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A LITTLE TOO CLOSE by Rebecca Yarros
Release Date: October 11th
Genre/Tropes: Single Parent Romance/Small Town Romance 

 

Blurb

From USA Today bestselling author Rebecca Yarros comes a small town, single parent romance.

Nine years ago, Weston Madigan saved me. I came to Colorado penniless, heartbroken, and pregnant, searching for a fresh start. Weston gave me a job at his family’s resort, then left the next day and never returned, not even to visit.

Then I stumble in on Weston cooking breakfast shirtless—gloriously, inappropriately shirtless—in the shared kitchen of my duplex in employee housing. Given the shock on both our faces, he wasn’t expecting a roommate either, let alone two.

The growly pilot is only home to start his family’s new heli-skiing operation. I can handle being his temporary roommate, right? Chemistry and attraction aren’t impossible to ignore when you agree on ground rules. Besides, even with those gorgeous, brooding brown eyes, the guy is a walking thundercloud…until my daughter, Sutton, makes him laugh and he smiles at me. Then everything changes. Cue inconvenient heart flip.

This is only temporary.

I can’t fall for Weston.

I. Will. Not. Fall. For. Weston.

But rules go out the window when you’re a little too close.

 

    What I thought about A Little Too Close

Weston Madigan is a bit surly.  He hasn't been home to Madigan Mountain in ages, and he's okay with that.  Having taken care of his ill mother, then raising his younger brother, he's done with that place.  Except when his brother Reed calls him and asks him to return to help save the ski resort.

Callie is a single mom who met Weston just before he left home.  She's made her way with her daughter there as a professional photographer, thanks in part to Weston giving her that job as he left town.  Now they happen to be stuck in a situation where they are living in the duplex.  All that proximity is going to do exactly what neither Callie or Weston are looking for -- love! 

This book sucked me right into the story from the opening pages. Weston is really one of those good guys -- he just doesn't want to admit it and destroy his reputation for not wanting to be there.  As he finds himself falling for Callie and her daughter, he's left with lots of dangerous feelings he thinks he can avoid.

Callie also has some mental adjustments to make.  She knows she's in love with Weston and that he doesn't have the capacity to return them.  These two need to get on the same page, and they get there, but it takes some time.

I really liked this story.  Even though the forced proximity issue was a bit of a stretch, I did like how these two changed each other for the better.  And Callie's daughter Sutton provided lots of enthusiasm for it all.  It's a feel-good story that had me reading until the final pages to be sure that these two got their HEA.

Overall, a terrific romance series and this book was delightful and interesting, especially with Weston's friends joining him from his days in service.  Just another great love story from Rebecca Yarros! 

About the Author

 

Rebecca Yarros is the USA Today bestselling author of over fifteen novels, including The Things We Leave Unfinished and The Last Letter. “A gifted storyteller” (Kirkus), she is also the recipient of the Colorado Romance Writer’s Award of Excellence for Eyes Turned Skyward from her Flight and Glory series.

Rebecca loves military heroes and has been blissfully married to hers for over twenty years. She’s the mother of six children, and is currently surviving the teenage years with three of her four hockey-playing sons. When she’s not writing, you can find her at the hockey rink or sneaking in some guitar time while guzzling coffee. She and her family live in Colorado with their stubborn English bulldogs, two feisty chinchillas, and a Maine Coon kitten named Artemis, who rules them all.

Having fostered then adopted their youngest daughter who is nonverbal and on the autism spectrum, Rebecca is passionate about helping children in the foster system through her nonprofit, One October, which she co-founded with her husband in 2019. To learn more about their mission to better the lives of kids in foster care, visit www.oneoctober.org.

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Release Day Review: 5 stars for Into The Storm (Evidence:Under Fire #1) by Rachel Grant

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 As a storm rolls in, a team of elite Navy SEALs arrives at a remote lodge for a wilderness training exercise that becomes terrifyingly real…

Xavier Rivera planned the exercise down to the smallest detail, but he didn’t plan the arrival of archaeologist Audrey Kendrick—a woman he shared a passionate night with before betraying her in the worst way. 

As the storm is unleashed on the historic lodge it becomes clear the training has been compromised. Trapped by weather, isolated by the remote wilderness, and silenced as communication with the world has been severed, unarmed SEALs face an unexpected and deadly foe. 

Audrey and Xavier must set aside their distrust and desire and work together to save a team under fire and survive in a battle against the wild.

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 What I thought about Into The Storm

Wow! What a ride! This book is non-stop action from the beginning to the end, with a great dose of sexual tension between the two main characters.

Audrey Kendrick is the park's archeologist caught in a dangerous military exercise during a devastating winter storm in the Pacific Northwest. Xavier Rivera is a military officer in the midst of a special forces training, but memories of his past with Audrey are both remorseful and hot, hot, hot. I really don't want to give up too many details because it's just so much better if you read this book instead of my synopsis.

What I loved the most about this book was the exciting pace of this story as the two protagonists try to get out of their situation. It's suspenseful and filled with a sexual tension between them that was just amazing! I haven't been this excited reading a romantic suspense title in a very long time.

There was plenty of content to stroke my STEM loving brain, along with a lovely story between Audrey and Xavier. This book is definitely on my best of 2022 list. It's one of the best romantic suspense stories I've read this year. 

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Navy SEAL Xavier Rivera visits historic Lake Olympus Lodge on a scouting mission for a top secret training exercise. In the lodge, he meets smart, attractive park archaeologist Audrey Kendrick. There are many reasons he should ignore the immediate, simmering attraction between them, but in the heat of the moment he has no restraint.

Audrey is drawn to the secretive man who helps her when she’s in a bind, and she can’t resist taking a chance on a night of passion. But their one red hot night together leads to secrets and betrayal…

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USA Today bestselling author Rachel Grant worked for over a decade as a professional archaeologist and mines her experiences for story lines and settings, which are as diverse as excavating a cemetery underneath an historic art museum in San Francisco; surveying an economically depressed coal mining town in Kentucky; and mapping a seventeenth century Spanish and Dutch fort on the island of Sint Maarten in the Netherlands Antilles.

In all her travels and adventures as an archaeologist, Rachel has found many sites and artifacts, but she’s only found one true treasure, her husband, David. They met while working together excavating a four thousand year old site about to be destroyed by the expansion of a sewage treatment plant in Seattle. Despite their romantic first meeting, she has no intention of ever setting a story at a sewage treatment plant.

Rachel Grant lives on an island in the Pacific Northwest with her husband and children.

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Release Day Review: A Little Too Late (Madigan Mountain #1) by Sarina Bowen

 

Sarina Bowen has teamed up again with Rebecca Yarros and Devney Perry to bring you a trilogy of standalones late this year! 

Introducing the Madigan Mountain series!

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How to behave when the guy who broke your heart two thousand miles away turns up in your office:

One: Don’t drop your lucky coffee cup in shock, even though it’s been ten years.

Two: Don’t get defensive when he asks how you ended up working his family’s ski mountain… and why you kept it a secret.

Three: Give him the worst room in the resort. He deserves it for suddenly waltzing back in like he owns the place. (Which he kind of does.)

Four, five, six, seven, eight and nine: Do not kiss him in the hot tub.

Ten: Try to keep your heart intact after you break all of your rules.

Because Reed is leaving again. Hate can't turn back into love. And it’s a little too late…

 

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What I thought about A Little Too Late

A Little Too Late starts the new Madigan Mountain series from Sarina Bowen, Rebecca Yarros and Devney Perry. This first installment lays the groundwork for the centerpiece of the series, the Madigan family ski resort.

Reed Madigan returns home after ten years to figure out what is going on with the family resort after having left without looking back. He's not really happy about being back especially when one of his first encounters is with Ava, the girl he left behind.

There's a nice bit of tension, anger along with rekindled memories and emotions between these two in this second chance romance. It's quite lovely to watch them put the pieces back together. There are some steamy moments because their chemistry is what drives these two back into each other's arms. There are just some things that they can't resist!

The story is told from dual point of view which I like in romances like this where it's great to get insight into how each side reacts to the things that happen.

This was a very nice start to the Madigan Mountain series with good glimpses of the two other brothers who will have stories of their own. A Little Too Late has just the right amounts of emotions and steamy moments to make it a quick, enjoyable read. I liked the start to this series and I'll be looking for more.

 

 

About Sarina

Sarina Bowen is the award-winning author of more than thirty contemporary novels. She has hit the USA Today bestseller's list sixteen times and counting. Formerly a derivatives trader on Wall Street, Sarina holds a BA in economics from Yale University.

Sarina is a New Englander whose Vermont ancestors cut timber and farmed the north country since the 1760s. Sarina is grateful for the invention of indoor plumbing and wi-fi during the intervening 250 years. She lives with her family on a few wooded acres in New Hampshire.

Sarina's books are published in a dozen languages on four continents.

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ARC Review: 5 Big Stars for Bad Girl Reputation (Avalon Bay #2) by Elle Kennedy

Bestselling author Elle Kennedy returns to Avalon Bay in this sexy second chance story about two exes who can't stay away from each other, Bad Girl Reputation.

When former bad girl Genevieve West returns home for her mother’s funeral, she’s prepared to keep her distance from her ex-boyfriend, Evan Hartley. Their history is rife with turbulence. And passion. A heck of a lot of passion...which she’s trying desperately to forget.

But it’s impossible not to run into Evan in the small coastal town where they once ran wild. And the moment she sees her gorgeous ex again, it’s clear to Gen that Evan is still as unruly, sexy, and irresistible as ever. This time around, however, she’s resolved to walk a new path. No more partying. No more foolish mistakes. Her plan is to temporarily remain in town to help her father run his business, but the second he finds somebody else, she’s out of there.

Evan has other ideas. He knows they can be good together, but he just has to convince Genevieve of that, even if it means turning over a new leaf himself. But can a bad reputation ever truly be shed? Do second chances really work? Genevieve and Evan are about to find out.

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What I thought about Bad Girl Reputation

After her mom dies, Gen returns to the home she abruptly left behind a year ago. Leaving was the only way she could get away from her own bad habits and reputation to turn her life around.  But when her father asks her to stay and help out, she also has to deal with Evan Hartley, the man she left behind.

Evan Hartley is a proverbial bad boy, not afraid to mix it up when he feels like it.  But his soft spot for Gen could get them both in trouble.  He's still nursing wounds from her leaving the last time, but he can't stay away from her.  He loves her.  I just adored his character -- he has such a good heart, but he's not a pushover by any means. He loves his twin brother fiercely but they can get into it, and he's drawn to Gen like no other woman. He's a sexy beast in love, and that makes for swoony material for sure.

 

But Gen's put a lot of effort into ditching her bad girl reputation and she doesn't want to backslide.  I adored her for her resolve to grow up and put her bad ways behind her.She left at that proverbial moment when she knew if she didn't change now it was going to get ugly for her and she is committed to her new life. 

I loved these two together.  They are hot, hot, hot and it's not just sex.  There's a level of caring between them that is so natural, they almost miss what they have together. The back and forth between them as they figure out their relationship was portrayed in what I thought was a realistic manner. And Evan ripped out my heart perfectly for Gen to put back together as these lovebirds finally figure out what's important. This ending rocks for sure.

I did like what this story said about family, especially estranged family members.  The story of the twins and their mother was particularly touching and it didn't skirt the issue that it's just darn hard to get over these sorts of familial issues.  And when Gen gets information from her Dad about her mother that causes her to see her mom in a new light -- that was a truly beautiful moment in this book.

There were many lovely moments in Bad Girl Reputation.  I appreciated how Gen wasn't put down for wanting to have some fun, and that she recognized herself that her path wasn't a good one. 

Bad Girl Reputation is a sweet second-chance romance between two long time friends and lovers.  It left me feeling good.  This is what romance is about! 

 

 

 

About Elle

A New York Times, USA Today and Wall Street Journal bestselling author, Elle Kennedy grew up in the suburbs of Toronto, Ontario, and holds a B.A. in English from York University. From an early age, she knew she wanted to be a writer, and actively began pursuing that dream when she was a teenager.

Elle writes romantic suspense and erotic contemporary romance for various publishers. She loves strong heroines and sexy alpha heroes, and just enough heat and danger to keep things interesting!

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