Jill Shalvis is pretty much an insta-buy author for me. She’s never disappointed me, regardless of which contemporary setting she’s chosen to set her book in. Lucky in Love is set in Lucky Harbor, near enough to Seattle that it’s plausible to go there for a night out, but far enough away to have a small town Mayberry feel to it. This includes neighbors who are extremely nosy and everyone being in everyone else’s business.

This is the fourth book in this series. The first three were focused on three sisters who come to Lucky Harbor due to their mother’s passing and shared inheritance of a house there, which they decide to turn into a bed and breakfast. I really liked the first three books of this series and was so happy when Jill continued it with a new group of three women to focus on. Mallory, Amy and Grace come together to talk about their relationship and personal problems, while trying to dole out advice for each other, over the single best unifier in the world — chocolate.

This book focuses on Mallory and the Mysterious Cute Guy (as tagged on Lucky Harbor’s Facebook page). Both are characters seen in Head Over Heels. I was looking forward to this book because one, I’d finally get a name for Mysterious Cute Guy, and two, I wasn’t quite ready to give up Lucky Harbor and whatever glimpses we got of Maddie, Tara and Chloe and their beaus. (Yes, I just wrote beaus. I’m not sure why. It’s a weird word, right? I promise never to use it again.)

Anyway, Mallory is the quintessential good girl. While her siblings were out, going crazy and being rebellious, Mallory was the one who minded her manners and tried to appease everyone. When she meets Ty, i.e. Mysterious Cute Guy, she decides ‘what the hell?’ and decides to do one bad thing… or rather, one bad boy.

Not that I blame her. Ty is megahot. I hate to say this, but he became my second favorite guy in Lucky Harbor, scooting Sawyer down to third place. Jax is still my number one favorite, but Ty comes close. He’s damaged (why is that always hot?), and definitely not staying in Lucky Harbor any longer than he has to. Basically, he’s the worst Mr Wrong there is. But uuuuuunnnnnngggggg, he’s hot. Maybe it’s the scars? Or the way he reacts to Mallory? Likely it’s a combination of all of it.

Over the course of the book, we learn more about Mallory’s and Ty’s lives. Ty loses his ‘mysterious’ moniker and then it’s just ‘awwwwwwww’ between them. Also, several hot sexy times scattered throughout. Jill Shalvis writes good sexy times. The one where they’re in the storage space was… yeah. It was good.

If you’ve read anything of Jill Shalvis before, you know what you’re in for so I don’t know why you’re not already reading this book. If you haven’t, I recommend starting with Simply Irresistible, the first in the Lucky Harbor series.