6. INK: A Love Story on Seventh and Main by Elizabeth Hunter

read on my iPhone
2018 CreateSpace Independent Publishing
288 pgs.
Adult Romance (Sizzle Factor:  2/4)
Finished 1/12/18
Goodreads rating:  4.04 - 2731 ratings
My rating: 3.5
Setting: Contemporary Metlin, CA; central California

First line/s:  "Emmie Elliott lasted three breaths in the old bookshop, her measured exhalations stirring dust motes that danced in the afternoon light streaming from the large display windows that looked over Main Street."

My comments:   It's fun to throw a little romance in once in awhile, this one is sweet, entertaining,  AND it takes place in a bookstore....  The two twenty-something protagonists have great (sizzling?) chemistry, and the premise of having a bookstore and a tattoo parlor share a retail space is quite unusual and hard-to-resist.

Goodreads synopsis:  It’s everything but business as usual.
          Emmie Elliot hadn’t expected to come back to Metlin, California. She definitely didn’t expect to stay. She returned to her childhood home with a mission: Sell the building that housed her grandmother’s book store and move on with her life.
          But life doesn’t always go according to plan.
          To reopen her grandmother’s book shop, Emmie will need a hook. She’ll need a strategy. She’ll need an… Ox?
          Miles Oxford doesn’t have much interest in quiet bookstore owners. He’s a tattoo artist without a space to work, and the last thing he wants is to get involved with anyone after his last disaster of a relationship. Work and pleasure don’t mix for Ox, but since he doesn’t have any interest in the cute girl with the bold business proposal, he should be safe from any awkward complications, right?
          She sells ink. He tattoos it. Unusual? Yes. But a book shop/tattoo studio might be the ticket for both Emmie and Ox to find success on their own terms. As long as they keep their attention focused on business.
          Just on business.