A Patti Callahan Henry romance story has full characters in a great setting and realistic ups and downs. Ella has just had her world turned upside down by a man and doesn't know how to put her feet on the ground and then she bumps into Hunter. Hunter has come to this small town in South Carolina to work on his next project, but upon meeting Ella he doesn't want to tell her the truth about his project, so he lies. BUT Ella is lying also.

I loved these characters. Ella and Hunter were fantastic characters AND the supporting were characters were just as great. Patti Callahan Henry really creates these characters that you want to get to know and want to see how their arc will go. With the reader knowing all the things, you can watch as these two discover the truth and see how they react - and I loved it!

Even though you know with a romance that we will end happily ever after, I still enjoyed the journey of this book. For the romance genre, if the journey isn't worth it then the story is just ok.

This book made me want to get all caught up on Patti Callahan Henry's backlist.

Have you ever told a lie, just a little white one, that just kept building and building until it was an entire story? That is what is happened to Ella and Hunter (aka Blake). The story is cute, charming but proof of what all can go wrong when truths are not told.

Ella thought she was in love with her husband, until he did her wrong and left her. When she met Hunter, a writer looking to tell the tale of love, she spun her tale. I believe she could not handle what was going on. She had buried so much inside her, starting with the loss of her mother and continuing on with the break-up of her marriage. Hunter is not truthful either. He starts the lies of what his career is, who he is, and why he is visiting her town. His life at home was falling apart, starting with an affair, his relationship with his personal assistant, and his relationship with his teenage daughter.

The two of them together, with their fake lives, are wonderful. They both have hurt they are trying to get over. The sparks between them are obvious. I was worried how their friendship could progress when it started on such false pretenses. They needed each other, but they really needed to come to terms with what was happening in their lives and be truthful to each other. When they were apart from each other they could not stop thinking about each other, when they were together there was no one else they could think about; sounds perfect, right? I hope that it would end up that way.


Patti Callahan Henry is an amazing author. Her books are clean, real, and full of life. She shows what love and friendship is and how important it is. I recommend checking out this book.

In this book, widowed Ella and screenwriter Hunter meet and begin a relationship. The only problem is that they are both spinning a web of lies. Will they be able to untangle them and still have something left together?

This book was interesting and I enjoyed it. The lies of the main characters frustrated me at times, but I still liked both characters.