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Lucky Stars #1
Be Careful What You Wish For: A Feel-good Small Town Contemporary Romance
A hapless hunk finds family and fortune when he least expects it in the debut of New York Times bestselling author Elizabeth Bevarly’s Lucky Stars series!A million-dollar wish comes true
With twins thrown in the bargain!
Chance Foley wished on Comet Bob as a teen. Now, when the niece and nephew he never met show up on his doorstep with Poppy Digby, their starchy but sexy caretaker, his wish is granted. Chance will receive a million dollars as the children’s guardian, but first he must enlist Poppy’s continued support raising these handfuls! And maybe he has ulterior motives where Poppy is concerned, but will she ever let her guard down? Sometimes, all it takes is the stars—or maybe a passing comet—aligning just right…
From Harlequin Special Believe in love. Overcome obstacles. Find happiness.
Lucky Stars
Book 1: Be Careful What You Wish For
Book 2: Her Good-Luck Charm
Book 3: Secret under the Stars
With twins thrown in the bargain!
Chance Foley wished on Comet Bob as a teen. Now, when the niece and nephew he never met show up on his doorstep with Poppy Digby, their starchy but sexy caretaker, his wish is granted. Chance will receive a million dollars as the children’s guardian, but first he must enlist Poppy’s continued support raising these handfuls! And maybe he has ulterior motives where Poppy is concerned, but will she ever let her guard down? Sometimes, all it takes is the stars—or maybe a passing comet—aligning just right…
From Harlequin Special Believe in love. Overcome obstacles. Find happiness.
Lucky Stars
Book 1: Be Careful What You Wish For
Book 2: Her Good-Luck Charm
Book 3: Secret under the Stars
208 pages, Kindle Edition
Published July 26, 2022
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About the author
Elizabeth Bevarly
384 books157 followersElizabeth Bevarly was born and raised in Louisville, Kentucky and earned her BA with honors in English from the University of Louisville in 1983. Although she can’t recall ever wanting to be anything but a novelist-oh, all right, she toyed briefly with becoming an archaeologist, until she realized how awful she looked in khaki and flannel, and there was a brief fling with the interior decorator thing, until she realized she had trouble distinguishing chintz from moiré, and… (Where was I? Oh, yeah. My brilliant career.) Anyway, her career side trips before making the leap to writing included stints working as a bartender, a waitress, a movie theater cashier, a soap-hawker for Crabtree & Evelyn, an apparel-hawker for The Limited, and a bridal registry consultant for a major department store. She also did time as an editorial assistant for a medical journal, where she learned the correct spellings and meanings of a variety of words (like microscopy and histological) which, with any luck at all, she will never use again in this life.
She wrote her first novel when she was twelve years old. It was 32 pages long-and that was with college rule notebook paper-and featured three girls named Liz, Marianne and Cheryl, who explored the mysteries of a haunted house. Her friends Marianne and Cheryl proclaimed it “Brilliant! Spellbinding! Kept me up past dinnertime reading!” Those rave reviews only kindled the fire inside her to write more.
Since sixth grade, Elizabeth has gone on to complete more than 60 works of contemporary romance. Her novels regularly appear on the USA Today and Waldenbooks bestseller lists, and The Thing About Men was a New York Times Extended List bestseller. She’s been nominated for the prestigious RITA Award, has won the coveted National Readers’ Choice Award, and Romantic Times magazine has seen fit to honor her with two-count ‘em TWO-Career Achievement Awards. Her books have been translated into two dozen languages and published in three dozen countries, and there are more than ten million copies in print worldwide. She has claimed as residences Washington, DC, northern Virginia, southern New Jersey and Puerto Rico, but she now resides back in her native Kentucky with her husband and son and two very troubled cats where she fully intends to remain.
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September 18, 2022
Terrific start to the new series. Chance's small town is famous for the comet that appears every fifteen years. Legend has it that if you wish on the comet, it might come true. And if you were born during a Comet Bob year, your chances were even better. So when fifteen-year-old Chance wished for a million dollars (the reason is heartbreaking), he never expected HOW it would happen.
Fifteen years later, Chance finds out that his estranged older brother has died and left the guardianship of his twin children to him. The children are brought to him by their mother's cousin, Poppy, a self-proclaimed cold, ruthless lawyer. The terms of the guardianship fulfill the wish, but Chance is more shell-shocked by the prospect of raising two children. His introduction to Finn and Quinn does nothing to lessen the shock.
Poppy planned to deliver the children and return to Boston the next day. She has an important case coming up, and winning that case will cement her chances of making partner. But she is not quite as cold as she thinks because when she misses her flight, she gives in to the children's pleas to stay a few more days. With no hotel rooms available because of the Comet Bob Festival, Poppy ends up staying with Chance and the children.
Neither Chance nor Poppy expected their intense attraction for each other, though both tried to ignore it. I loved seeing their relationship develop as they worked together to settle the kids into their new lives. I loved seeing Chance introduce Poppy to the joys of small-town life, so different from her high-powered life in Boston. From boating and swimming on the river (and rescuing a puppy!) to shopping in local stores, Poppy lost some of that cold, ruthless veneer with every passing hour. And with Poppy's help, Chance finds the family he didn't know he needed.
I ached for both when they gave in to their attraction, but Poppy was still fixated on the plan she'd followed all her life. I could feel Chance's pain as he said goodbye to her. It was also evident that Poppy was forcing herself to leave. I was glued to the pages as I waited to see how long it would take her to see where she belonged. I loved when she hit that breaking point; the scene with her mother, brother, and sister was terrific. I loved her reunion with Chance, and the whole cocktail glass thread made me laugh out loud. The epilogue was fantastic, though I would have liked to read about Thanksgiving dinner with her family.
Finn and Quinn were fantastic characters. I thought they were portrayed realistically as six-year-olds who had lost their parents. Poppy's depiction of their lives with their parents goes a long way to explaining their behavior at the beginning of the book. I loved how Chance immediately stepped up, and his new normal changed his life and theirs. Chance's reaction to their first hugs broke my heart for what it said about his life. I loved the changes in Finn and Quinn once they settled into their life with Chance.
I liked meeting Chance's best friends, Max and Felix. They have been friends their whole lives. The cookout scene was good as they tried to see what Chance was wound up about. I liked how Chance turned the tables on them when they started teasing him about Poppy. We learned a little more about Felix when Chance told Poppy about Felix's restaurant and awards. The dinner scene at the restaurant was great. I can't wait to read their stories.
Fifteen years later, Chance finds out that his estranged older brother has died and left the guardianship of his twin children to him. The children are brought to him by their mother's cousin, Poppy, a self-proclaimed cold, ruthless lawyer. The terms of the guardianship fulfill the wish, but Chance is more shell-shocked by the prospect of raising two children. His introduction to Finn and Quinn does nothing to lessen the shock.
Poppy planned to deliver the children and return to Boston the next day. She has an important case coming up, and winning that case will cement her chances of making partner. But she is not quite as cold as she thinks because when she misses her flight, she gives in to the children's pleas to stay a few more days. With no hotel rooms available because of the Comet Bob Festival, Poppy ends up staying with Chance and the children.
Neither Chance nor Poppy expected their intense attraction for each other, though both tried to ignore it. I loved seeing their relationship develop as they worked together to settle the kids into their new lives. I loved seeing Chance introduce Poppy to the joys of small-town life, so different from her high-powered life in Boston. From boating and swimming on the river (and rescuing a puppy!) to shopping in local stores, Poppy lost some of that cold, ruthless veneer with every passing hour. And with Poppy's help, Chance finds the family he didn't know he needed.
I ached for both when they gave in to their attraction, but Poppy was still fixated on the plan she'd followed all her life. I could feel Chance's pain as he said goodbye to her. It was also evident that Poppy was forcing herself to leave. I was glued to the pages as I waited to see how long it would take her to see where she belonged. I loved when she hit that breaking point; the scene with her mother, brother, and sister was terrific. I loved her reunion with Chance, and the whole cocktail glass thread made me laugh out loud. The epilogue was fantastic, though I would have liked to read about Thanksgiving dinner with her family.
Finn and Quinn were fantastic characters. I thought they were portrayed realistically as six-year-olds who had lost their parents. Poppy's depiction of their lives with their parents goes a long way to explaining their behavior at the beginning of the book. I loved how Chance immediately stepped up, and his new normal changed his life and theirs. Chance's reaction to their first hugs broke my heart for what it said about his life. I loved the changes in Finn and Quinn once they settled into their life with Chance.
I liked meeting Chance's best friends, Max and Felix. They have been friends their whole lives. The cookout scene was good as they tried to see what Chance was wound up about. I liked how Chance turned the tables on them when they started teasing him about Poppy. We learned a little more about Felix when Chance told Poppy about Felix's restaurant and awards. The dinner scene at the restaurant was great. I can't wait to read their stories.
December 19, 2022
Ok story. Endicott, Indiana is directly under a returning 15 year comet. Considered a lucky omen for people born those years, wishes are supposed to come true when wished on the comet. Chance Foley is one of the lucky ones. Until he hears of his brother and sister-in-law's deaths, and the fact that his brother named him as guardian to their 6 year old twins, girl Quinn, and boy, Finn. And accompanying the twins from Boston is their cousin, and trustee to their fortune, Poppy Digby, who is all too ready to give up the hooligans to their uncle. But travel plans change because of the comet and tourism, and Poppy stays longer than planned. And there's something between Chance and Poppy. But she has to return to her high pressure legal job.
Kind of fanciful.
Kind of fanciful.
October 27, 2022
3.5 stars.
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The Lucky Stars trilogy has a solid and alluring argument that catches your interest just by reading its blur, as I quote at the beginning of this review. As you get into the book’s pages, you will enjoy reading Chance and Poppy’s road to happiness. Is a very well written book and easy to read. In spite of I had a few issues about Poppy’s character, the book has a lot of character (forgive the redundancy).
It’s been a pleasure reconnecting with Ms. Bevarly’s books. I look forward the next story of this series to see how Chance’s friends see their wishes come true.
FULL REVIEW HERE:
https://harlequinjunkie.com/review-be...
The Lucky Stars trilogy has a solid and alluring argument that catches your interest just by reading its blur, as I quote at the beginning of this review. As you get into the book’s pages, you will enjoy reading Chance and Poppy’s road to happiness. Is a very well written book and easy to read. In spite of I had a few issues about Poppy’s character, the book has a lot of character (forgive the redundancy).
It’s been a pleasure reconnecting with Ms. Bevarly’s books. I look forward the next story of this series to see how Chance’s friends see their wishes come true.
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July 1, 2022Categories
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Lucky Stars (Book #1)
Contemporary Romance
Miniseries
Lucky Stars (Book #1)
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