Met Her Match was a fast fun read, would be perfect to take along to the beach.
I have loved reading about the antics of the Montgomery and Taggert families for years and this book kept true to the story. Terri and Nate accidentally end up sharing a house while Nate waits for his fiancée's arrival. Terri is the lake community's task mistress, she keeps everything running smoothly. However the town people don't think very highly of Terri, due to actions of her mother. As they get to know each other Teri and Nate find they have a lot in common and they seem to be equally matched. This story has chemistry, friendships and a mystery with a surprising twist.

Loved this one!
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There was something about this book that I just really loved. I really don’t know why. I can’t put my finger on it.

Was it the perfect story? No. In fact, the first few chapters seemed a little stilted. But I absolutely loved the unique characters she crafted.

Friendship is an amazing thing. And when you can develop a close friendship with someone of the opposite sex, it truly can be special. Deveraux shows us exactly what it looks like to have the perfect partner, in friendship and eventually in love.

The story was so heartwarming and touching in many ways. I loved Terri. She’s hard-working, tough, yet so tender with a heart of gold as well. And Nate was created to perfectly balance with her. Sweet, kind, with a servant heart.

So for those reasons I’m giving us a five star because Met Her Match truly is a delight to read and it made me feel wonderful at the end. Isn’t that what we look for in a book? A classic romance that will capture your heart.

Met Her Match (ebook) by Jude Deveraux I enjoyed this book and would like to thank the publisher and #NetGalley for letting me preview it. This is Terri Rayburn (runs resort on Lake Kissel with her father..has a bad rep that is not her fault) Nate Taggert's( engaged to the mayor's daughter and all around good guy) story. This book has angst, anger, rumors, laughs, steam, and a mystery which picks up the second half of the book. There are a lot of interesting characters... and we do get to a HEA.

Reasons I enjoyed this book:
Wonderful characters Easy-to-read Funny Page-turner Romantic Tear-jerker Great world building Action-packed Happily Ever After Steamy Entertaining

Met Her Match is an exceptionally enjoyable read. Jude Deveraux has written a romance with an underlying mystery.

This was my first book by the author but I will absolutely read more. This follows the story of Terri and Nate. I’m guessing by what I’ve read that this is a story set in a world of interconnected stand alones. I’ve never read any other books so I’m not sure if they are needed but I definitely feel like the story and world building would have felt deeper and richer if you knew all the players. This was sweet, easy and a little mystery thrown in. It made me want to go sit on a deck by a lake for the day. If you’re looking for a great summer/fall read this is def for you.

3.75 stars
My husband and I are going to vacation next summer at Lake Kisses!
I haven’t read but one or two books by this author and I wasn’t sure how I’d feel about this one but I really liked it!
The Chemistry was dreamy and the mystery was good. I didn’t want to put it down. This book had a little bit of everything. And I loved Nate. ♥️
Things I liked:
• Good paced
• Entertaining
• Standalone
• Mystery
• Romance
• Funny

This was a NETGALLEY gift and all opinions are my own.

I definitely enjoyed this story after some of the heavier reads I’ve done lately. This author writes some fantastic stories and this one did not disappoint. It’s a terrific story and I fell in love with the characters. If this is not on your list to read then you need to add it. It’s a feel good story that will have you never wanting it to end while flipping the pages on your kindle because you are so engrossed in what you are reading.

This is the second book in the Summer Hill series but it can definitely be read as a stand alone novel. If you've read any other books by Deveraux, you're sure to recognize a few names as she often uses the Taggert and Montgomery relatives as one of the main characters. This story actually features Nate Taggert and Terri Rayburn who unexpectedly finds out that Nate is renting her lake house. The lake house that she also resides in which would be less of an issue if she didn't think he was her perfect match and if he wasn't engaged! Engaged to the mayor's daughter no less!
This was an enjoyable small town contemporary romance. Complete with small town gossip, memorable characters, secrets and mysteries, this book has something for everyone. My only complaint was that I thought the ending was a bit too rushed as the characters solved the mystery. But all in all an enjoyable story.

Met Her Match (Summer Hill #2) is full of small-town gossip, devilishly crafted characters, lots of secrets, and romance. There is mystery, and twists that round this book out and keeps the reader wondering what is going on in the seeming near-perfect fictional town of Summer Hill. I say near-perfect because there is lots of angst and tension between the three groups of people in the town, the wealthy townspeople, the summer lake people and the working-class people who run the resort of Kissel Lake.

Met Her Match is my first book by Jude Deveraux, and I am looking forward to reading more from this author. I did not have the pleasure to read the first book in this series, but I do plan to go back and fix that little misstep. I don't feel that you have to read the first book as the author did an excellent job in explaining the history of Summer Hill.

Jude Deveraux's writing style is spot-on; she made me feel as if I was part of this small town, and I could be best friends with the main character, Terri Rayburn. Terri has had to deal with the cruel gossip about her missing mother her whole life. This gossip has in turn been put upon her. In spite of this, Terri has become a strong, self-reliant woman who held fast to her beliefs and morals.

Terri returns from a short business trip to find the very handsome Nate Taggert living in her home. Together they figure out that Nate's uncle Kit was the one that arranged for Nate to live in Terri's house. Nate is the total package. He is a good looking, strong, intelligent man, with principles. After some very heated back and forth banter between the two Terri decides to let Nate stay in her house. There is an immediate attraction, but Nate being the great guy that he is tells Terri he is engaged. His fiancé happens to have gone to high school with Terri. But she is just not just any girl; she is the perfect, sweet, beautiful Stacy Hartman, who happens to be in Italy for two weeks. Over two weeks, Terri and Nate fall into an easy friendship that is full of sexual tension. Ahh, but don't be fooled, this book is so much more than a simple taboo romance. There are decades-old secrets, and twists and turns I didn't see coming. The supporting cast of "characters" were excellent, and I want to know more about them. The balance of tone is perfect in the book. At times the book had me smiling and laughing, and other times there was some intense darkness that had me wanting to give Terri a big mom hug.

I look forward to catching up with the first book in this series, The Girl from Summer Hill, and looking forward to reading future books in the series.
#MetHerMatch #NetGalley #Romance #Smalltown

*** I kindly received this galley by way of NetGalley/publisher/author. I was not contacted, asked, or required to leave a review. I received no compensation, financial or otherwise. I have voluntarily read this book, and this review is my honest opinion. ***

This was a fun read! When you look up the title on Goodreads it appears to be a series but I was able to read this as a stand-alone and didn’t realize I was missing any storyline. This is also my first book by Jude Deveraux and she didn’t disappoint! I love the small town charm that this story brought. Everyone knows everyone which also has its downsides for Terri who gets blamed for everything in the town. I loved picturing the cabins by the lake and being brought to that atmosphere. I loved Nate and how protective he was. Despite what the town thinks you can’t help but fall for Terri either. The beginning of the story is more of a romance but then the end of the story brings a mystery and I totally didn’t see the storyline changing the way it did. I would recommend this to anyone looking for a small town romance and mystery!

I felt this story bounced all over the place. I didn’t recall the author as I was reading it and thought it must be a first attempt. I was shocked to see that it was Jude Devereaux . . The characters were not developed and I found myself having to backtrack to remind myself who they were and why they were relevant to the story. What really bothered me was the lack of emotion. Relationships were just ho hum. These characters were completely devoid of strong emotional attachments. You break up one day and it’s no different than wearing a different pair of shoes the next. There was no storyline focus throughout the book and all of a sudden there is a murder plot line with very few pages left in the book. I’ve got many examples of implausible situations and relationships but don’t want to spoil anything. I’ve never provided a review under 4 stars but this felt like a high school writing project.

Sweet, PG-13, modern-day Cinderella, love story with a bit of mystery and suspense. The story begins with Terry, a girl who grew up thinking her mother ran away with another man when she was 2 years old, finding a man staying in her lake-cabin without her permission. She soon finds it that the handsome man is the fiancé of the mayors daughter, who was a popular cheerleader in high school. Terry, on the other hand, spent her teenage years helping run the lake and steering clear of the townies who believed she was like her mother, a “loose girl.” She agrees to let Nate stay, but he has to work for the free lodging until Stacy, his fiancé, returns from an interior design internship in Italy. Together, they run the lake over the next two weeks, and carefully ignore their growing attraction. As Nate learns more about the townies and lake residents, he starts uncovering secrets that could free Terry from the rumors that have controlled her life, but can he control is feelings for her?
#methermatch

Met Her Match is book 2 in the Summer Hill series. I haven’t had a chance to read book one but I didn’t feel lost jumping in with book 2.

As often happens, small towns can have their own version of the truth when it comes to notorious citizens. One of those citizens was Terri Rayburn’s mother. Terri has spent her life minding her own business as she moved through her school years and worked at the lake resort run by her dad. Everything is fine until she meets Nate Taggert, a larger-than-life stranger who shows up unexpectedly in her house. The two have an instant attraction but other circumstances will force them to maintain a distance which will be a challenge.

This is what I like to call a read-by-the-pool contemporary romance. There’s also a mystery thrown in that will keep Nate involved in Terri’s life and perhaps answer some long-held questions. All in all, a fun read that has me wondering where Deveraux will go next with the good people of Summer Hill.

Met Her Match by Jude Deveraux is the 2nd book in her Summer Hill series. Terri Rayburn, our heroine, has lived all her life in the small town of Summer Hill, Virginia, and has learned to put up with the terrible false gossip about her reputation during her younger years. Terri’s mother left town suddenly when she was a young girl, with the townsfolk’s calling her mother a tramp, and unfortunately the sins of the mother was passed over to Terri. She erroneously was blamed for hurting some high school boys, even if it was self defense against their attack, and when she dumped her popular boyfriend, the town blamed her.

A grown-up Terri doesn’t let it bother her, as she is respected for the work, she does to run the Lake Kissel summer resort. When Terri gets back from a vacation, she finds a man living in her house. Nate Taggert, our hero, is planning to move to Summer Hill with his fiancée, but for now his uncle told him to stay at the house on the lake, which has multiple rooms; after a few days, he meets Terri. After a rough start, a friendship begins between Terri and Nate, with both of them helping each other fix all the things happening around the resort, as well as the cabins and land surrounding the lake. Terri begins to feel an attraction to the handsome hunky Nate, but knows he is off limits, especially with his fiancée being the Mayor’s daughter. Nate is very comfortable around Terri, and also begins to feel the attraction to her, but is determined to stay with his fiancée and not let the lust he feels get in the way. In no time, I loved Terri and Nate together and rooted hard for them, knowing that they were had great chemistry, and so perfect for each other.

What follows is a wonderful slow built romance between a couple we loved, and rooted hard for them to recognize that they were destined to be together. Near the last quarter of the book, a mystery about Terri’s mother takes center stage, and the truth will be revealed. Gossip can be very hurtful, especially for the innocent and this story leads to that when people realize that what they thought they knew was not what really happened, and Terri was maligned for no reason. Met Her Match was very well written by Jude Deveraux, and the story line was very well done, with a sweet fun romance and a great couple. I suggest you read Met Her Match.

Tbh, when this book was offered to me, I wasn’t sure I wanted to read it. But then I remembered that I had read a few of Jude Deveraux’s books and always enjoyed them, so I thought what the heck. I am so glad I did! I started the book and could not stop reading until I finished, which is a few hours before I’m suppose to get up. The story draws you in, but characters she builds keep you wanting more. Parts of this I was able to guess, but it was still a welcome surprise when they were confirmed as I read. I thoroughly enjoyed this!

A fun romance novel with a bit of a mystery. Predictable, but amusing.

Terri finds a stranger in her house and soon she and Nate are working side by side and living together as good friends. While Terri is attracted to Nate, she discovers that he has a fiancee and she can't risk ruining her reputation by going after someone else's man.

The antics in the small town add a light tone and there a mystery about Terri's past that resolves at the end of the novel.

So once upon a time, someone had this great idea to set up Nate's brother with a wonderful woman...only the brother didn't act interested at all so Nate decided she was meant for him.... Funny how fate plays a role in things (Or Uncles...)

I enjoyed this story of how Nate meets and how he is drawn to Terri... Her attitude, her self reliance is attractive to him but so is her appreciation of him. Fun beach read with a kick of a mystery as well! I love the dynamics of the small town, the gossip, the character, and the attitudes that are revealed once things everyone has known as facts are found to be false.

Terri has had a rough road, but she is still hard working and loyal to her dad. Because her mom skipped out on her and her dad when she was two, the whole town thinks bad things about Terri. She lives under her mom's shadow. It doesn't help that she hurt two guys in high school.

Nate has had many years of secret adventures that has helped develop his inner strength and integrity. There are several characters I want to know better including Nate's brother, Terri's dad, the main gossipy woman of the story... I could continue on, but let me just add most of the characters are people I want to know better. There are times when the book is really lighthearted and fun...but there are times when the tone is darker, deeper with the insecurities of the main characters.

I requested to review this title from NetGalley because I found the story line to be interesting and fun. Thank you to Jude Deveraux, NetGalley, and Harlequin - MIRA for this advanced reader copy for me to read, enjoy, and review. As always, my opinions are my own.

The story of Terri and Nate.

A love story and a mystery.

They start spending time together when nate ends up staying in Terri's house. They have been set up by his Uncle, even though Nate is engaged to someone else.

Despite how much they are attracted to each other, Nate is taken.

There is also the mystery of what happened to Terri's mother, and why did her boyfried leave town suddenly years ago. If Nate can solve these mysteries can he sort out his life and be with Terri?

3.75 stars

This is the first book I've read by this author, and it's very, very much a romance. A very sweet romance with little angst.

While it made a pleasant change not to have any convoluted drama, I must say I found Stacy to be sugary sweet.

Due to the back story of the heroine's mother, there are a number of info dumps, but they worked perfectly fine.

All in all, this is a sweet romance that will appeal to romance lovers who prefer fade to black sex scenes.

I really enjoyed this book. I like that the protagonist is not perfect, she's beautifully flawed. She has a family history, that appears to be less than stellar. I loved that it's part romance, part mystery. I would say, the only negative was the semi-smooth resolution. I would have like to see the separation between Nate and Terri be dragged out a little longer.

**I received a copy of this book from the publisher in exchange for an honest review**

3.5/5 stars.