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CRYSTAL COVE by Lisa Kleypas

CRYSTAL COVE

by Lisa Kleypas

Pub Date: Feb. 5th, 2013
ISBN: 978-1-250-01175-6
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin

A love story that draws on all the senses, including the proverbial sixth. 

There is magic, there is insight—“the best part of the relationship wasn’t all the things they agreed on—it was when they disagreed, when they helped each other to look at things in a new way”—and there is humor: “I would only go out with a guy if he had a good personality, a decent body, and a job. Now I’d settle for a man who isn’t currently married or incarcerated.” The smart, funny and sensitive Justine Hoffman was born shortly before her father died. Losing the great love of her life was so hard on Justine’s mother, Marigold, that Marigold cast a spell on her daughter to protect her from the pain of finding and then losing that kind of love. What her mother did based on a loving desire to protect her child, grown-up Justine views as a curse that needs to be lifted. Marigold is a witch and raised her daughter in the pagan tradition. She wanted Justine to join her coven, but Justine preferred to run a B&B at Friday Harbor in the state of Washington, the one place she and her nomadic mother have ever stayed long enough for Justine to feel at home. Her business partner, Zoë, a distant cousin, encourages Justine to continue looking for “Mr. Right,” but Justine feels that unless she can reverse the curse that leaves her unable to feel that kind of love, she wouldn’t recognize Mr. Right, and has maybe already found him without knowing it. But when a famous video game creator books the B&B, there is no mistaking the sparks that fly. When this man searching for his soul meets this woman searching for her heart, the drama hits the ground running.

A witty, moving and entertaining read.