When McKenna Keaton walks into the boardroom of Wallis, Monroe, and Burkhead, she expects to be named senior partner. Instead, she learns she’s being investigated for embezzlement. To wait out her unpaid leave, McKenna sublets her apartment and goes home to North Carolina to save money. Saving face is going to be another thing entirely, but she assumes her problems will blow over soon. While living in her childhood hometown, McKenna learns about a family curse that—if real rather than imagined—could suggest she has less than a year to live. This information is troubling (of course!), but it’s the reunion with former classmate Henry—Durham’s favorite son—that flips her world upside down. Henry is now a celebrated documentarian, back in town to premiere his latest masterpiece. As she waits out the results of the investigation and wonders if her literal life is hanging in the balance, McKenna debates her future and questions her past. She might survive it all in one piece—but a new love and a newly-examined life might be the only things that can save her.
It's an entertaining romantic comedy that would fit in well with classic 90's rom-coms, like You've Got Mail, Runaway Bride, and While You Were Sleeping. Lots of funny moments, some tender moments, and some wonderfully cathartic ones when McKenna finally does the right thing. McKenna is definitely flawed--particularly when it comes to her relationships with her family. I vastly disagree with some of her choices--burying the truth about something as significant as an embezzlement investigation is not . . . ideal, and every little lie one tells to hide it just digs the hole deeper. However, I do like how she grows closer to her tag-along little sister (as well as her close relationship with her older sister), and how she reprioritizes her family. I wouldn't have minded a bit more about the embezzlement scandal, but to be fair, it was a rom com, not a legal thriller.
Thank you Thomas Nelson and NetGalley for the complimentary e-book. I was not required to write a positive review, and all opinions are my own.
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