For Quinn Collins, buying the flower shop in downtown Harbor Pointe fulfills a childhood dream, but also gives her the chance to stick it to her mom, who owned the store before skipping town twenty years ago and never looking back. Completing much-needed renovations, however, while also competing for a prestigious flower competition with her mother as the head judge, soon has Quinn in over her head. Not that she’d ever ask for help.
Luckily, she may not need to. Quinn’s father and his meddling friends find the perfect solution in notorious Olympic skier Grady Benson, who had only planned on passing through the old-fashioned lakeside town. But when a heated confrontation leads to property damage, helping Quinn as a community-service sentence seems like the quickest way out—and the best way to avoid more negative press.
Quinn finds Grady reckless and entitled; he thinks she’s uptight and too regimented. Yet as the two begin to hammer and saw, Quinn sees glimpses of the vulnerability behind the bravado, and Grady learns from her passion and determination, qualities he seems to have lost along the way. But when a well-intentioned omission has devastating consequences, Grady finds himself cast out of town—and Quinn’s life—possibly forever. Forced to face the hurt holding her back, Quinn must finally let go or risk missing out on the adventure of a lifetime.
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Summary
From: Rebecca Maney
Book Title: Just Let Go
Book Author: Courtney Walsh
What do you like about this book:
4.5 stars
" . . .it's amazing that something wild and untamed could be so beautiful."
There's nothing wild and untamed about Quinn Collins; she's living her dream as a small business owner in the small Michigan town of Harbor Pointe; enjoying her quiet, predictable, orderly, organized life that doesn't include any semblance of an interruption from a tall, handsome, sassy, flirty Olympic skier with a gargantuan sized ego and temper to match. It's the temper part that lands Grady Benson in trouble; shackling him to hours of community service with none other than . . .. Quinn Collins.
It's just too much fun to rile the beautiful flower shop owner. If he has be stuck in the middle of nowhere, instead of training for the Olympic ski team, Grady Benson figures that annoying Quinn Collins can at least provide some local entertainment. She has a plan and she is sticking to it, no "live and let live" with her, but as Grady catches glimpses of vulnerability beneath the surface, a new image emerges and it's not too far off from his own efforts to prove himself worthy.
Are their differences too great or can Quinn and Grady "just let go"?
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