Accidentally Perfect

by Marissa Clarke

Overview

Workaholic Lillian Mahoney has given everything to her job. The hugely popular lifestyle show she helped create monopolizes her time, energy, creativity, and anything remotely resembling a life. But all it takes is the show’s womanizing, egomaniac star throwing a massive hissy on live TV to utterly implode Lillian’s career in a New York minute.

Now Lillian’s hiding out in the gorgeous and completely unknown seaside village of Blink, Maine. Out of gas. A stolen wallet. A broken heel. And worse, she’s somehow managed to completely piss off the town’s resident hunk, Caleb Wright. She’ll show that hot, grumpy single father exactly what she’s made of.

But Blink isn’t quite what Lillian expects—and neither is Caleb...or his feisty teen daughter she can't help but love. And while her entire life and career are in shreds, Lillian might just discover what happens when she gives her bad first impression a second chance.

Each book in the Hideaway Harbor series is STANDALONE:

* Accidentally Perfect

* Accidentally Famous

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781649371898
Publisher:	Entangled Publishing, LLC
Publication date:	03/01/2022
Series:	Hideaway Harbor , #1
Pages:	338
Sales rank:	158,394
Product dimensions:	4.70(w) x 6.40(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

Marissa Clarke is a multi-award-winning, RITA(R) nominated author of romance for adults and teens. She lives on the Texas Gulf Coast with her ever-patient husband, two cantankerous cairn terriers, and twenty-six bossy chickens.

She writes young adult novels as Mary Lindsey and loves to connect with readers. She can be found at marissaclarke.com and on Twitter @MaryL_MarissaC.

Editorial Reviews

01/24/2022

Clarke (the Anderson Brothers series) gets the Hideaway Harbor series off to a soft start with this overly expositional outing, which weighs down its heroine with the dual responsibility of finding a happy ending and boosting her new hometown’s population to attract love connections for her friends in installments to come. Lillian Mahoney is the brains behind the massively successful Living Sharpe lifestyle brand, though handsome, lazy spokesperson Niles Sharpe gets all the credit. When a falling out with Niles threatens her professional future, she escapes to her sister’s vacation cottage in charming but dying Blink, Maine. Ridiculously, local boat builder Caleb Wright immediately suspects Lillian to be a gold-digging scammer, based solely on seeing her strike up a conversation with a sweet old man she has no way of knowing is the town’s wealthiest landowner. Caleb’s determined to catch her in her con, leading to several silly confrontations until Caleb (finally) realizes that Lillian is actually a bright, well-meaning woman determined to revitalize the town. With a little help from a blueberry pie contest and the Living Sharpe empire, Lillian may turn Blink into a vacation destination yet—albeit not without some amusing mishaps along the way. Though a bit light in its own right, this sets things up nicely for future series outings. (Mar.)

Publishers Weekly

01/07/2022

Lillian Mahoney has never met a problem she could not fix, but after her career implodes, she finds herself in the tiny town of Blink, ME, far removed from power lunches, executive assistants, and the bright lights of New York City. Enveloped by the community of Blink, Lillian envisions revamping this tiny town and helping the people she is starting to see as friends. And then there is gorgeous Caleb Wright, who makes her heart race and inspires indecent thoughts. Left behind before, Caleb isn't ready give his heart away again. Can these two opposites discover that completely wrong can sometimes be accidentally perfect? VERDICT With the book's quirky characters and unique vistas, fans of Clarke's (Dear Jane) will be delighted by the "Hideaway Harbor" series launch.—Judy Garner

Library Journal