Review: Back to the beach
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 01 7, 2014
Seduction on the Sand is the second in Roxanne St. Claire’s Billionaires of Barefoot Bay trilogy of novellas.  This one brings us the story of Frankie and Elliott.  She’s just inherited a prime piece of real estate / goat farm.  He wants to buy it to build the parking lot and entrance road for the billionaire’s proposed minor league baseball park.  Add in a smarmy lawyer claiming to have a copy of her grandfather’s will and Frankie has her hands full.  Elliott, in the interest of protecting his investment, offers to be a goatherd for a week.  Against her better judgment Frankie agrees.  Elliott helps her develop signature fragrances for her goat soaps and manages to get under her skin.This is a novella I wish were longer.  I love novellas, so I don’t often say that.  There is much that I would have loved for St. Claire to explore further.  The death of Frankie’s parents on 9/11 and Elliott’s chameleon like tendencies stemming from his nomadic childhood among the top of the list.  While inclusion of these topics as background makes for richer characters, I really wanted to know more about how these events shaped the people they are today.Despite the outstanding desire to know more, this is a fun, fast read.  I really enjoyed seeing Frankie and Elliott develop into their relationship and become stronger for it.