The Inn at Oak Creek

Rating:
Summary: Sooo good!
Review: Molly Porter had been headed for the Olympics, a member of the women's downhill ski team. Then the unthinkable happened, an accident that took years to recover from. Molly lived; however, her Olympic dream was forever shattered and she carried several scars.

With help and support from her loved ones, Molly threw herself into a new career. She left Vermont for Texas and became the hotel manager at the Bluebonnet Inn. She was finally satisfied with her life until a new owner, Sam Kincaid, appeared.

Sam was able to look past Molly's scars and see the lovely woman she really was, inside and out. Their professional relationship began to bloom into more. There was one major problem though. Sam had clearly stated how much he wanted to have children. Molly would have to somehow tell him that the accident left her unable to do so. Would her life come crashing down all over again?

**** Author Linda Barrett's pen expresses her characters' so well, readers can not help but actually feel the emotions leap off the pages and into their hearts! This book is a wonderful, realistic, feel good romance that I am happy to recommend!

Rating:
Summary: engaging contemporary romance
Review: Molly Porter was a strong bet to making the American Olympics downhill ski team until she suffered a terrible career ending accident. Following years of healing Molly reinvents herself as the hotel manager of the Bluebonnet Inn. Though regretting that she never participated on the Olympic stage and that she cannot have children (a side effect of the injury), Molly feels pretty good that her life has come together for the first time since the accident.

Sam Kincaid is the new owner of the inn and he wants to sell it so he can stake his return to the finance world. While Sam and Molly disagree over the future of the inn, they fall in love. However, he fears commitment to someone who fails to share his dreams while she believes he deserves a wife who can give him the children he professes that he wants one day.

This engaging contemporary romance avoids the soap opera clichés through two wonderful lead protagonists. Sam and Molly grip the audience, as readers want both to obtain their desires, but together, though on the surface that seems illogical and impossible. THE INN AT OAK CREEK is a fine love tale that focuses on the catalyst of love enabling new aspirations to replace shattered hopes.

Harriet Klausner