Mountain Charm by Sydney Logan
Synopsis from Amazon
“True love and sweet whispers, till death do us part;
Send someone to love my Appalachian heart.”
At the age of thirteen, Angelina Clark followed in the footsteps of her ancestors by casting an Appalachian love spell, which promised she would blossom into a beautiful and gifted woman who would find her true love. A young Angelina had been thrilled to participate in the sacred ritual, but through the years, her father’s untimely death and her mother’s failing health have shaken Angelina’s magical faith to its core. As her twenty-first birthday approaches, she refuses to practice her supernatural gifts and no longer believes in the love charm.
That is, until Dylan Thomas arrives on her front porch.
Dylan, a Nashville writer, travels to the mountain town of Maple Ridge to unearth the family’s supernatural secrets. While her clairvoyant mother is convinced that Dylan is her daughter’s soul mate, Angelina refuses to see the nosy reporter as anything more than a nuisance.
Despite their constant bickering, sparks fly.
Dylan admits he feels strangely drawn to Angelina and is in no hurry to leave Maple Ridge or publish his magazine article. Fearful that his emotions are being influenced by the spell, a stubborn Angelina struggles to fight her own budding attraction to the reporter.
The two inevitably grow closer just as her mother’s health begins to deteriorate, and Angelina is faced with the possibility of selling the family’s music shop to pay the mounting medical expenses. Desperate to help the woman he loves, Dylan explores his own family tree and finds support from an unlikely source. Can he finally prove his love is real—spell or no spell?
A story filled with love, friendship, family, and just a hint of Appalachian magic, Mountain Charm will leave you spellbound.
My Review
How do you know if it is true love or magic? That’s the question in the air between Dylan and Angelina when he shows up on her doorstep. Of course, there’s a little bit more to the story.
Angelina recited a magic spell on her thirteenth birthday that promised to bring her true love when she turned 21. Flash to her 21st birthday and that is where the story begins. Dylan is a reporter from Nashville sent to write a story about Appalachian magic and her family.
Sydney Logan has done it again with this well-written, sweet romance novel. I recently finished Lessons Learned and was so impressed with her writing style. Angelina has a lot going on in her life, she is taking care of her mom and she owns her own business. Dylan is trying to prove himself as a writer and finds himself in the mountains, learning about magic and finding the love of his life. Follow their story and find that it takes more than magic to not only find, but keep love.
Mountain Charm is a wonderful Sunday afternoon read. It is an emotional story of life, love, friendships and family. This is another happily ever after story (my favorite kind).
