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Sunny Shelly’s Review: Tender Temptation by Kaylene Winter

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TENDER TEMPTATION

Kaylene Winter

Release Date: October 3

Tender Temptation is a scorching tale of age-gap, insta-forbidden-love, hidden identities, coming of age, and second chances.

I’m a master at rebuilding structures, yet my own life is a constant work in progress. As the middle brother in a family of superstars, I’ve battled alcohol addiction and shoulder the hefty challenge of taking over the family business.

My world makes a seismic shift when I fall hard for Ivy Bright, a vibrant, enigmatic firecracker whose captivating energy makes me feel invincible.

Ivy is more than just a spark in my shadowed world—she’s a blaze. Her luminous presence ignites a clandestine desire in me that I can’t resist. But Ivy harbors deep secrets and a tragic past that keeps her trapped in a life she never chose. Despite our undeniable chemistry, her decision to conceal her age and identity backfires spectacularly, threatening to unravel both our hearts.

Years later, will our rekindled passion withstand buried secrets
that come to light, or will the truths of our past push us apart forever?

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Sunny Shelly’s Review: 4 Stars

I loved the chemistry between Cillian and Ivy from the very start! Neither of them expected to find their soulmate in a one-night stand, but they did. The start of their relationship is very intense and they are all-in with one another right off the bat. But Ivy is keeping a whopper of a secret from Cillian — she’s hidden who she really is, and that she’s actually 14 years younger than him. She had her reasons — namely, her controlling, powerful father — but a relationship built on a lie doesn’t have a strong foundation.

When their world implodes and the inevitable breakup happens, both Cillian and Ivy are crushed. She sinks into depression, and he loses himself to alcoholism. So when they unexpectedly cross paths again three years later, are either of them in place to rekindle their relationship? The love between them never faded, but will that be enough?

I thought that Kaylene Winter did a great job handling some sensitive topics in this story like addiction, familial abuse, and grief. For as much as I liked the instalove, deep connection between Ivy and Cillian, and were rooting for them to get back together and work things out, I did get to a point where I was just skimming the seggsy scenes because there were a lot of them! These two go at it like bunnies! LOL But there is a lot of substance to their story, so it’s not all about the spice.

A spinoff of the Less Than Zero series, the Charming Irish books will follow Connor’s family. I have not read any of the LTZ books; while there were a few minor references to Connor and his wife and bandmates that I didn’t know the complete backstory of, it didn’t take anything away from my enjoying Cillian and Ivy’s story.

Looking forward to seeing more from the McLoughlin boys! I received an advanced copy and voluntarily left a review.

Meet Kaylene Winter:

Kaylene Winter is an Amazon best-selling author of steamy, contemporary romance.

Each character-driven novel is filled with snappy dialogue, pop-culture references and enough steam to make you fan yourself. Kaylene weaves authenticity, emotion and angst into a turbulent rollercoaster ride of love, passion and soul-searing romance always ending with a delicious HEA.

Kaylene lives in Seattle with her amazing Irish husband and gorgeous Siberian Husky. She loves creating art of all kinds.

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