Title: Crescent Hill
Author: Jackie Wang
Genre: Holiday/Contemporary Romance
Release Date: December 20, 2016
Blurb
Roman Finnegan fixes hotels for a living. Give him two weeks with any failing hospitality business and he'll make it profitable again.
But his latest charity project, Crescent Hill Lodge, may be beyond saving.
But his latest charity project, Crescent Hill Lodge, may be beyond saving.
The owners refuse to acknowledge their financial problems, the staff are disrespectful, the hideous rooms are filthy, and the entire Summers family is on the verge of bankruptcy. If they can’t turn things around before the new year, they’ll have to shut down the lodge.
The only person keeping the business afloat is the owners' daughter and hotel manager, Magnolia (Maggie) Summers. She's hard-working, loyal and kind to a fault. She also has big dreams that are stifled by her inner demons.
Despite trying to stay professional, Roman falls hard for this sweet, small-town girl.
So hard, in fact, that he wants to bring her back to London with him. His gift: an all-expense paid winter holiday in Europe. All Maggie has to do is say yes.
Only thing is, Maggie’s past is littered with broken hearts, unfulfilled promises, and stolen dreams.
She’s too scared to leave her family, hometown, and safety net behind.
She doesn’t think Roman can make her happy.
He needs to convince her otherwise…before his flight back to the UK first thing Christmas morning.
The only person keeping the business afloat is the owners' daughter and hotel manager, Magnolia (Maggie) Summers. She's hard-working, loyal and kind to a fault. She also has big dreams that are stifled by her inner demons.
Despite trying to stay professional, Roman falls hard for this sweet, small-town girl.
So hard, in fact, that he wants to bring her back to London with him. His gift: an all-expense paid winter holiday in Europe. All Maggie has to do is say yes.
Only thing is, Maggie’s past is littered with broken hearts, unfulfilled promises, and stolen dreams.
She’s too scared to leave her family, hometown, and safety net behind.
She doesn’t think Roman can make her happy.
He needs to convince her otherwise…before his flight back to the UK first thing Christmas morning.
*This is a full-length, exclusive male POV, standalone holiday romance.*
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REVIEW
So I have an addiction to those rescue shows. You know the ones like Bar Rescue, Hotel Hell, etc.
So when I read the blurb for Crescent
Hill I was intrigued. How would that
translate into a book? Jackie Wang did a
really good job infusing the story with the attitudes and drama that
encompasses that sort of rescue into the story.
Roman Finnegan had the right amount of ego, expertise and compassion
need to help rescue Maggie Summers’ family hotel. Her family was argumentative, broken and
needy. Maggie herself was desperate to
make things work. It was the perfect
combination.
What didn’t work for me was the romance between Roman and
Maggie. I didn’t feel the chemistry
between them. So when Maggie went from
determined abstinence to sexpot in what seemed like 0.2 seconds I was pretty
shocked. It just felt like the romance was
forced. I personally like it when the
chemistry builds up and then there’s a big KABOOM. Other than that, I did like the
characters. Roman was charming and
slightly arrogant. His thoughts often
made me chuckle. Maggie was a hardworking,
self-deprecating single mom who’d been through a lot of crap. The secondary characters were pretty great
too. I wish I’d seen more of Grandma
Rita, she seemed like she would have been a hoot.
Overall, a pretty decent story, it just didn’t work for
me. If you like the rescue reality
stories just as much as me, it may be worth picking up. It could be that it’ll work for you. -Peace and Love, Buxom J
Excerpt
My heart leaped into my throat as I watched her draw closer. Despite all the tears she’d shed, and the humiliation that crushed her between the shoulder blades, she looked radiant. Her eyes, those eyes that captivated me from day one, they studied me. Her lips, whose silky contours once made me rapturous with need, they opened, and then shut again.
Unspoken words floated in the air between us, mingling with dust motes and fading memories.
Despite her mistakes, despite the hateful words I said to her, I just felt sadness now. Anger had dissipated into melancholy and heartache. My body shook with grief; it mourned what could have been between us, but never would be. I wanted to be her hero. But she was never mine to save. The harder I tried, the faster we crumbled. The faster we crumbled, the harder we tumbled. I couldn’t be her hero. And that just about destroyed me.
Unspoken words floated in the air between us, mingling with dust motes and fading memories.
Despite her mistakes, despite the hateful words I said to her, I just felt sadness now. Anger had dissipated into melancholy and heartache. My body shook with grief; it mourned what could have been between us, but never would be. I wanted to be her hero. But she was never mine to save. The harder I tried, the faster we crumbled. The faster we crumbled, the harder we tumbled. I couldn’t be her hero. And that just about destroyed me.
How did we come to this? How did we go from strangers to friends, to lovers, and back to strangers again?
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