I'm not sure if this will be the concluding book in the series but The Good Luck Cafe by Annie Rains is book four of her Somerset Lake series. If you haven't read the series, you must go back and read. Ideally, they could be read as a standalone but I wouldn't recommend it. I would read the book in order for continuity because there are little tidbits here and there that blend well together from the preceding books. Depending on where you are with this book, this centers around Moira and Gil.

In case you aren't familiar with Moira Green, she is one tough cookie. She is independent, loves her job, has an amazing group of supportive girlfriends that get together once a week to chat at their book club. Her life gets thrown upside when a proposed plan to improve one of the town's biggest problems is solved but at the expense of demolishing her mother's beloved bakery. With fierce determination and humility, she goes straight to the person that potentially has the power to fix all this, Gil Ryan hoping he can help save the building.

Moira and Gil aren't the friends they used to be. Their budding friendship changed one night when a series of events affected their longtime friendship. After realizing that the decision is to be done and nothing will alter the inevitable, Moira decides to take matters into her own hands and decides to run against him.

As the temperature gets turned up for the election, a shift in temperature happens between the two that shifts their friendship. What had been just one side admiration from Gil, begins to evolve a warmer temperament building an attraction that becomes hard to deny.

With all of her girlfriends getting their second chance at love and being all happy and bliss, will she complete them by finally letting love in?

If this concludes the series then I'm glad it ends with these two. I love the type of characters that come together the way they did. It makes their journey all the much sweeter to their hea. I will admit that Moira has sort of irked me a little bit because of her cold temperature to Gil. She's lucky he didn't get snatched up by someone else but I doubt that would've happened because it seemed like he would've subconsciously waited forever for her. We waited long enough for her to open her eyes and see what was in front of her. Their storyline had some sad moments that were unveiled but it redefined their friendship/relationship that allowed her move forward but finally open her eyes.

Besides, their journey to each other, one of my favorite moments in the book is the character Doug. If people took the time to get to know or gave people like Doug a chance, they would thrive. Just because he had down syndrome, doesn't mean that he doesn't have the same hopes and dreams that everyone has. I loved his relationship with Gil and how he respected him and treated him as a person in spite of his physical challenge. He just made my heart smile.

As usual, my favorite girls were back. It was nice getting to see everyone again. Even though Reva and her blog drove me crazy throughout this series, it was nice her little tidbits of wisdom that each one got. If this is goodbye, then Somerset Lake was such a wonderful little town to visit and I'll miss the people. If you haven't checked out the series, go back and add this to the reading list.

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