The Jeweler
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Publisher Description
Fender Barnes profits from an institution he doesn’t believe in: marriage. He’s a talented designer, but a reluctant jewelry store owner, thanks to his pop’s retirement. He’s cynical, he’s jaded, he’s not entirely certain about the concept of love, but he’s happy to sell an eager young guy an engagement ring for his fiancée to be—until moments after the transaction when that eager guy is hit by a car and killed, and Fender’s conscience pays a rare visit. He retrieves the ring and decides to find the woman his customer intended to marry. That woman turns out to be Ginger Stevens, twenty-something ski instructor, who—despite being full of guilt and self-doubt after the death of her boyfriend—is someone Fender finds he quite enjoys being around. He’s smitten. Which is all well and good, except that after he meets her, Fender can’t do it. Though it’s right there in his pocket, he can’t tell her about the ring. Instead, he embarks on a long, ridiculous quest to find a way to tell her the truth he knows she deserves. Aided by advice from Pop and the antics of his best friend Sam, Fender tries desperately to juggle his budding romance with the reality he knows could ruin it. Will he find love or foul it up? Can Ginger move out of the past to embrace what the future has to offer? Meet this unlikely pair in Beck Anderson’s heartfelt and fabulously funny second novel, The Jeweler.
Customer Reviews
Review: The Jeweler
The Jeweler by Beck Anderson is a standalone romance novel. It is not a heavy and hot romance by any means but it is tense and will keep you reading just to see what happens with that darn ring!
Fender Barnes is a cynic. He is now running his fathers jewelry business but is not overly happy about it. He see's so much manipulation in his store that he truly thinks the institution of love is a farce. When a tragic accident befalls a customer just outisde his store he does the strangest thing. He takes the ring the customer just bought. He doesn't know why and is eventually cajoled into taking it to the man's significant other at his funeral. He can't bring himself to give it to her though and a calamity of sweet and awkard events happens over the months following.
Ginger is a ski instructor that is having a hard time moving past the loss of her boyfriend. Months pass and when she finally starts going about her normal routine she is confronted by the strangely behaving Fender and his complete lack of skills on the powder. She enjoys their lessons together but despite the ring almost always being present at their meetings, he never quite has the courage to broach the subject to return it to her. As time goes on and they develop a friendship and the attraction grows, the whole situation becomes more awkward.
With humurous sidekicks and sweet moments throughout this slow-paced but pleasant romance will have you wondering about fate and love and what makes the universe tick.