammer”—in the opening round. Holly had smoothly backed Ryan into a corner.
“No problem,” Ryan said with a mock sneer. “You and my big doofus pal will need all the help you can get.”
Morgan poked him in the side. “Play nice, you jerk.”
“Babe, I love it when you talk dirty,” Ryan said, pulling her tight against his side.
Holly laughed. “Hey, are we here to play shuffleboard or make out?”
Making out sounded pretty great to Micah. He couldn’t help pointedly raising his eyebrows as he stared down at her. Holly’s eyes opened wide as she realized her mistake, then a sweet flush turned her cheeks rosy. He almost laughed when she scowled back at him.
“Both sound good to me,” Ryan joked.
Morgan rolled her eyes in exasperation. “Keep it up, buddy, and you’ll be sleeping on the sofa tonight.”
AUTHOR INFO:
V.K. Sykes is really two people – Vanessa Kelly and Randy Sykes, a husband and wife team who write USA Today Bestselling contemporary romance and also romantic suspense. Randy excels at plot and characterization, but tends to fall down on the job when it comes to that pesky old thing called emotion. That’s where Vanessa steps in. She usually writes the sex scenes too, since Randy is a bit uncomfortable when it comes to that sort of stuff. Vanessa also writes award-winning Regency-set historical romance for Kensington Zebra under her own name. You can check out Vanessa’s bestselling historical romances at www.vanessakellyauthor.com
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RAFFLECOPTER GIVEAWAY:
Grand prize: $25 Amazon gift card, and 4 runner-up prizes: books 1 & 2 of the Seashell Bay Series (Meet Me at the Beach and Summer at the Shore)
Lovely review! Thank you for hosting SEE YOU AT SUNSET today!
Crystal, Tasty Book Tours
My pleasure! 🙂
Thanks so much for hosting us today!
You’re so welcome, I enjoyed it! 🙂