Charm City

176 pages

English language

Published Jan. 15, 2019 by self.

Taylor Tate has one last chance to turn things around. As the owner of Charm City Events, she needs her upcoming week of Valentine's Day events to go off without a hitch. She's painstakingly planned every detail down to the last red heart decoration, but what Taylor doesn't plan on is the less than enthusiastic bar manager she's paired with stumbling into her life at the worst possible time, making things more difficult every step of the way.

Carson Smith is getting by fine. She loves her job as the bar manager at Second Chances, a dive bar staple of the Baltimore landscape, and she doesn't need anything or anyone disrupting the delicate balance she's created. Especially for a stupid Valentine's gimmick to take advantage of desperate singles. When the owner of the bar forces her to work with an event planning company to drum up business, she has …

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A small paint-by-numbers

3¾⭐️/5

McCallan's delightful writing is on display here ... but it's barely a novella, and isn't particularly challenging. It's good as a nice, short, feel-good read, though the ending is a little forced.

Tags: #AttachmentDisorder #DualPOV #ExpirationDate #GrumpySunshine #Misunderstandings #Novella #SecretShame #ThirdPersonPOV

Subjects

  • Romance
  • Contemporary
  • LGBTQIA+