Review Tour + #Giveaway: Scandalous in Huntington Beach by Melody DeBlois @Melody_DeBlois @GoddessFish

SCANDALOUS IN HUNTINGTON BEACH

Melody DeBlois

GENRE: Women's Fiction

BLURB:

Politician and senate hopeful Bennett Browning knows nothing about babies. When his former girlfriend dies and leaves him with a daughter he knew nothing about, he’s left scrambling until he meets Emma Kuan, his daughter’s aunt, who volunteers to be the nanny. Emma is used to keeping secrets. She and her sister have always hidden their tragic past, but she’s stunned her sister hid the baby even from her. Meeting her niece captures her heart, and she would do anything to be with her, even living with a stranger. Worried about potential scandal, Bennett and Emma juggle jobs, living arrangements, and parenting until a doctor gives them bad news about their baby girl. Then their priorities change drastically.

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Excerpt:

Heavy rain allowed Bennett’s anonymity as he kept his distance from the mourners beneath the tent at Rachel’s graveside service, his emotions a tight ball in his chest. When the service concluded, the mourners dispersed through the soaked cemetery, leaving him alone at the casket with a woman. Her resemblance to Rachel drew him. Was this the older sister he’d heard about? She was shivering, so he edged closer to share his umbrella.

“I’m sorry for your loss,” he said and, against his will, found himself intrigued by the face she directed at him—the faint, upward slant of her eyes, the slash of high cheekbones.

“Thank you for coming.”

He caught himself then. “I’m Bennett Browning.”

“I know,” she responded with quiet emphasis. “You’re the senate hopeful.”

“And you must be Emma?”

She raised her chin, luminous mahogany hair blowing back from her exotic features. “Emma Kuan. Rachel and I had different fathers.”

“Emma, like in the Jane Austen novel.”

“Right,” she said with a trace of sarcasm.

Had she detected his unease? Appalled, he dropped his stare to his wristwatch. “I’ve got an” “appointment with Child—”

“Child Protective Services,” she finished for him after he’d tactlessly dropped that bombshell. “The judge awarded you Rachel’s baby.”

“I didn’t know—before, I mean.” The words came out gruffer than he intended. “I didn’t know she was pregnant. She never said.” And he believed she had taken precautions.

“If it makes you feel any better, my sister didn’t tell me either.”

My Review:

Emma Kuan loses her little sister and then finds out her sister had a baby. Emma will do anything to be with her niece, even if it means living with a stranger.

Bennett Browning found out he had a baby daughter and that her mother was dead. Bennett is having a hard time taking care of the baby by himself. He doesn’t know what he will do until the baby’s aunt enters the picture and agrees to be the baby’s nanny until he can find someone to look after his baby girl.

Things are working out well for Emma and Bennett living under the same roof until they receive bad news about the baby and then their lives are turned upside down.

Scandalous in Huntington Beach turned out to be way better than I thought it might be after reading the summary. While Scandalous in Huntington Beach is a sad story it is also a happy story.

Scandalous in Huntington Beach took hold of my heart on the first page and hung on until the last. But even now it is still with me. I keep thinking about how sweet and cuddly baby Madelynn Grace is and how much both Bennett and Emma seemed to love her.

Baby Madelynn Grace is sure to pull on your heartstrings from the first page until the last and beyond. I recommend Scandalous in Huntington Beach to everyone! I recommend grabbing a copy of Scandalous in Huntington Beach today!

AUTHOR Bio and Links:

Melody lives in Sacramento (the City of Trees). She writes romance novels. She’s partial to poetry, sun, rain, strong coffee, and her writing room surrounded by books. Besides California, she and her late husband lived part-time in a condo in Oregon overlooking the Pacific. That gave her a love for beach towns and whale-watching and sunsets—all the things that inspire the Love is a Beach series. The writing process fascinates her, the alchemy of layering and developing characters, the tinkering with language. There’s so much to treasure in the world: family, friends, and those random, everyday moments that make life grand. She hopes to give her readers all of that.

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