Home to Seaview Key (A Seaview Key Novel Book 2)

Although there was a wait between the first and second novels, this one could stand alone. As usual with her books the characters keep you reading. The reader is drawn into the story as you keep reading knowing it will all work out in the end but thinking up your scenarios as you read for how it might turn out. If you haven't read Hannah and Luke's Story, read it next. Nothing will be lost reading them out of order as there are in some series.

Sherryl Woods, Shannon Stacey, Susan Mallory, Robyn Carr, & Kristain Higgins are 5 authors that she really enjoys reading. And this Sherryl Woods novel did not disappoint.

This book was released in Jan 2014. We were surprised that we had missed this one.

So as not to spoil any of the story, I have pasted the comments about the book from the author and publisher...............Falling for a handsome stranger on the very morning they meet is hardly what recently divorced Abby Miller planned for her return to Seaview Key. Hoping to mend an old friendship and to give back to the community she loves, Abby's definitely not looking for love.

For ex-soldier Seth Landry, Seaview Key seems like the perfect place to heal a broken heart…eventually. And when he rescues a beautiful woman on the beach, his nightmares about the past are eclipsed by daydreams about the future.

Neither Abby nor Seth is looking for forever, but powerful love has its own timetable. And taking a chance on the future will test their courage in ways neither of them could possibly have anticipated.

At 384 paperback pages, this book is about the same length as most all the ones she reads.

Sherryl Woods is an American writer of over 110 romance and mystery novels since 1982. Her web site is excellent with all the information you could possible want or need to learn about all the books written by her.

Home to Seaview Key is a very good read and you will not be disappointed.

My wife wrote the first review below, which I thought was a little dry and lacking in critical content, positive or negative. Hence, I will first provide her review. Then, I have added my own version. No, I didn't read the book, but I have heard all I need to know! Hope you enjoy both reviews and find one or both of them helpful or entertaining.

**Wife's Review**
Abby, Luke and Hannah were friends when they were growing up. Eventually, Luke and Abby dated. After a while though, Luke and Hannah got married. Luke became a doctor and they moved back to Seaview Key, an island off of the coast of Florida. Abby moved away and married. She never forgot her roots though. After a few years, Abby got divorced and moved back to Seaview Key to start a housing development.

When she got back she met Seth but wasn't sure if they'd just be friends. She rekindled her friendship with Luke, but not without jealousy from Hannah.

These three are the main characters and the book is about their lives, the good and the bad, back in Seaview Key.

This is a good book and very well written. I gave it 4 stars because it was a slow moving at times.

**My Review**

For starters, this "romance" wouldn't be nearly as romantic if we replaced Seaview Key with Dubuque, Flint, Pittsburgh, El Paso, or Tijuana. So, the author used all the tools in the shed to pull off the tale of promiscuity, intrigue, and infidelity. The beach chair and crashing waves on the cover are a good lead in to the tale, and one can hardly blame the author, as stick figures of Dick, Jane, and Spot on the cover could not have created the same appeal to dive right in.

Second, the notion that Luke was just "friends" with Abby and Hannah is totally a chick thing. Unless they work together with women, guys aren't looking for girls to pal around with. Sorry to disappoint, ladies, but Luke probably had other thoughts in keeping both of the ladies on the line, beyond friendship. Sounds like he had his paws in the cookie jar with both of them, to support my point, and he eventually got hitched with one of them.

So, Abby eventually got divorced. Sounds to me like she was longing for Luke all along. Maybe she should have focused a little more on saving her marriage, rather than running back to the fictitious love mecca by the sea to look for long lost Luke. Yeah, she rekindles her flame for him and Hannah gets jealous. OF COURSE SHE GETS JEALOUS! Hannah was married to Luke, for crying out loud. A cat fight was bound to ensue for the doctor with a gorgeous bod and money galore, living in a love mecca by the sea, of course.

I would have loved this story a lot more if it had a very unpredictable ending, such as Abby stopping up the toilet, calling a plumber, and falling in love with all 300 pounds of his blubber when he exposes his plumber's crack while turning off the cold water supply to the toilet. Next thing you know, she's sneaking off to KFC to share a double order of biscuits and gravy before they slink off to a no tell motel to inspect one another's plumbing, if you know what I mean. Yeah, that would have been an ending that a guy would like, but then guys don't read romance novels.