Synopsis:

From the author of Float Plan comes Trish Doller’s The Suite Spot, about taking a chance on a new life and a new love.

Rachel Beck has hit a brick wall. She’s a single mom, still living at home and trying to keep a dying relationship alive. Aside from her daughter, the one bright light in Rachel’s life is her job as the night reservations manager at a luxury hotel in Miami Beach—until the night she is fired for something she didn’t do.

On impulse, Rachel inquires about a management position at a brewery hotel on an island in Lake Erie called Kelleys Island. When she’s offered the job, Rachel packs up her daughter and makes the cross country move.

What she finds on Kelleys Island is Mason, a handsome, moody man who knows everything about brewing beer and nothing about running a hotel. Especially one that’s barely more than foundation and studs. It’s not the job Rachel was looking for, but Mason offers her a chance to help build a hotel—and rebuild her own life—from the ground up.

The Suite Spot is a like a warm cinnamon roll fresh out of the oven. Gooey, heart-warming goodness for my weary soul. This is the second installment in the Beck Sisters series, each one can be read as a stand-alone, but I highly recommend reading both. Float Plan (My Review) was my first book by Doller and I adored the characters and setting. Doller writes love stories that arise from heartache, and she has a wonderful way of making these more serious, but real, circumstances inspiring and hopeful, using them as a jumping-off point for our characters to grow and learn.

In The Suite Spot we get Rachel’s story. I liked her from the start. She’s real and positive, despite the challenges of basically being a single parent to her three year old daughter Maisie. She works nights at a job she loves so she can be with her daughter during the day, but when she unfairly loses her job, she’s forced to make some hard choices. Inspired by her adventurous sister, she decides to accept what sounds like her dream job, even though it means moving several states away from Rachel’s mother and Maisie’s inconsistent father Brian.

After saying goodbye to her life in Florida, she and Maisie travel to her new home in Ohio, only to discover the job managing a brewery hotel isn’t quite what her grumpy—but not unkind—boss Mason portrayed it to be. It’ll be more work than she bargained for, but the location on an island in Lake Erie is beautiful and she’ll be doing what she loves.