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Will You Stay Another Day by Samantha Tonge

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💖💖💖💖💖 /5 Will You Stay Another Day by Samantha Tonge is a heartbreaking story about overcoming grief and loss, how grief can affect us; not just grief from a death but also from loneliness. It is a story that teaches about finding joy in new beginnings, starting over is possible and letting go of the past is possible.   Lili lost her best Em in a boat accident. Em was not just her best friend, but her ride and die, her travel companion, her sister from another mister. Lili’s grief has devastated her, taking over her life; even as the one year anniversary of her death approaches. Lili finds that listening to texts from Em keeps her close. One day, Lili sends Em a text and when it is answered, believes that maybe Em is still alive. After going through every possibility, she decides to meet the person replying to the texts.  It is not Em who she meets, but Dylan; drinking alone while also missing someone. As it happens, Em’s mobile number was given to Harry, Dylan ’s bro...
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Friends to Lovers by Sally Blakely

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 💖💖💖💖/5 Friends to Lovers by Sally Blakely is a slow-burning love story wrapped in nostalgia, longing, intense chemistry, forced proximity, best friends to lovers, and second chances, set against a dreamy summer backdrop on the Pacific Northwest coast.   Told through a dual-timeline, and alternating between the past and present, the novel follows Joni and Ren, childhood best friends.   Joni and Ren have been best friends since they were three. When Joni moves across the country, the two make a pact to be each other’s plus one to every wedding they are invited to. When lines become blurred, their friendship takes a hit, and everything comes crashing down; allowing a silence to grow between them. A summer reunion for her sister’s wedding to finally force them to confront what went wrong.   Alternating between the past and present and beautifully written and descriptions, making me feeel like I was right there at the summer beach house with the characters. It's the ...
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The Most Wonderful Time of the Year by Beth Moran

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💖💖💖💖/5  The Most Wonderful Time of the Year by Beth Moran is a heartwarming story about new beginnings, falling in love, finding a community to belong to, and two strangers meeting up in a very unexpected way   Mary, a co-owner of a hugely successful fashion company in Sheffield, escaped her old life, lives alone in the middle of Sherwood Forest, when she goes into labor. She meets Beckett, the taxi driver taking her to the hospital to have the baby. Beckett, a former medical student, is calm and dependable. When a snow storm makes it impossible to reach the hospital, Beckett locates New Life Community Church, where Mary gives birth.    Beckett is a total cinnamon roll who takes care of people needing help regardless of their situation and at his own expense. He gave up everything to take care of his grandfather after he had a stroke. After seeing Mary's dismal home, he goes shopping and gets things for her and the baby. Not being prepared for this baby, no nappi...
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Single-Minded by Amy Knupp

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 💖💖💖💖💖/5 I loved West and Presley in Single-Minded by Amy Knupp, book four in the Single Dads of Dragonfly Lake series; is a beautiful exploration of love, healing, and the courage it takes to open your heart again. West Aldridge, a single dad to three young girls, works as a contractor for a construction company. His girls are everything to him, and he is determined to protect them from any more heartbreak. Presley Holiday became wealthy through hard work; work that was unappreciated by her boss. After quitting her job in Nashville she moves to Dragonfly Lake into the lake house she bought a while ago, hiring the company West works for to remodel and update her new home.   From their first meeting these two opposites had an instantaneous attraction despite neither interested in anything serious. Despite West’s determination to fight the pull of chemistry, it kept drawing them together, until it was undeniable; sizzling times and fireworks happen. West was an amazing...
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The Live-In Temptation by Brighton Walsh - Release date: 9/4/25

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  The Live-In Temptation by Brighton Walsh Release date: 9/4/25 BUY LINK: geni.us/TLIT   Available in ebook (Kindle Unlimited), duet narrated audio, and standard and discreet special edition paperbacks. BLURB: Hiring the chaotic woman I pulled out of a shed fire to be my daughter’s nanny was a bad idea. Letting her live with me? Even worse.   Chloe Bradshaw is too vibrant, too bold, and way too young for me. She’s pure sunshine-in-a-hurricane energy and the exact opposite of the calm, steady influence my daughter needs.   But Emma adores her from the second they meet, and I’d do anything for my little girl. Including sharing a roof with the one woman I shouldn’t want.   Chloe’s the walking definition of off-limits. And one hell of a temptation I can’t stop thinking about.   Between midnight snack run-ins, hair-braiding lessons, and the way she looks in my stolen hoodie, forbidden stopped being a warning and started feeling like a dare.   I swore I wo...
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He Falls First by Jill Shalvis

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💖💖💖💖💖 /5 He Falls First by by Jill Shalvis, book one in the Colborn Brothers series, is a heartwarming, laugh out moments , found family, small town shenanigans, family drama reminding how important family really is, and where finding love might just be the key to finding yourself. Ryder and Penny are two people who have had missing or incompetent parents.  On the other hand, they never let anyone down and work hard to take care of their family members. Ms. Shalvis excels when she writes a family series; delivering on heart, humor and honest emotion . The way she writes sibling relationships with their drama and their love for each other is charming, beautiful, and delightful; immediately drawing me in and making me invested in and caring cared about all of the characters and excited for their books. I’m can't wait to read about the rest of the Colburn family in the future.   #NetGalley #Avon # TheLoveFix #JillShalvis
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Desired Hearts by Cissy Mecca

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💖💖💖💖💖/5   Desired Hearts by Cissy Mecca, book two in The Bachelor Pact series, is the emotional, heartwarming, Parker and Delaney’s friends to lovers, small town romance set in Cedar Falls. Parker Scott is the nice guy, the dependable one of his Bachelor Pact crew; the one who always does the right thing, helps a friend, and treats people well. After witnessing too much heartbreak between his mother and father, he swore off relationships. Parker moved to Cedar Falls where he works construction, dreaming of owning his company, and currently working on renovating his friend’s Inn   Delaney Thornton returned to Cedar Falls to shortly after being hurt and heartbroken by an ex who made her doubt herself in every way. She’s working in the local pharmacy as the lead pharmacist in the small town she moved to as a teenager, dreaming of another job. She’s just trying to get over her ex and to start living again. A hilariously awkward pharmacy pickup puts her directly in Parke...
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