Wilfair Series by Alysia Gray Painter

A late-blooming heiress runs a posh hotel next door to a shy guy and the little motel he oversees. Strange things happen, adventures are had, feelings are felt, and cheese dip is eaten.

The second in the Wilfair series.Nineteen-year-old hotel heiress Fair Finley must steal a motel and its pool from Monty and Gomery Overbove, her handsome, friendly neighbors. But places are changing places with other places and the world is going weird, and only the cousins' moms can help.Fair, the guys, and her best friend Sutton leave LA and make for the Sierra Nevada mountains in order to find the ladies. Their journey is not easy... moreThe second in the Wilfair series.Nineteen-year-old hotel heiress Fair Finley must steal a motel and its pool from Monty and Gomery Overbove, her handsome, friendly neighbors. But places are changing places with other places and the world is going weird, and only the cousins' moms can help.Fair, the guys, and her best friend Sutton leave LA and make for the Sierra Nevada mountains in order to find the ladies. Their journey is not easy.Problem one? A large, underground building is hot on the group's tail. Problems two and three? Fair's favorite movie star shows up in the mountains, as does her longtime rival, and neither will stay out of her snooded hair. Then there's the curious inky taste in air at The Redwoodian. Ick.But the biggest issue of all? Fair's desire to toss the kindly cousins out of their motel home continues to falter. Fail, really. Kaput.If the young hotelier doesn't steal the little motel and its pool then Thurs Mathers, the crisp-shirted tycoon of front-page fame, will snatch her hotel and fast. Meaning she can't get any closer to the cousins, and Gomery in particular. Because getting involved with someone you're trying to finish off? Bad idea.Especially when the person you're trying to finish off isn't exactly stopping you. Especially when he's kind of helping. less

Hotel heiress Fair Finley has issues. She oversees a posh Los Angeles hotel for her traveling parents, which is stressful enough, but she’s been tasked with a real stomach-twister: She must buy, or somehow take, the failing motel next door and its lovely, shimmery swimming pool... moreHotel heiress Fair Finley has issues. She oversees a posh Los Angeles hotel for her traveling parents, which is stressful enough, but she’s been tasked with a real stomach-twister: She must buy, or somehow take, the failing motel next door and its lovely, shimmery swimming pool. How she’ll get the pool from the handsome cousins who own it, and how she’ll keep a cagey hotel mogul from snatching her own hotel and making it his own, and how she’ll figure out why so many strange things are suddenly afoot, are at the heart of “Stay Awhile: Wilfair Book 3.” Oh, and one last little matter? Not falling in love with one of the motel cousins is on the nearly-20-year-old heiress’s already overloaded to-do list, too. Not falling in love quite yet, anyway.“Stay Awhile” follows Fair, Gomery and Monty Overbove, and Fair’s best pal Sutton Von Hunt as they attempt to find out where the cousins’ mothers might be and why buildings seem to be moving under their own power. Several weird discoveries are made during the quartet’s mountain road trip, leading the young hotelier to land on a major decision, and announcement, about the motel’s pool and the futures of her two nice neighbors. How she arrives at her life-changer of a decision, and the journeys she and her friends embark on, are in the light-hearted mix. As is Gomery Overbove, who is about a billion times more important in the heiress’s mind than 24,500 gallons of chlorinated water and some old diving board. less