Finding the One, an all-new River Rain novel from New York Times bestselling author Kristen Ashley & Blue Box Press, is available now!
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Their parents being family friends, American/English aristocrat, Blake Sharp, and Scottish playboy Alasdair Wallace were thrust together all through their childhoods.
Blake thought Dair was a filthy, obnoxious, little boy bully.
Dair thought Blake was a spoiled, prissy wee miss.
Then Blake grew up to be a beautiful, loving woman who took care of everyone and made amazing pistachio muffins. And Dair grew up to be a protective, fun-loving, hard-living professional rugby player.
In the meantime, they’d both been deeply betrayed by lovers.
When their paths cross again, Blake is still reeling from her fiancé’s treachery and what she learned about herself during it.
Dair thinks he’s recovered from a marriage to a woman who was not at all what she seemed, and now he’s smitten by the woman Blake has become.
So smitten, he has every intention of exploring what they can grow to be together.
But their combined family history is filled with secrets and lies. Secrets and lies that explode in their faces.
And while they deal with that, ghosts from the past rise up and threaten to haunt their future.
Is what they built together strong enough to hold true?
Or will their personal demons tear them apart?
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“You need to be nicer to Wallace, dear.”
I turned at my mother’s voice.
“They’re an important family,” Mum went on when I caught her gaze. “And he’s the heir.”
This was so Mum.
Thus, of course, I rolled my eyes.
“Don’t roll your eyes at me, Blake Charlotte Sharp,” Mum snapped.
“Alasdair Wallace is a bully,” I snapped back and looked across the bar at the man in question.
He was standing with the groom-to-be (tomorrow) Rix and Rix’s best friend, Judge.
They looked like a craft beer advertisement.
A very successful one where every man who saw it would want to be them and therefore run right out and buy that beer. Whereupon they’d drink it and think the next day, even after they’d over imbibed, they’d be prepared go on a ten-mile hike that included a bracing swim in a snow-fed lake, get home and still have enough energy to mow the lawn and fuck their woman.
Blech.
Some women might think Dair Wallace was sinfully attractive.
I was not one of those women.
Okay, so he had thick, dark hair and rugged outdoorsman features hewn from centuries of his ancestors being, well…rugged outdoorsmen (along with rebels, warriors and pains in the asses of any English ruler that came along). He was tall and built like a rugby player (because he played rugby).
All my life, when we’d go to England for our visits to Mum, for a week during their summer holidays, the Wallaces would come down from their sprawling estate in Scotland to visit us in her townhome in London, or our family’s country seat in Somerset, or worst of this lot, we’d go up north and visit them.
Dair Wallace was the epitome of “oh, he’s pulling your hair and teasing you relentlessly because he likes you,” when everyone knew that wasn’t the case.
No, it was because little boys like that were assholes who weren’t taught better.
And Mum was the kind of woman who gave little boys like that as much leeway as possible, because that “was the way of her world, but also because his daddy was rich.
And because she was fucking him.
Dair’s daddy that was.
Can a mean girl become a loving and giving good girl? That is the question we all struggle with: Can a leopard change its spots? Well, in this story, we find out that, yes, people can definitely change, and a complete one hundred and eighty degrees, not just a slight change. Mean-spirited and spoiled little princess Blake Sharp has been in the spotlight for all the wrong reasons, but over the last several years, she has been turning that spotlight around. She wants to be less like her mom and more like the person she wants to be. She has been helping her sister, Alex, with her wedding planning and promises herself to make sure it goes off without a hitch.
Alisdair "Dair" Wallace has been in Blake's life since they were very young; their parents have been friends for a long time, and he always thought of Blake as a spoiled, prissy wee miss. But something changes when he sees her at Alex's wedding, and he is ready to see if they can explore the chemistry that is sparking between them.
I love Blake and Dair together; their history helped move their relationship along more quickly than others, but with the drama happening, it was great that they had a foundation to help ground them and get through things. Now I am not going to spoil anything about the drama, but I will say they had it coming from all sides, and some of it was...just wow.
The River Rain Series is a series that I have been enjoying immensely, not only because it's written by one of my favorite authors, but also because there is a large group of readers, me included, who KA asks her opinions on certain things, like a dress or a name, simple yet meaningful things. It's so much fun to see them appear in each of the books. For instance, this one has a family tree, which I LOVE. It was suggested by one of us in the group, totally out of the blue. It wasn't a question that KA had asked our opinion on; it was a simple suggestion someone had, and she loved it so much she made a family tree and included it in this book. I LOVE THAT!
I recommend this book to readers who enjoy SPICY Contemporary Romances, Friends to Lovers Romances, Sports Romances, or Small Town Romances.
Happy Reading!!!
**I have voluntarily reviewed an Advanced Readers Copy of this book for my Blog, Nadine's Obsessed with Books**
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