My True Love (The Steeles at Silver Island 2) by Melissa Foster-Review & Giveaway
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ABOUT THE BOOK:Release Date March 31, 2021
Can a man who resents the hand he’s been dealt and a woman who spends her days grateful for every little thing find true love in each other’s arms—or are their differences stronger than both of them? Find out in this funny, sexy, heartfelt romance, and fall in love with Grant and Jules on the sandy shores of Silver Island, home to coffee shops, boat races, and midnight rendezvous.
Even war heroes need a little help sometimes…
After spending years fighting for his country and too damn long learning to navigate life with a prosthetic leg, Grant Silver returns to Silver Island to figure out a future he couldn’t fathom without fatigues and a gun in his hand. He’d almost forgotten how a man could suffocate from the warmth and caring community in which he’d grown up, and if that weren’t bad enough, his buddies’ beautiful and far-too-chipper younger sister won’t stop flitting into his life, trying to sprinkle happy dust everywhere she goes.
As a cancer survivor, Jules Steele knows better than to count on seeing tomorrow. She doesn’t take a single moment for granted, and she isn’t about to let a man who used to be charming and full of life waste the future he’s been blessed with. She’s determined to get through to him, even if it takes a few steamy kisses.
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REVIEW: MY TRUE LOVE is the second instalment in Melissa Foster’s contemporary, adult THE STEELES OF SILVER ISLAND erotic, romance series-a spin off from the author’s LOVE IN BLOOM series. This is thirty-three year old, US Special Forces vet Grant Silver, and twenty-five year old, store owner Jules Steele’s story line. MY TRUE LOVE can be read as a stand alone without any difficulty. Any important information from the previous story line is revealed where necessary.
Told from dual third person perspectives (Grant and Jules) MY TRUE LOVE follows the friends to lovers relationship between thirty-three year old, former US Special Forces soldier Grant Silver, and twenty-five year old, store owner Jules Steele. Grant Silver has been struggling for a very long time since the implosion of his parent’s relationship, and his recent discharge from the US army following an IED explosion that resulted in the loss of his lower left leg. Unable to settle, Grant remains secluded away from everyone including family and friends, friends like store owner Jules Steele, a young woman whose has loved Grant for most of her life. As Grant continues to struggle with the upcoming holidays, Jules pushes our hero to move on with his life, a life she hopes will include their own happily ever after but Grant continues to battle to the demons from his past, and the possibility that he is no longer a viable member of society. What ensues is the building romance and relationship between Grant and Jules, and the potential fall-out as Grant feels lost without the next mission, and his time with Jules may only be a temporary hold-over until something else may come along.
Jules Steele is a spunky, quirky, cheerful idealist and optimistic person that finds the positive in everything and everyone including Grant Silver. Unable to stand back and watch Grant spiral out of control, Jules begins a campaign of ‘signs’ in the hopes of pushing Grant back together with family, in an effort to prove that everyone deserves love and a happily ever after. Grant Silver battles between head and heart believing he is unworthy of our story line heroine. Struggling with his family’s unconventional dynamics, Grant is biding his time until he is able to move away from Silver Island, and the family legacy that continues to haunt but Grant will be blind sided when the truth is revealed, a truth that will change his perspective going forward.
The relationship between Grant and Jules is a friends to lovers, a relationship in which Grant struggles. Believing himself unworthy of Jules love, Grant continues push away our story line heroine until he realizes that Jules is the woman that calls to his heart. The $ex scenes are intimate and passionate without the use of over the top, sexually graphic language and text.
There is a large ensemble cast of colorful and energetic secondary and supporting characters including both immediate and extended families for both the Silvers and the Steeles; Grant’s siblings Fitz, Bellamy, Keira, and Wells, and their parents Margot and Alexander; Jules’ siblings Archer, Jock, Levi, and Leni, their parents Shelley and Steve, and grandmother Lenore.
MY TRUE LOVE is a story of family and relationships, loss, struggle and acceptance, friendships and love. The premise is emotional and real; the romance is seductive and intimate; the characters are playful and protective. MY TRUE LOVE is a wonderful and uplifting story.
Click HERE for Sandy’s review of book one TEMPTED BY LOVE
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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 and women’s fiction with emotionally compelling characters that stay with you long after you turn the last page. Melissa’s emotional journeys are lovingly erotic and always family oriented–perfect beach reads for contemporary romance and new adult romance lovers who enjoy reading about loyal, wealthy heroes and smart, sassy heroines with complex relatable issues.Melissa also writes sweet romance under the pen name Addison Cole.Melissa enjoys chatting with readers and book clubs. Send her an email invitation to your next event!
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