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ABOUT THE BOOK: Release Date August 30, 2022

Maddox Nelson is the only boy I’ve ever loved.

And the only one to break my heart.

I thought I was over that long ago. After drowning the heartbreak in two failed marriages, I should want safe and easy, and Maddox is nothing but complicated.

Now that I’m back home in Savannah, I can’t deny the pull toward him. He’s the grumpy to my sunshine, the introvert to my extrovert, the uncompromising to my go with the flow. But years of friendship, love, and tangled lust binds us together in the city where it all began.

When heat flies between us, he makes it clear that we already had our chance. Both of us should move on.

Except I’m no longer okay with that idea.

I’ll prove to him that I come second to none.

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REVIEW:SECOND TO NONE is the third instalment in KA Linde’s contemporary, adult COASTAL CHRONICLES erotic, romance series. This is actress Josephine ‘Josie’ Reynolds, and designer Maddox Nelson’s story line. SECOND TO NONE can be read as a stand alone without any difficulty. Any important information from the previous story lines is revealed where necessary.

Told from first person perspective (Josie) using present day and memories from the past, cover several years in the life of our heroine, SECOND TO NONE follows the acrimonious and heart breaking relationship between Josie and Maddox. Josie is best friends with Maddox’s twin sister Marley but Marley had made Josie promise never to date her brother. The attraction between Maddox and Josie was palpable, and throughout the years Josie and Maddox would get together, break up, and eventually destroy one another’s hearts. Josie had always wanted to be a movie director but her first attempt was a disaster, and an offer to audition for a television show, would make our heroine a star. Maddox, jealous of Josie’s direction in life, a direction that no longer included our story line hero, went on to become an academy award winning set designer something of which Josie was proud. Fast forward to present day wherein Josie has been called back to Savannah Georgia, in an effort to film a movie finalizing the television show that was such a success but our heroine never expected to come face to face with her soulmate, the man who destroyed her heart years before. Enter Maddox Nelson. What ensues is the rebuilding romance and relationship between Maddox and Josie, as our couple must come to terms with the past, paving way for a possible future for our story line couple.

Meanwhile, Josie has been estranged from her mother since she was twelve years old. Having lived with her father, a struggling artist, Josie never understood why her mother had abandoned our heroine for what appeared to be bigger and better things but her mother’s journal would reveal the truth, a truth that would bring Josie closer to her family, and to the success she once had.

The relationship between Josie and Maddox is an emotional roller coaster as our couple are constantly pushing one another away. Maddox and Josie have never stopped loving one another but they were often in different places at different times, and Maddox struggled with Josie’s success in the face of his own. Their rekindling relationship, brought together by forced proximity in the world of movie making, finds Josie looking back, wondering where everything went wrong. The $ex scenes are intimate, passionate and intense 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 many of whom we have met throughout the series. We are introduced to Josie’s mother Rebecca, and her father Charles. Ash and Amelia’s story is next in WAIT FOR ALWAYS.

SECOND TO NONE is a complex and detailed story of family, friendships, relationships, secrets and love. The premise is captivating ; the romance is seductive and intense; the characters are charismatic and dynamic-the back and forth frenetic friendships remind me of the cast of FRIENDS™ without the humor or laugh track.

Reading Order and Previous reviews
Hold the Forevers
At First Hate

Copy supplied for review

Reviewed by Sandy

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K.A. Linde is the USA Today bestselling author of the Avoiding Series, Wrights, and more than thirty other novels. She has a Masters degree in political science from the University of Georgia, was the head campaign worker for the 2012 presidential campaign at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and served as the head coach of the Duke University dance team. She loves reading fantasy novels, binge-watching Supernatural, traveling, and dancing in her spare time.

She currently lives in Lubbock, Texas, with her husband and two super-adorable puppies.