Carolina Rebel Magnolia Series ebook
Mame Emerson was on her way over to Alys to explain about a student who needed their help, a change to their travel plan. On the way over to see Alys, Mame had a heart attack. She is hooked up to an IV and a heart monitor. Mame made plans to travel with her friend Alys Seagraves a twenty-seven-year old widowed on route 66 in a pink Cadillac the same route Mame took with her late husband on their honeymoon. Alys's husband died of cancer over a year ago. Mame thinks Alys been grieving too long and needs a vacation. Mame tried to leave the hospital before her nephew radio talk show host "Doc" Elliot Roth. Elliot arrives just before Aunt Mame had time to escape. Elliot wants Aunt Mame stay in the hospital for more testing. Mame has better things to do than sit around in a hospital. She took off her monitors without everyone running into her room escaped the hospital and stolen Elliot's Range Rover. Mame has something up her sleeve; she's doing a little match making with Elliot and Alys.
Alys Seagraves is sociable, kind and friendly whomever she meets everyone seems to like her. Her husband died last year with cancer. Both her parents died several years before. Alys has a phobia of hospitals. She went to visit Mame in the hospital. Mame told Alys take Beulah the pink Cadillac and go on without her. She had a copy of the itinerary and she'll catch up with Alys. When Elliot found Aunt Mame gone and his Ranger Rover stolen he went looking for Alys. They adventured on a road trip from St. Louis Missouri to Albuquerque, New Mexico looking for Mame.
Elliot is a medical doctor, he doesn't have a practice. Elliot is a famous author; he wrote books about diet, exercise and specialized in nutrition. Heart disease runs in his family. Elliot is conscious of what types of food he'll eat and he's a runner doing everything he can to live longer than he father and grandfather. Whereas, Alys will eat all kinds of foods; Mame thinks Alys will be good for Elliot. Elliot's father had a heart attack at 35 while he was driving, his parents died in an auto accident and leaving Elliot a seven-year-old and his two little brothers four and two. Aunt Mama raised the three boys. At the age of 35, Elliot isn't enjoying life. He thinks any seconds he is going to have a heart attack, like his father, grandfather and die.
I liked the two main characters Elliot and Alys. They were funny together traveling to New Mexico. There was a lot of excitement when Mame and one of her students kidnapped her niece. Elliot and Alys were also involved with the kidnapping.
California Girl was a funny romantic story line.
In Springfield, Missouri Mame suffers a heart attack that sends her nephew radio talk show host "Doc" Elliot Roth scrambling form St. Louis to insure she is okay. Mame owner of Mame's School of Alternative Life Lessons worries about Elliot who she feels never fools around. He works out continuously and he only eats healthy foods. Elliot remains traumatized because his father died from a heart attack at thirty-five, the same age Elliot is now.
BalasHapusIn the hospital Elliot trips over Mame's disciple Alys Seagraves whose husband died last year from cancer and both her parents are dead. Mame fakes out Elliot and steals his car from the hospital lot. He worries about her and visits Alys for information. She also is concerned as she and Mame were going to go together to New Mexico. Elliot decides to follow his Aunt Mame, but Alys forces her way onto the trek. Like two pigeons, Mame has maneuvered her two favorite folks; as if on cue these opposites fall in love, but both fear commitment because people die.
This modernization of Auntie Mame is a delightful contemporary romance starring two likable lead protagonists and a brilliant Machiavellian matchmaking technician who could have won the election for Kerry. The story line is fun as Elliot fears myocardial infarction, but Alys makes his heart beat faster and louder. Alys tries to live life to the fullest, but has also learned how death stalks love. Patricia Rice serves up an amusing yet serious tale of survivors struggling with love and death.
Harriet Klausner
After losing her financial job, expert Aurora Jenkins returns home to Coastal Carolina to care for her father and sister, both suffering injuries. Rory has volunteered to put together a budget proposal for her island town to request a grant to purchase land for conversion to a park. However, Rory learns she needs to work with software genius and all around hermit Thomas MacCloud whose program will identify the land owners.As Rory and Thomas squabble, they learn that the politicians and big business have gotten together with a plan that will over develop and ultimately destroy the beauty of the island. The duo works together seeking a solution to boost the local economy yet keep the island's natural beauty even as they fall in love. However, though both are ready to battle the big shots, neither is ready for a relationship.CAROLINA GIRL is an entertaining contemporary romance that focuses on the issue of development vs. environment especially through the eyes of the strong support cast. The lead couple is fun to follow as they battle, argue, and squabble. Though the final resolution seems too easy, fans will enjoy the teaming up of the Amazon Princess and the software game developer against superheavyweights used to getting their way.Harriet Klausner
BalasHapusAurora Jenkins left home to concur the world only to return to her roots once she looses her financial job. Not to be left bored, she is tasked with caring for an injured father and sister. Once home, Aurora decides that the island where her town is located needs a park and volunteers her expertise to provide a budget to the town. Everything runs smooth until she discovers that her budget will mean having to track down the landowners. Had she taken the conventional route through city hall and bureaucracy, she would have missed the sparks that fly when she determines that hooking up with software genius Clay McCloud is the quickest path.Clay was just sitting around, minding his own business without desiring any complications. When this gorgeous redhead seeks his assistance, he can't help but to be intrigued. While they don't share the same outlook for the island, they do share a hidden passion for each other that begs through the pages to be unleashed. The backdrop is environmental versus development. A supporting cast carries this story and the overall outcome is wonderful if not a tad too obvious. The 180-degree opposite personalities of the love interests add to the passion as each wants to dominate the other. I enjoyed the book and recommend it.
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