Falling for the Grumpy Stranger: A Sweet Small Town Romance (Whisper Cove Sweet Romance Book 3) by London Lovett

Author:London Lovett [Lovett, London]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Wild Fox Press Inc
Published: 2025-03-10T00:00:00+00:00

We’ve all grown up hearing urban legends. Stories about things like Chupacabra, an odd creature with leathery gray skin and a bony spine, lurking in the dark, sucking the blood of livestock. What teen hasn’t at least once stood in a dark bathroom and repeated "Bloody Mary" into the mirror, only to run screaming in terror after seeing their own reflection? Or what about the most famous urban legend of all—the giant hairy creature who strolls through backwoods and forests, and whenever he’s caught on film, he manages to make even the best, most professional camera equipment spit out blurry, smeared photos.

Urban legends can also take the form of a curse, a superstition born of a repeating pattern of unfortunate events, like the Curse of the Bambino, the only rational explanation that baseball lovers could come up with to explain why the champion Red Sox started a decades-long losing streak after they traded the incomparable Babe Ruth to the Yankees. While diamonds are generally considered to be spectacular and certainly bring joy and happiness to people all over the world, the Hope Diamond was said to be cursed because it was rumored to have been stolen from a spiritual Hindu statue. Some curses have historical names, like the Curse of Tippecanoe, which follows a pattern of presidential deaths through history. And then, of course, there is the most famous of all, mostly due to Hollywood and old-time horror movies—the Curse of the Mummy. When the fifth Earl of Carnarvon died of a blood infection just months after funding the discovery of King Tut’s tomb, word instantly got around that the whole team was cursed for disturbing the tomb.

A curse may also be localized, but that doesn’t make it any less worthy of note. Take Whisper Cove, for instance—a scenic, sleepy coastal town wrapped around a cove. Its steep cliffsides jut out over the Pacific. Visitors flock there in summer and early fall to enjoy some of the best views on the coast. In the center of town, atop a well-sloped hill overgrown with dune grass, snowy aster and violet and purple wildflowers, sits Grimstone Manor. The old house’s shingles now hang sloppily like an ill-fitting suit, and its windows are gray and dingy with time, but it once stood tall and proud and elegant, an architectural masterpiece whose every detail had been painstakingly planned and chosen by a woman—something unheard of at the time. This woman suffered a heartbreak that changed the trajectory of her life—a heartbreak that brought her to Whisper Cove.

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