The Rainy Day Bookshop by RaeAnne Thayne

The Rainy Day Bookshop by RaeAnne Thayne
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Thank you to NetGalley and Harlequin Trade Publishing for providing me with an advanced copy of this book in exchange for my honest review!
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Sandwiched between caring for her mother and rebuilding the relationship with her estranged daughter, Emma, Rosie Lucas’s life is full. In the best way. With Emma and her 3-year old daughter, Olive, back home, Rosie has a partner for The Rainy Day Bookshop, the family business, and a chance to fix the past. What she doesn’t have time for is a romantic relationship. And even if she did, Andrew Morgan is the last person she’d choose. Not only is he an arrogant and reclusive writer, but he’s a single dad with two young kids. She’s already been there, done that. Still as an irresistible flirtation builds between them, he becomes her unexpected confidante on the distance Rosie can’t seem to overcome with Emma, a secret she can’t quite unravel…

Emma isn’t proud of her past. But she’s pulled herself up by the bootstraps, caring for her own daughter, and protecting her mom at all costs. Just as she always has. She never told Rosie what she saw all those years ago and she never will. But some secrets refuse to stay buried, and sometimes the truth is more shocking than fiction. Rosie and Emma will have to navigate an unimaginable path forward. Together.
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I have been reading RaeAnne Thayne's books for a long time, and I have always enjoyed her particular brand of romance novel. In this newest offering, she brings us a multi-generational romance, and as I have aged as her writing career has progressed, I have loved that I am starting to find more and more books to read with characters that reflect my demographic in them.

Along with being a romance, this is a story of family relationships, as four generations of women live together in close proximity and work to overcome some fractures in their relationships from the past. As usual, Thayne captures so well the emotion and tension in these relationships. Emma and Rosie's relationship is messy and raw, and it's a journey to come back together.

This was another reliably enjoyable addition to Thayne's long list of hits for me. She has a style that will always have me coming back for more of her heartfelt, emotional writing that feels like meeting up with an old friend.

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