THEN CAME LOVE (The Bradens & Montgomerys:Pleasant Hill-Oak Falls 9) by Melissa Foster-Review Tour

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ABOUT THE BOOK: Release Date May 18, 2022

What happens when you find your soul mate but she belongs to someone else?
Months ago, famed wedding-gown designer Jax Braden met the woman of his dreams when a bride-to-be came in for a consultation. He’s tried to move on, but there is no forgetting beautiful, smart, and refreshingly real Jordan Lawler, or the loneliness she cleverly tries to hide. When Jordan hires him to design her wedding gown, Jax knows he’s in trouble, but he cannot walk away. As business meetings turn to late-night confessions, their connection deepens, igniting passion too strong to deny. They’re drawn into an inescapable and forbidden love. Loyalties are tested and hearts are frayed, but neither will cross that invisible line in the sand. Come along for the sexy, emotional ride as Jax and Jordan face their toughest competitors yet—their hearts.

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REVIEW: THEN CAME LOVE is the ninth instalment in Melissa Foster’s contemporary, adult The Bradens & Montgomerys:Pleasant Hill-Oak Falls erotic, romance series- a spin off and companion to a number of the author’s other series. This is twenty-nine year old, wedding-gown designer Jax Braden, and health care administrator and amateur designer Jordan Lawler’s story line. THEN CAME LOVE can be read as a stand alone without any difficulty. Any important information from the previous story lines is revealed where necessary.

Told from dual third person perspectives (Jax and Jordan) THEN CAME LOVE follows the building romance and relationship between twenty-nine year old, wedding-gown designer Jax Braden, and health care administrator and amateur designer Jordan Lawler. Jax Braden fell madly in love with Jordan Lawler the moment they met but Jordan was a client, engaged to someone else, someone who didn’t have the time or patience for our story line heroine. Having postponed her wedding on three previous occasions, Jordan thought she was ready, making plans with Jax Braden to design her gown but as the wedding day drew closer, Jordan began to have doubts, doubts in the wake of too many red flags. Jax Braden knew not to cross the line with our story line heroine but his heart was breaking for the woman whose own heart was about to be trampled and destroyed. What ensues is the building friendship and relationship between Jax and Jordan, and the potential fall-out as Jordan’s life is upended with in more ways than one.

Years before, Jordan Lawler lost her parents and a younger sister to a motor vehicle accident but has spend her life struggling to make sense of what happened and why. Battling between head and heart about her upcoming wedding, Jordan must make a decision that will affect her life, going forward. Jax Braden never thought he would fall for another man’s fiance but our hero refuses to cross the line into the forbidden territory but that never stopped Jax from flirting his way into Jordan’s heart, a heart he is hoping one day to call his own.

The relationship between Jax and Jordan is one of the forbidden. Jordan is engaged to a man who is rarely around, and in this, she begins to have doubts about the man and her future. Falling for Jax was easy but disappointing everyone else was harder to swallow. Jax knows Jordan is his forever but refuses to watch the woman he loves walk down the aisle with somebody else. The $ex scenes are intimate and passionate without the use of over the top, sexually graphic language and text.

As per Melissa Foster’s style of writing, there is a large ensemble cast of colorful, energetic and familiar secondary and supporting characters all of whom will play a significant role in our couple’s lives. The back and forth chatter between

THEN CAME LOVE is a story of betrayal and loss, family and friendships, relationships, acceptance, moving forward and love. The premise is emotional and intense; the romance is seductive; the characters are charismatic and determined. Melissa Foster writes wonderful stories of romance and love.

Reading Order and Previous Reviews

Embracing Her Heart
Anything for Love
Trails of Love
Wild Crazy Hearts
Making you Mine
Searching For Love
Hot For Love
Sweet Sexy Heart

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Reviewed by Sandy

Melissa Foster is a New York Times & USA Today bestselling and award-winning author. She writes sexy and heartwarming contemporary romance, new adult romance and women’s fiction with emotionally compelling characters that stay with you long after you turn the last page. Readers adore Melissa’s fun, flirty, and sinfully sexy, award-winning big-family romance collection, LOVE IN BLOOM featuring the Snow Sisters, Bradens, Remingtons, Ryders, Seaside Summer, Harborside Nights, Wild Boys and Bad Boys After Dark, and the Montgomerys. Melissa’s emotional journeys are lovingly erotic and always family oriented– perfect beach reads for contemporary romance lovers who enjoy reading about loyal, wealthy heroes and smart, sassy heroines with complex and relatable issues.

Melissa also writes sweet and clean romance under the pen name Addison Cole.

Melissa has painted and donated several murals to The Hospital for Sick Children in Washington, DC. Her interests include her family, reading, writing, painting, friends, helping others see the positive side of life, and visiting Cape Cod.

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