THEN YOU HAPPENED by K. Bromberg-Review & Excerpt tour

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ABOUT THE BOOK: Release Date February 3, 2020

Jack Sutton was the man I didn’t want to need.
His know-it-all attitude. His annoying suggestions. His outlook on life.
He was determined to help me while I had resolved to figure it out on my own.
But he taught me things I’d forgotten.
How to trust. How to believe in myself. Who I was.
The problem?
I went and fell in love with him.
—
Tatum Knox was the disaster I should have walked away from.
Her ruined reputation. Her failing business. Her chaotic life.
She hated me at first sight and yet intrigued me all at the same time.
I was only supposed to be there six months.
I was supposed to use that time to make amends for things I’d done wrong.
Instead I fell in love with her.
—
They say it’s better to have loved and lost, than not to have loved at all. Does that hold true when the love is based on a lie to begin with?

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REVIEW: THEN YOU HAPPENED by K. Bromberg is a stand alone, contemporary, adult, cowboy romance focusing on ranchers Jack Sutton, and Tatum Knox.

Told from dual first person perspectives (Jack and Tatum) THEN YOU HAPPENED follows in the months after the death of Tatum’s husband Fletcher Knox, a man who gambled away, and destroyed everything Tatum held dear. Raised in privilege, Tatum fell in love with a boy from the wrong side of the tracks and in doing so was rejected by her mother and father. Fast forward to present day wherein Tatum, now widowed and the town pariah finds herself on the outside looking in as the bank threatens to foreclose due to her husbands debt and sins of the past. Enter Jack Sutton, a man who offers to manage the ranch, to bring it back to a thriving business. What ensues is the acrimonious but building relationship and romance between Jack and Tatum, and the potential fall-out as Jack’s true reasons for coming to town are revealed threatening Tatum’s hold on her hard fought sanity.

Jack Sutton is running from his responsibilities back home but a promise to his dying father meant Jack found himself working for Tatum Knox. Falling in love with Tatum was never on the agenda but the heart wants something it should not have. Tatum Knox is floundering under her late husband’s debt, a debt incurred through promises and gambling. With a price on her land, and a possible price on her head, Tatum is desperate for help but her stubborn pride refuses to accept that all is lost. The small town gossips and judgmental wannabes continue to fuel the hatred towards our story line heroine, a hatred that manifest towards her everyday life.

The relationship between Tatum and Jack begins acrimoniously as Tatum refuses to accept Jack Sutton at face value. Betrayed and destroyed by her late husbands lies, Tatum is barely able to survive as she is continuously the target of her husband’s former competition. Jack Sutton is anything if not persistent, and continues to push Tatum into hiring him for a six month contract, six months to turn the ranch around, in order to pay off the debts, and keep the wolves away from the door. Their attraction to one another is immediate but Tatum struggles in the face of what was, and what will never be. The $ex scenes are intimate, erotic and intense, without the use of over the top, sexually graphic, language and text.

We are introduced to a lively group of characters including young ranch intern Will, hair stylist Fiona, and aging ranch hand Sylvester, Jack’s sister Lauren, as well as the requisite judgmental townies who see Tatum as nothing more than a stuck up snob.

THEN YOU HAPPENED is a story of secrets, lies, and betrayal; of family, friendships, romance and love. The premise is engaging, entertaining and endearing; the romance is captivating and seductive; the characters are colorful, energetic and charismatic. It took some time for me to accept the attitude of our story line heroine, a woman burned by the people she loved; a woman who is continually burned by her husband’s sins. Stubborn and proud, Tatum continues to struggle alone, knowing to ask for help, means sacrificing the independence she has longed for all of her life.

Copy supplied for review

reviewed by Sandy

“Just face it, Knox. You’re head over heels in love with me.” Jack finally smiles, dimple winking and those eyes lighting up as he takes a step toward me, holding the scoop to his chest. “You can’t be near me because you want me, and you can’t talk to me because you get all flustered and tongue-tied.”
“There is nothing about you I find attractive,” I lie.
He places the scoop in my hand but doesn’t let it go when I try to take it. “It’d be much easier and a whole lot less distracting if I could say the same of you.” He lets go of the scoop and dips the tip of his hat in an aw-shucks kind of way. “But I’m not one to lie.”
Our eyes hold across the short distance as his comment floats through the air and fades like the dust specks dancing in the sunlight.
“That won’t work, you know?” I say.
“What won’t?”
“You trying to charm me every time you want something. I know your kind, Jack Sutton, and I’m not impressed by them.”
“Is that so?” He shifts on his feet and adjusts his hat before re-crossing his arms over his chest. “And what kind is that?”
“A man who uses his good looks and smooth words to get his way with people. A man who turns on the charm to disguise it.”
His eyes darken and then narrow. “Just like you’re the woman who keeps living her privileged life . . . fiddling while Rome burns down around her?” he counters, making me want to scream that he knows nothing about me or how I live or what I’ve been through for the last year. A small part of me is shouting about how that was his point, but I tell the voice to shut up. “And if by good looks and smooth words, you’re implying I’m like Fletcher, I suggest you not infer that again.” That muscle in his jaw feathers in contempt.
“I’m not the woman you think I am.”
He twists his lips and stares at me in a way that feels like he is seeing right through me. It’s unnerving and unsettling, and I force myself not to look away because his silence is telling me that maybe he thinks I am.
I’m not sure why that bugs me. Why I want him to see me as someone different.
“I’m not even certain you know who that woman is either.”

 

New York Times Bestselling author K. Bromberg writes contemporary novels that contain a mixture of sweet, emotional, a whole lot of sexy, and a little bit of real. She likes to write strong heroines, and damaged heroes who we love to hate and hate to love.

A mom of three, she plots her novels in between school runs and soccer practices, more often than not with her laptop in tow.

Since publishing her first book in 2013, K. has sold over one million copies of her books and has landed on the New York Times, USA Today, and Wall Street Journal Bestsellers lists over twenty-five times.

In April, she’ll release The Player, the first in a two-book sports romance series (The Catch, book 2, will be released late June), with many more already outlined and ready to be written.

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