Perfect spring read!

Mylie runs a bait and tackle shop, and lives with her grandma and sister. Everything is going great and then her high school best friend who she had a crush on comes back to town to sell his childhood home. Setting was fun and then there is Fat Tony (if you read it that will make more sense!) 😂😂

Friends to Lovers
Small Town Romance
Dual Timeline

It just wasn't that great.
Childhood friends to lovers but basically they just have the same argument the entire time until he gives up.
Also, she fires the town bully and then he gets mad over and over until he gets arrested

Spring fling. He broke her heart when she was a teen. Now he is back from Chicago to sell the family the family home. Can they renew their friendship and find love.

Thank you to #netgalley, #librofm and #harperaudio for an advance listening copy of this book. Three stars.

This is a cute lighthearted romance. It moved too slow for me though. I struggled to connect to the characters as well. I loved the small town setting and supporting characters.

Mylie and Ben have been best friends since the sixth grade. After graduating high school Ben goes back to Chicago for college, leaving Mylie behind along whith her true feeling for him. Ten years later Ben is back in Clay Creek after promised his dying mother that he would come back before he sold his grandfather's house. Ben and Mylie pick up where they left things before Ben left. While they both know this is going to be a short reunion they try to make things work. This is a cute and funny book ranging from Granny, Mylie's spunky grandmother, to Fat Tony the neighborhood raccoon that even wears a dog collar, to all of the busy bodies that reside in Clay Creek. I would like to thank both NetGalley and HarperAudio for letting me listen to an advance copy of this audio book.

This book was sweet and as someone from a small town in the South, I appreciated the Southern charm. However, I found the plot to be super boring, which is sad because the narrator is one of my good friends and I think she did a fantastic job. As someone who also got my Ph.D. and fashions myself more of a city gal, I had huge issues with the ending.

Thank you to @netgalley and @harperaudio