Title: A Wedding at the Storyteller's Cottage
Author: Brooke Burton
Date: 2025
Quote: "Kieran?...There's a man here. He told me to drop the charges against Jacob."
He's a clue, of course.
People sympathized with Izzy when her ex Jacob stole her identity and her money...but employers don't want drama (and think Izzy should've known better), and even the police, though they've not said anything to her, think Izzy was smarter than Jacob and probably planned his scams. Izzy may be about to lose her first career-type job.
Kieran, also known as "Officer-Sexy-Pants," befriended the family to get evidence of Izzy's and possibly her siblings' innocence. Or guilt.
Izzy's impatient Italian siblings, noticing her attraction to the burly Irish policeman, want the two to get together already. But Kieran can't tell anyone he's personally interested in Izzy until he's cleared her name.
When a friend of Jacob's makes vaguely threatening noises outside Izzy's apartment, she's moved into the Storyteller's Cottage, a cozy little place with a guest book full of couples' stories about how they fell in love, were reconciled, etc., at the cottage. Kieran is sent there too, for security. We see them eyeing each other avidly in the hot tub where he's trying to behave like a guard and she's distracting herself from the lust in her heart by helping organize her sister's wedding. Some body parts are described, but not all, and not in great detail.
I think I might have liked the story better if the baby had been conceived on its mother's wedding night rather than its aunt's. You might find Kieran and Izzy more believable as written. You know they're going to marry each other, eventually; the suspense is finding out how they can clear Izzy's name.
For me the mix of "slightly sweaty" romance and cozy mystery is good for a short, frivolous read. It didn't give me a feeling that I must own the other stories of the couples who found or reclaimed True Love at the Storyteller's Cottage. It might have that effect on you.
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