Natasha Moore

Rachel Bradford is finally living her dream as the star of her own interior design show. But ratings are slipping, and if she wants to save the show, she has to set an episode in the hometown she fled. Worst of all, she’s going to have to work with the cocky bad boy who humiliated her. Single dad, Beckett Colburn plans to turn an old fire station into a neighborhood bar. He’s blindsided when he discovers his family made a deal to turn his dream into a reality TV project. He’d rather run into a burning building than work with his childhood nemesis--on camera. But it’s not easy with a TV crew in town stirring up trouble, spreading rumors, creating buzz. Not to mention the inconvenient sudden attraction that sparks every time Rachel and Beckett fight.

The Goodbye Guy

Nicola Sarah Brooks

This novel reads a bit like a Hallmark Movie, so if they are not our style this may not be for you. 

Rachel left her small town with a single-minded determination never to return after her nemesis ruined her one moment of freedom by observing her calamitous accident and telling EVERYONE about it.

But her once successful show is now dropping ratings and her bosses have decided a hometown remodel is just what is needed! It may give Rachel a new avenue of creativity as she is getting fed up doing the same kinds of makeover.

Beckett is now a single dad to the cutest little girl. She is a big fan of Rachel and is over the moon when she is told that Rachel is doing the remodel of her dad's new bar. But Beckett is also dealing with a major dose of the guilt. He knows he went too far when he was a teenager and totally wrecked Rachels reputation. But just how d you apologise for something you did 20 years ago?

Small towns generally mean big problems as everyone is all up in your business and nothing is secret for long. Beckett and Rachel do feel the attraction between them and give in to it, knowing that Rachel has no intention of staying.

I get why Rachel was mad at Beckett but can't really get the animosity she shows to the town in general. It seems to be blown out of proportion a bit in her head. She is really set in her ways and I thought there may have to be dynamite used to get her to divert her goals. Holly is a little ray of sunshine and totally has her dad just where she wants him! She is not above using her cuteness to get what she wants.

Fun read, engaging characters and well-paced.

The Goodbye Guy

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