Long Distance Love by Anne Whitfield

ISBN: 1-59998-023-1

Romance/Contemporary

Samhain Publishing

Electronic

Fleur Stanthrope's family was use to her waywardness and nomadic ways. Being an Australian, she decided to open a bookshop cafe' in Whiteby England just for the summer. Fleur promised herself that if she survived the cancer, she would live life to the fullest, never putting off tomorrow, what she could do today. The last two years of her life had been pure hell while trying to escape the cancer in her body. When Fleur arrives in England, she meets Patrick Donnelly. He owns the restaurant up the hill from her cafe. The attraction is immediate between them, and a summer romance blooms. Something Fleur never planned on happening.

Irishman Patrick Donnelly has not been in the dating pool, since his divorce five years ago. When curvy, honey blond Australian Fleur enters his life at 2:20pm, Thursday the 12th Of May, he begins to feel alive again. Fleur completes a part of him that he has never felt before. Then Fleur drops the bomb on him. She is just looking for a fling, before she settles back into her real life back at home. He does not want to ever let her go.

Fleur and Patrick are at the crossroads of their relationship. With summer ending soon, Fleur will be going back home. Do they end their relationship? Can they end it? If they choose to stay together, how can you keep such a very long distance relationship alive? They must decide what to promise to one another realistically. The biggest decision was if Fleur and Patrick can trust love to guide the way to all the correct answers.

I found Long Distance Love being a very soothing, type romance. It is gentle and realistically driven. Fleur and Patrick are two very mature adults who answer to no one but themselves. The love that blooms between them has the endurance to last a lifetime. Most readers will find that this story is indeed a romance, the story of two people made to love each other. Perfect book to end your stressed out day with.

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