The Starlight Motel

by

Amy Craig 

The storyline alternates between sweet and spicy for a perfect blend of love, romance, and desire.

The Starlight Motel is a wonderful new contemporary romance from the talented pen of author Amy Craig. The storyline alternates between sweet and spicy for a perfect blend of love, romance, and desire. I easily sank into its warm holiday and vacation vibe for a relaxing evening of reading and relaxing with my feet up. 

Kada Ritchie is the strong, independent main character who has taken on the responsibility of running her family’s Palm Springs motel after the death of her grandfather. She is constantly pulled in one direction and another, dealing with guest and staff issues. Still, after the lights go out for the night, she turns to her true vocation: creating murals of the surrounding natural environment on the walls of the motel casitas. A trained artist and muralist, Kada has put her career and life on hold to keep the motel going until her grieving mother can step up and take her rightful place at the helm. However, a year has passed, and a grant with a deadline is waiting, and Kada is ready to return to her life in L.A. 

While local commercial farmer Dane Palmer can usually be described as the strong, silent type, he can hardly keep his words from tumbling out of his mouth when he is around Kada. He’s smitten, and he can tell she feels the same, but it takes their mutual love for animals and the rescue of an abandoned and very pregnant pitbull in the foothills of the mountains to get their feelings out in the open. The chemistry between these two is off the charts. I enjoyed their back and forth and the tentativeness of their early attraction, which quickly ignited into a passion. 

The plot goes from sweet to spicy and back again as they work through their feelings and where their relationship is headed. In addition to the tantalizing storyline, the author develops an enchanting setting in the Coachella Valley for the fun, quirky, but thriving desert motel outside Palm Springs. There are wonderful descriptions of the beauty of the valley, desert, foothills, and nearby mountain ranges that work in brief but enlightening tidbits of information about the flora, fauna, and formation of the natural landscape for color. The pictures that are painted are so vivid you’ll think you’re in the passenger seat of Grandpa’s vintage truck, riding with the windows down and the wind in your hair. 

I recommend THE STARLIGHT MOTEL for readers of contemporary romance. 

I voluntarily reviewed this after receiving an Advanced Review Copy from the author through Goddess Fish Promotions Book Tours.