Review: Support Your Local Library
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 01 22, 2014
Title: The Fireside Inn - Billionaire Bachelors Novella 1Author: Lily EverettPublisher: St Martin's PressPublished: 1-7-2014ISBN: 13-9781466854741E-Book ASIN: B00F8GKEQQPages: 105Genre: RomanceTags: Contemporary, Series, NovellaMiles Harrington, first introduced in the Billionaire Brothers Trilogy Book Three also which set on Sanctuary Island, gathers his three friends together to announce his engagement to Greta and his wedding plans.  The three friends, Zane Bishop, CEO of Whatever Entertainment and owner of three highly successful Manhattan night clubs, Lord Leo Strathairn, playboy younger son of a wealthy English Lord, and Cooper Haynes, who is a self made billionaire, are floored by the news and at first try to dissuade him and then ask if he is being blackmailed into marriage.  When they finally accept he loves Greta he asks each of his chosen groomsmen to do a task to help with the wedding.  He wants Miles to arrange the wedding venue and reception.  His request to Leo is  that he choose a special reading for the wedding.  Lastly he asks that Cooper arrange the honeymoon trip of a lifetime.As the three prepare to depart the Biltmore Club and Miles announces that he is taking his private helicopter back to Sanctuary Island the men come up with a bet.  Miles agrees to give the winner his helicopter and private access to club helicopter pad, something the other three can not hope to attain for years if ever, in exchange for their coming to the Island with him now.  They are to stay until the wedding four weeks hence.  The bet is that their lives will be changed forever and that they will find the loves of their lives before Miles walks down the aisle to say I do.  Each man is confident he will win and accept the bet.The Fireside Inn is the first in this novella trilogy is Leo Strathairn's story.  When he arrives on Sanctuary Island and goes to the library he meets the head librarian, Selena Lightfoot.  He asks her to help him with the selection to read at the wedding.  Selena agrees to help until she discovers he actually wants her to find the piece for him.  After a scathing lecture on living up to his responsibilities and his offering her a donation equal to the libraries next fiscal year's operation needs if she will do it, they compromise.  Selena will research for items suitable to his needs and he will help with the final selection.As the time passes the attraction between the two becomes stronger with each passing day.  Both Selena and Leo are hiding secrets from their past which could destroy the fragile bond growing between them.  Can their torn emotions survive when all is revealed or with their past keep them from achieving a loving future.  Join them on Sanctuary Island as they travel the ever twisting road of romance and help them learn to embrace their hearts desires.This is the story to warm you on these cold winter nights.  A light romance novella that will make you laugh with the humorous dialog, cry at the anguish each of the leading characters endures, and have hope that tomorrow will bring the answers needed to heal the cracks in their hearts.  I had such a fun time reading this series.  Ms. Everett's style of writing reminds me of another author I used to read without question  because it was guaranteed to make me laugh and lift my spirits no matter what was going on around me.  Thank you NetGalley for providing this novella to me in exchange for my honest review.