Release Blitz: Bittersweet Promises: Carrie Ann Ryan
Bittersweet Promises
Series: Montgomery Ink Legacy #1
Author: Carrie Ann Ryan
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New York Times Bestselling Author Carrie Ann Ryan returns with the next generation of Montgomerys and a second chance romance bound in memory and heat.
Leif Montgomery fell hard for Brooke Alder in Paris when they were young, and he thought their fling was just an early taste of what life had in store for him.
But life had other plans, and he didn’t find that kind of love—or see Brooke’s face—for years.
Until he visits his cousin’s house and sees who’s moved in next door.
They’ve both changed: she’s a struggling single mom, he’s running from a past he’s trying to hide while opening up a new tattoo shop. Yet the moment he sees her again, he knows she’s the one for him.
And with one look, Brooke knows that she can’t fight the desire that pulled them together before, despite the skeletons in both their closets.
Leif Montgomery didn’t always know his place within the Montgomery family and still sometimes feels like he has a debt to pay because his dad took him in. He is still dealing with bits of his past while he opens a new tattoo shop with his cousin and friend, hoping to carry on his dad’s legacy with his own spin.
Brooke Adler is a struggling single mom, settling in to a new town in order to start a new job teaching and researching in the Physics department at a college. She is smart, savvy, and dedicated to her son.
This was a second chance romance, as Brooke and Leif met in Paris years ago. Both have changed in the years between, but I do wish there were more flashbacks or memories that would have set up what happened in Paris all those years before (though it is explained how/why they lost touch). That being said, I loved the way they addressed the past and began building a friendship and more in the present. They are so great together, and I love the way they built their own little family unit without much conscious effort.
As a second generation spin off, this story stands alone very nicely. Though I have read most of the Montgomery novels (including Leif’s parent’s story where he was introduced), I don’t feel like this story needed any of those backstories to make sense - Leif’s backstory becomes part of the present plot here, so any important pieces are given.
I love that we get to see some of these kids find love as the Montgomery family gets even larger with this series. I can’t wait for Lake’s story, coming up in At First Sight.
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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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