Billionaire businesswoman Hazel Strickland is tasked with finding a unique business for an exclusive hotel chain and visits her number one pick, Le Chapeau: Hats and Haberdashery in Eureka Springs, Arkansas. Inside she discovers gorgeous handmade hats, an apparent clue to her personal quest to find her birth family, and the ex-boyfriend she never forgot. Wesley Bassett is helping his mother run her haberdashery, never expecting sweet Hazel to walk back into his life so abruptly. He’d love to finally propose to her, but her business ventures may again keep them apart. A modern re-telling of Rapunzel.
While this was a sweet romance, I felt it lacked depth and closure. Hazel and Wesley are a fine pairing, but this story takes place over a very short period of time and the author just asks us to believe they are able to start over where they left off, with a few short interactions that Hazel keeps running away from. The big problem that kept them apart is resolved satisfactorily, but the secondary problem of her birth family seemed unnecessary with the written conclusion.
It was so much fun to learn more about the art of haberdashery and Wesley’s mother quickly became my favorite character not only for her ability to create, but also her keen sense of matching hats to people. It naturally made me dream about what hat she would choose for me. The book was a quick, clean read from the fun Billionaire Bachelor Mountain Cove series. While not my favorite book, there were some scenes and people that I enjoyed enormously and would definitely re-read again. You can check out this book here or her previous book of the series (which I enjoyed more) Rosabel and the Billionaire Beast.
I received an ARC for an honest review.
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