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Kaitlyn Summers is heartbroken.
When she receives an invitation to spend Christmas with her family on the Hawaiian island of Kauai, she feels it may be the perfect medicine.
She throws herself into helping her sister’s struggling art gallery, even taking a temporary job for extra money by looking after a little girl from her nephew’s school. She also begins to paint again, something she’s been unable to do since her breakup. It’s tempting to stay on Kauai, but she has obligations back in Los Angeles.
Life gets more complicated when circumstances keep putting her close to Leonardo Medici. Not only is he drop-dead gorgeous, he’s a local celebrity. But Kaitlyn can’t shake the feeling he’s hiding something.
Should she believe the rumors that he’s romancing half the island’s single women?
Or is the random sound of wind chimes when he’s close-by a sign that an angel is near and the secret to her happily ever after?
Genre: contemporary romance
Publication date: November 2020
Mature content: no
Review: Despite the raving reviews on Amazon and Goodreads, this book didn't work for me. The romance is fairly Ok, but none of the characters makes that much sense.
Kaitlyn is on vacation to spend time with the family she hasn't seen in months. That she intends to go to job interviews while on Hawaii was a bit strange, but in the end might make sense if she was trying to see if she could get a job closer to her family. She refuses both jobs because she would be underpaid, but then decides to take on a nanny job - because yes, that has everything to do with graphic design and art - and, on top of that, a live-in position which takes her away from the family she was visiting in the first place. Other than as an excuse for her to spend time with Leo and get the romance between them going, how does that make sense?
Leo, on the other hand, seems wary of other people intruding in his life - he even makes an effort to disguise his identity when hiring a nanny for his daughter (which, by the way, ends up not really being his daughter) - but then invites said nanny to a formal party as his plus-one. Again, at first glance, it looks very romantic - and is necessary for the plot to work - but is it realistic?
And the wind chimes thing was weird and had little follow up throughout the book.
Overall, the idea behind the story had potential but I just couldn't bring myself to enjoy it because there was something silly happening at every turn of the pages.
Happy readings!
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