Release Blitz: Northern Stars: Brittainy Cherry
Northern Stars
(Compass #4)
Brittainy Cherry
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Releasing: September 15, 2022
Hollywood's biggest star first belonged to me.
Breaking up with your high school sweetheart was one thing.
Breaking up with Hollywood’s favorite actor? That was a different situation.
I’d been in love with Aiden Walters since I was a little girl. We’d grown up as neighbors in small town Wisconsin. I knew him inside and out, and he knew every single piece of me. I was there when his career took off, and I was almost certain I’d always be a part of his life.
It wasn’t until a scandal broke out that I was forced to end things with Aiden. He didn’t take it very well. The boy I once loved began to hate me. He went off to California to leave all of his past behind—including me.
Five years later, he was back in town for the next few months taking care of some family business. He was staying in the only hotel in our small town. The hotel I now oversaw. For the next few months, I’d be forced to cater to a man whose heart I’d broken all those years ago. A man who resented me. A man who swore he’d never speak to me again.
Now that he was back in town, in constant connection with me, I had to keep reminding myself daily of why I ended things with him in the first place. Otherwise, I’d find myself falling in love with him all over again. Only this time, I was certain that if I fell, he wouldn’t be willing to catch me.
Hailee Jones and Aiden Walters have shared their whole lives. They grew up next door and went from competitive enemies to best friends to first loves and first heartbreaks.
Hailee is a dramatic, introspective, quirky, type A personality. She has always been insecure and struggled with her weight and has been bullied terribly. Aiden is a people pleaser and is more easygoing on the outside but hides his anxiety and panic. But he also knows who is important in his life. But they know each other so well that for most of their lives they supported each other and had their back.
But Aiden is living a life with opportunities that cannot be found in Wisconsin and their late teens see them have to deal with separations and more serious situations and different directions. And they both end up on paths that shape them even more while they are apart. His career has made him a household name while she is still a quiet, small-town girl. But deep down there is a void and loneliness that has not been filled. But they have the chance to come full circle if they can get out of their own heads.
This is an epic love story that spans time and distance. There are some surprises and twists. One of them I actually squealed out loud since I was so excited and loved how it affected the rest of the book! There is conflict, heartbreak, anger, guilt, and secrets. Even if they are trying to avoid each other or fighting, being in the same vicinity just makes them feel more alive. It is a beautiful and emotional story about self-worth and acceptance, personal growth, forgiveness, healing, soulmates, second chances, and found family.
I loved how Aiden was sensitive and in touch with his feelings and not afraid to express them at times... how he was Hailee's protector and loved and accepted everything about her and tried to make her realize she was beautiful and precious. I could totally relate to Hailee's insecurities about her weight and feeling not good enough and how it can affect mental health. And I loved how she forged her own path with perseverance and hard work in order to find her own self-worth. They both had issues to deal with personally and with their shared past, and I enjoyed seeing them work through the stages of enemies, friends, and lovers all over again.
This ties up the series really well and I enjoyed the epilogues.
Hailee is a dramatic, introspective, quirky, type A personality. She has always been insecure and struggled with her weight and has been bullied terribly. Aiden is a people pleaser and is more easygoing on the outside but hides his anxiety and panic. But he also knows who is important in his life. But they know each other so well that for most of their lives they supported each other and had their back.
But Aiden is living a life with opportunities that cannot be found in Wisconsin and their late teens see them have to deal with separations and more serious situations and different directions. And they both end up on paths that shape them even more while they are apart. His career has made him a household name while she is still a quiet, small-town girl. But deep down there is a void and loneliness that has not been filled. But they have the chance to come full circle if they can get out of their own heads.
This is an epic love story that spans time and distance. There are some surprises and twists. One of them I actually squealed out loud since I was so excited and loved how it affected the rest of the book! There is conflict, heartbreak, anger, guilt, and secrets. Even if they are trying to avoid each other or fighting, being in the same vicinity just makes them feel more alive. It is a beautiful and emotional story about self-worth and acceptance, personal growth, forgiveness, healing, soulmates, second chances, and found family.
I loved how Aiden was sensitive and in touch with his feelings and not afraid to express them at times... how he was Hailee's protector and loved and accepted everything about her and tried to make her realize she was beautiful and precious. I could totally relate to Hailee's insecurities about her weight and feeling not good enough and how it can affect mental health. And I loved how she forged her own path with perseverance and hard work in order to find her own self-worth. They both had issues to deal with personally and with their shared past, and I enjoyed seeing them work through the stages of enemies, friends, and lovers all over again.
This ties up the series really well and I enjoyed the epilogues.
Aiden Walters and Hailee Jones grew up as next door neighbors and shifted from sworn enemies to best friends as they grew through middle and high school. As his acting career took off, Hailee was at his side as his biggest supporter until a scandal threatened and to protect him, she broke both of their hearts, sending him to California full time. Five years later, he returns to town and the town is just too small to avoid each other.
These two are a perfect match and everyone around them knows it. Their chemistry is too strong to fight and the friendship at it’s core adds strength to that chemistry that even 5 years apart and the pain of heartbreak can’t overcome.
This story does a fantastic job of handling the mental health pressures that come with a high profile acting career as well as the collateral damage that happens to the people in Aiden’s life that don’t fit the Hollywood “standard.” The way both character’s insecurities are explored, and handled gave this book some serious weight and serious feels.
This was an emotional story with such great depth. I had a bit of a tough time with the earlier scenes as the characters’ ages and maturity levels were low, but as they grew into adults and settled into their selves, I loved them. (This is a me thing -- high school characters tend to get on my nerves easily.) But I loved their adult journey and in hindsight, the high school challenges were definitely needed and fit with who they were at the time.
I loved returning to the Compass series one more time. I loved the twists and turns this story took and was surprised at several turns by the secrets and reveals that came out.
Even the town’s black sheep needed a friend sometimes
All I wanted to do was run away, I never expected to crash into his arms…
After leaving the city life behind to escape my loveless marriage, I moved to small town Havenbarrow for a fresh start.
What I didn’t expect was to find myself drawn to the town’s black sheep.
They called him troubled. Cold. A man with a dark past.
What everyone seemed to miss about Jax was the splashes of light in his eyes. The random acts of kindness he performed when no one was watching. The way he made me smile and laugh.
Jax helped unpack the baggage I’d been carrying around with me. He was patient with my pain and gentle with my scars. He was the stillness during my hurricane.
Yet when both of our pasts come back to haunt our present days, we realized quickly that sometimes loves stories didn’t end the way we’d hoped.
Sometimes you were left with only the damage from the storm.
I once met a man on a cold Halloween night. He dressed as a superhero, and I dressed in red. For one night, I was his break from reality, and he was the temporary fix for my broken heart.
Two years later, I was given the opportunity of a lifetime to become a senior editor at one of the biggest magazine companies in the world. The only catch? Nail an exclusive interview with New York’s finest bachelor: Connor Roe.
To the rest of the world he was becoming one of the wealthiest men in New York City. To me, he was simply my once upon a time superhero.
My job was to get an exclusive interview with New York’s hottest bachelor. Never in my life did I expect him to want an exclusive with my heart, too.
The only problem with my growing feelings for him? I was set to marry his new business partner.
Eastern Lights
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I once met a man on a cold Halloween night. He dressed as a superhero, and I dressed in red. For one night, I was his break from reality, and he was the temporary fix for my broken heart.
Two years later, I was given the opportunity of a lifetime to become a senior editor at one of the biggest magazine companies in the world. The only catch? Nail an exclusive interview with New York’s finest bachelor: Connor Roe.
To the rest of the world he was becoming one of the wealthiest men in New York City. To me, he was simply my once upon a time superhero.
My job was to get an exclusive interview with New York’s hottest bachelor. Never in my life did I expect him to want an exclusive with my heart, too.
The only problem with my growing feelings for him? I was set to marry his new business partner.
Western Waves
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I always believed in fairy tales, but he preferred horrors.
Damian Blackstone didn’t care about my existence. He came into my world for one reason only. He came to find answers about his past.
He moved like the villain in my favorite fairy tales. He wasn’t the one who received the happily ever afters; he was the one who destroyed them.
Which was why I couldn’t understand why the man who raised me set it up in his will for Damian and me to be married. I wasn’t certain I’d be able to live with a man like Damian. We were as opposite as any two people could be. I loved to bathe in the sunlight while he prospered in the shadows.
I didn’t think I’d develop feelings for the one who looked at me as if I were nothing more than a means to an end. Yet in his darkness, sometimes I’d see sparks of light. I’d see gentleness. I’d see his soul.
We became entangled with one another as we fell into mistakes and called them fate. I was his Cinderella, and he was my Beast.
I wasn’t certain that twisted fairy tales ended with happily ever afters.
Still, I was determined to find out.
Brittainy Cherry
Amazon #1 Bestselling author, Brittainy Cherry, has been in love with words since the day she took her first breath. She graduated from Carroll University with a Bachelors Degree in Theatre Arts and a minor in Creative Writing. She loves to take part in writing screenplays, acting, and dancing—poorly of course. Coffee, chai tea, and wine are three things that she thinks every person should partake in! Brittainy lives in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. When she's not running a million errands and crafting stories, she's probably playing with her adorable pets.
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