
Genre:
Contemporary Romance
Themes:
Age Gap
Coming Out
Enemies to Lovers
Family Relationships
Femme / Femme
Forced Proximity / Stranded Together
Ice Queen
Inheritance
Loss / Grieving / Widow
Mature Lead 40+
Pet / Wild Animal
Reality Show
Return to Hometown
Rich Girl / Poor Girl
Romance After 50
Self-Discovery
Slow Burn
Soulmates / Reincarnation
Starting Over
Workplace / Office Romance
Heat Level:
Medium (sex scenes are included and may use mildly graphic description)
Archetypes:
Artist / Graphic Designer / Illustrator
Celebrity / Socialite / Model
CEO / Executive
Geographic Location:
United Kingdom: England
Setting:
Corporation / Office / Workplace
Hotel / Inn
Manor House / Estate
Small Town / Rural
Sexual / Gender Identity:
Bi or Pansexual
Lesbian
Reality In Check
A South Downs Romance Series, Book 2
By Emily Banting
What price is an ice queen willing to pay to follow her true path in the world?
Sculptor Arte Tremaine is thrown into the hospitality industry when her beloved late grandmother bequeaths her and her sister a charming yet rundown country hotel with zero guests. Arte is determined to make a success of the business, despite her sister snapping at her heels to sell it and painful memories confronting her inside.
Charlotte Beaufort, heiress to a hotel empire, television celebrity, and self-confessed city woman, hits the countryside to film an episode of her reality television show, Hotel SOS, where she immediately clashes with the overwhelmed Arte and her inquisitive Labrador, Rodin.
Arte doesn’t take kindly to Charlotte’s attitude and frank opinions about her hotel, but when they are thrown together, she begins to realise not everything is as it seems with her attractive nemesis. As Arte begins to chip away at Charlotte’s icy exterior, both women begin to realise dreams and reality rarely entwine and that, sometimes, our dreams are not even our own.
Can the artsy dreamer and ambitious heiress face the reality of their situations and discover their true paths? And if so, can those paths lead them toward true love?