"A surprisingly lovely spring read."

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The blurb did not match the contents of the book at all, but I was pleasantly surprised by how much I enjoyed this book.

After being recently left only months before her wedding, Annie takes a temporary PA position at a hospital in Rome, Rhode Island and rents a cabin from a photojournalist who is away on assignment. Imagine Emmitt's surprise when he is forced to come home early and finds a woman living in his house.

The blurb makes this book sound like it will be a sex-crazed story about two strangers who become lovers when forced to share a space, but this is much more of a story about family and belonging. Emmitt has to learn what it means to be a dad to his 15 year old daughter after she loses her mom only 4 months prior and he wasn't there to help her through it. Annie navigates what it means to be an adopted Vietnamese woman, when she feels like she doesn't belong to the Vietnamese community or the white community in which she grew up. Ultimately they learn how to love each other, but also what it means to be completely loved by someone else.

Thanks to Kensington Publishing Corp., NetGalley, and Marina Adair for an advance copy of the book. It was a surprisingly lovely spring read.