BEAUTIFULLY SURPRISE by ASHLEY JAMES is AVAILABLE NOW
Blurb:
When I wake up next to my best friend’s brother after a night of bottom shelf tequila and a sizzling one night stand, I do my best to pretend the whole thing never happened.
Until six weeks later, when two pink lines derail my every plan.
Not only is Graham Astor the brother to my three closest friends and the boy I secretly crushed on for years as a teenager, but he’s also a single dad and a grieving widower.
With a new career on my horizon, I don’t have time for complicated or messy—everything Graham and this news brings—and yet, when he expresses how much he wants this, I can’t deny how much I do too.
Even if that means I might wind up heartbroken later.
Navigating this new reality and everything that comes along with it quickly becomes a test of my willpower and self-control as he continues to say all the right things and shows up for me, even when I don’t ask him to. The more time we spend together, the harder it is to keep my feelings out of it.
Especially when I move in with him, and the memory of his hot breath on my neck and the weight of his body on mine haunts me, reminding me of the blazing chemistry we shared.
I tell myself I won’t fall in love with Graham—not again—I swear, I won’t.
But then he looks at me the way he does, or he talks to my belly, telling our growing baby how lucky he is to be their dad, or I watch how incredible he is with his daughter, and it’s impossible not to.
It’s impossible not to picture what our life could be like together, in love and as a family.
But then I think about how the truth of our beautiful little surprise, and all the history we share, will come out eventually.
What if the fantasy in my head is as close as I’ll ever get to being loved by him?
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Sunny Shelly’s Review: 5 Stars
I loved this final book in the Blossom Beach series! Ashley James isn’t an author I was very familiar with before I read this series, and I was absolutely hooked. (I even branched out to other books in her catalog after starting the Blossom Beach books). I really enjoyed spending time with these siblings, and Graham and Charley’s story was everything!
This second-chance romance hit all the right notes with the mutual pining between Graham and Charley. They had a short-lived, secret relationship the summer before Charley went off to college, and this book played that history beautifully against their present-day pregnancy that came after a one-night stand when both characters were up in their feelings and dealing with bad news regarding their respective exes.
I wasn’t sure at first why Charley thought her best friends/Graham’s sisters would be so against the relationship, but as the story delved deeper into her background (explaining why she was kind of emotionally stunted as a result of her parents’ relationship), I got it. So I was so happy to see Graham be an absolute rock for her every step of the way.
Teddy Hamilton and Vanessa Edwin were fantastic with this duet audio. I loved the vulnerability they both showed in voicing these characters, as well as the spicier, sexy moments.
I received an advanced copy and voluntarily left a review.
Meet Ashley James:
Ashley James is a romance author who enjoys writing (and reading) LGBTQIA+ books. She is from Washington State—and no, not Seattle—and currently resides in South Carolina with her two kids and hairless kitties, Goose, Maverick, and Houston. Ashley is introverted and slightly (okay, majorly) awkward. She refuses to make this section sound like a tacky dating app profile, so she won’t be telling you how much she enjoys music, how she thoroughly enjoys dancing and singing in her kitchen, despite not being able to carry a tune, and she won’t be telling you about her love of toxic and broken fictional men.
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