🌷 Finding The One (River Rain #7) 🌷 Kristen Ashley 🌷

 

Their parents being family friends, American/English aristocrat, Blake Sharp, and Scottish playboy Alasdair Wallace were thrust together all through their childhoods.

Blake thought Dair was a filthy, obnoxious, little boy bully.

Dair thought Blake was a spoiled, prissy wee miss.

Then Blake grew up to be a beautiful, loving woman who took care of everyone and made amazing pistachio muffins. And Dair grew up to be a protective, fun-loving, hard-living professional rugby player.

In the meantime, they’d both been deeply betrayed by lovers.

When their paths cross again, Blake is still reeling from her fiancé’s treachery and what she learned about herself during it.

Dair thinks he’s recovered from a marriage to a woman who was not at all what she seemed, and now he’s smitten by the woman Blake has become.

So smitten, he has every intention of exploring what they can grow to be together.

But their combined family history is filled with secrets and lies. Secrets and lies that explode in their faces.

And while they deal with that, ghosts from the past rise up and threaten to haunt their future.

Is what they built together strong enough to hold true?

Or will their personal demons tear them apart?

 

 

 Copy received from author for an honest review

 

When I saw that this book was going to be about Blake, I was a bit 😦, as she was not always the nicest person before.

 

But I should never have doubted Kristen Ashley.

 

Blake and Dair, childhood friends-ish, to adults who can't really like each other.

 

But a wedding brings out the best in both of them, of sorts. 

 

Family drama comes to the fore, and our lovelies do what they can to protect their families from it all.

 

Oh Dair - I was imagining him as Jamie Fraser as I was readig.  Dinnae ken why, but it was a good image hahah.

 

l have missed a couple of the River Rain books, so I missed a few of the nuances of things, but I knew enough of the characters in the book, and loved seeing a bit more of each of them.

 

What I wasn't expecting though was how emotional this book was for me. A tear or two may have been shed as pages were hurriedly turned, me needing to know what was happening next.

 

It is not all rainbows and butterflies for our lovelies as they fight their own demons, but in the long run they make each other better people.

 

Blake's self reflection is a wonderful, but also heartbreaking thing to read. She doesn't know how wonderful she really is, and seeing the change in her, well, it loved it.

 

Blake and Dair have moved right on up the list of my favourite River Rain couples.  Now I need to go back and read the couple of books I have missed. 

 

   

  

 

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Kristen Ashley is the New York Times bestselling author of over ninety romance novels including the Rock Chick, Colorado Mountain, Dream Man, Chaos, Unfinished Hero, The ’Burg, Magdalene, Fantasyland, The Three, Ghost and Reincarnation, Moonlight and Motor Oil, Honey, Dream Team and River Rain series along with several standalone novels. She’s a hybrid author, publishing titles both independently and traditionally, her books have been translated in fourteen languages and she’s sold over five million books.

Kristen’s novel, Law Man, won the RT Book Reviews Reviewer’s Choice Award for best Romantic Suspense. Her independently published title Hold On was nominated for RT Book Reviews best Independent Contemporary Romance and her traditionally published title Breathe was nominated for best Contemporary Romance. Kristen’s titles Motorcycle Man, The Will, Ride Steady (which won the Reader’s Choice award from Romance Reviews) and The Hookup all made the final rounds for Goodreads Choice Awards in the Romance category.

Kristen, born in Gary and raised in Brownsburg, Indiana, is a fourth-generation graduate of Purdue University. Since, she has lived in Denver, the West Country of England, and now she resides in Phoenix. She worked as a charity executive for eighteen years prior to beginning her independent publishing career. She currently writes full-time.

Although romance is her genre, the prevailing themes running through all of Kristen’s novels are friendship, family and a strong sisterhood. To this end, and as a way to thank her readers for their support, Kristen has created the Rock Chick Nation, a series of programs that are designed to give back to her readers and promote a strong female community.

The mission of the Rock Chick Nation is to live your best life, be true to your true self, recognize your beauty and take your sister’s back whether they’re friends and family or if they’re thousands of miles away and you don’t know who they are. The programs of the RC Nation include: Rock Chick Rendezvous, weekends Kristen organizes full of parties and get-togethers to bring the sisterhood together; Rock Chick Recharges, evenings Kristen arranges for women who have been nominated to receive a special night; and Rock Chick Rewards, an ongoing program that raises funds for nonprofit women’s organizations Kristen’s readers nominate. Kristen’s Rock Chick Rewards have donated nearly $200,000 to charity and this number continues to rise