Genre: Contemporary Romance
holds your heart.
A quirky poet who’s defined by her dark past.
All it takes is Alex Evans saving Marley Jade one fateful night for their
futures to be realigned. And when a passion sparks between them, they must
decide if they can piece each other back together and make love work.
Sunny Shelly’s Review: 5 Stars
All Of You is one of those sweetly refreshing stories that proves a romance novel doesn’t need to be sexy or smutty to still be memorable and give you all the feels. The relationship between Alex and Marley is so sweet, but deeply moving at the same time. And all without a single bedroom scene. Sure, it’s alluded to, but the most this couple does is kiss. And you know what? I honestly didn’t even notice until after I’d finished the book.
Marley thinks she’s a broken woman, but I found her to just be a bit fractured. Guilt and loyalty have kept her stagnant in small-town life, but when Dr. Alex Evans literally saves her from a slip and fall off a bridge, he also rescues her from her demons. And in turn, Marley saves Alex from continuing down a life path that he didn’t even realize he no longer wanted.
All Of You is short and sweet (I easily read it in a day), but full of depth. The characters are engaging, and while I’m generally not a fan of instalove romances, their growth in their relationship is shown — not told — through Detwiler’s words, so I genuinely felt that they had fallen hard for one another.
I received an advanced copy and voluntarily left a review.
and/or glittery, Lindsay’s the English teacher cliché; she loves cats, reading,
Shakespeare, and Poe.She currently lives in her hometown with her husband, Chad (her junior high
sweetheart); their cats, Arya, Amelia, Alice, Marjorie, and Bob; and their
mastiff, Henry.
Lindsay’s goal with her writing is to show the power of love and the beauty of
life while also instilling a true sense of realism in her work. Some reviewers
have noted that her books are not the “typical romance.” With her novels coming
from a place of honesty, Lindsay examines the difficult questions, looks at the
tough emotions, and paints the pictures that are sometimes difficult to look
at. She wants her fiction to resonate with readers as realistic, poetic, and
powerful. Lindsay wants women readers to be able to say, “I see myself in that
novel.” She wants to speak to the modern woman’s experience while also bringing
a twist of something new and exciting. Her aim is for readers to say, “That
could happen,” or “I feel like the characters are real.” That’s how she knows
she’s done her job.
Lindsay’s hope is that by becoming a published author, she can inspire some of
her students and other aspiring writers to pursue their own passions. She wants
them to see that any dream can be attained and publishing a novel isn’t out of
the realm of possibility.
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