Our Beautiful Mess

In the spirit of transparency and accurately catching up on book posts, let’s flash back to April…

It had been a little over two years since I’d been on an airplane. I wasn’t nervous, far from it in fact…I was elated! My best friend and I were headed out West. That meant I had about 4 hrs of time to fill.

That’s a small flight, so I didn’t bother firing up the Wi-Fi on my devices to stream anything. For a few hours, I put pen to page on my novel (something my traveling buddy made sure of 😉 ).

When I met my pages quota, I moved on to the only other item I planned to enjoy in any spare time I had during the trip…a brand new, signed, paperback by yet another local author (and new friend).

***Isn’t this cover lovely!?!?!***

Our Beautiful Mess opens in an airport bar, where a heartbroken Danny is attempting to drink away all thoughts of his unfaithful ex-wife, when a beautiful woman sits down beside him…literally the last thing he wanted.

Claire, a famous heiress and recent widow, is traveling in disguise, to a remote island off Scotland, to both find some respite from recent events and to also work on her writing. You see, she’s a famous author writing under a pen name.

One chapter in and I was already grinning ear to ear and tucking a little more comfortably into my seat on the airplane. At first they don’t know that they are headed to the same place but we do 😉

Solsken is an island settled by two families, the McClellans and the Larssons, which lands it in an all too often competitive combination of Scottish and Swedish heritage. Danny’s lineage is Swedish and his best friend, Ian’s is Scottish. Together they run the Solken’s public house, Flygande Norseman.

News travels fast on this island and Danny soon finds out his flight companion has settled in nearby and struggles with a mix of emotions, heavy on stubbornness.

With it’s atmospheric, small town setting and more than a little chemistry already in the air between Claire and Danny, one might think they are sitting down to a cozy romance but all of that changes when Claire starts to hear voices in the house she’s rented. These voices know things they shouldn’t and it shakes her to the core.

What follows is captivating mix of charm, warmth, heart, suspense, intensity, kinship and love, all set in an idyllic place.

For me, it was quick and thoroughly enjoyable read.

It wasn’t until the end of the book, as I was reading the acknowledgements and author bio that I realized that not only had I already met B.K. Clark but she was the one who invited me to come and join her writing group (insert happy tears).

This is the second book I’ve read by someone who writes at our local bookshop and it fills me with all the hope in the world that big things are happening within it. I can’t wait to join in and I will very soon!

I’ve linked the ways to find Our Beautiful Mess as well as B.K., please go find and support her 🙂