Blythe Harmon is on the fast track to a life she never wanted. On her thirtieth birthday, just as she's about to lock herself into a high-powered job and accept a marriage proposal to match, an unusual bequest from her beloved late grandmother, Nomi, offers an escape and an invitation to adventure.
Equipped with Nomi's urn of ashes and a treasure map, Blythe sets off for a small island in the San Juans where she rents the mysterious and unsettling Improbable House. Secret by secret, clue by cryptic clue, she begins to unravel the puzzle her grandmother has left her to piece together. Her quest is complicated, though, by a powerful attraction to an enigmatic islander and empathy for his orphaned niece, both of whom are inexorably tied to the old house.
Just when Blythe thinks she's on the verge of solving the mystery, her quest takes an unexpected turn, and she discovers that the treasure she's really seeking is something that could never be buried in the ground. While she's on the treasure hunt of a lifetime, the past and the future are coming together in this magical novel by the Amazon Charts bestselling author of Whisper Me This.
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(Lake Union Publishing, 18 October 2022, e-book, 345 pages, #ARC from the publisher via @ NetGalley)
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I loved Improbably Yours. I expected this to be a bit of a slushy romance, judging by the blurb so I was bracing myself not to enjoy it too much. This is not the book I was expecting at all. That's a good thing. There is some romance on offer but it's not OOT or too cheesy so I could stomach it. The core of the book is Blythe's relationship with her beloved grandmother and her quest to bury her ashes on an island, an island Blythe drew a map of when she was a child, a place she never imagined was real. I loved the island and how Blythe starts to fall in love with it and the people she meets. This is a real heart-warmer but had a few sad moments. I loved it.
