Winter at the Beach (Book 2) by Sheila Roberts

Winter at the Beach by Sheila Roberts

My rating: 3 of 5 stars


Winter at the Beach (Moonlight Harbor #2) by Sheila Roberts

October 23, 2018
MIRA
Beach read, fiction
Rating: 3.5/5

This is the second book in the Moonlight Harbor Series. In Welcome to Moonlight Harbor, we meet Jenna Jones, a 40 yo divorced Massage Therapist who moves to Moonlight Harbor with her daughter, Sabrina. The resistant 14 year old would prefer to live with her father but he is living in his parents’ basement with his girlfriend, Aurora. Damien Petit, the ex-husband, barely makes a living as an artist and content to live off of support payments from Jenna.

The move to Moonlight Harbor was encouraged by Jenna’s Aunt Edie Patterson, who has been struggling to keep the family owned Driftwood Inn afloat. Since her husband Ralph passed away, it’s just been her and Jolly Roger, the parrot and Pete Long, the lazy handyman.

With hard work and help from the community, they are able to save the Driftwood Inn from being sold. Jenna has an idea to bring in revenue for the tourist town during the slow winter months. In spite of the naysayers, she convinces a group from the town council to support her mission.

The ever optimistic Jenna enlists the help of Seth Waters who is still living at the Inn as he builds his mold treatment business. Sabrina begins to feel more comfortable and eventually develops a relationship with Tristan, a senior at her high school. Meanwhile, the 84 year old Edie Patterson can usually be found in the kitchen making delicious dinners and baked goods for everyone.
There are many challenges facing Jenna and the town as they prepare for the first Seaside with Santa event. They advertise through Groupon and eventually fill the reservations for the holiday weekend. There are many characters introduced which complicate the story somewhat with their amusing, interesting histories. It almost felt distracting and squeezed in between the holiday event.
Things don’t go quite as planned for Jenna. Sometimes, there’s some good that can come after the storm clears. You just have to have faith.

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