When New York lawyer Cooper Remington’s uncle dies he and his two cousins head to Port Clara, Texas, planning on taking over Uncle Johnny’s fishing charter business. But when they arrive they find someone living on Uncle Johnny’s boat. Pretty Allie Bateman claims she is the new owner of the boat and that Johnny left the boat to her in his will. And she doesn’t want some fancy east-coast lawyer who knows nothing about the charter business taking away her dream and her livelihood. (Allie’s dream is to run her own fishing charter business, and she has put a lot of time, money, and energy into this boat/business.) Allie is also angry because the cousins didn't want anything to do with Johnny while he was alive, and when he was dying. (There was a family estrangement years ago). So while they try to sort out the legal details they make a deal...to be temporary partners, a fifty-fifty split, the cousins will take turns riding with Allie on the fishing boat and learn the business from her. And Allie will have some time to either persuade them to let her keep the boat, or if she can’t, she will reluctantly try to start a new fishing charter business.

This was a fun and enjoyable read. Allie was an extremely likable heroine. She was a bit of a tomboy, more interested in working on the boat in shorts with her hair tied up. I liked her determination to keep the business going and her loyalty to Johnny. I also liked hero Cooper, though, at first he sometimes got on my nerves. He had a girlfriend/fiancée (Heather) in the past who stole nearly a quarter of a million from him…she was using his credit cards, bank account, even stole from his parents and denied it, and then disappeared. So now Cooper is very suspicious of women/Allie and he thinks she was trying to swindle Uncle Johnny to get his boat. But the more time Cooper spends with Allie, the more he realizes he’s wrong and how honest and nice she is.

This was a sweet romance and I liked how everything worked out in the end. I enjoyed the charter boat setting and the lovely (fictitious) town of Port Clara, Texas. ( )