Release Blitz: At First Meet: Carrie Ann Ryan

by - Monday, February 27, 2023


At First Meet
Montgomery Ink Legacy #2
Carrie Ann Ryan

NYT Bestselling Author Carrie Ann Ryan continues the Montgomery Ink Legacy series with an emotional, friends-to-lovers romance where second chances begin with a promise.

I fell in love with the wrong man and learned the hard way to ask for help.
I don’t plan on falling again and have no intention of trying.
But when I get invited to a high-powered CEO retreat, I know I can’t say no.
And I can’t go alone.

When my frenemy, Nick, invites himself as my escort, I should walk away.
But there’s no stopping the connection we’ve both ignored for far too long.

Only Nick’s past is far darker than he lets the world know, and the shell he encased himself in is stronger than my own. And when the pain from my past comes back with a force, I’m afraid that walking away will be the only choice—even if it breaks us both.

Lake Montgomery is the epitome of Girl Boss, as a partner at Montgomery Ink Legacy as well as having her own business ventures, she is strong, independent, and driven. Her most recent relationship lasted longer than it should have, and has left her with some emotional scarring. Winning an award that means attending a prestigious retreat is an achievement she has been working for but she also doesn’t want to appear unattached in the primarily male dominated retreat setting.

Nick Gatlin has been attached to the Montgomery family since he was a teen, having been brought into the fold when he needed a safe place and some guidance. He has a fraught relationship with his mother that has left him feeling isolated and though he has always need made to feel welcome at the Montgomerys and they consider him one of their own, he has always felt like an outsider.

Both characters were holding onto pain from the past. What started as a way for Lake to feel more comfortable at her conference quickly had these frenemies contemplating if they could play nice for more than a weekend.

I loved these two together. Their early bickering was always laced with an edge of tension that pointed to the possibility of more if they looked a little deeper. Even though they disagreed and bickered often, Nick was at her side as soon as he knew there was a need.

The end of this book had my jaw on the floor, not because I didn’t think something was going to happen, but that it happened when and how it did. I love the way this Legacy series ties in the second generation with little visits from the original series characters. With as many Montgomerys as there are, it is nice to reset with this series with what feels like a smaller group of characters and I can’t wait to see what happens next for the family.


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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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