![]() ![]() ![]() The storyline about Jo Marie and the late Paul seems rushed and almost perfunctory, as if the author doesn’t quite trust it as a dramatic element, but she gets on surer ground when she introduces another character whose life has been made unhappy thanks to a machinery mishap. That’s a nice modern touch in a story that could essentially fit into the Nancy Drew line-if, that is, anything happened in Rose Harbor that involved action and not talk. She had found romance late in life (well, in her late 30s, anyway) only to suffer the death of her husband in far-off Afghanistan, the victim of a chopper crash high in the mountains. There, Jo Marie Rose has just moved to open a B&B. The difference is, there’s no mayhem of the sort that would give Angela Lansbury reason to get up in the morning in Rose Harbor, which lies about due west from Cabot Cove and on the opposite coast. Rose Harbor is sort of like Cabot Cove: beautiful, a touch staid, full of folk who look and act the part of locals. Slow-paced, emotionally charged romance the first in a planned series by best-selling genre novelist Macomber ( 1225 Christmas Tree Lane, 2011, etc.). ![]()
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