If All Else Sails

Title: If All Else Sails

Estimated Release: August 5, 2025

Author: Emma St. Clair

Publisher: Thomas Nelson

Genre: Contemporary Romance, Fiction,

Source: Net Galley

My Review:

If All Else Sails is a stand-alone novel by Emma St. Clair that will be released in August.  Based on the side characters, it does have the potential to become a series. 

That's the thing with family-they're like a bunch of stubborn splinters. Really difficult to remove, even if you sometimes want to.

Josie and Wyatt are the perfect example of opposites attract. It is obvious that Wyatt cares for Josie from the very beginning, but she thinks he hates her. They don't do well with communicating at first, but it is fun to watch their relationship develop. There is plenty of witty banter, St. Clair's renowned animal adventures, and depth to the story.

Read for:

⛵brother's best friend

⛵sailing adventure

⛵Jib and her outfits

⛵He falls first

⛵forced proximity 

⛵witty banter

⛵slow-burn romance

⛵the pigs

⛵Josie's sassiness

Thank you to Net Galley and Thomas Nelson for the opportunity to read this book. I was not required to provide a positive review. All thoughts and opinions are entirely my own.

★★★★/5

Synopsis (Amazon):  

In this enemies-to-lovers romance, school nurse Josie agrees to help her brother's best friend, hockey player Wyatt, recover from his knee injury . . . oh, and sail down the intercoastal waterway. What could go wrong?

When elementary school nurse Josie arrives to meet her brother for their not-quite-annual summer trip, instead of finding Jacob, she discovers she has been duped. Jacob can't take off work for a trip and instead is calling in a huge favor from Josie: helping his best friend recover from surgery. Wyatt is the perpetual grump, a famous hockey player Josie has never particularly liked, and a terrible patient. His foot is in bad shape, but nowhere near as bad as his surly attitude.

Begrudgingly, Josie agrees to stay for a week that becomes two. But when she finds out that Wyatt's injury ruined his plans to sail down the east coast on the Intracoastal Waterway, Josie surprises them both by agreeing to be his second set of hands.

Smooth sailing is nowhere to be found, and Wyatt is one cranky captain. With one disaster after another slowing their progress, Josie questions if they'll even be able to make it home without killing--or kissing?--each other. And yet, the longer they share cramped quarters and canned food, the more of Wyatt's layers she peels back until Josie realizes she misunderstood him and perhaps herself as well.