REVIEW: Her Summer with the Marine by Susan Meier

In Her Summer with the Marine by Susan Meier, Ellie McDermott has just returned home to Harmony Hills to help her ill father. Ellie believed that everything was okay with her father, until she received a call to come home ASAP because he was found sitting naked in the park thinking he was at home watching television. Now she has to face some hard truths and decisions, beginning with the fact that her father has been suffering from Alzheimer’s for more than a year and she never knew. And the having to find a way to pay for an assisted living facility and the medical care her father needs.

Finn Donovan has worked hard to be where he is now, no thanks to his abusive father. He worked hard in the Marines to get his career and to make his own living, and now he has been back home opening a funeral home. Unfortunately the funeral home is in direct competition to McDermott’s funeral home, the only funeral home in Harmony Hills before he arrived. Since he opened his business he knew that he would probably only get half the business in town, which is why he has been trying to buy out McDermott, but Ellie’s father would not sell.

Now with her father’s illness Ellie knows that she needs all the income she can get. With her newest project and the bonus she will get she knows that she will be able to afford less than three years of taking care of her father. Her best option is to sell the funeral home, but she needs to get a good price. Only when Finn arrives on her doorstep the day after she arrives into town with an offer she knows that things are about to get more complicated.

Finn and Ellie competed for everything during school for every trophy, the best grades and to become valedictorian. The challenged each other and were each other’s nemesis, until one night when Finn hurt after getting kicked out his home went to Ellie to talk. They became friends for a little while and then he became her first lover. But when she could not concentrate the next day on the exam and was ignored by Finn from then on she figured that he lied to her in order to get better grades than her and become valedictorian himself.

Many years have passed but Ellie still believes this to be the truth of what happened. And with her father ill, now they will compete once again but now to get the business. But with the chemistry they once shared has not gone away, and the more they compete and interact the more that they will want one another. But until the learn the truth and open each other about their thoughts and feelings, as well as what really happened so long ago and what is happening now, they will not be able to accept each other and the love they share.

I cannot wait to find out what will happen with Finn’s brothers. All three of them had a tough childhood and they deserve a good and happy ending, but it will take tough women to tame these tough Marines. 😉

For a fun, entertaining and sweet read, don’t miss Her Summer with the Marine by Susan Meier.

Book Info:

March 10th 2014 by Entangled: Bliss

Their competition has never been so irresistible

The last person Ellie McDermott wanted to run into after returning to her hometown is Finn Donovan, her high school nemesis and the guy she crossed the line from enemies to lovers with one night years ago. Now ex-military, tattooed, and still sexy as hell, Finn is a complication Ellie doesn’t need—she needs to concentrate on saving her family business.

Finn’s entire life, Ellie was there, going head-to-head with him in every class, bee, and test. So it’s no surprise she’d show up just as he was about to take over her father’s struggling business. It is a surprise, though, that his attraction to her is even more explosive than it had been. Acting on their attraction is one thing, but Finn has to turn a profit to save his own family, and nothing—not even love—will get in his way.