Love You Right: Small Town Romantic Comedy Enemies to Lovers Slow Burn Grumpy Lumberjack Romance

Julia Kent

Apr 2022 · Love You, Maine Book 1 · Julia Kent

About this ebook

A missed opportunity five years ago makes for an unexpected encounter now between two people meant for each other – but who square off in a very public battle of wills in the small town of Love You, Maine, where every day is Valentine's Day. Can love conquer all in a town steeped in it?

Kell Luview refuses to be a sucker at love again. Five years ago, he left D.C. with his pride wounded and his heart broken. Fiercely protective of his small town in rural Maine, he's determined to save the family tree business and avoid his feelings at all costs, no matter how much he longs to solve the mystery of what happened in D.C.

L.A. native Rachel Hart hates being underestimated almost as much as she hates this small town. She has two goals on this trip: get out of the cheesy tourist trap of Love You, Maine with a completed business deal, and avoid running into Kell, her old friend from D.C. who never became an old flame because of a huge misunderstanding.

One that still aches.

When her rental car breaks down on a logging road and Kell comes to her rescue, it's clear he's a changed man – and not for the good. Grumpy and reserved, he pushes all her buttons, still stubbornly convinced she betrayed him all those years ago. He's never forgiven her, and she's never forgiven herself for carrying a torch for him.

An embarrassing incident gets the town gossip mill going when residents wrongly assume Kell and Rachel are the newest couple to find love in the most romantic place on Earth. But the townsfolk aren't wrong for long...

As Rachel breaks through his defenses and charms the town, he faces his biggest fear: all those pesky feelings he's been avoiding.

Because they're all about Rachel now.

And maybe they always were.

Can Kell and Rachel fight their growing attraction in the one place in the world where you can't avoid love?

If you're looking for a fun read about enemies to lovers, forced proximity, heroines who get their comeuppance and sworn bachelors felled by unexpected true love, featuring a hot bearded lumberjack impervious to poison ivy, and a city-slicker, jaded career woman with a penchant for great coffee, set in a small town in New England - then this is your book.

Grab a cup of (properly good) coffee, a can of hot cocoa mix, a jar of Fluff and maybe some calamine lotion (just in case), and get your happymeter ready as you read the very first book in New York Times bestselling romantic comedy author Julia Kent's Love You, Maine series - where love isn't just a feeling - it's a way of life.

Standalone

Slow Burn

Enemies to Lovers

Small town romance

Lumberjack and city slicker outsider

... and a cat named Calamine

Ratings and reviews

Seriously? I read the prequel book, Love You Wrong. Excitedly, I started the second part. It had a few cute points. Kell was just stubborn and so wrong. Not a great friend. Then Rachel does exactly what she didn't do in the previous chapter of their lives, she lied. Really? For a job that she hated? She lied to the one person that she was falling in love with to cover for the job that she hated. After so many chapters and challenges. I threw up my hands and just stopped reading. I did not want to waste another minute on this storyline. It could have been written so much better. So disappointing!

5 star review Love You Right (Love You, Maine #1) by Julia Kent Wow, what a great book. When I heard that Julia Kent was releasing a new series, I couldn’t wait to dive in. As with other books I have read by this author it was well written, entertaining and with wonderful characters whose story you cannot help but quickly become invested in. Kell Luview and Rachel Hart have history and their friendship ended abruptly five years ago. So both are shocked when the women he rescues turns out to be his ex friend. The miss communication in this book had me shaking my head on a number of occasions with neither Kell or Rachel prepared to listen to what the other has to say. However they quickly end up working together, the big question is will Rachel chose her job over the community she has come to care for? One of the things that I loved was Kell’s family and the quirky characters that make up the population of this small town of Luview "Love You", Maine. There were moments where I was in stitches having laughed so much I nearly cried. Just picturing police officers who wear red and drive pink cruisers had me smiling. An entertaining, witty story that ticked the boxes for me.

This book is all the best and worst about small towns. Everybody knows each other’s business, but they’re also all there to lend a hand when trouble strikes. This gives us some absolute comedy gold because Rachel and Kell are plagued by Murphy’s Law; if it can go wrong, it will. Much like the prequel, I adored Rachel and wanted so badly to hug her tight and promise it would all work out. Likewise, I pretty badly wanted to smack some sense into Kellan during some of his biggest jerk-like moments. I’m a sucker for a second chance and was desperately rooting for these two from the moment the book opened. They made me laugh. They made me want to tear my hair out. And they made me sigh the biggest happy sigh in the end. I hate that this book is over, and I can’t wait to get my hands on the next in the series. I received a complimentary advanced copy of this book from the author.

About the author

New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Julia Kent writes romantic comedy with an edge. Since 2013, she has sold more than 2 million books, with 4 New York Times bestsellers and more than 21 appearances on the USA Today bestseller list. Her books have been translated into French and German, with more titles releasing in the future.

From billionaires to BBWs to new adult rock stars, Julia finds a sensual, goofy joy in every contemporary romance she writes. Unlike Shannon from Shopping for a Billionaire, she did not meet her husband after dropping her phone in a men's room toilet (and he isn't a billionaire she met in a romantic comedy).

She lives in New England with her husband and three children where she is the only person in the household with the gene required to change empty toilet paper rolls.

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