DECEMBER 2018 - AudioFile
Narrator Tanya Eby gives the characters in Book 4 of the Happily Inc. series wonderful voices that reflect their personalities. Silver and Drew were once were high school sweethearts, and now their second fling is getting serious. Small-town businesswoman Silver is independent and dedicated to her work, and Eby provides her with a no-nonsense tone and an even cadence. Eby bestows Drew, the local banker, with a deep-chested timbre that hides his big heart and his even bigger love for Silver. The high-pitched chatter of the 12-year-old who is the result of their first love weaves around the two main characters. Eby packs her performance with sweetness and romance. A.M.G. © AudioFile 2018, Portland, Maine
Publishers Weekly
07/30/2018
In Mallery’s middling fourth Happily Inc. contemporary (after Why Not Tonight), a poor but fiercely independent innovator goes into business with her wealthy high school sweetheart, but their differences in status and power make it hard to believe in their rekindled love. Drew Lovato is the heir to California First Savings and Loan. He’s spent 12 years regretting his breakup with Silver Tesdal; when he went off to college, he left her alone, pregnant, and broke. Drew signed away his parental rights, and Silver placed their daughter for adoption. When Silver is turned down for a business loan from his family’s bank, Drew sees the perfect opportunity to become a part of her life again, and conspires to buy into Silver’s portable bar-for-hire business. Silver isn’t quite ready to let him back in—or to reveal that she’s still in touch with their daughter. Entitled, immature Drew uses his wealth and position to manipulate Silver into taking him on as a business partner, and then imagines her stripping for him while they’re in a meeting. Steamy sexual attraction can’t compensate for the nagging certainty that Silver could do so much better. Agent: Annelise Robey, Jane Rotrosen Agency. (Oct.)
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"Heartfelt, funny, and utterly charming all the way through!" -Susan Elizabeth Phillips, USA Today and New York Times bestselling author on Daughters of the Bride
"Mallery enthralls readers with this introduction to the small seaside community of Los Lobos as she follows the lives of a bride's three daughters as they face realistic, believable problems and search for their own happy endings." -Publishers Weekly on Daughters of the Bride
"This insightful, laughter-laced story fairly crackles with sexual tension and has a lot to say about friendship, love, and relationships. Heartwarming and memorable." -Library Journal on Best of My Love
"An engaging read to be savored all the way through." -Publishers Weekly on The Friends We Keep
"The characters will have you crying, laughing, and falling in love...another brilliantly well-written story." -San Francisco Book Review on The Friends We Keep
DECEMBER 2018 - AudioFile
Narrator Tanya Eby gives the characters in Book 4 of the Happily Inc. series wonderful voices that reflect their personalities. Silver and Drew were once were high school sweethearts, and now their second fling is getting serious. Small-town businesswoman Silver is independent and dedicated to her work, and Eby provides her with a no-nonsense tone and an even cadence. Eby bestows Drew, the local banker, with a deep-chested timbre that hides his big heart and his even bigger love for Silver. The high-pitched chatter of the 12-year-old who is the result of their first love weaves around the two main characters. Eby packs her performance with sweetness and romance. A.M.G. © AudioFile 2018, Portland, Maine
