My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Forever by Miranda P. Charles is the first book in her Time For Love series and focuses on Rebecca Andrews and Zach Carmichael.

Rebecca takes a job as a private nurse for the elderly Mrs. Carmichael. The job entails accompanying Mrs Carmichael on a month long cruise to celebrate her eightieth birthday. The wonderful Mrs. Carmichael is also grandmother to Rebecca's ex that she is still not over, but as he is a workaholic she believes she's in the clear. There's no way he'll take a whole month off for a cruise, right? Wrong. He dotes on his grandmother and when she asks him to accompany her he can't say no.

Now faced with a month together in close quarters the reasons behind their break up resurface. He thinks she lied to him, she believes he never really cared. Even after he realized how he felt, his close friends and family (NOT grandma) convinced him she was a gold-digger so he never went after her. Oh how painful these misunderstandings can be for a reader, when all you want to do is just knock their heads together and demand they figure it out, tout suite.

With a happily ever after ending, you intuitively know they'll get there but the journey of angst and misdirection is the fun part. I am excited to read more from this author in the future.