Fortunate Harbor
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Join five women connected only by their growing friendship and the road that runs like a lifeline between their cottages in a run-down Florida development called Happiness Key
Tracy Deloche finally gets a chance to swap business for a romantic evening with Marsh Egan, but dinner goes cold when she spots her ex-husband prowling outside her cottage. CJ is supposed to be in prison and out of her life for good. Exactly what is this modern-day pirate seeking and what will it mean for Tracy's future?
Janya Kapur envies every pregnant woman she sees, but Rishi, her husband, is suddenly reluctant to talk about children. Is he disappointed in her inability to conceive? Their marriage was a contract between strangers. Can they ever hope for anything more?
Waitress Wanda Gray loses her job after new owners turn the Dancing Shrimp into a tapas bar. Wise neighbor Alice Brooks's suggestion that Wanda start her own business seems like a brilliant solution, until Wanda starts Pie War I with the owners of the local bakery.
When the empty cottage at Happiness Key is rented by single mother Dana Turner, everything seems perfect. With Alice volunteering to watch Dana's daughter while she works and Wanda's offer of a job, this spit of Florida Gulf Coast land should be a fortunate harbor for a mother and daughter who have moved far too often. Except for Dana's shocking secret.
As the women of Happiness Key struggle to discover the truth in time to help their new neighbor, their only weapon is friendship. But will friendship be enough?
Emilie Richards
Bevor Emilie Richards mit dem Schreiben begann, studierte sie Psychologie. In ihren preisgekrönten, spannenden Romanen zeigt sie sich als fundierte Kennerin der menschlichen Seele. Nach einem mehrjährigen Auslandsaufenthalt in Australien wohnt die erfolgreiche Autorin heute mit ihrem Mann, einem Pfarrer, in North Virginia.
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Reviews for Fortunate Harbor
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5"I have read all Emilie's books and this by far is my favorite thus far! A great read...make sure and read Happiness Key first. "
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The characters from Happiness Key continue their lives in their small community and accept a new family into the fold. What is the dark secret that they hold?
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Emilie Richards has written the perfect blend of romance, and suspense, perfect for late summer reading. Sitting on the deck in the sun, sipping iced coffee, I found myself caught up in the story, and I connected with the characters, five women living in a run down housing development, Happiness Key. Tracy owns Happiness Key, the only thing she received in her divorce settlement from her husband CJ. A modern day pirate, he is in prison for cheating investors out of a lot of money. She rents out the small shabby houses to a fun assortment of women, Janya, a woman who wants nothing more than a baby with her husband Rishi, Wanda, a wonderful pie maker, Alice, a wise older woman who speaks her mind, and Dana, a single mother hiding a terrible secret.Tracy thinks she is losing her mind when she keeps catching glimpses of CJ nosing around her house. But that is not possible, since he is in prison, right? She is trying to start a new romance but nothing goes as planned.Dana needs friends, but she is more than reluctant to open up and accept the women’s help and friendship.Jayna longs for a baby, but her husband is becoming more and more distant. He is hiding a secret of his own.Alice is the wise woman, dispensing advise whether you want it or not.Wanda was fired from her waitressing job and decides to open a pie shop, only to enrage the owner of the bakery near her, with nearly disastrous results.Secrets are revealed, romances begin and end, and not every ending is a happy one, but this is a good read if you need a dash of chick lit.I found it just a little long, but worth reading.I received this book from Alexandra at Planned Television Arts for review. Thank you!
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5FORTUNATE HARBOR by Emilie Richards is the second book in the Happiness Key Trilogy and is filled with the interwoven lives, loves, losses, and friendships of five women who are the main characters in this series. The story is set on a twenty-five acre spit of land called Happiness Key on the Gulf Coast of Florida and so well researched and described by Richards that you will feel at home at once.Emilie Richards centers FORTUNATE HARBOR around Tracy Deloche as she did in the first book, HAPPINESS KEY. Tracy owns the cottages that her friends live in. They are Wanda Gray, Alice Brooks and her granddaughter Olivia, and JanyaKapur. These residents welcome newcomer, Dana Turner, a single mother and her daughter Lizzie, and they help to calm her fears as they take her under their collective wings.Tracy’s has to deal with C. J., her husband who was recently released from prison. Theirs is a relationship with all the ups and downs of a roller coaster. C. J. can be charming, while also making everyone anxious as they wonder what he is really up to. He says everything he does is to help make up to Tracy for his past mistakes but is that true? Before C. J. returned, Tracy had been dating Marsh Egan and just as Tracy was planning their first quiet time together, C. J. had popped back into her life and of course, wanted her back, thus scrapping her plans for Marsh.Dana, and daughter Lizzie, seem to have their own mysterious past that they were running from prior to settling in the one vacant cottage on Happiness Key. Things now seem perfect for the pair until something from Dana’s past comes back that may cost her all that she treasures.Janya Kapur very much wants to have a child, however, her husband, Rishi does not and so things are tense between them. After all poor Janya went through in HAPPINESS KEY with this relationship, will this be the last straw for her?Meanwhile, there is the madcap Wanda who brings humor and good spirits to even the toughest of problems. She has worked at the Dancing Shrimp for a long time but now the owners are going to be turning the Dancing Shrimp into a fancy bar and letting go of some of their help. Unfortunately, one of those fired is Wanda. She is distraught until Alice gets involved. With Alice’s help, Wanda realizes she can try opening her own business. Her pies are delicious and famous already and so she opens Wanda’s Wonderful Pies.Emilie Richards, Author of such books as A LIE FOR A LIE, SISTER'S CHOICE, and HAPPINESS KEY, gives readers stories rich with diverse characters as well as settings that often are as important as any character. And so it is no different when Emilie repeats this successful pattern in this latest novel, FORTUNATE HARBOR. One of the first authors who personally answered my plea for a review copy and interview was Emilie Richards. She has never let me down in any of her books and once again, Ms. Richards does not disappoint. With this second book of the Happiness Key Trilogy, Emilie’s smooth writing style makes for a quick read as she once again has woven together the lives of her characters to give readers a rich story filled with intrigues, emotional confusion, financial despair, and even a possibility of new love. Thank you once again, Emilie!
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Tracy's ex is out of jail pending appeal and back in her life. Is he really a reformed character trying to help her, or does he have ulterior motives and another nefarious scheme in mind? Meanwhile Wanda is starting a new venture as a pie vendor, and their new neighbor has something to hide.Another novel of female friendship and growth from Richards.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Although they are all friends the five woman living at Happiness Key have completely different personalities. Tracy Deloche is eager to move on from her ex-husband CJ and into a relationship with Marsh Egan - but how can she forget CJ if he won't go away. Janya Kupur is falling in love with her husband (theirs was an arranged marriage) and longs to have a baby but Rishi seems strangely reluctant to even talk about having children. Alice Brooks is doing her best to raise her granddaughter Olivia. Wanda Gray has inadvertently created a pie war when she opens a pie shop and upsets the local baker. Single mother Dana Turner reluctantly becomes friends with the others - she is hiding a deep secret that keeps her on the run.“Fortunate Harbor” is a nicely done novel about friendship, relationships, and decisions women have to make during difficult situations. The novel starts off a bit slowly, but picks up steam throughout the course of the book to the point where it is hard to put it down. Author Emilie Richards has her hands full in portraying the lives of the five characters and for the most part she succeeds. Some of the storylines are stronger than others: Dana’s is perhaps the strongest. It is clear she is running from something, and Richards does a good job of slowly unraveling Dana’s past. (This would be a good selection for a book club. Members could talk about decisions made by Dana and the other women and whether or not they agree with them). I like Wanda’s story the next best - she is quite a character and her pie store leads to some humorous moments. In some ways Tracy's story is the richest – she has completely remade herself but still finds it hard to escape the past. Readers will empathize with her struggles in her relationships with both CJ and Marsh. Janya’s story is one that a lot of woman can identify with but it felt like it could have been developed more. To me, Alice’s storyline was the weakest. This book is a sequel (Happiness Key was the first book) and I'm guessing Alice's story was a rich one in that book, but I wish Richards had taken the time to explain in a sentence or two why Alice's thought processes could be slow at times and give more details about what exactly happened to Olivia's parents.At over 500 pages “Fortunate Harbor” is a big book filled with multiple storylines. Richards does an excellent job of tying the storylines together and it is interesting to see how seemingly innocuous actions and events are important to the overall book. There is some sadness in the book, but there is an underlying sense of humor throughout the course of the book. The resolution of many of the plot lines brought a smile to my face and made me cheer for all five woman in the book. Richards leaves room for another sequel or two and it would be nice to visit Happiness Key again.“Fortunate Harbor” is a nicely done novel about relationships.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Fortunate Harbor is a mystery, a romance, a women’s fiction read, and most of all a story about the strength we find in friendship.In Fortunate Harbor Emilie has us re-visit the ladies of Happiness Key Florida, they’re all doing well and of course that’s when all heck breaks out. Tracy is just about to proceed to the next step in her romance with environmentalist Marsh Egan, that is until two things happen almost at the same time, Tracy’s ex and Marsh’s ex show up. But why?Wanda is still slinging hash at the Dancing Shrimp, but changes are on the way when new owners take over.Janya is finally in love with her husband and he with her amazingly after starting out in a shaky arranged marriage. So what’s the next logical step for a loving couple, you guessed it and that’s when the trouble starts.Dana Turner is new in town she and her daughter Lizzie need a place to stay and the empty cottage at Happiness Key seems to be a perfect fit. But every silver lining starts with a dark cloud and Dana definitely has one hanging over her head. She’s keeping secrets and they could be deadly.Emilie Richards, New York Times best selling author, is one of my all time favorite go to novelists. One of the things I love about her is the passion and substance you will find between the pages of her novels, you can tell that every word comes from her heart. This read tops her charts. The plot could be easily read about in any newspaper or be the basis for any crime drama TV show. Her dialogue is fast paced, easy to read and very visually descriptive, so much so that you can feel the trade winds as her characters walk along the beach or feel the aguish of a particular scene. Her starring characters are all equal in importance and all well developed, multi-dimensional and realistic, I could easily picture myself living next door to any of them. Her supporting characters are very engrossing and fascinating and could easily star in a story of their own, the villains are left to be discovered until the very last so that you’ll have your nails bitten to the quick by then but don’t worry it reads much like a cozy so while there’s mayhem at work she won’t go into gruesome details about it. There’s romance going on all over the place and it’s sweet and touching, frustrating and heart wrenching and you will share hope with each couple for their Happy Ending. The love scenes are winsome in their depiction so they offend no one, but those of us who don’t mind the heat tuned up will get the picture. This is one of the best novels I’ve read in a while, it’s an excellent summer read, a perfect beach read or just what the doctor ordered when the vacation plans are homebound. Emily is that rare author who writes with sentiment and it’s obvious she loves what she does because the product is always phenomenal. So run do not walk to your nearest bookseller and try Emilie for the first time, or like me re-discover the reason you love her so much. It is a long read and believe me by the time you reach page 500 the only thing you’ll regret is that there aren’t 500 more.