About a year ago, I fell in love with the romance book Float Plan by Trish Doller. After reading that I was ready to set sail and leave my life behind (until I realized I can’t swim and have a fear of water. And strangers. Good thing stories like this exist). I was so excited when I found out that Anna’s sister, Rachel, was due for her own story with The Suite Spot!

This book is out Tuesday, March 8th, so get ready to run to your local bookstore if you haven’t yet preordered.

Trish Doller’s The Suite Spot is a charming romance novel about taking a chance on a new life and a new love.

Rachel Beck has hit a brick wall. She’s a single mom, still living at home and trying to keep a dying relationship alive. Aside from her daughter, the one bright light in Rachel’s life is her job as the night reservations manager at a luxury hotel in Miami Beach—until the night she is fired for something she didn’t do.

On impulse, Rachel inquires about a management position at a brewery hotel on an island in Lake Erie called Kelleys Island. When she’s offered the job, Rachel packs up her daughter and makes the cross country move.

What she finds on Kelleys Island is Mason, a handsome, moody man who knows everything about brewing beer and nothing about running a hotel. Especially one that’s barely more than foundation and studs. It’s not the job Rachel was looking for, but Mason offers her a chance to help build a hotel—and rebuild her own life—from the ground up.

What a fabulous book to write about upon my return!

I loved this story from start to finish, and that is saying a lot because I came in with very high expectations. While Anna’s story was filled with adventure and something I could never do, Rachel’s story could be any of us brave enough to pick up our life and start fresh. Although starting fresh comes with all those bumps that happen along the way.

Mason, who is Rachel’s boss, is a surprising male lead in that I didn’t think I would fall for him the way I did by the end of the book. The cast of characters from Rachel’s new life were so adorable, I wished I could live there and have my kids grow up there. I also loved how close Rachel’s family is, in the sense that Rachel began to understand Anna’s actions more closely after the death of her significant other, and how her mom was always there to help out.

One of the things mentioned in the Acknowledgements was that due to the pandemic, the novel became one that was a comfort read, and that is what this felt like. Something to curl up with at night and see how Rachel and Mason were doing.

Note: CW – SA, mentions of child death and suicide

I highly recommend this one!

A huge thank you to the publishers for an advance copy for review that left my book club jealous. All opinions are my own.