From Asher, With Love by Brittany Taylor is NOW LIVE
He set my heart on fire… then destroyed it.
Ten years ago, I left the ashes of my past behind, determined to fulfill my dream of owning a flower shop in the largest city in the world.
With business now booming, I need to expand my storefront, and I’m desperate for help. So, when my best friend sets me up on a blind date disguised as a business meeting, with the billionaire CEO of the city’s most elite real estate firm, I cave.
What I don’t expect is the billionaire blind date turning out to be my ex-boyfriend.
Though one look is all it takes to know Asher Egan is no longer the boy I once knew from the wrong side of the tracks. He’s an ambitious, insanely wealthy businessman who knows exactly what and who he wants…
Me.
And the longer we work together, the faster the embers of our youthful love begin to reignite.
It’s a shame the pain isn’t as easily forgotten.
Fearing he’ll lose me again, he’s suddenly asking for a future we both walked away from all those years ago.
But will I be able to sift through the ashes of our past and find it in my heart to love him again… or will our second chance at a happy ending threaten to destroy us once and for all?
Sunny Shelly’s Review: 5 Stars
From Asher, With Love is a glowup of Brittany Taylor’s 2021 book Paper Hearts. It has been updated and expanded a bit, but the core story between Asher and Charleigh is still the same phenomenal enemies-to-lovers, second-chance romance that I loved back then.
Ten years after Asher ghosted her when they were seniors in high school, Charliegh is shocked to run into him in NYC. And even more shocked that their best friends are siblings, and they never happened to mention the other. Asher is now one of the best realtors in the city, and Charleigh is looking to expand her floral shop. Although she begins working with Asher’s rival, he gets her to take a chance on working with him — which just brings up old hurts and bad memories for both of them.
The story is told in a dual timeline, unfolding between past and present chapters. Asher’s life fell apart the night that their secret teenage romance was exposed. Although he is a successful executive today, back then, they were from opposite sides of the track and Asher didn’t have much going for him in his life. When his life literally went up in flames, he had no choice but to leave Charleigh behind. He never looked back, and assumed she was still living a charmed life all these years, but something was irrevocably broken in Charleigh that night and her relationship with her parents never recovered.
In present day, Asher and Charleigh face their past hurts and address the issues between them and where things went wrong. There are a few twists and turns in this story that I was not expecting. I also loved that the heart-shaped paper notes that Asher left for Charliegh in high school were still a part of this updated story, always signed “From Asher, With Love.” Asher and Charleigh realize that they never stopped loving one another.
Asher and Charleigh’s story is heartbreaking, and their journey back together is full of tears but so beautiful! A marvelous, emotional, second-chance story! I received an advanced copy and voluntarily left a review.
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