A Soliders Return and The Daddy Makeover Book Reviews

This was the first book that I finished in the new year but it was actually two books in one.  I brought this book with me on a trip from my shelf of books that I got free that I hadn't read yet.  I was super glad after I started it that I hadn't read either book but I love the series so I got two books in my bag to enjoy together.  A Soldier's Return & The Daddy Makeover: A 2-in-1 Collection (The Women of Brambleberry House) by RaeAnne Thayne was a great story from a series that I have read other books but not this one.

The women of Brambleberry House are back!

Returning home to Cannon Beach and living in Brambleberry House, a place where good things seemed destined to happen, had brought Melissa Fielding and her young daughter such joy. Perhaps it was no accident when the single mom “bumped” into Eli Sanderson and discovered the handsome doctor was also back in town. The ex-soldier was still so captivating, but also more guarded. Was now the time to put old ghosts to rest?

Plus, one of the original Women of Brambleberry House stories—The Daddy Makeover!

Eben Spencer learned long ago to keep his emotions under wraps. Now it’s just him and his little girl…until he meets Sage Benedetto. She’s warm, emotional, open—everything Eben is not. Sage’s bewitching nature soon has this tycoon rethinking his future…

The first story was A Soldier's Return which was about Melissa coming back to Brambleberry House with her daughter Skye.  Melissa was dealing with her ex-husband and trying to make roots for her daughter now that they have stopped following her husband around the world when he moved from place to place.  Melissa tripped while running and was saved by Eli who was now the doctor in town but she knew him from high school.  Eli was a soldier and came back to his home town to work with his father as a local doctor.  You have to pick up the book to find out what happens between these high school friends now that they are adults and both settling down.

The second story was The Daddy Makeover which was about Eben Spencer who comes into town to buy a local motel.  He brings his daughter with him because she is without a nanny that he had been using because she has run them all off.  He has his hands full trying to do his job and take care of his daughter, Chloe, until he finds Sage.   She is warm and loving towards his daughter and she instantly changes.  Sage fits in Chloe into her summer camp program and into her life.  She takes care of her and finds time to get to know her and her father more.  The relationship begins to change between Eben and Sage but you have to pick up the book to see how Brambleberry House gets another relationship changed forever.