Penn

Olive Township, Book 1

De: Jennifer Millikin

Narrado por: Hannah Chiclana, Edward Black

The entirety of Olive Township is looking forward to the fast-approaching day when Daisy St. James will say "I do" to the town golden boy.

There’s just one little catch.

Daisy isn’t in love. Her impending nuptials are transactional in nature, and that suits Daisy just fine. She learned the hard way a long time ago that true love does not exist, so what does it matter if her marriage is a farce?

But then a stranger named Peter sails into town, his forearm bearing a tattooed symbol of the Navy SEAL he used to be. And wound around that symbol, are daisies.

Daisy is ready to write it off as coincidence, but there’s no denying the way the enigmatic man feels familiar to her. His slow smile, his stormy eyes, the shape of his jaw. He makes her laugh, draws out her smiles, and even more dangerous, he challenges her previous thoughts about true love.

And then one day, he says three little words only someone from her past would know…someone named Penn.

Penn Bellamy returned to Olive Township with plans to sell his late mother’s estate, snag a locally famous Sammich, and be on his way. Under no circumstances was he to speak to his childhood best friend, Daisy. Or be her ear when she fled her engagement party. Or become her physical therapy client. Offering to help her with her home remodel? He wasn’t supposed to do that, either.

When Daisy learns Peter and Penn are the same person, and he discovers Daisy’s engagement is a pretense, all bets are off.

Penn will do whatever it takes to make Daisy his, even if it means telling her the truth about why he left once before.

After all, all is fair in the quest for true love.

Penn is the first in a four-book contemporary romance series inspired by the film The Princess Bride. Expect swoon, sass, spice, and happily ever afters.

©2025 Jennifer Millikin (P)2025 Jennifer Millikin

The pining is REAL!!

Penn and Daisy’s story is so sweet, but filled with so much pining and longing.

☀️Small town romance
☀️Hidden identity
☀️Childhood friends
☀️Mutual pining

Penn and Daisy were inseparable when they were in their early teens, until an accident tears the apart and forces Penn to move away.

Now here we are over a decade later and life has completely changed for them both. Penn is recovering from getting injured as a Navy Seal and losing his mother and Daisy is actively losing her mother, while engaged to another man. Penn doesn’t want to up and ruin Daisy’s HEA, so he pretends to be someone else and the two of them learn to fall in love without pretense of the past. But what will happen when she finds out he’s been hiding who he was?

I really enjoyed this book! The longing and the pining was so fantastically done. I loved how they were able to fall in love even before she found out Penn was Penn.

There are so many great side characters that I’m hoping we get stories from in the future!

Hannah Chiclana and Edward Black are both new to me narrators and I definitely want to listen to more of their work! I felt they told this story just so beautifully.

Loved so much

Fantastic characters and mesmerizing writing. I loved the little Princess Bride nuggets and how the whole story is cleverly inspired by the story. Such a fun listen with beautifully clever writing. It also gets a bit on the emotional side. There is a family member suffering from cancer so be aware of that if this is something you’ve gone through. Other than that I would highly recommend this beautiful clever story. Loved every minute of listening. I sped it up to 2.0 speed because I hated waiting for what happens next. Loved it!

Loved this fun and emotional intro to this series

Thank you to Jennifer Millikin and Valentine PR for providing me an early copy of this audiobook. All opinions are my own.

This was a fun and emotional little series intro, and I already can’t wait to go back to Olive Township.

Penn has come back to the town he grew up in. He left when he was 13, and that was also the last time he saw his childhood sweetheart, Daisy, whom he has just found out is now engaged to a guy he hates…And nobody recognizes him because he’s changed so much.

I’ll be honest, I did have to suspend some disbelief that no one would recognized him, especially Daisy, even if he had grown up and filled out since he left. But, once I got over that, I had a really fun time with this one.

The banter between these two was really fun, especially when it would get flirty. I also really loved the side characters and the dynamics between all of them definitely has me excited to come back and get all their stories.

Do be aware that there is a plot line having to do with an ill/dying parent that really got the waterworks going for me. Just a heads up if that is something you are sensitive to at the moment. 🙏

Audiobook notes: Duet narration! I don’t think I’d previously listened to either of these narrators before but I was very impressed, especially with Hannah Chiclana’s narration; the emotion really came through in some tough scenes that definitely got the tears flowing. 😢

What this book is giving:
✅ Small Town Romance
✅ Duet Narration
✅ The Princess Bride Retelling
✅ Ex-Military
✅ Physical Therapist
✅ Childhood Best Friends
✅ Hidden Identity

Rating:
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ / 5
🌶️🌶️🌶️ / 5