"Beautiful modern day romance"
Maddy Bainbridge and her four-year-old child Hannah leave
Seattle to help her mom run the Candlelight Inn in
Paradise, New Jersey. Although she has been away from home
for fifteen years, Maddy needs work as an accountant and
Hannah needs a change of scenery after her father left them
and remarried. Over the Internet, Maddy gets into a bidding war over a
dented teapot. She gets the last bid winning the teapot by
defeating widower Aidan O'Malley. His teenage daughter
wanted the teapot because it is identical to one in a
picture her grandma possesses. Aidan sends an email to
Maddy to try to purchase the teapot, but she informs him
she plans to give it to her daughter as a magic lamp. As
they exchange emails, neither knows the identity of the
other, but begins to like what they read and perhaps even
fall in love just a bit. However, both are afraid to take
this out of hyperspace into reality, although neither knows
that they have already met at her daughter's pre-school and
were attracted to one another. SHORE LIGHTS is an entertaining Internet romance that
provides readers with an interesting thought as to whether
the in-person reality can match the email perception. The
lead couple is a delight and the support cast adds depth to
either of the protagonists though the poor communications
between Maddy and her mom seem overly contrived. Still
Barbara Bretton bestows a beautiful modern day romance on
her audience. Harriet Klausner
Reviewed by PNR Group Member
Posted April 24, 2003
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