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Summary: Small town romance.
Review: A fast, entertaining read. Bobby is a sweetie and in a rare twist he's not "Mr. Macho" as so many men are in books. I loved the way Jenna stood her ground in regards to her fathers business. What an absolute jerk her father was-he should have been pushed into the Potomac! He had no fatherly instincts at all! Jenna sure showed him!

Rating:
Summary: Small town romance.
Review: A fast, entertaining read. Bobby is a sweetie and in a rare twist he's not "Mr. Macho" as so many men are in books. I loved the way Jenna stood her ground in regards to her fathers business. What an absolute jerk her father was-he should have been pushed into the Potomac! He had no fatherly instincts at all! Jenna sure showed him!

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Summary: Excellent Book
Review: I have read all of Ms. Woods' novels and they are all very good. She keeps getting better and better. This story has everything, romance, humor, even a mystery. While it is light, it addresses some serious issues. I read it in two days.

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Summary: Excellent Book
Review: In Trinity Harbor, Virginia Jenna Kennedy, the daughter in Pennington and Sons, desperately needs the waterfront renovation contract. She obsessively thirsts to prove to her chauvinistic family that she is not a loser who messes up everything. That is why she told no one about her scheme to place a carousal horse on the lawn of the homeowner who also owns the waterfront property.

Gourmet chef Bobby Spencer wants nothing to do with the gorgeous single mother who demands he contract with her to renovate his waterfront property. However, when someone steals the antique horse Bobby cannot resist her vulnerability. He helps a disconsolate Jenna with finding the horse before her family accuses her of another reckless screw-up. As they search together, they begin to fall in love, but both have been burned once and so are twice as shy when it comes to relationships.

ASK ANYONE who enjoys amusing contemporary romances as to who is worth reading and Sherryl Woods will appear on most lists. The return of characters from ABOUT THAT MAN adds depth so that the audience better understands the lead couple, especially Bobby. He struggles with his feelings for supermom-business mogul wannabe Jenna, a person that would search the Afghanistan caves for Bin Laden if given the assignment. This is an admirable trait yet at times irritate the audience. Still Ms. Woods provides a very amusing return to Trinity Bay that will leave fans anxiously awaiting the future tale of Bobby's older brother.

Harriet Klausner

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Summary: Amusing contemporary romance
Review: In Trinity Harbor, Virginia Jenna Kennedy, the daughter in Pennington and Sons, desperately needs the waterfront renovation contract. She obsessively thirsts to prove to her chauvinistic family that she is not a loser who messes up everything. That is why she told no one about her scheme to place a carousal horse on the lawn of the homeowner who also owns the waterfront property.

Gourmet chef Bobby Spencer wants nothing to do with the gorgeous single mother who demands he contract with her to renovate his waterfront property. However, when someone steals the antique horse Bobby cannot resist her vulnerability. He helps a disconsolate Jenna with finding the horse before her family accuses her of another reckless screw-up. As they search together, they begin to fall in love, but both have been burned once and so are twice as shy when it comes to relationships.

ASK ANYONE who enjoys amusing contemporary romances as to who is worth reading and Sherryl Woods will appear on most lists. The return of characters from ABOUT THAT MAN adds depth so that the audience better understands the lead couple, especially Bobby. He struggles with his feelings for supermom-business mogul wannabe Jenna, a person that would search the Afghanistan caves for Bin Laden if given the assignment. This is an admirable trait yet at times irritate the audience. Still Ms. Woods provides a very amusing return to Trinity Bay that will leave fans anxiously awaiting the future tale of Bobby's older brother.

Harriet Klausner

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Summary: Trinity Harbor Revisited
Review: It was a pleasure returning to Trinity Harbor once more, this time the story centers around Bobby Spencer, restaurateur and real estate mongrel and Jenna Kennedy only daughter from a rich Baltimore family who has to fight to be seen as more than just an after thought to her father and brothers.

After hearing about development of beachfront property Jenna has a surprise delivered to Bobby's front lawn in the hopes of getting his attention so that he would be wiling to at least listen to the ideas she has regarding the development since he won't take her phone calls on the matter. Of course Bobby wants nothing to do with Jenna and the surprise she left disappears under mysterious circumstances.

After the disappearance of her attention getting surprise and much resistance from Bobby, Jenna packs up her stuff and her daughter then moves down to Trinity Harbor with a proposal that Bobby can't refuse for his new development which will make Trinity Harbor a place where families would want to visit on weekends or vacations.

Little do Bobby and Jenna suspect but more than fate has played a hand in their potential working relationship. Yes, the meddling King Spencer has decided the spunky Baltimore woman is just what Bobby needs to put his life in perspective and has decided that Jenna is the perfect candidate who would be perfect for his youngest son, and then sets the plan in motion. Things don't go precisely the way King planned but Jenna is definitely the motivation that Bobby needed in order to let go of the past and begin to really live again.

I especially enjoyed being reacquainted with the past couples from the Trinity Harbor saga: Daisy and Walker, Anna-Louise and Richard as well as the budding relationship between King and the lovable Frances have progressed.

Overall this was a fun and entertaining novel, and I can't wait to find out what happens to Tucker!!!

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Summary: Booooooring...
Review: Jenna Kennedy has something to prove. She's ready to show her father and two brothers that she is more than an empty-headed woman that is only good for answering the phones and doing the filing at their family owned company. All she has to do is get the attention of Bobby Spencer, and covince him that she's the perfect person to plan his development of the boardwalk in Trinity Harbor. The problem is, once she's there, Jenna never wants to leave.

Bobby Spencer has had his heart broken and he is determined that it won't happen again. But he couldn't stop Jenna from bulldozing into his life and changing the way he thought about involvement. The only thing is, she's determined to keep their relationship strictly professional, because she doesn't want anything interfering in the planning of the boardwalk.

This is my second Woods book, the first one being 'About that Man'. In her normal light hearted way, Woods brings enough emotion into this book to keep the reader hooked. With the antics of Darcy, Jenna's daughter and the return of Robert 'King' Spencer, you won't put this book down until you've finished it.

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Summary: A great addition to Trinity Harbor...
Review: Jenna Kennedy has something to prove. She's ready to show her father and two brothers that she is more than an empty-headed woman that is only good for answering the phones and doing the filing at their family owned company. All she has to do is get the attention of Bobby Spencer, and covince him that she's the perfect person to plan his development of the boardwalk in Trinity Harbor. The problem is, once she's there, Jenna never wants to leave.

Bobby Spencer has had his heart broken and he is determined that it won't happen again. But he couldn't stop Jenna from bulldozing into his life and changing the way he thought about involvement. The only thing is, she's determined to keep their relationship strictly professional, because she doesn't want anything interfering in the planning of the boardwalk.

This is my second Woods book, the first one being 'About that Man'. In her normal light hearted way, Woods brings enough emotion into this book to keep the reader hooked. With the antics of Darcy, Jenna's daughter and the return of Robert 'King' Spencer, you won't put this book down until you've finished it.

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Summary: Booooooring...
Review: This is the worst romance novel I have read in a long time. There's enough plot to fill MAYBE a hundred pages, but it drags on for almost 400. The rest was fairly boring dialog, during which the characters re-hash already established arguments over and over again. Action? None. On the rare occasions that events actually happened, they were unrealistic in a contrived, unimaginative sort of way. Plus, we're supposed to beleive that there is real passion between these 2 characters when it takes them 365 pages to do anything but kiss? I also found the characters unsympathetic and one-dimensional. The father is such an idiot, and does some really awful things while meddling, but is forgiven immediately with a slap on the back and a "Well, you meant well." Overall, a complete waste of time. Don't bother.