Escape With Me (King’s Inn #1)
by Sophia Quinn
My Rating: 4 stars
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Age Category: Adult
Type of romance: m/f
Blurb:
She’s fallen for her enemy’s best friend…Bailey should’ve known he was too good to be true the moment Drew stepped foot on the inn’s property. After losing all her workers to the rival resort on the neighboring land, what were the odds that the world’s best—and yes, most handsome—handyman would just magically appear in their tiny Montana town?
Handyman. Ha! More like a successful Wall Street tycoon masquerading as a jack-of-all trades. The lying hottie with the easy grin is old friends with her cutthroat rival next door, who’s intent on destroying her family and all they’ve built.
But Drew has reasons for keeping his secrets, and he hasn’t told anyone why he fled NYC. He thought it was a cruel twist of fate that had him hiding out at his friend’s resort, but now that he’s met Bailey, he’s starting to think it’s not cruel fate but destiny that brought him here…to her. But can he prove that to Bailey?
Meanwhile, family secrets have come to light that could change everything. With the inn’s restoration in full swing, new mysteries are uncovered that could either save the family or ruin them for good…
My Review
I received a copy from the author and voluntarily reviewed it.
I really enjoyed the Sullivan Sisters series and I was so excited for this new series. It’s set in the same world and there are some small cameo appearances of some of the Sullivan Sisters. I was so looking forward to get to know the King family. I picked this up in a weird reading mood when nothing was really gripping me, but this book grabbed my attention form the first page and kept it.
I really enjoyed this book Escape With Me is a lovely romantic read following Bailey and Drew who fall in love when she hires him to help work at her inn. Besides that there are also the points of views of both Willow, Bailey’s younger sister, and Eric, who owns the rival resort in time. I really liked this. It kept the focus on Bailey and Drew’s romance, but seeing Willow and Eric’s story play out slower on the sidelines was really fun as well. I like how Willow and Eric meet and while they don’t like each other at first, the spark is there and I like how they get involved in this mystery together about what caused the family feud.
Bailey and Drew were wonderful to read about. I really liked both of them, they both feel real with their own hopes and dreams, as well as fears and struggles. I loved Bailey’s passion for the inn and all her plans for the future, how excited she got and started telling about all these plans and how Drew got swept up in her excitement and fell in love with her, her plans and the inn. I really liked reading about the inn and the small town as well as all the nature surrounding it. Drew’s struggles with getting fired as well as how he was afraid for disappointing his family felt very real. He thought he had his life together, but then realizes that life never made him happy and seeing him find happiness with bailey in this small Montana town was awesome.
I really liked these two together. Their connection was clear from the start and I loved seeing it bloom into something deeper the more time they spend together. I just liked seeing these together and the way they interacted together was awesome to see. There is a bit of foreshadowing early on about what will be the conflict/ drama point later on and while it was clear what would happen it was still painful to see it got down. I am not a fan of these type of scenes, but I liked how it made sense why the characters acted that way and I like how it got resolved and the way it didn’t drag on long. The way they got back together was great and the epilogue and ending was just so wonderful and sweet.
I liked how this book sets up the series, we get introduced to most of the King siblings and get a feel for the family dynamics as well as the family feud with the Spencer family. I liked the side plot line following Willow and Spencer and how it seems they will get their own romance and figure out more about this family feud. There is some mystery and links to the past and it was all very interesting. I look forward to seeing that play out throughout the series.
To summarize: This was such an awesome start to this new series. I really enjoyed this book, it grabbed my attention from the start and kept it till the end. I really enjoyed reading about Bailey and Drew, they both felt so real with their own hopes, dreams, fears and struggles. I really liked the two of them together and how they grew closer. I loved Bailey’s passion for the inn and all her plans to make it even better and the way Drew was there to help her and how he fell in love with her and the inn. I liked how their romance played out and the ending was super sweet. I like how this book set the stage for the rest of the series with introducing most of King siblings. And there are the point of views of both Willow and Spencer as well, who get involved in figuring out what caused the family feud between the two families. I can’t wait for the next book in this series!
Nice that you were able to settle into this one and really get into Bailey and Drew’s story.
It was such a great read, I already look forward to the rest of the series.
This sounds like a series I would enjoy. I’ll have to add it to my TBR. Thanks for sharing!
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I think you might enjoy this series and author. She already had a complete series and this is a light spin-off of that one, but can easily be read without reading that one first.