Olivia Baldwin manages the operations of Inglenook camping resort while the owners run the family therapy workshops. She and her daughter live on the premises. Max Oceanus brings his newly discovered six year old son to the camp to learn how to be a good father. Olivia and Max are attracted but there is a lot going on behind the scenes for both of them and for Max it all has a magical sense. Fun read with a good bit that is over the top. Lots of drama. ( )

Love the magical and mythical elements of the story, as well as the look at loss and found family. Not a fan of the big, strong man part of things. Enjoyed it enough to continue the series. ( )

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I really enjoyed this book but I might recommend that you read her "Midnight Bay" trilogy first because it offers some background information on this series... although, you won't be lost if you don't. ( )

As the son of the sea god Poseidon, the hero is in ill favor with his father after he finds out he has a son and kidnappers the boy to take custody. The hero, completely ignorant of what to do with a 6 year old boy, takes him to a father son bonding camp for 6 months. Upon arrival the hero saves a young woman from a rape attack. The woman turns out to be the camp organizer, a single parent herself to a 8 year old daughter, she's hesitate to accept the hansom man into her camp 2 weeks before the arrival of the other campers but he paid good money and she's not the owner. That honor goes to her mother in law but the heroine basically runs the whole organization. Unfortunately that's all the plot I can give because there wasn't much of a plot to speak off. This is a typical Janet Chapman novel in that it's contemporary and therefore more than a little boring. There was no drama other than the first initial attempted rape scene and the rest of the book was flat and dull. There was no conflict, no battle to fight or hurls to overcome. Mainly the book is just about a guy and a girl and there two kids living in the camp...that's all. I'm not a fan of these types of books because I want some wonder, some drama but in my experience this genre in severely lacking. Other than the hero being a demi god and talking about magic and immortally, there was little to no supernatural elements to the story. And even those were a side project and not the main event. I was on the fence regarding the heroine as I disliked her attempt to make the hero's boy more ill-behaved and to whiny and pout to get his way. I thought the boy was amazing as is. He was the most well mannered 6 year old on the planet. She also was a self attempted coward and would run from situations faster than a bullet. But at the same time, she was sass the hero for putting his foot down and standing up to her. I did like the hero. He was stoic and calm and put up with a lot of shit for the female he desired. Overall, I can see why some people would enjoy this book, i mean it wasn't bad by any means. It just wasn't my cup my tea. ( )

I enjoy her series. Its a good read without talking down to you. Max and Henry were cute together. Can see that she could grow Henry and Sophie up and do something with them in the future. ( )

I really enjoyed this very imaginative paranormal story wrapped in a modern day romance. The insightful heroine's personality showed an interesting dichotomy between tigress and mouse. Mac signs up for Olivia's camp that teaches how to improve family dynamics.
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This is the first time that I've read something from Janet Chapman and I wasn't familiar with her style/writing.
I'm not a great fan of paranormal/magic books but this one seemed a nice reading and I thought that I should give it a go. Well, I didn't really like it but I don't dislike it too; most of the time I was wondering what the hell she was talking about, the heroes were a little strange because they kept changing what they felt and the plot was a little weird...
I like the mythological part but I must say that I didn't understand most of it...as well as moving mountains just to prove that love can rock our world, well....seems a bit far fetch to me.
I didn't like Olivia much. For a heroine, she seemed a little bipolar...
Anyway, I give it 3 stars just for the author's imagination and now I need to read the two other books of the trilogy just because I need to know what happens to the rest of the Oceanus family. ( )