Rainy Day Friends was a complex story that contained characters with depth, witty dialog, and intricate plot, an innate sense of goodness, and it is absolutely one of my favorite books by author Jill Shalvis. ~ Slick, Guilty Pleasures
Blurb:
Six months after Lanie Jacobs’ husband’s death, it’s hard to imagine anything could deepen her sense of pain and loss. But then Lanie discovers she isn’t the only one grieving his sudden passing. A serial adulterer, he left behind several other women who, like Lanie, each believe she was his legally wedded wife.
Rocked by the infidelity, Lanie is left to grapple with searing questions. How could she be so wrong about a man she thought she knew better than anyone? Will she ever be able to trust another person? Can she even trust herself?
Desperate to make a fresh start, Lanie impulsively takes a job at the family-run Capriotti Winery. At first, she feels like an outsider among the boisterous Capriottis. With no real family of her own, she’s bewildered by how quickly they all take her under their wing and make her feel like she belongs. Especially Mark Capriotti, a gruffly handsome Air Force veteran turned deputy sheriff who manages to wind his way into Lanie’s cold, broken heart—along with the rest of the clan.
Everything is finally going well for her, but the arrival of River Brown changes all that. The fresh-faced twenty-one-year old seems as sweet as they come…until her dark secrets come to light—secrets that could destroy the new life Lanie’s only just begun to build.
I’ve always felt like I should have been born into a large Italian family and after reading Jill Shalvis’ Rainy Day Friends; I know I was meant 
to be part of the Capriotti family. I’ve read this author for many years and I’ve always enjoyed her work, but this book seems to be to be on a different level. It showed the goodness in people and had me wishing there were more people like this in our world today. This was absolutely a slow burn romance between two people who had been hurt in different ways and were trying to move on the best way they knew how; they just didn’t expect the feeling of completeness they found in one another. Heartwarming, emotional, and impossible to put down I loved Rainy Day Friends.
Laine Jacobs’ live was turned upside down when her husband of 5 years passed away, but in more ways than one. Six months after she’s accepted a temporary job offer at a winery in an effort to get back her life and move forward, but nothing prepared her for the Capriotti family especially single father Mark and his precious and precocious twin daughters.
One of my criteria for a perfect book is one I want to drop into and be a part of and that absolutely describes Rainy Day Friends. While Laine was a bit prickly and tried to maintain distance with everyone she came into contact with at her new job, she soon found it was impossible to do so. I loved how each and every one of the Capriotti family got under her skin and somehow made it impossible for her to retreat into herself. Neither Laine or Mark was looking for a relationship yet there was a pull between them they found impossible to ignore, oh they tried and even when they moved to a physical relationship they both did so knowing there was an expiration date but the more they tried to deny their growing feelings the deeper they both fell.
While the relationship between Laine and Mark was a big part of this story there was so much more to Rainy Day Friends; family, friendship, betrayal, forgiveness, hope and most of all love. This complex story contained characters with depth, witty dialog, and intricate plot, an innate sense of goodness, and it is absolutely one of my favorite books by this author.
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