Maggie Moves On by Lucy Score
Publication Date: June 21, 2022
Can these opposites turn up the heat… without burning down the house?
House-flipping sensation and YouTube star Maggie Nichols can’t wait to dig into her next challenge. Arriving in tiny Kinship, Idaho, with only a cot and a coffeemaker, Maggie is prepared to restore a crumbling Victorian mansion in four months or less. She has her to-do lists, her blueprints, and her team. What she doesn’t have is time for sexy, laid-back landscaper Silas Wright.
The man takes flirtation to a whole new level. And he does it shirtless…sometimes pants-less. He and his service school-dropout dog are impressively persistent. But she’s not interested in putting down roots. Not when fans tune in to watch her travel the country turning dilapidated houses into dream homes. A short-term fling on the other hand could fit nicely into her calendar. After all, Maggie remembers what fun is like. Vaguely.
As their summer gets downright steamy, Silas manages to demolish the emotional walls she’s spent years building, sending Maggie into a panic. He’s the wrench in her carefully constructed plans. With the end of the project looming, she has a decision to make. But how can she stay when her entire career is built on moving on?
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Tropes: Small Town, Opposites Attract, Found Family
Heat: mid-level
Purchase link: https://amzn.to/3LGw3jv
My Review
Maggie Moves On by Lucy Score
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
Fun and Steamy Romance is a Winner
Maggie Nichols is a YouTube home renovator with almost a million followers. She travels the U.S. flipping homes and moving on. Her latest acquisition is a huge rundown Victorian Queen Anne home that sits majestically on a bluff in Kinship, Idaho.
Written in the third person with dual perspectives, Maggie Moves On is Lucy Score’s first traditionally published book. I’ve been a Lucy fan for several years and it’s great to see her becoming more widely known with the TikTok success of her indie published, Things We Never Got Over and By a Thread. The home improvement aspect of this book is reminiscent of her book, The Christmas Fix, and Score even gives a shout out to the heroine of that book. The underlying mystery also reminded me of her Bootleg Springs series with Claire Kingsley. (Whiskey Chaser)
Silas Wright is a native of Kinship and the owner of Bitterroot Landscapes. He’s got a pit bull named Kevin who he has conversations with and who apparently named himself. Silas has a big family with two Moms and two Dads. I so loved all of the Wright family. Silas pretty much falls for Maggie at first sight. A smitten hero is my catnip! Silas is calling Maggie his “future wife” in his head shortly after their first meeting and saying things like, “I’d hate for us to hit a deal-breaker this early in our relationship.”
Silas is a charmer and reading his and Maggie’s flirtatious banter is just plain FUN. As are the shenanigans Silas gets into with Kevin.
The only problem with their burgeoning romance is that Maggie’s life is one big road trip with stops for house flips for a few months and then she’s on to the next one.
“What man in his right mind would decide that following her from state to state and house to house would be his kind of happily ever after?”
“I’m not the settle-down type, Sy. And you’re not the pick-up-and-go type.”
Maggie is at a crossroads to find out what actually makes her happy and that provides the tension of the story.
Lucy Score is a next level goddess when it comes to writing small town romance. Every single Score-created town I’ve read has made me wish it was real. Add Kinship, Idaho to that list. The crew, family and found family created in Maggie Moves On are perfect. They are hard working, quirky and loving; maybe down on their luck but swinging for the fences.
“Kinship wasn’t just the name of his home, it was their way of life.”
Every piece of Maggie Moves On fits together to give us one hell of a romance. Maggie herself is sympathetic but also a bit of a workaholic who has had a trying past which has made her put up some walls around her heart. Silas is the perfect person to knock those walls down.
Maggie Moves On also has some trademark deliciously steamy scenes that Score readers will be happy to know are in this trad pubbed book. The romance, the characters, Maggie’s past, the mystery and the added tension of the YouTube series being filmed makes this a five star read for me.
I received an advance copy of this book and this is my honest opinion.
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Meet Lucy Score
Lucy Score is a Wall Street Journal and #1 Amazon Kindle Store bestseller of romantic comedies and contemporary romance. She grew up in rural Pennsylvania with a lot of time on her hands and a big imagination. She was the oldest of three in a book-obsessed household. Dinners were often spent in silence while family members had their noses buried in books. A passion for writing took hold at five when she taught her brother to write his name on the bathroom door.
She started writing (on paper) in the second grade, first about pilgrims on the Mayflower and over the years graduated to essays, articles, blogs, and finally books. “Pretend You’re Mine” was her runaway hit and she’s been writing full-time ever since.
Non-romance-writing jobs have included event planner, bartender, newspaper lackey, and yoga instructor.
Lucy and Mr. Lucy, enjoy spending time with their 1.7 million nieces and nephews and laying on beaches with umbrella drinks.
I hope you love Maggie Moves On! It’s one of my favourites of the year so far.
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I can’t stop reading your books. I’ve bought 12 books already. I get nervous after I finish and don’t have another Lucy book. I’ve read TWNGO twice. Protecting what I love is my favorite man. Lincoln makes me swoon. Keep them coming. Pun intended