{"id":19062,"date":"2017-08-03T10:49:42","date_gmt":"2017-08-03T15:49:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/twinsietalk.com\/?p=19062"},"modified":"2017-07-27T14:54:23","modified_gmt":"2017-07-27T19:54:23","slug":"newrelease-review-contemporary-chance-encounter-the-lamberts-of-pacific-knoll-book-1-by-kate-vale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/twinsietalk.com\/?p=19062","title":{"rendered":"#NewRelease #Review #Contemporary Chance Encounter (The Lamberts of Pacific Knoll Book 1) by Kate Vale"},"content":{"rendered":"

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When Alexis McCord\u2019s abusive boyfriend is arrested, she seizes the opportunity to escape with her young son. Now she and 5-year-old Chance are building a life in the tiny, remote beach town of Sandy Reach, Washington. Lexi is even acting on her dream of becoming a baker with her own shop\u2014if only Hugh never finds her.<\/p>\n

For Fletcher Lambert, distraught after the death of his wife and baby daughter, Sandy Reach is a handy place to escape his memories, away from his law office and his large, well-intentioned but intrusive family, who are watching and waiting for him to move on. He\u2019s not sure that will ever happen.<\/p>\n

Then Fletcher meets Chance. When he learned that the waitress serving him at Omar\u2019s pub is the boy\u2019s mother, sparks fly in in spite of his intentions never to get close to a woman again. Lexi feels them, too, but her mistrust of men forces her to ignore Chance when he declares that Fletcher would make the perfect dad. After all, who listens to a five-year-old in the midst of all this grown-up angst?<\/p>\n

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I voluntarily reviewed an Advance Reader\u2019s Copy of this book<\/p>\n

A New series about the Lambert family. A family that has it all, but that doesn\u2019t mean that they don\u2019t have issues of their own.<\/p>\n

Lexi McCord is trying to raise her young son right and that means getting away from his abusive and theft of a father. They run while he is in prison after he was arrested for robbing a jewelry store. Their car breaks down outside of Sandy Reach, so that where she tries to change their life around. It\u2019s taken two years, but life is finally looking up for them.
\nIt\u2019s been a year since the death of his wife and baby daughter and Fletcher Lambert is still not over it. He has a hard time being around his niece and nephew, almost has a panic attack when he is called to go to the ER for his little brother, and is losing clients at his office where he practices law.
\nHis law partner has put his foot down and told him he needs to get away and finally deal with it and maybe get some closure so he decides to go to Sandy Reach for some winter fishing and so he doesn\u2019t have to be around his family for the holidays he decides to go for a couple of months.
\nFletcher meets a child alone of the beach the first day he is there. He can\u2019t believe that a 5 year old would be allowed to be alone on the beach, let alone be allowed on the beach in the winter without the proper clothing, he learns shortly that he got away from his babysitter. It isn\u2019t until he starts talking to the child that he realizes that he recognizes the child as the one that almost ran out in front of his car when he drove into town and that his mom his the waitress at the pub he just left. The woman that has him thinking thought that were nothing about his wife.
\nLexi tries hard to stay way from Fletcher after he tries to pay for fixing her son\u2019s coat he found on the beach after that faithful day, but she can\u2019t. There is something in him that calls to her.
\nWhat happens next is a story of a man falling in love again, a woman learning that all men aren\u2019t bad and it\u2019s ok to have feeling for one, and a child that knows what he wants and how to protect his mom.
\nVale does a wonderful job showing the emotional storm of a man dealing with the loss of his whole world. She also does a great job showing how hard it is to be a single parent and how hard it is to trust again after leaving a abusive relationship.
\nWhen two people learn to love again it\u2019s wonderful and I can\u2019t wait to see more of the Lambert family.<\/p>\n

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My mother said I wrote my first book when I was five–after I carefully copied the words in one of my favorite stories. A favorite children’s book I still have is a first edition, signed by the author, of MISTY OF CHINCOTEAGUE, perhaps one reason I included reference to it in my indie-novel, PACKAGE DEAL.<\/p>\n

Counting my current work as a novelist, I think I’ve experienced at least five different careers, the first four providing lots of grist for the mill of what my characters do or would like to do. One example? Olivia Brown in GRANDDAD’S HOUSE is a realtor. I was one, too! And realtors show up again in CHOICES and in a new book not yet ready for publication.<\/p>\n

I hope you enjoy my stories. I love to hear from readers.<\/p>\n

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When Alexis McCord\u2019s abusive boyfriend is arrested, she seizes the opportunity to escape with her young son. Now she and 5-year-old Chance are building a life in the tiny, remote beach town of Sandy Reach, Washington. Lexi is even acting on her dream of becoming a baker with her own shop\u2014if only Hugh never finds … Continue reading #NewRelease #Review #Contemporary Chance Encounter (The Lamberts of Pacific Knoll Book 1) by Kate Vale<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[37,186,407,51,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-contemp-romance","category-mmf","category-mmmf","category-new-release","category-part-of-a-series"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paSW8H-4Xs","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/twinsietalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19062","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/twinsietalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/twinsietalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/twinsietalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/twinsietalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19062"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/twinsietalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19062\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19065,"href":"http:\/\/twinsietalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19062\/revisions\/19065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/twinsietalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/twinsietalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/twinsietalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}