The Promise of Paradise

Lin

Ashton Kirk, youngest daughter of a prestigious senator, fiancée of a hotshot attorney, and fresh Harvard graduate, is headed for a promising law career when scandal breaks apart her family. To escape, she rents an apartment in the sleepy town of Paradise, New Hampshire, where no one knows who she is. Ashton hopes for solitude, but all bets are off when Eddie West, the town’s most eligible bachelor, moves in downstairs. Eddie likes his women and his cars shiny, sleek, and fast, and when he meets his new housemate, he wastes no time getting friendly. While he's looking for a no-strings romance, though, he gets more than he bargained for in Ash, who sees through his bravado to the pain of a loss too fresh to mention. Ash is unable to cope with the press of what her father is accused of and the fiancée who left her for another woman soon after. She rents an apartment and finds a job to help bury the hurt. She does not count on Eddie and the way he makes her feel. Eddie has demons of his own he is hiding but Ash makes him want to participate in life again. I was not happy with the unresolved ex of Eddie's. It was never addressed between he and Ash, but he takes off mad at Ash after spending the night with his ex