Since in May I did poetry month, I didn’t use any of the Top Five Wednesday prompts of May, so I’m doing it now. Am I the only one who likes to put my own spin on a given prompt and take it wildly out of the box, as my mind can be pretty creative? The current host for the time being is Stephanie at Books Less Travelled.
For many, May marks the end of schooling and begins the part of the year when many are itching to travel and are getting excited for time away from home and vacation destinations.
For today’s prompt, share some books that either talk about tourism/travel, or that take place somewhere that you’d love to visit. (This can be a real place, or somewhere fictional, your choice!)
In my head, people on islands for a holiday (maybe because I live on one), having said that, like yesterday, I took these books from my Kindle, so I still have to read them. On another note, not all characters here don’t all go on islands for vacation, but I still want to add them to my list.
Goodreads Blurb:
One garter. One guilty conscience. One vengeful mother of the groom.
For years, Blake Morgan has kept a secret with the potential to destroy his family. To protect it, he has kept everyone at bay. It was a good plan, until the Queen of Harper’s Island decided he has to marry the princess. Soon he’s competing for a life he never knew he wanted with his mortal enemy.
Throw in one bottle of scotch, mix with a wildly uncomfortable situation, and suddenly there’s a cocktail for disaster.
Goodreads Blurb:
Tori Aickens understands more than most what it feels like to lose the ones you love, but she also understands how to survive that kind of pain by leaving it all behind and never looking back. Unfortunately, while she’s busy never looking back, she walks straight ahead to find her fiancé cheating on her with a grin on his face.
It isn’t until her father passes away, that Tori decides to return to Fireweed Island for the summer. Coming back to a place where ghosts lurk in even the happiest of memories makes her face the heartache of her past she’s done so well at leaving behind. It isn’t until Gabby introduces Mason Rhodes to her that she realizes kindness can exist in this overly brutal thing called life, and maybe not all men are meant to self-destruct, or she’s just been sniffing in too much ocean air.
Either way, spending time with Mason on Fireweed Island leaves Tori questioning if the carefully constructed life she left behind in New York is one she even wants any longer. Mason is determined to break down Tori’s barriers, but she’s not sure she’s strong enough to let go of her past and imagine a future that risks her heart getting broken again, and she wonders if there’s such a thing as the right love at the wrong time…
Goodreads Blurb:
Marie Carrington is running from a host of bad memories. Broke and desperate, she’s hoping to find safety and sanctuary on Prince Edward Island, where she reluctantly agrees to help decorate a renovated bed-and-breakfast before it opens for prime tourist season.
Seth Sloane didn’t move three thousand miles to work on his uncle’s B&B so he could babysit a woman with a taste for expensive antiques and a bewildering habit of jumping every time he brushes past her. He came to help restore the old Victorian–and to forget about the fiancée who broke his heart.
The only thing Marie and Seth agree on is that getting the Red Door Inn ready to open in just three months will take everything they’ve got. Can these two wounded souls find hope, healing, and perhaps a bit of romance on this beautiful island?
Step into the Red Door Inn, a lovely home away from home tucked along the north shore of fabled Prince Edward Island. It’s a place where the wounded come to heal, the broken find forgiveness, and the lonely find a family. Won’t you stay for the season?
Goodreads Blurb:
Kyra Aberdeen is a YouTube sensation. Her bubbling personality and fresh beauty capture her audience each week, but they don’t know the truth-she’s just faking it. Beneath the surface of light-hearted smiles is a simmering darkness threatening to pull Kyra under.
When Kyra moves to Canaan Island and buys her deceased mother’s childhood home, she hopes to confront the lurking shadows haunting her every step. But when she meets her grumpy contractor, even her best-laid plans start to unravel.
Hale Cooper is as brutally honest as he is intriguing. He hates fakers, and isn’t afraid to call Kyra on her false personality. Yet, she is drawn to him, and the unexpected attraction to a man who challenges her to be her true self lands her in unchartered waters.
But if she lowers her guard and allows herself to be honest with Hale, will the darkness creep in too?
Goodreads Blurb:
When Roxy’s fiancé leaves her at the altar via text, she embarks on her Hawaiian honeymoon with her sister and grandma instead! Can the resort’s hot, multitalented bartender, Kai, show Roxy that love isn’t dead?
Being jilted nearly-at-the-altar by text message is not at all how Roxy Rose thought her wedding day would go.
Getting dragged along anyway on her Hawaiian honeymoon by her self-centered sister and irreverent grandma is the icing on the horrible wedding-day cake.
Can Kai, the resort’s hunky and talented chauffeur / bartender / flame-thrower, turn this disaster of a trip into a romantic adventure to last a lifetime? Or will his mysterious secrets keep their love from blossoming?
This novel is part of The Escape Series, which includes Aloha, Baby!, Cruising for Love, Island Hopping, and the sweet short story, Coconutty Christmas. You can read and enjoy these humorous contemporary romance books in any order!
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