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When Olivia Tennyson was a teenager, she wrote a list of all the things she would love to do someday with her Dream Man. But now she’s 29, still living with her manipulative mother, and the Dream List is just a list.
Now, Ollie has decided it’s time to live her life. With support from her best friend and her aunt, she makes a plan to set boundaries with her mom and be independent. She finds a cute house to buy in the country and tells her mother she will be moving out. And then she does (and blocks her mother’s calls and texts for a while).
Rather than look/wait for a dream man, Ollie decides to complete her Dream List on her own, doing everything on it to make herself happy. She’s going to find out who she really is, independent of her mom or anyone else, and what she enjoys. And meanwhile, she has a “No-Man Mandate” until she finishes it so she can be sure to focus on herself first.
That shouldn’t be a problem because she’s living on the edge of a forest in a little town half an hour away from where she had been living. But of course, she’s surprised to find a handsome, kind, eligible man whom she can’t stop running into. Focus, focus…
Just the Way You Are is just another charming and lovely book from Beth Moran. I have so enjoyed two of her others, We Belong Together and Let It Snow. These are not just great books to turn to when you need a pick-me-up, but they’re clean, so they’re really the whole package. I so loved how this whole story came together.
Rated: Mild. Profanity includes a few instances of moderate profanity, 17 uses of mild language and 4 uses of British (bl-) profanity. Sexual content is limited, with some kissing and mild thinking about kissing and beyond.
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