I have a feeling this is going to be the book of the summer.

Lea Mortimer is a consultant for luxury resorts/hotels, and although she is primarily based in DC most of her clients are in France where she spends summers prepping properties for launch. This summer she's heading to the Loire Valley to open a hotel at an old Family Chateau. Just as she's about to embark her oldest friend and cousin Stephanie asks to tag along and bring her daughter Maya. She's finally left her abusive husband and needs to escape for the summer.

Right away the patriarch of the family is smitten with Stephanie and Maya is taken with the middle child of their French host, Theo. Lea focuses on the job at hand. She's career-driven, type-A, and damn good at what she does. Eldest son Gabriel is there at every turn trying to undermine her. So she insists on focusing solely on her work while Stephanie and Maya have an enchanted summer in the Loire Valley. But she finds herself attracted to Theo too and their love affair comes crashing down around them at the worst possible time.

I really loved that this book was sexy but not spicy. All of the characters were really well developed. The resolution was a little bittersweet for me. Stephanie ends up treating Lea horribly, but somehow gets the fairy tale while Lea spends a year in self-inflicted exile. But perhaps I'm projecting. I somewhat identified with Lea.

The title is a clever nod to one of the novel's central conflicts. It's one I'll be recommending a lot this summer. Thank you to NetGalley and Orsay Press for an advanced copy of this title in exchange for an honest review.