Review: Shore Lights by Barbara Bretton. 4* 08/06/2019

This was a relaxing story that I had read about a mother and an adult daughter scenario.
The novel was well-written, somewhat predictable heartfelt story with family issues. The majority of the characters were members of two families, the DiFalco‘s and the O‘Malley‘s. The setting was in Paradise Point, New Jersey.

Madelyn Bainbridge is the thirty-two year old daughter whose husband leaves her for another woman. She finds herself unemployed with a young four-year-old daughter, named Hannah, and in financial trouble. Her mother, Rose DiFalco offered for her to stay at her B&B business in New Jersey, hesitating Maddy decides to return to her mother’s home until she can manage her life. The issue here is Maddy and her mother, Rose DiFalco never really got along and neither of them ever showed any love or affection towards one another.

The other family also are going through some emotional issues and struggling to maintain a generation family business which is an old local tavern the O’Malley’s in Paradise Point, New Jersey. Aiden O’Malley, former firefighter, while now managing and being the cook at the tavern is also raising a seventeen-year-old daughter, Kelly on his own since she was two. Aiden also still grieves about his younger brother who died in a horrifying house fire where Aiden was also burned but survived.

Bretton goes on weaving these two families throughout the book. There are plenty of issues, happenings and stubbornness still to read…. ( )

light contemporary romance ( )

Maddy moves back with her mother when her “older” husband leaves her because she had a child; she helps her mom run her inn in NJ, and while bidding for an alladin type lamp on e-bay connect with Aiden, ex-fireman and bar owner