PROMISES WE MEANT TO KEEP by Monica Murphy-Review Tour

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ABOUT THE BOOK: Release Date September 22, 2022

Spencer Donato.

My brother’s best friend.

My dirty little secret.

We fell for each other at Lancaster Prep. Sneaking around. Not wanting anyone to find out. He was my first love, my protector, my knight in shining armor. We were made for each other, and I truly believed he was my forever.

But then I did the unthinkable, and betrayed him in the worst possible way. I thought I lost him for good…

Until I saw him at my brother’s wedding. Now he’s older. Crueler. Unbearably handsome. We’re drawn to each other still, but will Spencer be there for me when I need him the most? Or did I ruin us once again?

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REVIEW: PROMISES WE MEANT TO KEEP by Monica Murphy is a contemporary, adult, dark, erotic, romance story line set in the author’s Arranged Marriage / A MILLION KISSES IN YOUR LIFETIME / THINGS I WANTED TO SAY worlds. This is Spencer Donato, and Sylvie Lancaster’s story line. PROMISES WE MEANT TO KEEP can be read as a stand alone without any difficulty. Any important information from the previous story lines is revealed where necessary. Several characters cross over for back story and cohesion.

WARNING: Due to the nature of the story line premise, there may be triggers for more sensitive readers.

Told from dual first person perspectives (Sylvie and Spencer) PROMISES WE MEANT TO KEEP follows the frenemies to lovers, second chance relationship between Spencer Donato, and Sylvie Lancaster. Sylvie Lancaster has been in love with her brother’s best friend Spencer for as long as she can remember but Sylvie’s life has been difficult in the wake of a number of illnesses and problems including her mother’s need to suffocate and protect our story line heroine.Forced into a marriage with a man she did not love, an early death meant Sylvie would be free of her family’s charge. On her own for the first time in her life, Sylvie would come face to face with the man who has starred in her fantasies and dreams, a man who battles between head and heart with his attraction and need for our story line heroine. Enter Spencer Donato, and the man with whom Sylvie has fallen in love. What ensues is the rebuilding friendship and romance between Sylvie and Spencer, and the potential fall-out as Sylvie’s pas refuses to let go, a past that few people believed or acknowledge.

The relationship between Sylvie and Spencer is one of second chances, of a sorts, Having loved one another since the first time they met, Spencer struggled with Sylvie’s back and forth, off and on emotional instability, something with which everything battled including our story line heroine but all was not as it appeared to be, and the truth would reveal an obsession and madness directly at our story line heroine. Together without fear of repercussions from family and friends, Sylvie would regain her independence, something she needed to move on with her life. The $ex scenes are intimate, passionate and intense but I struggle with the use of a certain four-letter word, although only use once, more for show value than anything else.

Three is a large ensemble cast of colorful secondary and supporting characters, many of whom we meat in the previous story lines. We are introduced to Sylvie’s mother Sylvia and her father Augustus Lancaster; sister Carolina, and brother Whit and his new wife Summer.

PROMISES WE MEANT TO KEEP is a story of power and control, obsession and madness, betrayal and vengeance, acceptance and love. The premise is emotional and heart breaking; the romance is seductive and fated; the characters are broken, struggling but moving forward with their lives.

Copy supplied for review

Copy supplied for review

Monica Murphy is the New York Times, USA Today and #1 international bestselling author of the One Week Girlfriend series, the Billionaire Bachelors and The Rules series. Her books have been translated in almost a dozen languages and has sold over one million copies worldwide. She is both self-published and published by Random House/Bantam and Harper Collins/Avon. She writes new adult, young adult and contemporary romance.

She is a wife and a mother of three who lives in central California on fourteen acres in the middle of nowhere along with their one dog and too many cats. A self-confessed workaholic, when she’s not writing, she’s reading or hanging out with her husband and kids. She’s a firm believer in happy endings, though she will admit to putting her characters through angst-filled moments before they finally get that hard won HEA.

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