The Love List
Beatrice Callahan loves lists. Sometimes she even makes a to-do list of things she’s already done, just to go check, check, check and feel accomplished. So it’s easy to understand why, when her divorce is finally final and her ex is all moved out, Bea takes a cool, close look at her life…and makes a list.
It’s not exactly a bucket list.
It’s a love list.
Bea loves the outdoors, so she puts visit 10 National Parks on the list.
She loves animals, and on goes get a puppy.
She loves the beach, and she adds take a dream vacation to the list, and decides to do that one first. After all she’s been through and all she’s lost, she needs time to relax, rest, and reset.
On the first day she arrives in Hilton Head Island, she meets Grant Turner, the man whose house she’s renting for her fabulous beach vacation. He’s just there to make sure she settles in properly and has enough towels.
But when Bea asks for recommendations around the island, Grant quickly becomes her tour guide and then a friend and then…more than friends.
Bea turns to her lists when things get confusing and her love list morphs once again… Can she add fall in love at age 45 to the list and check it off?
An aspiring accountant with a tattered heart, a jaded speech therapist, and a matchmaking grandma–what could go wrong?
After her almost-fiancé betrayed her, Hailey Baker locked her heart and threw away the key. Now she spends her evenings after work binge-watching shows on Netflix and trying to avoid her creepy neighbor’s advances.
When she receives the call that her beloved Gramps has suffered a debilitating stroke that’s left him unable to speak, she’s determined to help. Putting her budding career as an accountant at risk, she flies cross country from Colorado to Florida.
Peter Stafford has focused solely on his career as a speech therapist since his divorce. He loves working with his patients and finds satisfaction in helping them regain their ability to speak. He plans to open his own practice, so even if he wanted a relationship–which he doesn’t–he has no time for one.
Hailey arrives in Daytona Beach only to discover that her grandmother is neck-deep in matchmaking schemes at the retirement community, and Gran’s next victim is Hailey. When Gran meets Peter at a therapy session, she’s convinced that he’s the one for Hailey and Gramps wholeheartedly agrees.
Speak to My Heart is a sweet romantic comedy for readers who crave heart flutters, spontaneous smiles, and not-so-simple happily-ever-afters.
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