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Welcome to Planet Lara: Book One
Welcome to Planet Lara: Book One
Welcome to Planet Lara: Book One
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Welcome to Planet Lara: Book One

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“There are … stipulations on your inheritance, Ms. Clarke.”


Lara J. Clarke is used to getting her own way. Motherless at ten and raised by her oft-absent eco-warrior/philanthropist grandfather, she lives the high life afforded by her seemingly bottomless trust fund—swanky downtown Vancouver loft, apartments and villas around the world just a chartered flight away, a passport overflowing with stamps from the chicest hot spots, a closet bursting with catwalk couture, and a spoiled B-list actor boyfriend whose interest in Lara is tied to her exclusive L’Inconnu wallet.


That is, until Grandfather Archibald sheds his mortal coil in a very public manner, and Lara’s privileged life is set adrift—and headed for a collision course with the gorgeous, private Thalia Island off the coast of British Columbia. According to the will, Lara will step into the role of Project Administrator, wherein she has one year to fulfill her late grandfather’s dream of a self-sustaining, eco-friendly, family-centered utopia.


The stakes are real: fail, and lose access to the family fortune—forever.


Convinced Thalia Island will be an extension of the heiress lifestyle she’s long led, Lara is surprised to find her new coworkers—and neighbors—aren’t as pliable as the underlings of her former life. Even with the hunky lead engineer Finan Rowleigh showing her the ropes, Lara quickly learns just how unprepared she is to trade her Louboutins for steel-toed Timberlands.


When a series of calamities reveals a sinister element undermining the security of the island and her residents, Lara and Finan must reach beyond their job descriptions to protect Archibald’s precious utopia from those who would do her harm.


And while keeping her late grandfather’s flame alight, Lara finds her own flame burning hot for a charming, kind man who wants nothing from her but her heart.

LanguageEnglish
PublisherSGA Books
Release dateApr 22, 2021
ISBN9781989908020
Welcome to Planet Lara: Book One
Author

Eliza Gordon

A native of Portland, Oregon, Eliza Gordon (a.k.a. Jennifer Sommersby) has lived up and down the West Coast of the United States, but since 2002, home has been a suburb of Vancouver, British Columbia. Despite the occasional cougar and bear sightings in her neighborhood, there’s no place she’d rather rest her webbed feet (except maybe Scotland). When not lost in a writing project, Eliza is a copyeditor, mom, wife, and bibliophile, and the proud parent of one very spoiled tuxedo cat. Eliza writes stories to help you believe in happily ever after; Jennifer Sommersby, her other self, writes young-adult fiction. Both personalities are represented by Daniel Lazar at Writers House.

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  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
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    Great Characters, mystery, suspense, it has it all!
    30% into this book and our main character Lara, has only just hit the Island and at this point I was hoping the character would grow and develop because right now, her only redeeming character trait was the affection she has for, and the treatment of the stolen plant otherwise there is nothing nice about this rich, entitled spoilt brat with anger issues!
    The book however, is well written with lots of wit, sarcasm and lots of laugh out loud moments but it also has some moving, poignant moments rounding off a rollercoaster of emotions.
    There is a great cast of supporting characters, so much so, at times they threaten to steal the limelight (much like they try to do in the story).
    As previously mentioned, Lara on paper, not the nicest of people but as the story progresses, she grew on me and had me rooting for her to overcome life’s adversities that kept coming at her. I loved her relationship with Big Dog and definitely give me more of Finan; what a delicious man!
    The story is interesting and suspenseful and kept me turning the pages to see what happens only to run into a cliffhanger and need to wait for the next book to find out what happens. More questions than answers are left which some readers may find frustrating. I’m just looking forward to the next installment.

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