A Seaside Wonder

Title: A Seaside Wonder

Series: Muir Harbor #2

Author: Melissa Tagg

Publisher: Lakespur Press

Genre: Christian Fiction, mystery, Contemporary Romance

Source: Own

My Review:

A Seaside Wonder overlaps just a little bit with Autumn by the Sea, but now it is Indi's perspective. Details the reader didn't even know they needed are revealed, immediately engaging the reader. I highly recommend reading this series in order. You will get huge spoilers by reading it out of order. 

I love this series. A contemporary romance with hints of mystery? Yes, please! Found family? I am here for it. A meet-cute involving a wardrobe? You will never look at a wardrobe in the same way again.

A Seaside of Wonder is about Indiana Hope Muir. She goes by Indi, but her name is beautiful, and this story is full of hope, making it the perfect name. None of the characters in this trilogy has had an easy life. They all have had extremely difficult moments, and with mysteries surrounding them, it makes for a perfect storm, and a story that will keep you glued to the pages. 

There are so many layers to this story. I enjoyed getting to know Philip and his half-sister Holland. They are exactly what Indi needed.

I loved this story more than the first book and immediately dived into the next. If you have the opportunity, I recommend bingeing the entire series together. You will be glad you did.

★★★★★/5

Synopsis (Amazon):

In one evening, Indi's world falls apart. Enter the shy professor her family mistakes for her fiancé...make that ex-fiancé.

Professor Philip West never wanted to return to Maine . . . or his grandfather’s miserable old house. But after his mother’s death, he’s now the guardian of a teenage half sister he barely knows—one who doesn’t want anything to do with him. He longs to help her heal, but he’s exhausted and numb, desperate for relief of his own. Maybe that’s why he’s so easily distracted when he happens upon the little shop with a name on its storefront window that sounds familiar, a hint of a mystery nudging him inside.

More than a decade has passed since Indi Muir made the heartbreaking decision she’s never recovered from—though she’s certainly tried. She has a full life running her shop and creating the artsy pieces that fill its shelves. If she can just stay busy, she’ll keep her hurt and regret at bay. But when her ex-fiancé returns to Muir Harbor, he brings news that shatters her carefully built walls. Things only get worse when lurking danger comes calling at her childhood home.

The one bright spot amid Indi’s turmoil is the shy stranger who wandered into her shop months ago and his moody but lovable sister. As she confronts her past and the mysterious threat facing her family, she’s intent on helping Philip win over his sister. He just might win over Indi, too, if they can overcome old secrets and wounds, outrun rising peril . . . and take a chance on love.

Breathtaking romance, a captivating mystery, and an enchanting wintry seaside . . . return to Muir Harbor in bestselling author Melissa Tagg’s latest.