New York Times
bestselling author Samantha Young returns to Hart’s Boardwalk with a searing and emotional new standalone
romance…
Local metalsmith and gift shop
owner, Dahlia McGuire, likes her quiet life in Hartwell, Delaware. It's the
perfect place to hide from her family in Boston and the tragic events that led
to their estrangement. However, when her father, the person she loves most in
the world, needs her, Dahlia has no choice but to return to Boston to face her
ghosts. One of those ghosts happens to be her ex-boyfriend's best friend,
Michael Sullivan. The man she was never supposed to fall in love with.
Michael Sullivan has never
forgotten Dahlia McGuire. Some might say he's never gotten over her. For years
he lived with the anger of her desertion and now newly divorced he's finally
ready to move on. That proves impossible when Dahlia returns to Boston and
reawakens their explosive connection. Despite everything, Michael wants her
back, but Dahlia can't seem to let go of
the tangled emotions of the past. She flees home to Hartwell.
Determined to fight for their
second chance, Michael follows Dahlia to Delaware, takes a job with the local
police department, and does everything in his power to convince her they belong
together.
However, when the unthinkable hits
the quiet seaside town, Michael finds himself trying to unravel more than the
mystery of Dahlia's McGuire's broken heart. It's time for truths left unsaid to
finally be spoken or Michael and Dahlia might find themselves torn apart
forever…
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Another instalment in the Hart’s Boardwalk series and another duo of characters to love/hate and everything in between. Michael and Dahlia's story is emotive and thought-provoking and yet thoroughly refreshing and enticing but boy, did this story challenge my perception of right and wrong.
I was all over the place trying to decide who was to blame for Dahlia and Michael's situation. I wanted to blame Michael, then I wanted to blame Dahlia, then I wanted to blame Dillon, then I wondered if the author was to blame, and, oh my head is spinning again…..
Irrespective of who was in the right, or the wrong, here, what I was sure about was that this was a story which will remain in my thoughts for a long time to come. I may need to re-visit it again in order to review my perceptions from a different angle now that I’ve finished the story and heard all of the arguments!
What I do know was that this was another brilliantly written story by Samantha Young. It was gritty, very gritty, and it was perhaps more raw than some of her stories to date, but I loved it. Stories can’t always be all hearts and flowers, despite how much two people are destined to be together, and that’s what readers will find with Dahlia and Michael’s story. If you could have reached through the pages and banged their heads together the story would have been finished by 25% but they would have not had the opportunity to right their wrongs and to reason with their emotions, something which becomes very apparent as the story progresses.
The suspense element continues to worm its way through these stories courtesy of the Devlin family and despite them always having the upper hand they find themselves in for a shock in this instalment.
I always fall headlong into the Hart’s Boardwalk books. I love the setting, the characters and their complicated lives. I love how their lives intertwine and how we revisit the characters we have come to love from prior stories. We still have Emery’s mystery yet to be revealed and if love will ever be on the cards for her, Bailey and Jess and their respective partners continue down their HEA paths and now we also have Ivy’s complicated life to consider as well. I just hope we don’t have to wait too long for their stories.
This ebook was kindly provided by the author/publisher via Netgalley prior to release in return for an honest and unbiased review.
About the Author
Samantha Young is the New
York Times, USA Today and Wall Street Journal bestselling author
of adult contemporary romances, including the On Dublin Street series, Hero, and
Fight or Flight.
Samantha’s crossover romance/women’s fiction novel titled Much Ado About You will be published by
Berkley (release date tba). Her debut adult paranormal romance novel War of Hearts releases under the pen
name S. Young in October 2019.
Samantha is currently published in 30 countries and is a
#1 international bestselling author. When she’s not writing books, she’s buying
shoes she doesn’t really need and searching for nooks and crannies to shelve
her ever-expanding book collection.
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