Title: My Dearest Mackenzie
Author: Rachel Blaufeld
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Tropes: Second Chance/Middle-Aged Romance
Release Date: April 25, 2024
BLURB
Frankie Burns, brash and bold on the outside, divorced and scarred on the inside, is determined to figure out what really happened with her Paps and his long-lost love, Rosie. Understanding why the duo didn’t find their happily-ever-after is her biggest mission. With every inch of her five-foot-two frame, she’s determined to discover why they were separated and forced to live a life without one another, convinced it will fix her own unhappiness.
Mackenzie Miller, handsome, rich, and one of New York’s most eligible bachelors, keeps everyone at an arm’s length and believes the only barometer to happiness is how wealthy and powerful he becomes. Shoving back his grandmother Milly’s wishes for him to find an everlasting love, he is successful in every other area of life. Abandoned by his mother, fairy tales are not part of Mack’s world, but running his makeup and perfume empire is paramount.
That is…until a feisty blond woman blasts into his life and won’t accept no for an answer when it comes to looking for a connection between his beloved Milly and her beloved Paps.
He doesn’t understand the severity of her search.
She needs to know the story to fill a gap in her own life.
The twist neither of them expects is falling for one another in the process…
PURCHASE LINKS
B&N / KOBO / APPLE BOOKS
Sunny Shelly’s Review: 5 Stars
My Dearest Mackenzie is a wonderful contemporary love story with an over-40 hero and 38-year-old heroine connected through a series of love letters their grandparents sent to one another during a very different time. I adored Mack and Feisty Frankie’s story, and how this loner billionaire with a complicated family history fell for a spitfire of a woman who would not take no for an answer.
Mackenzie Miller is a bona fide bachelor, married to his work running his family’s beauty empire. He was abandoned by his mom, cast aside by his father, and raised by his grandmother. Those abandonment issues run deep, and Mack never planned to settle down. Then one day, Frances Burns literally steamrolls her way into his life, determined to discover the connection between her beloved Paps, Jimmy, and Mack’s grandmother, Rosie, aka Milly.
At first, Mack wants nothing to do with Frankie and her stack of love letters, but because he finds her attractive, he indulges her mission… Mack could not predict how much of an impact Frankie would have on his life — and how much the forbidden romance between Jimmy and Rosie generations ago would end up impacting Milly’s future. I loved the journey these two characters took together, the slow burn as they fell in love. Mack didn’t show his vulnerable side to many, but he let his guard down around Frankie and he becomes a better man for it. My favorite part was how he called her Frances because no one else did, and that was just his.
My Dearest Mackenzie was a wonderful story of two very different romances, set decades apart, and I enjoyed it very much! I received an advanced copy and voluntarily left a review.
AUTHOR BIO
ROMANCE THAT WILL BREAK YOUR HEART AND MEND IT WITH THE PROMISE OF EVERLASTING LOVE.
Rachel Blaufeld writes Second Chance at Love Stories. Some of her favorite categories are Middle-Aged, Romantic Suspense, New Adult, Coming-of-Age, and Sports Romance.
A recent poll of her readers described her as insightful, generous, articulate, and spunky. Originally a social worker, Rachel creates broken yet redeeming characters. She’s been known to turn up the angst like cranking up the heat in the dead of winter.
As a side note, Blaufeld, also a long-time blogger and an advocate of woman-run anything, is fearless about sharing her opinion. To her, work/life/family balance is an urban legend, but she does her best.
Rachel has also blogged for The Huffington Post, Modern Mom, and USA TODAY, where she shared conversations at “In Bed with a Romance Author” and reading recommendations at “Happily Ever After.”
Rachel lives around the corner from her childhood home in Pennsylvania with her family and two beagles. Her obsessions include running, coffee, basketball, icing-filled doughnuts, antiheroes, and mighty fine epilogues.
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