Once Upon A Summertime
Melody Carlson
Revell, Jun 2 2015, $14.99
ISBN: 9780800723576
Anna Gordon’s goal used to be to manage a major Manhattan
hotel. Although she obtained her Masters
in Hotel Management thanks to her Grandma, dumping her dream Anna is far from
the Big Apple as she runs the Value Lodge in her hometown Springville. She runs into her best friend Marley Ferris
who took leave from her international flight attendant job to help her parents
manage Lou’s Café while her mom recovers from back surgery. Marley sends a text to her brother Max to ask
Vincent Newman if he would hire Anna to work at the Rothsberg of SoHo
Hotel. Her decision to go or stay is out
of hands when the Value Lodge owners dismiss her for doing her job when she
fired their worthless nephew and his girlfriend.
She realizes during the day manager position interview that
Vincent will not hire her as she just lost two years of references and has
limited experience otherwise. In the
bathroom, Anna meets Vincent’s wife Denise who hires her as the housekeeping
manager. Soon after that Anna meets the
new head manager Sean O’Neil who also comes from Springville. As Sean and Anna work together, they fall in
love; but fraternization is against the hotel’s rules.
This New York romance is a pleasant contemporary starring a
competent caring female, a very nice capable male, the hotel staff and the
City. Readers will appreciate the first
Follow Your Heart tale although the climax seems sudden.
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