Title: Travis (Pelion Lake #1)
Author: Mia Sheridan
Publication date: July 17, 2021
Language: English
File size: 1105 KB
BLURB
Travis Hale has it all. An important role as the chief of police in the idyllic town of Pelion, Maine. Looks that regularly and consistently make women fall at his feet. Two nephews and a niece he adores, and a family who’s mostly forgiven him after a series of unfortunate decisions years before. Perhaps his past is riddled with regrets and misguided choices, but his future looks bright and limitless.
Until the new guy in town crosses him in a way both shocking and indefensible.
A guy who, as it turns out, has a sister who may be equally as disastrous to Travis’s well-ordered plans, though in an altogether different manner. Not that there’s any real risk of him falling for the smoothie-making, birdseed-eating wild woman. She’s not even his type. A plant lady from California with a head of unruly curls and an equally messy past. More than that, she’s only in town for the summer, busy mooning over perfect-in-every-way Gage Buchanan.
And if Travis knows anything, it’s that he refuses to be second best. Ever again.
Haven Torres’s life fell apart. Or more to the point, it burned to the ground. At the time, it seemed like a solid idea to jump in her car, her brother a mostly-willing co-pilot, and embark on a cross-country adventure.
When they land jobs at an exclusive tennis and golf club in a picturesque lake town in Maine, Haven’s hopeful it might prove a summer to remember. Especially if she can catch the attention of the most eligible bachelor in town and her current crush. Even the kindest, most upstanding, perfect of men aren’t opposed to summer flings, right?
But when she meets the local police chief—all swagger and arrogance—and learns of her brother’s scandalous misdeed, she knows that Pelion is just another town where their stay is best . . . short-lived. Still, she and Travis strike up an unlikely friendship and Haven sees that the gorgeous lawman isn’t only easy on the eyes, but he has . . . layers. Not that she’s going to peel any of them. He’s only her friend. A friend willing to scratch her back, if she scratches his.
It seems simple enough. She’ll help him make her brother sweat a little. And he’ll help her win over Gage. But before either Travis or Haven knows it, simple turns complicated, friendship gets flipped on its ear, passion faces down perfection, and they both discover that sometimes you have to lose it all to find exactly what you need.
When I found out that Mia Sheridan had written the story of Travis and that he was that Travis that I didn't like at all in Archer's voice I was surprised but also very intrigued to see how the author would turn around a character that I didn't have any good feelings for or I would have considered knowing more, but as I am a big fan of Mia I didn't think about it for a second when the opportunity to read the story of this not very pleasant character came up.
And I must admit that Mia has made me not only stop hating Travis, but I have become sensitive and have to confess that I liked this Travis here, I was even feeling sad by the sacrifice and what he gives up to something that rightfully belongs to him in order not to harm his brother's happiness and that relationship he now has with him and his family. Travis' mother hasn't changed a bit and she has a lot to do with the traumas her son grew up with that somehow led him to commit so many injustices against Archer.
Travis grew up always feeling second choice to everyone, feeling that to his father he was always the second son marked him in a way that didn't help his behavior with his brother or cousin Archer. He is tired of being second choice even to his current girlfriend.
Haven Torres and Travis Hale will have a first encounter that will include a very peculiar conversation about plants and then they will meet again at the exclusive golf and tennis club where Haven and his brother Easton are working for the summer.
Haven and his brother, who the latter tends to find trouble wherever they go also have their own ghosts, which they have decided to forget for at least the next two years.
Pelion would be one more point of passage but circumstances and certain characters will make them change their minds, or not.
Haven and Travis will start something that was not planned to go further, especially since Haven's plans are not to stay in Pelion and the end of summer is approaching and with it her stay there.
This book opens old wounds but also heals them and shows us that not always the bad guy is so bad and not always the good guy is so good. Life is full of nuances in both feelings and actions and we can always have the opportunity to redeem ourselves if we know how and want to do it.
I didn't think when I finished reading I was going to like this book so much because Archer is and always will be my top 1 of Mia's books, but Travis redeems himself and gets a little piece of my heart.
Thank you so much to Mia Sheridan for trusting me with an eARC. This is my freely honest opinion.
Until the next one :)
BUY IT HERE: Amazon
About Mia Sheridan
Customers Also Bought Items By
Are you an author?
Help us improve our Author Pages by updating your bibliography and submitting a new or current image and biography.
No comments