Love on Lavender Lane

This was a great story with well defined characters. I came away with a greater appreciation of folks who run small businesses and the passion they have for their product/craft. I also enjoyed learning more about lavender which has always been one of my favorite scents. Overall, this was a thoroughly enjoyable read. Trademark excellent Karis Walsh book.

I enjoyed Love on Lavender Lane. A great romance novel. I enjoyed learning more about a business consultants job and about the variety of Lavender plants.

I could almost smell the lavender & see all the colors. Thank you for the trip through this beautiful book.

So far I’ve read all of the books offered by Ms Walsh and enjoyed all. Having said that I can honestly say that this one, Love on Lavender Lane is one of my favorites. A lovely easy read. Paige Leighton, corporate consultant has been hired by a client she is already working for to help his daughter, lavender farmer Kassidy Drake grow her business or as it becomes quite clear the father really wants his daughter back in the city working for him. Kassidy’s father left the family when Kass was only six, right after her mother gave birth to twins. Unfortunately Kassidy’s mother, like many other women suffered with depression and was clearly not able to look after Kass’s little brother and sister. All of that fell on Kassidy’s young shoulders. She doesn’t want anything to do with her father. Paige was born to a couple of high school students who always made her feel that but for her their lives would have so much better. They would have excelled in school and been on every sports team going. Both have their baggage and seem to have nothing in common but even with a rocky start it’s fun to read how everything comes together. We know there is a path they have to follow to be able to bring their very different lives together. A lovely read that I very much enjoyed.ARC via NetGalley

This is an enjoyably sweet love story.Paige is a self employed consultant that evaluates struggling corporate businesses to provide proposals that should repair and cultivate future success. One client commissions her to evaluate his daughter Kassidy's farm with the intention of getting her to admit it is a failure and sell it so she can go work for him.The best aspect of this book was the slow build of feelings. We get to understand how the main characters are feeling as they develop emotions. I felt the giddiness of falling in love along with them.I liked all the characters. There was fun and realistic dialogue. The main characters were flirty and had some snarky banter.I was interested in the lavender farm. But the book slowed down for me a bit when they got too heavily into conversation about the details. I understand that a large part of this book is about providing ideas for improvement, but it felt a bit weighed down by it.Overall, I recommend this to those who like to read about romance, farm life, family issues, cute dogs, and crime scene tape.<i>I received an ARC from Bold Strokes Books through Netgalley for an honest review </i>

I ARC received via NetGalley and in exchange for an honest review.Paige Leighton is corporate consultant who does whatever it takes to make her cilents business successful.Kassidy Drake has creating a comfort zone that just right for her but when she needs to make Lavender Lane Farm successful.This when Kassidy meets Paige who was hired by Kassidy estranged father she doesn't want to hear what Paige have to say but she quickly realize that she going to have leave her comfort zone if she want to succeed and prove her father wrong.I like both characters and you feel the attraction between them even though it does seem force at time. This was a slow romance and sometimes I like that in a book but this was too slow there were flirtations a kiss or two but it took almost the whole book for them to get together but I do say it's better then Seascapes.

Set in the lavender fields of Oregon, this book features Paige, a consultant, who tells herself she’s content and happy, but knows she’s still looking for something that will be a life-long passion. When a client pays for her services for his daughter, Kassidy, and her lavender farm.When the two women meet, there is an attraction, but both know Paige will be returning to the big city and her corporate clients. In the mean time though, both like flirting with the other and soon deeper feelings begin to surface.Like Walsh’s other books, including Seascapes, Walsh has chosen an unusual setting and/or occupations for her characters. The author’s writing is very good, and her descriptions of the lavender fields of the title come alive, and the reader can almost smell the sensual smell of lavender. Walsh’s humor in this outing will have nearly every reader smiling and even laughing out loud. Another character the reader is sure to love is Dante, Paige’s irrepressible and untrainable, dog who Paige signs up to participate in the agility event at the local town festival, but is decidedly not interested in winning – you’ll be laughing with the onlookers as Dante moves through the course.If you like your romance books to be slow burn and believable with likable characters, then this book is for you.

I'm relatively new to Karis Walsh, but she has quietly become one of my favorite authors. Her books are so dependably good and each is so different from the others. I really enjoy low-angst "day in the life of" stories, especially while the world feels so turbulent. The main characters were fantastic and the setting was so perfectly described that I could envision myself there. Gorgeous cover as well.