Why I Held Your Hand is a novel centered around a woman and her determination to save her town’s tourism market and bring more revenue overall. She gets caught in a love triangle while working with the marketing team at KPS Marketing.

Laura Delaney enlists herself to save her small village hometown, North Powell. Not only is she is the volunteer Director of Economic Development for her town, but she also owns her own store called Creations by Laura. She is a determined 27 year old woman to increase revenue for North Powell and make it a vacation destination without sacrificing what makes it special. Not only is she working on improving tourism, she also is working on trying to restore one of the prominent Victorian historical houses in town, Powell House. She’s an interesting character who has a lot of passion to make her fun to read about. One aspect that puzzled me about her is that she is a five foot one smaller frame individual with a size 34D chest. To me, I had a hard time understanding how she hasn’t developed some back pain at this point (haha). It didn’t affect the story and instead just made me very curious.

Her marketing team at KPS consists of three men – two of which are eligible. First, there is the VP of Strategy, James Murphy. Then, there is the Project Manager, David Harper. Finally, there is Spencer Markham, the Director of Creative Services. Each member of her marketing team works together with Laura to improve North Powell.

Laura begins a secret romance with one of the members of her marketing team (secret to KPS at least) and soon finds herself having feelings for another member. Torn between the one she’s already with and the one she begins thinking about, she finds herself in a surprise love triangle. You’ll need to read the novel though to figure out who she chooses.

The love triangle was a fun and interesting storyline and the writing keeps you interested to see if your initial guess of her final choice is going to be the correct one. There were some moments that definitely crossed the line while she is exploring her feelings for both men, but enough moments that were more meaningful helped to outweigh the negative.

Overall, this novel was a fun and quick read. Love triangles are always difficult because you always end up clearly favoring one choice over another. In this case, I could see positives and negatives for why they were the right choice for Laura. The story starts in June and ends towards New Year’s Day and the author does well navigating the timeline while keeping a good pace. The characters are interesting and I enjoyed reading their story. I would definitely recommend this novel to others!

**Thank you to Netgalley and the publisher for my ARC. My review is voluntary and the opinions expressed are completely my own.**

Why I Held Your Hand is a romance set in a small town, a town that is in desperate need of a marketing campaign to get tourists. Our main character Laura loves her town and is desperate to help it survive which is why the mayor on her recommendation, hires a marketing team to save it.

Little did Laura know that she would fall in love with one of the three men on the marketing team and she and he kick-off a romance without disclosing it to the marketing company. In the meantime, Laura finds herself working closely with another member of the team and while she tries to ignore them, starts to have feelings for him too.

When a chain of events leaves both men to find out about one another Laura is left with what seems like an impossible choice.

This is an open-door romance and over-all I enjoyed it but I feel like Laura crossed some lines. It's one thing for someone to cheat (or nearly cheat) with someone, but it's totally different if the person you are almost cheating with honestly thinks you're single and available to date. I don't know, that sort of rubbed me the wrong way, but otherwise I liked it.

I received an advance copy of, Why I held your Hand, by Augusta Reilly. This was not a good book, the characters were ridiculous. I could not get in to this book.