*~Review Blast: Hearts in Bloom by Sara Ohlin~*

Review Dates: July 26-July 28

Home is where you open your heart to love.

Returning home to the beautiful coastal town of Graciella, Oregon, with a bruised heart and a brittle self-confidence, Gabriella Flores is determined to start afresh, opening a beauty salon downtown. Done with men, single, successful and fabulous is her new mantra.

Thirty-three-year-old single dad Luca Rossi has moved across the country to Graciella to give his small daughters a better life. He’s excited to partner with Lily Brockman in his new landscape design business…and may even be open to love again.

When the magic that is Graciella puts Gabby and Luca together to work on the Spring Blossom Festival, they fall for each other and realize they both want love and family. Luca is all in, dreaming of a life with Gabby and his girls, but Gabby has a secret, one she believes will make her ultimately unlovable—and unkeepable—by someone as wonderful as Luca.

With her biggest fear threatening to swallow her, can the couple conquer it and find their happily ever after together?

Let the magic of Graciella sweep you away again in a story of new beginnings, found family and great love.

CW: references to death of MC’s partner; death by drowning; manipulative former relationship; infertile MC; threatened miscarriage of secondary character

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Review:

4.5 Stars

The blurb of this book ad me intrigued. A small town setting and a single dad romance, yes please! This was such a beautiful story. Luca and Gabby are going to pull on your heartstrings. Their backstories hit me right in the heart. The magic of Graciella is going to weave it's way around Luca, his girls, and Gabby. Don't even get me started on Luca's adorable twins. I could be here all day talking abut them. They definitely stole the show. They are so stinkin' cute! Emi with her sass and spunk. then Tessa with her quieter observant nature. They are a wonderful mix that brings so much added bonus to this book. This book made me want to go visit Graciella myself. The descriptions and the Blossom Festival sounds something right up my alley! This is my first book by Sara and I can you it will not be my last. I can't wait for more from this series!!

Meet Sara Ohlin

Puget Sound based writer, Sara Ohlin is a mom, wannabe photographer, obsessive reader, ridiculous foodie, and the author of the contemporary romance novels, Handling the Rancher, Salvaging Love, Seducing the Dragonfly, Igniting Love, Flirting with Forever, Promising Love, Embracing Love and Hearts in Bloom with Totally Bound Publishing.

She has a BA degree in English Literature from John Carroll University and over twenty years of creative non-fiction and memoir writing experience. You can find her essays at Panorama, Anderbo.com, Feminine Collective, Mothers Always Write, Literary Mama, and in anthologies such as Are We Feeling Better Yet? Women Speak about Healthcare in America, Take Care: Tales, Tips, & Love from Women Caregivers, and Chicken Soup for the Soul.

Although she’s the author of many essays about life, grief, motherhood and the connections we make through delicious food and shared meals, Sara loves creating imaginary worlds with tight-knit communities in her romance novels.

If she’s not reading or writing, you will most likely find her in the kitchen creating scrumptious meals, obsessing over her garden, or perhaps cooking up her next love story. She once met a person who didn’t read books and wasn’t that into food, and it nearly broke her heart.

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