MISTLETOE MISSES by Alexandra Grace is AVAILABLE NOW!
Blurb:
True love never dies…no matter how much I run from, ignore, and bury it.
At eighteen, I don’t bother to collect my shattered heart before giving my body to the Army, and years later to the Boston P.D. When my Captain thinks I’m running my life into the ground, I’m sent home to fix myself. But going to Ember Falls again could break me more.
He doesn’t realize that my job provides an escape from all that haunts me. It’s what I do to survive. But in a small town where everyone knows my heartache, I’m forced to dig up and face my past—especially when Carmen, the woman who was my everything before she threw me away, has run back, too.
Instead of staying out of my blazing path, she launches a campaign to win me back with the help of the entire town. Our past is like a stain on my life, and if I can’t remove it before she can convince me she made a mistake all those years ago, I risk losing more than just my career.
Mistletoe Misses is a sweet, closed-door, contemporary romance.
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Sunny Shelly’s Review: 3.5 Stars
Mistletoe Misses is a cute second-chance holiday romance by Alexandra Grace, a new-to-me author. A few years ago, when they were 18, Carmen broke Maddox’s heart by breaking up with him around Christmastime, and he’s pretty much avoided going home ever since. After the military, he went to work for the Boston PD, but now he’s on forced leave from the department and is reluctantly back in his hometown around the holidays… where he runs into the woman who broke his heart.
Thanks to some small-town holiday charm, and a meddling grandmother, Maddox and Carmen face their past and somehow find a way to forge ahead together…
This closed-door romance is rather heartwarming, but I got tripped up over the fact that his parents withheld some kinda important info from him for years. Sure, that plays into the shock of seeing Carmen again, but I couldn’t get past that. I also got held up on the fact that this guy has been in the military, is in law enforcement for one of the biggest cities in the country… and he’s still hung up on his high school sweetheart. I just didn’t *feel* that kind of connection between the characters. Yes, I enjoyed the story, but I just didn’t get that kind of soul-deep feeling from them.
But if you are looking for a small-town holiday romance with Hallmark movie vibes, Mistletoe Misses will be right up your alley! I received an advanced copy and voluntarily left a review.
Meet Alexandra Grace:
Alexandra Grace started writing emotional poetry as a teenager but publishing a novel that made readers feel and appreciate was her dream. It wasn’t until her 40s that Alexandra fulfilled that dream, and she had so much fun, that her first novel evolved into a series. She likes to combine her respect for military service men and women with her heartfelt approach to storytelling. All her novels are heartwarming, sweet with heat stories that give lovable veteran heroes the happily ever after they deserve.
Alexandra lives in Virginia with her family and is a proud full-time public servant for a local government. She enjoys reading, binge watching action TV series with her husband, and being her kids’ biggest cheerleader.
She is currently working on a duet that will branch off from her debut series, THE JOURNEY SERIES.
“Alexandra Grace captures her readers’ attention along with their heart through her unique approach to storytelling. Jackson is a true her worth rooting for, an instant book boyfriend…I haven’t read a story like this in a long time.” ~ Ellison Lane, Author
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