A Wedding at Meadows Shore by Eva Charles
Date of Publication: May 2, 2016
Prepare to fall in love with the Claytons and Harringtons, a wealthy and powerful New England family with a rich Portuguese heritage. Visit their beloved Meadows Shore nestled in the charming seaside town of Fair Harbor, where you'll enjoy love, laughter, loyalty, and an abundance of mouth-watering food.
A Wedding at Meadows Shore is Sophie Clayton's story. Smart, stubborn, and strong, family means everything to her. After a failed marriage, she creates a new life for herself, one that excludes men. Sophie doesn't trust men, or maybe she doesn't trust her judgment when it comes to them. Then she meets Max, a man who leads his life in a way that challenges those very trust issues.
Max Parker is a handsome playboy with a taste for younger women and a past that haunts him. He keeps what's left of his heart well protected behind a cool exterior, and fills the emptiness with lucrative business deals, punishing exercise, and women he'll never love. But there's another side to Max, one that he keeps well hidden, until Sophie blows into his life like a whirlwind and knocks him off his game, threatening to expose his darkest secrets.
There's an Old Portuguese adage that translates as, "the rooster crows loudly, but it's the hen who's in charge". And so it is with the Claytons and Harringtons: strong women, alpha males, and of course, Avó Angelina, the family matriarch who keeps them all on their best behavior.
Bem vindo à família, Welcome to the family!
Eva Charles is the author of the multi-titled Meadows Shore Series that chronicles the lives and loves of the Clayton-Harrington family. She invites you to visit their beloved Meadows Shore nestled in the charming seaside town of Fair Harbor, where you will enjoy love, laughter, loyalty, and an abundance of mouth-watering food, Portuguese style.
After being a confirmed city-girl for more than thirty-five years, Eva moved to beautiful Western Massachusetts in 2014. There, she found herself living in the woods with no job, no friends (unless you count the turkeys, deer, and coyotes roaming the backyard), and no children underfoot, wondering what on earth she'd been thinking. But as it turned out, it was the perfect setting to take all those yarns spinning in her head and weave them into a romantic tale.
When she's not writing, trying to squeeze information out of her tight-lipped sons, or playing with the two cutest dogs you've ever seen, Eva's creating chapters in her own love story.
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I love when I discover a new author, and Eva Charles totally blew me away with this book. I loved this story of a second chance romance.
This series revolves around the five Clayton sisters and six Harrington brothers. Sophie is the eldest child in the Clayton family, after loosing her parents she took on the responsibility of raising her younger sisters. In "A Wedding at Meadow Shore" we meet Sophie's Portuguese family which includes her younger sisters, her five male cousins, her aunts and her grandmother Avó Angelina, the matriarch of the family. Although their family is full of love, they also meddle constantly in each others lives.
This is Sophie and Max's story. Sophie and Max make for quite a formidable pair, Sophie is an advocate for victims of domestic violence and Max is a lawyer. Sophie is the director of a non-profit domestic violence agency and is happy being single since it reduces the risk of getting hurt a second time.
"Despite what Eric had wanted her to believe, she knew she was worthy of a man who respected women-one who respected her. "
Max Parker is an attorney who is well known for his reputation as a playboy and womanizer. Max and Sophie share an attraction and chemistry, that neither can deny but they both fight it with everything they have. Sophie and Max both have demons from their past that they need to conquer in order to have a chance at happiness.
"She had no illusions about changing him. Change, real change, came from within, and it only happened when a person was ready, when they were strong enough to face their problems."
This book is an insightful tale of healing and finding happiness with an undertone of domestic abuse, and the aftermath of how it affects both the victims and their families. I thoroughly enjoyed this book and look forward to reading more books in this series!