Carolina Breeze by Denise Hunter

Rising Hollywood star Mia Emerson is looking for a safe place to land in the wake of a public breakup and celebrity scandal, and she finds it in the lake town of Bluebell, North Carolina—the location of her canceled honeymoon. She wants nothing more than to hide and wait for the tabloids to die down.

Soon after her arrival at the Bluebell Inn, Mia meets Levi Bennett, who runs the inn along with his two younger sisters. Drawn to one another from the start, Mia trusts Levi to keep her location from the press, and Levi confides in Mia about the precarious financial state of the inn—a secret he’s been keeping from his sisters.

When Mia and Levi discover an old journal that hints at a rare diamond necklace hidden in the inn, they set off on a treasure hunt to find the long-lost heirloom. What they don’t expect to surface are feelings they thought were safely locked away. Mia and Levi must decide if falling in love again is too big a risk—or if it will uncover a treasure of its own instead.

This is the story about a Hollywood star, Mia Emerson, who has been jilted a few months before her wedding.  Needing to get away she chooses to go to the Bluebell Inn.  The place she was supposed to go on her honeymoon.  The reason she wanted to go there is because her grandparents had owned the inn and she wanted to find out about them.  While she is there a scandal breaks out about a supposed affair between her and her last leading man.  Then her ex-fiancée shows up.  But she's also seen out with Levi. The hunky innkeeper.  The press go wild.  Levi, the hunky innkeeper, is trying to keep the inn afloat without letting his sisters know they are about to lose it.  He is trying to keep the inn afloat while looking after his sisters as he promised his father on his death bed.  In reading a journal left by Mia's grandmother Mia & Levi discover there might be a valuable blue diamond in the inn somewhere.

This is a cozy beach/fireplace read.  The romance isn't over the top nor is there really a mystery.  But a good clean read that kept me reading.

I was given this book by Thomas Nelson Publishing  via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.  I was not  compensated in any way.