Sawyer by Katy Regnery is the newest novel in the Stewarts of Skagway series (book 4). The Stewarts own a tourist business. They offer a variety of opportunities for camping, hiking and other outdoor sports as well as places to stay. All the brothers and sisters spend their summer working for the family business, but when fall comes, they have more time off.
Sawyer Stewart has chosen to stay at home and help his family’s business grow. He loves the richness that life has offered him. However, then there is Ivy. Ivy has an aunt and uncle who has shown her love and family in Skagway. She comes every summer and is one of the seasonal helpers. However, she is rich and destined for other things according to her father.
Ivy and Sawyer have always been friends. They have been ‘casual’ friends with no expectations. Each year their ‘casual’ has seemed to be more. Something that both Ivy and Sawyer’s family have noticed. Sawyer recognizes it as well, but Ivy knows how to get her father to love her and that is to do what he expects her to. He expects her to complete college, choose an appropriate and politically helpful husband and help her father with his business. Until Ivy comes to help out when her aunt is sick, she realizes what is really important to her – Family and Love.
Ivy and Sawyer go through a lot of angst in this novel always struggling to find each other and how they fit. Ivy’s father is a particularly interesting character who proves everyone can go low, but some can go lower that you expect. I did enjoy the novel. I like the setting and the Stewart family. Sawyer by Katy Regnery is the fourth book in the Stewart of Skagway. The novel is a good read.
