Marie Ferrarella - Saving Home

There’s more than the inn at stake...

Logan MacArthur had to have grown up under a rock. Was anyone really that cold-blooded? Sure, Andy—the youngest Roman daughter—understood that attorneys had to be detached and analytical, but Logan took it to a whole new level. How could she make him see that acquiring her family’s beloved inn for his client—the State of California!—was so much more than just a real estate transaction?

She had only a few days, with Logan marooned by torrential rains at Ladera by the Sea, to figure out if he actually had a heart, and if she could thaw it just enough. For her family’s future. And maybe for hers...

“You want to buy Ladera by the Sea?”

It seemed to take him a moment to even remember that was the name of her family’s inn.

“The state does,” he corrected her.

Her father, Andy knew, would never sell the inn. The inn was like another member of the family to him. It was their heritage and had been for more than a hundred and twenty years.

It would be like asking him to sell one of his daughters.

“The inn is not for sale,” Andy informed the lawyer crisply.

“I’m afraid it has to be,” Logan contradicted her in a calm voice that was making Andy crazy. “I just don’t want to make this unpleasant.”

“Too late,” she told him coldly.

Dear Reader Dear Reader Title Page About the Author Dedication PROLOGUE CHAPTER ONE CHAPTER TWO CHAPTER THREE CHAPTER FOUR CHAPTER FIVE CHAPTER SIX CHAPTER SEVEN CHAPTER EIGHT CHAPTER NINE CHAPTER TEN CHAPTER ELEVEN CHAPTER TWELVE CHAPTER THIRTEEN CHAPTER FOURTEEN CHAPTER FIFTEEN CHAPTER SIXTEEN CHAPTER SEVENTEEN CHAPTER EIGHTEEN CHAPTER NINETEEN CHAPTER TWENTY EPILOGUE Copyright ,

Looks like we’ve come to the end of our stay at Ladera by the Sea. I, for one, will miss wandering its sandy beach and sitting on the veranda, listening to the night sounds and the occasional whispers of young lovers.

This book belongs to Richard Roman’s fourth and youngest daughter, Andrea. One semester away from graduating, Andy still doesn’t know what career path she is going to take. Interested in everything—medicine, business, writing—she can’t make up her mind. The only constant in her life, other than her family, is the inn. But one day a lawyer named Logan MacArthur arrives threatening to take it away. The state of California, in the interest of bringing in more revenue, declares eminent domain over the land the inn is standing on and just like that, the Roman way of life is threatened with extinction.

Well, not if Andy can help it. She and her sisters—the very pregnant Alex and Cris and the bride-to-be Stevi—begin a letter-writing campaign inundating Logan’s senior law firm partners with stacks of letters of protest written by the friends and former guests of the inn. Logan comes by in person to make her cease and desist, but winds up being stuck at the inn himself, thanks to a flash flood making routes out of Ladera impassable. Logan begins to see firsthand what the inn means to the Romans and what they mean to the inn. He also learns that the impossibly infuriating Andy is not quite so impossible after all.

As always, I would like to thank you for taking the time to read my book, and from the bottom of my heart, I wish you someone to love who loves you back.

All good wishes,

Marie Ferrarella

Saving Home

USA TODAY bestselling author

Marie Ferrarella

www.millsandboon.co.uk

MARIE FERRARELLAis a USA TODAY bestselling and RITA® Award-winning author who has written more than two hundred books for Mills & Boon, some under the name Marie Nicole. Her romances are beloved by fans worldwide. Visit her website, marieferrarella.com.

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Back Cover Text There’s more than the inn at stake... Logan MacArthur had to have grown up under a rock. Was anyone really that cold-blooded? Sure, Andy—the youngest Roman daughter—understood that attorneys had to be detached and analytical, but Logan took it to a whole new level. How could she make him see that acquiring her family’s beloved inn for his client—the State of California!—was so much more than just a real estate transaction? She had only a few days, with Logan marooned by torrential rains at Ladera by the Sea, to figure out if he actually had a heart, and if she could thaw it just enough. For her family’s future. And maybe for hers...

Introduction “You want to buy Ladera by the Sea?” It seemed to take him a moment to even remember that was the name of her family’s inn. “The state does,” he corrected her. Her father, Andy knew, would never sell the inn. The inn was like another member of the family to him. It was their heritage and had been for more than a hundred and twenty years. It would be like asking him to sell one of his daughters. “The inn is not for sale,” Andy informed the lawyer crisply. “I’m afraid it has to be,” Logan contradicted her in a calm voice that was making Andy crazy. “I just don’t want to make this unpleasant.” “Too late,” she told him coldly.

Dear Reader Dear Reader Dear Reader Title Page About the Author Dedication PROLOGUE CHAPTER ONE CHAPTER TWO CHAPTER THREE CHAPTER FOUR CHAPTER FIVE CHAPTER SIX CHAPTER SEVEN CHAPTER EIGHT CHAPTER NINE CHAPTER TEN CHAPTER ELEVEN CHAPTER TWELVE CHAPTER THIRTEEN CHAPTER FOURTEEN CHAPTER FIFTEEN CHAPTER SIXTEEN CHAPTER SEVENTEEN CHAPTER EIGHTEEN CHAPTER NINETEEN CHAPTER TWENTY EPILOGUE Copyright , Looks like we’ve come to the end of our stay at Ladera by the Sea. I, for one, will miss wandering its sandy beach and sitting on the veranda, listening to the night sounds and the occasional whispers of young lovers. This book belongs to Richard Roman’s fourth and youngest daughter, Andrea. One semester away from graduating, Andy still doesn’t know what career path she is going to take. Interested in everything—medicine, business, writing—she can’t make up her mind. The only constant in her life, other than her family, is the inn. But one day a lawyer named Logan MacArthur arrives threatening to take it away. The state of California, in the interest of bringing in more revenue, declares eminent domain over the land the inn is standing on and just like that, the Roman way of life is threatened with extinction. Well, not if Andy can help it. She and her sisters—the very pregnant Alex and Cris and the bride-to-be Stevi—begin a letter-writing campaign inundating Logan’s senior law firm partners with stacks of letters of protest written by the friends and former guests of the inn. Logan comes by in person to make her cease and desist, but winds up being stuck at the inn himself, thanks to a flash flood making routes out of Ladera impassable. Logan begins to see firsthand what the inn means to the Romans and what they mean to the inn. He also learns that the impossibly infuriating Andy is not quite so impossible after all. As always, I would like to thank you for taking the time to read my book, and from the bottom of my heart, I wish you someone to love who loves you back. All good wishes, Marie Ferrarella