Serendipity

The Serendipity series #1

Carly Phillips

Release Date: February 3

Blurb

He’s from the wrong side of the tracks. She lived in the house on the hill.

Now their fortunes have reversed…but their long-ago attraction still burns.

From high school golden girl to wife of a high-powered New York attorney, Faith Harrington lived the dream. Until divorce and her father’s imprisonment for fraud left her with almost nothing. Now she’s back in her hometown to redesign her life, and not every face is friendly. Least of all the town rebel, whose memory lingered long after they shared one searing teenage kiss.

Ethan Barron is a bad boy. Was. Was a bad boy. Now a man—a very rich man—he quietly buys the old Harrington mansion to thumb his nose at Serendipity and the people who looked down on him. But until he reconciles with his brothers and builds a life, the victory rings hollow.

Faith had been a rich girl ripe for rebellion, and his shamelessly stolen kiss still burns in his dreams. Only a fool would risk feeding town gossip by asking her to redecorate the house she grew up in. But Ethan never did choose easy. Not when the hard way promises a much sweeter—and hotter—reward.

Note: Serendipity is book one of a previously published series by NYT Bestselling Author Carly Phillips. Contains a tarnished golden girl, a bad boy in search of redemption, a brother whose first order of business is to ticket his big bro’s Jag, and a town that runs on nosiness.

Buy Links:

Kindle: https://www.carlyphillips.com/SerendipityAmazon

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AUDIO

Narrated by Pippa Jayne and Eric Michael Summerer

Audible: https://www.carlyphillips.com/SerendipityAudible

Amz Audio: https://www.carlyphillips.com/SerendipityAmzAudio

BLP REVIEW – Tracy

Faith Harrington and Ethan Barron we’re from very different backgrounds but still aware of each other when they were in high school. The princess and the bad boy shared a kiss but it went no further….

Shortly afterwards, 18yo Ethan was driven from Serendipity by guilt and loss, leaving behind his two younger brothers when he couldn’t deal with how his life was going.

The story starts in present day. Ethan and Faith are both back in Serendipity for different reasons and with huge reversals of fortune.
Faith is home after a scandal involving her father and following a divorce from a man she probably should never have married in the first place.
Ethan has come back to try to build bridges with his younger brothers and settle back in his home town.

Faith was hoping to start over, get back on her feet and make something of her own. Her mother was around but unwilling to accept what had happened with her father and Faith was worried that the townsfolk wouldn’t be able to separate her from her father and the devastation he had caused.

Ethan has a fight on his hands when it comes to his brothers. There’s understandably a huge amount of anger, resentment and betrayal on their part as he left them behind. He’ll have to work hard if he’s going to have any chance of building a decent relationship with them going forward.

There’s a spark between the pair from their first interaction in the present day but they’re both carting around a lot of baggage and both, in their own way, need to work out who they are now. Would they be able to see if there could be more between them or was there too much standing in their way?

I enjoyed seeing Ethan and Faith progress to a sort of friendship, while both working to start again and mend fences where needed.

There were a few surprises dropped on the pair and I loved how they handled things.

A great cast of supporting characters who I’m looking forward to finding out more about!!!

Always love a small town read and Carly has started this series with a bang.

4.5*

Meet Carly Phillips:

NY Times, Wall Street Journal, and USA Today Bestseller, Carly Phillips gives her readers Alphalicious heroes to swoon for and romance to set your heart on fire. She married her college sweetheart and lives in Purchase, NY along with her three crazy dogs: two wheaten terriers and a mutant Havanese, who are featured on her Facebook and Instagram. The author of 50 romance novels, she has raised two incredible daughters who put up with having a mom as a full time writer. Carly’s book, The Bachelor, was chosen by Kelly Ripa as a romance club pick and was the first romance on a nationally televised bookclub. Carly loves social media and interacting with her readers. Want to keep up with Carly? Sign up for her newsletter (below) and receive TWO FREE books at www.carlyphillips.com.

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