MEET THE SHAKESPEARE
FAMILY: FOUR SISTERS, FOUR STORIES . . . FOUR WAYS TO FIND TRUE LOVE
Summer’s
Lease
Carrie Elks
Published 13th July
Paperback Original | £8.99
If music be the food of love, books are certainly the
appetizers . . .
Cesca Shakespeare has hit rock bottom. Six years after the
play she wrote bombed at the box office, she’s unable to hold down a job, keep
an apartment, and worst of all her family have no idea how far she’s fallen. So
when her fairy Godfather offers her the use of his friend’s Italian villa for
the summer, she grudgingly agrees to try writing a new play. That’s before she
finds out the house belongs to her arch-nemesis, Sam Carlton.
When Hollywood heart-throb Sam Carlton sees his name
splashed across a gossip rag, all he wants to do is hide. That’s how he finds
himself traveling to Italy, deciding to spend the summer in his family’s empty
villa on Lake Como. Except when he arrives it isn’t as empty as he’d hoped.
Over the course of the hot Italian summer, Cesca and Sam
have to come to terms with their pasts. What begins as a tentative friendship
quickly grows into an intense attraction – and then a scorching fling. But they
can’t hide from reality forever . . . as their different worlds collide, Sam
and Cesca face a choice: is this just a summer romance, or could their love
weather even the coldest winds?
About the author
Carrie Elks lives near
London, England and writes contemporary romance with a dash of intrigue. She
loves to travel and meet new people, and has lived in the USA and Switzerland
as well as the UK. An avid social networker, she tries to limit her Facebook
and Twitter time to stolen moments between writing chapters. When she isn’t
reading or writing, she can usually be found baking, drinking wine or working
out how to combine the two.
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My Review
Cesca Shakespeare ( what a brilliant name) is one of four sisters. When she finds herself unable to hold down a job or pay the rent she turns to her godfather Hugh for help. Hoping that a summer caretaking an Italian villa will help her refind her gift as a playwright, he calls in a favour from an old friend.
The descriptions of Italy, not to mention the food, immediately put the reader into holiday mode. Of course things don't go smoothly for Cesca as before long the son of the owner turns up unexpectedly. When she discovers it is none other than Sam, the leading actor who walked out of her play causing it to bomb, her first instinct is to flee - except she has nowhere to go.
I enjoyed watching the relationship develop between the two as well as the interaction of the handsome Italian next door neighbour. You'll have to read it to see how the story pans out.
Sizzling with summer, I look forward to finding out more about the Shakespeare sisters.
5/5
