BEAUTIFULLY SURPRISE
- James
Release Date: November 17
Meet Ashley James:
Ashley James is a romance author who enjoys writing (and reading) LGBTQIA+ books. She is from Washington State—and no, not Seattle—and currently resides in South Carolina with her two kids and hairless kitties, Goose, Maverick, and Houston. Ashley is introverted and slightly (okay, majorly) awkward. She refuses to make this section sound like a tacky dating app profile, so she won’t be telling you how much she enjoys music, how she thoroughly enjoys dancing and singing in her kitchen, despite not being able to carry a tune, and she won’t be telling you about her love of toxic and broken fictional men.
Connect with Ashley James:
https://authorashleyjames.com/links/
Blurb:
When I wake up next to my best friend’s brother after a night of bottom shelf tequila and a sizzling one night stand, I do my best to pretend the whole thing never happened.
Until six weeks later, when two pink lines derail my every plan.
Not only is Graham Astor the brother to my three closest friends and the boy I secretly crushed on for years as a teenager, but he’s also a single dad and a grieving widower.
With a new career on my horizon, I don’t have time for complicated or messy—everything Graham and this news brings—and yet, when he expresses how much he wants this, I can’t deny how much I do too.
Even if that means I might wind up heartbroken later.
Navigating this new reality and everything that comes along with it quickly becomes a test of my willpower and self-control as he continues to say all the right things and shows up for me, even when I don’t ask him to. The more time we spend together, the harder it is to keep my feelings out of it.
Especially when I move in with him, and the memory of his hot breath on my neck and the weight of his body on mine haunts me, reminding me of the blazing chemistry we shared.
I tell myself I won’t fall in love with Graham—not again—I swear, I won’t.
But then he looks at me the way he does, or he talks to my belly, telling our growing baby how lucky he is to be their dad, or I watch how incredible he is with his daughter, and it’s impossible not to.
It’s impossible not to picture what our life could be like together, in love and as a family.
But then I think about how the truth of our beautiful little surprise, and all the history we share, will come out eventually.
What if the fantasy in my head is as close as I’ll ever get to being loved by him?
Buy Link:
https://geni.us/beautifulsurprise
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🌻Review🌻
When Charley finds herself on the receiving end of another romance that didn’t work out she finds herself at the pub looking to forget and while there she sees Graham and they forget about their problems by spending the night together. The surprise that she didn’t see coming is that she was now pregnant, and they no find themselves living together as they agree to co-parent their child.
Graham is a single father to his daughter Ellie since his wife passed away. He is also the brother of Charley’s best friends and he and Charley shared a past until life sent them in different directions. He has always had feelings for her, and they only increase when he sees how caring she is with his daughter. When they finally give in to the chemistry between them it changes everything and now he is not willing to accept anything less than love.
You could feel the depth of the feelings between Charley and Graham and knew that they were meant to be. They soon realized it as well and the family they created will touch your heart. Vanessa Edwin brings out every emotion and insecurity that Charley was feelings while Teddy Hamilton brings out the swoon and supportive man that Graham is.
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