This RITA® Reader Challenge 2016 review was written by MysAnita. This story was nominated for the RITA® in the Long Contemporary category.

Here is MysAnita's review:

This book is the third in the Bell Harbor series, but one does not need to read the first two (Crazy Little Thing and The Best Medicine) to enjoy this lovely, light-hearted, laugh-out-loud, novel.

For a California girl like Delaney Masterson, Bell Harbor, Michigan—in January—was a ridiculous place to hide, which—naturally—made it the perfect place to hide from the paparazzi after her ex-boyfriend, Boyd, sells their sex tape to the tabloids. With an eighties pop icon father with three platinum records to his name, a supermodel mother turned luxury soap maker, and a reality show called Pop Rocks!, featuring Delaney (the unpredictable wild child and celebrity stylist), her two sisters (Roxanne, the smart one, Melody, the musical one), and her parents, she is more than ready to flee town in a rusted yellow VW Beetle, remain anonymous, and create the temporary alias “Elaine Masters” when paying her new landlord, Donna Beckett, a security deposit and six months’ rent for a house—up front—in cash—in the middle of a snowstorm.

One Man, One Planet co-producer and adventure-show cameraman Grant Connelly has been away from Bell Harbor for some time, traveling, having adventures, living life, filming in exotic locations and unable to keep in touch with family—until he receives a wedding invitation from his younger brother, Ty, whom he feels is making an irretrievable mistake. Besides, his idiot boss and star, Blake Rockstone, has gotten on his last nerve, not only sleeping with Grant’s girlfriend, Miranda—make that ex-girlfriend—but turning everything real about the show into something fake and Grant’s integrity was taking a hit. He suddenly quits to go back home, not just for the wedding, but to regroup, and make some new plans in the house his grandfather deeded to him after he died—a year ago–and he hadn’t even seen it yet. Grant was at the top of his game professionally, but he had bigger goals for his career and his life, and it was time for him to move on.

Four days later, little does Grant know that his batsh!t crazy, thrice-married mother, Donna, has rented out his own house to “Elaine,” until she arrives home from buying groceries and discovers that the person in her shower is not Donna’s husband, Carl, who was supposedly fixing a leak, but actually her son, Grant, who is totally naked and using her romance novel to cover his bits. His brother, Ty, had been maintaining the house in his absence, but Donna, not having heard from Grant in ages, felt it was hers to rent since it was just sitting empty. Besides, Grant hadn’t told anyone he was coming home; he had wanted it to be a surprise. Unfortunately for “Elaine,” Donna has already spent the rent money and can’t get it back. It also seems Donna has a slight problem with money, not only gambling it away, but stealing other people’s belongings when she’s stressed, including “Elaine’s” backpack, with $40,000 in it, which then leads to another delicious misunderstanding and then another and another.

Along the way, Grant realizes what a selfish brother and son he’s been and what he can do to make up for lost time while he and “Elaine” chase his mother and aunt to Memphis, end up in a snow bank, find creative ways to keep warm, and meet the hilarious Paradise Brothers’ band, who give them a ride on their tour bus to the Heartbreak Hotel where they stay in the Burning Love Suite. When the band members start knitting baby hats with drumsticks, I nearly spit coffee all over my Kindle. However, when Grant finds out about Elaine’s real name from a tabloid minutes before she was going to finally tell him herself, my heart broke just like the hotel.

But, hang on, the ending is sooo worth it. If you’re looking for a funny, sweet, contemporary romance, this novel is the golden ticket—if Donna hasn’t already stolen it! While you chase her down, I’m going to find the other Bell Harbor novels to read—and laugh some more.