Title: Something New
Series: Lone Star Match #3
Author: Megan Ryder
Publisher: Tule Publishing
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Release Date: September 14, 2017
Blurb
Three Bridesmaids. Three lost loves. One matchmaking bride. With just a week before the wedding, can a bride-to-be reunite her bridesmaids with the ones who got away?
When Anna Maria Costado is caught having a meltdown on live television, her contract as a nighttime tv star is in danger of being cancelled. Taking a much needed break, she returns home to Texas for a friend's wedding and is faced with the man she left behind, the only man she ever loved, Wyatt Turner.
After a knee injury sidelined his professional football career, Wyatt Turner returned to his alma mater as a football coach. Trying to rebuild a new life, Wyatt buries himself in coaching. Just when he thinks he has moved on from the past, a friend's wedding reunites him with the woman he once loved and lost, along with his dreams.
Can Anna and Wyatt overcome the circumstances of their past and reclaim the future they were always destined to have?
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Excerpt
He gently brushed her lips with his, a light caress that took her breath away for all its sweetness and tenderness. Anna had experienced all sorts of kisses on the set of Blazing Passions from many men, most of whom had been coached on technique and style. They could all take lessons from Wyatt in the art of seduction.
She moaned and pressed against him, loving the feel of his body against hers. He took that as a sign and lowered his head, his lips claiming hers in a deeper kiss, more powerful and controlling, reminding her no one had ever kissed her like he did and no one ever would. His hands dropped and lifted her, hauling her up so she could feel the press of his erection against her stomach and heat flooded her. Thank goodness, he was holding her up as her knees could no longer support her.
His tongue slid alone the seam of her mouth, slipping inside to tease her, the taste of beer and cotton candy mixing for a heady cocktail. Anna’s head spun with emotions she hadn’t let herself feel in years, not since Wyatt, if she wanted to be honest. She hadn’t trusted another man since him. Not that there hadn’t been others, but not as many as the tabloids alleged, and none ever made her feel on fire as Wyatt did, as if she were burning from the inside, flaming out from the sensations.
He trailed kisses along her jawline to the sensitive spot behind her ear, her head fell back, and she shuddered as chills raced down her spine. She had missed this, had missed Wyatt. She didn’t know where they were going, or even if they had gotten over the past, but nothing had ever felt more right than this moment, in his arms.
Slowly, Wyatt pulled away, his breathing rough and harsh in the quiet night. He stared down at her, the intensity in his gaze pinning her in place, thrilling her, but terrifying her at the same time. What were they doing? How could she walk away from him a second time? How could she survive it?
“Go to bed, Anna. Before we both do something stupid.”
She fled before she could second-guess or make an even bigger mistake than kissing Wyatt. Like begging him to stay with her.
Review
This is my first book by the author therefore I have not read the previous books in this series, I do feel that I missed out on a lot of the connections in this book due to not having read the entire series.
Friends back together after 5 years for a wedding, there was so much going on with each person I'd like to have known more of their history, I felt at times like instead of being immersed in the story that I was like the outsider looking in, not knowing the secrets they referred to etc.
That being said I did love the story, and eventually all of the characters. Anna took some getting used to. She seemed and at times was quite the selfish diva and that drove me nuts, I really didn't connect with her until later in the book. To me she was not what Wyatt needed, it took a good bit for me to accept that she could concern herself with someone other than herself.
Wyatt had a stick up his butt but like most people who aren't obsessed with themselves, he learned to forgive and move on.
The secondary characters were hit or miss for me, again likely because I don't know their history and anything mentioned about them or it left me with questions.
I love a second chance romance and that's what Something New is. Actually it's an attempt at quite a few second chances but I don't know the other characters pasts together just hints at them.
3.5 stars
Friends back together after 5 years for a wedding, there was so much going on with each person I'd like to have known more of their history, I felt at times like instead of being immersed in the story that I was like the outsider looking in, not knowing the secrets they referred to etc.
That being said I did love the story, and eventually all of the characters. Anna took some getting used to. She seemed and at times was quite the selfish diva and that drove me nuts, I really didn't connect with her until later in the book. To me she was not what Wyatt needed, it took a good bit for me to accept that she could concern herself with someone other than herself.
Wyatt had a stick up his butt but like most people who aren't obsessed with themselves, he learned to forgive and move on.
The secondary characters were hit or miss for me, again likely because I don't know their history and anything mentioned about them or it left me with questions.
I love a second chance romance and that's what Something New is. Actually it's an attempt at quite a few second chances but I don't know the other characters pasts together just hints at them.
3.5 stars
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Author Bio
Ever since Megan Ryder discovered Jude Deveraux and Judith McNaught while sneaking around the “forbidden” romance section of the library one day after school, she has been voraciously devouring romance novels of all types. Now a romance author in her own right, Megan pens sexy contemporary novels all about family and hot lovin’ with the boy next door.
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