Barefoot in the Rain (Barefoot Bay Series #2)
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| ISBN-13: | 9781455508273 |
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| Publisher: | Grand Central Publishing |
| Publication date: | 10/30/2012 |
| Series: | Barefoot Bay Series , #2 |
| Pages: | 448 |
| Sales rank: | 1,326,385 |
| Product dimensions: | 4.32(w) x 6.60(h) x 1.22(d) |
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This is a light read that is great for a day at the beach or to read on an airplane. It will keep you interested and you'll get to meet some interesting characters.
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WOW!! This series only gets better! Humor, romance and emotion jam packed in this story set in a Florida Beach Community. As many laugh out loud moments as grab the Kleenex moments. Couldn't put the book down until I was finished. Can't wait for the next one!!!
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I didn't want to put it down. I will definitely read more of her books.
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Touching story of what it's like to come home! Loved Jocelyn and Will! Can't wait to read Zoe's story!
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This is a tough one. Abuse and forgiveness. I would have a hard time forgiving but I know it is much healthier to do so. 30 something virgin, really? Not a bad read just differrnt.
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This Is ONLY My Opinion!
What can I say? I Loved Roxanne's Bullet Catcher Series So This Was Different For Me. I Fell In Love With The Love Story And Was Distraught Over The Father/Daughter Story.
Will Palmer And Jocelyn Bloom Are Trying To Find There Way Back To Each Other After Being Torn Apart By Her Abusive Father Fifteen Years Ago. Jocelyn Is A Life Coach. She Returns After A Scandal Has Hit The Tabloids About Her And Will, Who Is A Baseball Player Turned Carpenter Is Taking Care Of Her Father Who Has Alzheimer's.
Jocelyn Is Estranged From Both Of These Characters And Must Find A Way To Knock Down The Walls That She Has Surrounded Around Herself. She Gets A Second Chance With Both Men, One Is An Honest To Goodness Love Story And The Other Is An Emotional Tale Between Father And Daughter. One Breaks My Heart And The Other Touches My Heart... This Story Also Involves Her Three Closest Friends Who Arrive On The Scene To Help A Dear Friend Out. We Get To Learn About Them Too And Know There Stories Are Next.
OUTSTANDING ARE ABOUT THE ONLY WORDS THAT DESCRIBES THIS BOOK FOR ME!!!
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A great read about friends and hot romance!
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Ditto" he retreated in his stall
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Back..i hate school..hey apache...wanna ride around.
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Roxanne St Claire's story of Jocelyn Bloom & Will Palmer, the 2nd of the Barefoot Bay Series, is an emotionally intense account of how childhood affects the choices you make as an adult.
Jocelyn Bloom has built a wall around her heart. She seeks safety & security while aching for love. She disappears from Mimosa Bay because of her abusive father and his threats against the man she loves.
Fifteen years later Jocelyn comes home to hide and discovers that Will Palmer has been helping the man that she has avoided for years. Will doesn’t know why Joss disappeared from his life but wants a second chance with the woman he has never forgotten. He wants to break the shell around Joss’s heart but knows he must be careful or she will disappear from his life again.
Jocelyn can’t bear for anyone to know her secrets, even her best friends. Coming back to Mimosa Bay stirs up emotions that Joss has kept buried for years. She walked away so the man she loved would have a future. Now she must reevaluate everything she thought was true so that maybe she can have a chance at happiness.
This is not the typical book that I purchase but I am so glad that I did because not only did I LOVE this story but it touched my heart & soul.
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.I am an avid fan of Roxanne St Claire – she is an auto-buy/keeper shelf author for me. When she introduced her contemporary romance series Barefoot Bay, I was thrilled. I loved the first book Barefoot in the Sand.
This is the second in the series, and while I didn’t love it quite as much as I did “Sand” -- I did enjoy it. In this story, the hero (Will Palmer) and heroine (Jocelyn Bloom) have to overcome some pretty major emotional baggage before they can have their happily ever after.
She is a life coach for the rich and famous, but it is her own life that needs help. She is back in Barefoot Bay and learns that the boy next door, who she happened to love when she was a teenager, is also back and is now the care-taker for her father. Which wouldn’t be that big a deal if her father hadn’t been abusive to both Jocelyn and Will.
Guy Bloom isn’t a nice man. We see this right from the start – but this is one of the things I love most about Roxanne’s writing—she writes characters so well, we gradually become empathetic towards this old man. I found myself actually feeling sorry for him.
Will Palmer is a stand-up guy and a sexy, baseball player. Can’t go wrong there, in my book.
The story is sprinkled with humor and, of course, some hot loving.
Also available:Barefoot in the Sun
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I was hooked on this series after reading the first book. This one continues in Barefoot Bay with Jocelyn and Will. Jocelyn is one Lacey's (from book #1) best friends and Will was her neighbor growing up. This book is a second chance at love romance and has emotional elements that will tug at your heart strings. In the first book it was evident that Jocelyn had issues with going home and they are addressed in this book with heart wrenching circumstances involving Jocelyn's father. Again, the secondary characters in this series are entertaining and the setting of Barefoot Bay is easy to see in your imagination. Looking forward to more books in this series.
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Barefoot in the Rain is the second book of the Barefoot Bay series. This is Jocelyn's story & what a story it is! It's very emotional and contains all the elements of a love story and so much more.
Love - Two people trying to reconnect
Indecisions - Jocelyn has so many very emotional decisions to make
Strength - She is a very strong woman with a few weaknesses tossed in
Friends - She and her friends at Barefoot Bay share a special closeness and are always there for each other, almost on a mystical level
And so much more
I've always loved Ms. St Claire's style of writing and the Barefoot Bay series is no exception.
Although each book in the series does quite well on it's own I love to start at the beginning to get a good feel of all the characters.
The Barefoot Bay Series is a must read. Grab Barefoot in the Sand and I think you'll be grabing them all!
You can find Roxanne St. Claire on Facebook as well as her blog.
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Another great Barefoot Bay book. This story is about Jocelyn and Will, who used to be high school sweethearts. After a horrible incident , with her father in their senior year of high school, Jocelyn breaks up with Will and goes off to college, then moves from the East Coast to the West Coast to get away from Barefoot Bay. Now, Jocelyn is a life coach, helping others get their lives back into order. Too bad her's isn't. After a terrible scandal, she flees Hollywood to go back to Barefoot Bay to hide out from the paparazzi and be with her 3 best friends, and not let her father know she is there. Little does she know, her high school sweetheart, Will, is back in town, still living next door to her father and helping him since he has dementia. Jocelyn and Will slowly find their way back to each other. Will also wants Jocelyn to forgive her father. This story was emotional, sweet and sexy all at the same time. Read Jocelyn's story. You will not be disappointed.
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When we first meet Jocelyn "Joss" Bloom, she is this helpless young girl, who had
no control over her situation in life. She is wildly into the boy next door, Will Palmer,
star athlete at her high school. She is one of those teenage girls that was the
perfect wallflower at parties, and school dances. Her goal was to blend in, without
causing a tremor, which was pretty much how she had to live her home life. After
the prologue, St. Clair artfully brought us to present day, and the chaos of Joss' life.
She is a "Life Coach to the Stars" who found herself in an untenable situation. Her
name, once heralded through Hollywood is now spoken with disdain throughout
the Hollywood Hills. So, she had to don disguises to escape rumours and a mob
of paparazzi, and go back home, a place she never expected to turn to for solace.
The seeds of wonder, now sown by St. Claire, pushes you to continue, then she
veers off to the hero of the story, Will Palmer.
Will is your quintessential boy next door, major hottie who finds himself at home,
trying to find his way back to what he was. His life is now in stasis while he waits
for The Call, the one that will give him a career he desperately wants and needs.
However, he finds himself doing the unexpected, and once that is revealed it
creates a nice external conflict for him to battle with Joss. This layer of tension
between them, made watching them come together that much more appealing.
Throughout the twists and turns of the novel, we see both, Will and Joss, grow
and change. Through their conflicts they had to recognize and admit their faults,
as well as realize that their feelings for each other were not buried as deeply as
they thought.
When they came together, Joss finds herself being "coached" by Will, who helps
her to see that she is more than what she wants people to see. Both scarred by
life, and scared by their feelings and desire for each other, Joss and Will relearn
each other. They learn that depending on others for help is not a bad thing, and
that in life, you need to find that someone who gets you, who understands you
for who you are. Joss had to learn to love herself, as she was as a child, and
overcome her feelings about her father. With Will's help, she learned to look
beneath her dad's faults, to see the changed man he was. His disease changed
him dramatically, and Joss found that she now had to be the parent to this man
whom she felt terrorized her life. The sexual tension between Joss and Will was
quite palpable, and I loved watching them dance around the issue, well, Joss
dancing around the issue since Will was not at the top of her "list". I loved the
scene where they first come together; it was reminiscent of her high school days
after all, and who wouldn't want to make it around the bases with the captain of
the team?
I loved, how, St. Claire didn't make sex the central theme of this story. The
overarching conflict conflict was front and center, coupled by the internal conflicts
both Will and Joss had to deal with, it made for an interesting read. We learned a
few things about the resident hoyden of Barefoot Bay, Charity Grambling, as well,
and I was pleasantly surprised after looking beneath her external armour. No, I
didn't fall in love with her, I mean she is a terror when it comes to keeping things
the same after all, but what she did for Joss helped to reveal her humanness, and
gave some insight as to who she really was beneath that tough exterior. It was the
multifaceted nature of tis book that caused it to leave an indelible mark on me.
Watching Joss try to navigate her new reality made me think about my own
insecurities and the way I deal with things in my life. Her childhood was
somewhat emblematic of my own, in the sense that the emotions she dealt with
were mine, though the situation was different. I cried a lot during the reading of
this book, and I'm sure that as I continue reading the other books in the Barefoot
Bay series, I will need many boxes of Kleenex :) You should check it out for
yourselves. Happy reading!!!
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Tears in the Rain. In this second book of the Barefoot Bay series Roxanne St. Claire tackles a few tough subjects. Abuse, Alzheimer's and aging. You are introduced to the main characters Jocelyn, Will and Guy when the Will and Jocelyn are teens. Then the main part of the story is how Jocelyn deals with the emotions of the past and coming to terms with her father as well as her feelings for Will that have never truly changed.
You will continue to see how the four women of the series interact and support each other without having known the whole truth about their friends even though they have known each other for a long time.
Be prepared to go through a gambit of emotions as Roxanne takes us on the journey of Jocelyn's return home.
This is one book that was both a joy to read as well as hard to read. The subject matter of abuse and Alzheimer's can be hard for some people to deal with, but I think she did a good job showing how things are not always how they appear when you first see them. I think this is the best book out of the series and will most likely re-read it again and again.
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Loved this entire series. Great story
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I did what?!
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Good story and a nice second book in this series, but so sad! Kind of a few twists and turns though to stay interesting. Just not what I expected.
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