One Summer Weekend

Noah Stafford told his boss he had a girlfriend to stop his boss' fiancé trying to set him up with girls. When making up a girlfriend of course you tell everyone it's your best friend Carly - one because it's the first name that springs to mind and two because you spend practically every waking moment of free time together. Now Noah has been invited to his boss' destination wedding and he needs Carly to be his fake girlfriend, but when romance is in the air will these two friends find more? This is a super short novella, its cute and fun but the length of the novella means that there isn't really any character development or plot development, even the resolution of the "issue" is a bit wham-bang thank-you ma'am. Overall, it was pleasant but I wanted more. I received a free copy of this book from the publisher via NetGalley in return for an honest review.

**I voluntarily read an early copy of this title courtesy of NetGalley and the publisher in exchange for an honest review** One Summer Weekend is the first book in Shannon Stacey's new Cedar Street series and this novella is a good start. Noah and Carly have been life-long best friends and when Noah finds himself in need of a date to his boss' wedding, he calls on none other than his bestie. The kicker is that his boss and his bosses fiancee believe that he and Carly are a couple. In order to avoid being set up with the bride's sister, he tossed out he'd had a girlfriend for six months and he went with the one person he knew would bail him out! When Noah and Carly get to the Inn for the wedding weekend on Cape Cod, they are forced to share a room and they begin seeing one another in a new light. The spark between them is there and they begin to question why they've never explored it before. When they do explore it, it's more than anything they could have imagined. Can these besties go back to being just that or have they found forever in each other? Even though this was a novella, there was a lot of story packed into it. These two characters had such history and knew so much about one another that you wanted to root for them from the get-go even though they were concerned about messing with the most important relationship in each of their lives. Shannon Stacey did a great job with this sexy summer read!

There is a lot packed in this novella and start of this new series you do not want to miss it. Noah has been invited to his boss' wedding and somewhere along the way it was implied he was going to get set up with the bride's sister but instead he made it know he had a girlfriend, Carly. Yea, Carly is a girl and they are friends, best friends, and had been forever, but they were not romantic in any way. After some negotiating, she agrees to accompany him for the weekend and close quarters really do open their eyes toward each other. Will their close quarters and romance keep going once they return home? Such a fun and full book. It may have been short but it was full of gusto! I cannot wait to see where this series takes us because there is one thing we can rely on, this author does great series! **Received this ARC for review from the publisher via NetGalley**