Catch and Keep

Author: Erin Hahn
Title: Catch and Keep
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
Date Published: 10/15/2024

Read Dates: 09/03/2024 - 09/04/2024
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

 📖 I received a gifted e-book ARC. The following is my honest review✍🏻

Catch and Keep is a dual POV brothers best friend romance. Maren has just walked away from a proposal and her job to return to Wisconsin where all that waits for her is a falling down bait shop she inherited. Her family, especially her older brother, think she’s making a mistake, but she finds an ally in her brother’s best friend, single dad Joe.

I couldn’t put this book down! I loved Maren and Joe, I really liked how their relationship developed so effortlessly, that they just fit together. I loved Maren’s interactions with Joe’s kids, and the cast of side characters. I’ve added Erin Hahn’s other adult romances to my TBR already!

At thirty-three, Maren Laughlin's just turned down her boyfriend’s proposal, walked away from her decade-long position as a park ranger, and returned to her childhood playground in Northern Wisconsin to accept her inheritance: a decrepit waterfront bait shop. After a lifetime of letting things happen to her, she’s ready to start making her own moves, even if everyone else thinks she’s making the wrong ones. Well, not everyone—at least the local heartstopper and resort owner is on her side.

Josiah Cole has made some missteps in his life, but he’s proud of what he has: two awesome kids and the keys to the kind of getaway spot that has families coming back every summer– their up north home away from home. After his marriage dissolved, leaving him a single dad, he feels he’s the last person to judge Maren for her recent transformation (even if his best friend, her brother, wants him to feel otherwise). Besides, he genuinely likes having her around. She’s a breath of fresh air, his kids adore her (not to mention her dog, Rogers), and it doesn’t hurt that she’s beautiful.

Things between Maren and Joe are easy. So easy, they’re fully immersed in the middle before they even decide to begin. It’s not a question of should they, but rather can they make it last? Are things too easy, or is this just how real love works? In Erin Hahn’s heartwarmingly sexy Catch and Keep, Maren and Joe have to be brave enough to find out.