Older by Jennifer Hartmann is now live!
Before he discovered my age, he uncovered my heart.
Bruised and abused, and victim to a loveless household, I shimmered with new life the moment he found me drowning my sorrows in a lake beneath the stars.
A chance encounter. An unspoken connection.
I was smitten; he was curious.
But, as everyone knew, fate could be decidedly cruel.
He called me Halley, like the comet.
I called him Reed.
And my best friend?
Well…she called him Dad.
Older is a forbidden, slow-burn, age-gap romance standalone, ending in a HEA.
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Sunny Shelly’s Review: 5 Stars
Oh my goodness, Older was intense! Reed and Halley’s story was messy and forbidden, and it had me hanging on every page. I loved that this story is set in the 1990s, because there are so many musical references from my college years that make a perfect soundtrack!
There is a big age gap between Reed and Halley (16ish years) and there is the forbidden factor since he is her best friend Tara’s dad. They don’t know that when they first meet, but it does become a central part of their story as it unfolds over the course of four years. Abused and broken by her alcoholic father, Halley finds the family she’s always longed for when Tara’s mom takes her in as foster child of sorts, adding another complicated layer to the attraction between the main characters.
Reed and Halley’s story is a simmering slow burn, and after getting breadcrumbs of them together for the first half of the book, I was eager for their story to really pick up. And it did! It was messy, emotional, and full of angst, but also so much love. These characters reminded me a lot of the forbidden love story of June and Brant from Hartmann’s book June First. (Another great forbidden love story!)
Older is a wild ride, and I loved every twist and turn of the rollercoaster!
I received an advanced copy and voluntarily left a review.
Meet Jennifer
Jennifer Hartmann resides in northern Illinois with her own personal romance hero and three children. When she is not writing angsty love stories, she is likely pondering all the ways she can break your heart and piece it back together again. She enjoys sunsets (because mornings are hard), bike riding, traveling, bingeing Buffy the Vampire Slayer reruns, and that time of day when coffee gets replaced by wine. She loves tacos. She also really, really wants to pet your dog.
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