`*•.¸★☆ The Best Laid Plans by Karla Sorensen ☆★¸.•*´

A tough-as-leather football player. A happy-go-lucky historian. It’s love against all odds in a warm and emotional romance about found family, friendship, and the restorative powers of the heart.

Former Dallas football player Burke Barrett is weathering a lot of changes. He’s retired from football. He’s mourning the loss of his best friend. And now he’s been bequeathed a dilapidated house in northern Michigan he doesn’t want. To his surprise it comes with a long-legged, blindly optimistic renovation manager with big ideas for Burke’s inheritance. She’s passionate, irritating, and irresistible.

Restoration expert Charlotte Cunningham is used to rough exteriors. This surly client, with his stubbled jaw, towering physique, and inflexible attitude, is worth smoothing over. The attraction sizzles, and a proposal is in order: a romantic tryst to relieve the tension. No strings attached. A safe bet for both of them since Burke is prepared to renovate, sell, and move on.

A pet project with an end date. Does that go for love too? Burke must decide what he really wants and what he’s willing to risk. He should know by now that the best-laid plans can change in a heartbeat.

BUY LINKS:

Amazon IT: https://amzn.to/3F7X8er
Ebook- bit.ly/BestLaidPlansKS
Audio- bit.ly/BestLaidPlansAudio
Paperback- bit.ly/BestLaidPlansPB

REVIEW

 

The Best Laid Plans was fun to read, and  it’s a story that puts you through a rollercoaster of emotions, it’s beautiful that way.

Karla Sorensen never disappoints me, I love her characters.

From the start  Burke and Charlotte are hilarious with their back and forth. He’s a Mr Grumpiness in the flesh while she’s cheerful, sparkling, full of ideas and in love with the restoration project.

Burke is in a sensitive time of his life: he stopped playing football and he was good at it, and he is grieving the loss of his best friend Chris and his wife.

They left him a wreck of a house in their will, but it was Chris’ legacy, his dreams was bound to it and Burke knows how much his friend cared for this house and he can’t just get the rid of it.

And then there’s this maddening girl, Charlotte, the restoration expert who worked for Chris.

At first they can stand each other, and reading the exchange between them was so much fun, but their chemistry is explosive and the time they spent together too much so they have to come to terms with that.

I think in the future I’ll never attend a Power-Point presentation without smiling because of Charlotte.

I loved Burke, his feelings are so deep, he always shows to other people his strength, his determination, he loves fiercely his sister and nieces. He hides his inner conflicts, his doubts.

Charlotte is strong as well, but a different kind of person, what I loved the most was her empathy for Burke’s feelings and moods, she understands his struggles, why he just can’t show his emotions, and she gives him space, time. It’s one of her way to love him.

This first book in the Best Men series is amazing, can’t wait to read the next one.

I hope is going to be about Liam.

 

Thanks to Netgalley and Montlake for the kind preview.

RATING 5 STAR