Ava Faraday has spent her life running- from love, from her past, from herself. Now she has only one place left to go: home.
She arrives in Nome, Alaska determined to make a fresh start. Out of luck and out of options, she joins the crew of her estranged father's dredge, and struggles to learn her new- and dangerous- job before she dies trying.
The last thing she needs is to fall in love.
Gold dredger Ethan Calhoun has struggled to put the ghosts of his own troubled past to rest. After five long years as an outsider in Nome, he's finally made good.
When Ava comes to town, she stirs up feelings in him he can't control, and isn't sure he wants to. The closer they become, the more Ethan wonders: will those feelings destroy everything he's worked for?
In Nome's dredging community, loyalties change, and trust is anything but guaranteed. When faced with a common threat, Ethan and Ava realize they must work together to survive.
Can two lifelong runners trust each other? Can they convince each other- and themselves- love is worth the risk?
All That Glitters is a quick, suspensful
romance that will keep you entertained. The story is set in Nome,
Alaska, which is on the coast of the Bering
Sea. I loved that the setting took place in Alaska. Here I am in
Oklahoma sweating
bullets with 102 degree weather, wishing I was in Alaska with a high
of 50!
Ava comes back to Nome to help her
dad hunt for gold, but the story is not just about Ava rekindling her
relationship with her father. She also meets Ethan, another gold seeker
from Texas. Ava and Ethan are not the type of people
to deal with their pasts. Their characters would rather run from their
pasts rather than deal with them, but the two eventually find their true
selves.
“It had been a week since he’d ambushed her. She’d hoped the lack
of contact would get him out of her mind. Instead, she felt like a
junkie whose drug of choice was being withheld.”
Laura Oliva wrote a compelling story with so much emotion for Ava and Ethan. I just could not wait to find out what was going to happen next in the story. You would think since the title is called All That Glitters it would be about the gold in the Bering Sea, but it's more about other valuable shiny things, such as love and life. Oh, let's not forget the steamy scenes between Ava and Ethan ;-)
Side-note: I've seen the show Bering Sea Gold on the Discovery Channel, and Nome, Alaska is where it's located! I thought it was so cool to make that connection.
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