Released September 2014
When a TV production company decides Dogwood, Virginia is the perfect location to shoot their new teen series Bittersweet, the town is abuzz with excitement. But twenty-one-year-old local girl Cathy Johnson has too much going on in her life to waste time being star-struck. Her mother walked out on the family when Cathy was a young girl and her brother Carl was barely out of diapers. She’s always felt a sense of responsibility to help raise him, and skipped college after graduation following her father Joe’s life-threatening heart attack. Now three years later, she works full-time in the family restaurant to help make ends meet. Life hasn’t exactly been peachy, but Cathy is OK with it. She loves her hometown, and doesn’t want some fancy TV show coming in and changing everything. To her, ‘bittersweet’ is just the word that sums up her love life after her relationship with her high school sweetheart ended in disaster. But since then she’s hardly had time to brush her hair, let alone think about romance – even the kind being played out in front of the cameras by twenty-something actors posing as teenagers.
But all that changes for Cathy when charming, intense, impossibly sexy outsider Greg Moran arrives in Dogwood along with the Bittersweet cast and crew. She and the mysterious New Yorker have undeniable chemistry, but if Cathy thought she was guarded…? Greg blows hot (very, very hot) and cold with her romantically, leaving Cathy’s head in a spin. If she’s willing to drop her emotional walls, why can’t he? What is it in Greg’s past – or present – that means he’s keeping her at arm’s length?
One thing’s for certain: Cathy and Greg are magnetically drawn to one another, but they’ll have to fight to keep their relationship from turning sour.
If it’s hard to let go of the past, falling in love can be BITTERSWEET…
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Cathy Johnson was busy helping out the family restaurant
and trying out new things to add to the menu to think about the TV production
that is coming to their small town in Virginia. The whole town seemed to be
pretty much excited except her. Her heart has been broken by her high school
sweetheart, a relationship that ended in a disaster. The last thing she needs
was to become star struck.
Until she crossed path with the sexy and charming Greg
Moran who arrives in Dogwood together with the rest of the cast and crew of
Bittersweet. They had this crazy connection together, but if Cathy was careful
to get her emotions in tangle, Greg can be pretty much fickle minded. He can be
all in, and then all of a sudden, he was nowhere in sight. He can be interested
now, and then appear disinterested the next time. He had some secrets of his
own, that I wanted to know. I would have loved it more if he gets his own POV.
But I was stuck with Cathy, and her thoughts weren’t that bad. There were a lot
of bumps before their happy ever after – and there were times when you’d just
wanted to ask Greg if he really wants Cathy, or if both of them wanted this to
work…
There were times when I got frustrated with the
hot-then-cold Greg – just about everything seems to be perfect, suddenly they’d
be back to square one, but still I found this book romantic and endearing. I
love Cathy, and her friend Max and Hal – they were a great bunch, and both of
her friends are there to catch her every time she falls. Greg was hard to love,
but you couldn’t resist his charms, so please don’t blame Cathy.
This is my first Sunday James read, and it was okay. I
look forward for the next book in the series and can’t wait to read what’s next
for this two!
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Sunday James is the
pen name of author Sareeta Domingo, when writing the New Adult contemporary
romance series BITTERSWEET. She lives in London and works as an editor at
creative book packager Hothouse Fiction, squeezing writing into her mornings,
evenings and weekends – but promises she has a life…
She loves all things
American – literature, history, popular culture – so much so that she even
lived and studied in California, but somehow missed out on being swept off her
feet by a devastatingly handsome but mysterious actor while she was there. Luckily,
writing BITTERSWEET has allowed her to live that dream.
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