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Inked Temptation
Montgomery Ink: Fort Collins #5
Contemporary Romance
The final Montgomery finds his match in this touching second chance romance from NYT Bestselling Author Carrie Ann Ryan.
I thought I was moving on from my divorce, but now my ex is marrying someone else. I shouldn’t be this broken up, but it’s hard to put on a brave face when my family is basically an inked up Hallmark movie.
And I shouldn’t be brooding about what I don’t have, if it’s going to cause me to fall off a roof. Right into the grumpy neighbor’s burly arms.
He’d make a nice distraction, except he wants nothing to do with the burning attraction between us. Until one accidental kiss leads to more.
I’m not ready to risk my heart again, but Killian’s tortured eyes don’t seem to give me a choice. This thing between us is real.
But Killian is still trying to recover from a tragedy. And there are people who will do anything to make sure he never finds happiness again.
Archer Montgomery is still trying to get his feet under him after his marriage ended. He doesn’t want his ex back, but finding out his ex is getting married has him feeling off-kilter, like he should be further along in the healing process than he is. He finds comfort working on a cabin in the mountains, remodeling more than just the plumbing like he usually does for his family business.
Killian Hart is hiding in his cabin, working on the many projects needed to restore the building to what he had planned when it was purchased. He is alone except for his dog and nosy neighbor, Penny, preferring solitude over dealing with his emotional pain.
Both men are living with emotional scars and are at different points on the healing scale. When Archer falls off a ladder and Killian catches him, both are struck with a sense of something in the other. A tentative friendship develops that has both questioning if they are far enough from their past hurts to move on together.
This story is closely tied to the entire Montgomery clan, and there are many side characters to track. I love the way this close knit family is always in each other’s business, though sometimes I had to not worry about my own understanding of the family connections. I have read many of the other Montgomery books, but there are just so many that sometimes it is hard to keep them all straight.
I loved Penny’s addition to the story. As the one person who really knew Killian, her insight and meddling (and straight up humor) had me grinning anytime she was involved in a scene.
This was a smooth read full of healing, family, and moving on from the past. There were plenty of scenes that caused emotional intensity for the couple, and the side plots kept things moving from a dramatic standpoint without being distracting. I loved the way parts of this story tied up some of the family business drama while also giving Archer a new direction for his work.
Carrie Ann Ryan is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of contemporary, paranormal, and young adult romance. Her works include the Montgomery Ink, Redwood Pack, Fractured Connections, and Elements of Five series, which have sold over 3.0 million books worldwide. She started writing while in graduate school for her advanced degree in chemistry and hasn’t stopped since. Carrie Ann has written over seventy-five novels and novellas with more in the works. When she’s not losing herself in her emotional and action-packed worlds, she’s reading as much as she can while wrangling her clowder of cats who have more followers than she does.
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