GRR Reviews Beach Rental: An Emerald Isle, NC Novel by Grace Greene

Beach Rental managed two brilliant twists and a shock at mid-book that left me guessing at to which way this story will go.

Juli Cooke is working multiple jobs, and going nowhere in the town of Emerald Isle, North Carolina. One night at her catering job lead her to encounter two extraordinary men, Ben Bradshaw who's dying of cancer, and his cousin, Luke Winters, a local art dealer. Ben offered Juli a deal of a lifetime: become his wife, and be left with a good amount of money to do what she wanted after he died, which won't be very long. Ben did not want his life to be prolonged too much, but he still wanted companionship. But Luke was much wearier of Juli's true intentions. // Then Ben died, but not from cancer... and everything changed, for what he left behind... was not just money, but a chance to start over, if Juli will just take it... if her past didn't catch up with her first.

The ending, as I said, has multiple twists and I won't spoil the story. Let's just say Ben will come to love Juli, and vice versa, and the second twist, which I can't talk about, was absolutely brilliant.

Category: Contemporary

Primary Plot: A poor woman was offered by a dying man to marry him and inherit a lot of money, for her companionship, is it too good to be true?

Overall Rating: 5/5

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