Book Review: ‘The Friendship Pact: A Sunrise Cove Novel’ By Jill Shalvis

The second book in the Sunrise Cove series is as good or better than the first one. It has everything you would expect from a Jill Shalvis novel…a good setting, family, flawed characters, sex, secrets and romance. You root for the main characters to work through their issues and get together and get emotionally invested. Tae Holmes lives next door to her mother April and has started her own business and has a deal with a big company that wounded warriors. And on the night of her first big event she comes face to face with Riggs Copeland, who owns half the company she just put on the event for. He was also the first man she ever slept with. And that didn’t go well. He’s now a marine and home for the summer. They talk about the past and they decide they will be friends for the 3 months he’s home…a friendship pact. But things heat up between them and it’s more than friendship. When Tae decides to look for her father, Riggs agrees to help her but keeps something from her and it threatens their relationship, as does the shocking secret about her father, which could derail her relationship with her mother. Tea has to decide if she can put the past behind her and move forward with Riggs and the secrets she learns.

You can pick up The Friendship Pact in stores on Tuesday, June 14th from Avon/William Morrow.