Pick Me Synopsis:
Recently dumped by the man she’d planned to marry, no-nonsense attorney Thea Dunn has returned home to Magnolia Bay to mend her broken heart. But when she learns her new neighbor is Calder Frye, the bad boy who sets the pulse of every good girl at Magnolia Bay High racing, Thea’s verdict to swear off men is in danger of being overturned…
Fourteen years after graduation, Calder has traded his rebel lifestyle to become an ER doctor—but his sex appeal is every bit as powerful as Thea remembers. Could her short-term residence be the perfect chance to live out a teenage fantasy? Or could their reunion be a chance for something more?
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Thea, a jilted attorney, has returned to her childhood town for some well deserved R and R after her fiancé and co worker dumped her rather unceremoniously. She soon bumps into her neighbour and old flame and biker bad boy Calder, now a respectable ER doctor, who reignites old feelings in her from an incident back at high school.
Both older and a lot wiser, will they still have the same feelings for each other and will romance blossom. Thea is obviously on the rebound and Calder isn’t going to be around for long so you kind of have a felling that things will probably not work out how they should. Add to that a dollop of issues that Calder is home to deal with and it isn’t easy to reacquaint themselves without any drama!
Thea’s relationship with her sisters had me smiling and also the whole story involving Calder’s family added extra to this lovely tale. I will admit I haven’t yet read the other books in this series but will definitely be checking them out!
All in all a superb speedy summer read!
5 Super stars from me!
Erika Marks Bio:
Erika Marks is a women’s fiction writer and the author of LITTLE GALE GUMBO, THE MERMAID COLLECTOR, THE GUEST HOUSE and IT COMES IN WAVES (July, 2014). On the long and winding road to becoming published, she worked many different jobs, including carpenter, cake decorator, art director, and illustrator. But if pressed, she might say it was her brief tenure with a match-making service in Los Angeles after college that set her on the path to writing love stories (not that there isn’t romance in frosting or power tools!) A native New Englander, she now makes her home in Charlotte, NC, with her husband, a native New Orleanian who has taught her to make a wicked gumbo, and their two little mermaids. For more on Erika’s books, visit her website at http://www.erikamarksauthor.com
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Flirting with Forever Synopsis:
Forty-year-old Tara Jordan’s first book, The Perfect Marriage in 30 Days, is at the top of the bestseller lists, and her publisher wants her on a book tour ASAP. Tara’s about to live her dream only there’s one problem. Her husband of 15 years has just walked out, leaving Tara on the brink of financial ruin with no choice but to promote a self-help book about marriage when hers is secretly in ruins.
Enter publicist Jake Randall, 30, who’s had it with hand holding newbie authors channeling their inner divas on their first book tours, until he meets Tara. Their instant attraction blossoms quickly into love. Tara thinks she has achieved her dreams and earned her license to thrive until her husband, Jim returns determined to win her back.
SIGH… This has been a lovely romance novel and it has been a while since i have enjoyed a read as much! Tara is desperate and after writing her first non fiction book she hits it big. Her husband reads her bookend by the tine he has finished he’s gone and left her penniless and broken.
She meets Jake after agreeing to go on tour with her new book to earn some much needed cash and inadvertently she causes her actual publicist to have to withdraw. Jake, ten years her junior but hot to trot, enters and has his own preconceptions of how authors are supposed to be but is surprised as he realises he is attracted to her, even though she is a crumpled mess.
I loved the way the story flowed and the writing perspective was very different and actually I think it really works once you get into it. I felt for Tara and really admired how she picked herself back up and got on with things. Jake really did one on me and he is so protective of her, but I loved just how he saw HER and lover her for just being herself! It also helps that he is hot and had me swooning several times!
I was in all sorts of knots when Tara has to decide which path her life needs to take after the tour is over and her husband comes crawling back. I won’t spoil anything but urge you to read it!!!!
Loved this book and will definitely be checking out the others in this series!!!
Five mushy romance stars!
Kim Boykin Bio:
Kim Boykin is a women’s fiction author with a sassy Southern streak. She is the author of The Wisdom of Hair, Steal Me, Cowboy, and Palmetto Moon (Summer 2014.) While her heart is always in South Carolina, she lives in Charlotte, North Carolina, with her husband, 3 dogs, and 126 rose bushes. For more on Kim’s books, visit her website at http://kimboykin.com
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