A sexy single dad fights for the woman he wants in the most emotional stand-alone romance you’ll read this year.
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Blurb
A sexy single dad fights for the woman he wants in the most emotional stand-alone romance you’ll read this year.
MARCO
I have loved Rosa since I met her in high school English, even though the odds have always been stacked against us. She is the child of criminals, resigned to a bleak future. I’m the heir to a successful construction company and am not afraid to go after what I want.
And I want Rosa. Always and forever.
ROSA
I broke the law to make sure Marco got custody of our daughter, and I paid the price. But now that I’m out of jail, I’m terrified my ugly past might bleed into our daughter’s future.
The only way to ensure that doesn’t happen is staying far away from both of them.
But Marco isn’t letting me run from him. Not again.
Review
3.5 stars
I love the intensity of Molly O’Keefe’s writing, and was really excited to dive into this one – a dramatic, sexy, heartfelt second chance romance between a still-very-much-in-love couple torn apart in unimaginable circumstances.
“I kept this place for you inside me … Every day. Every night.”
This book is a spin-off from The Debt series. I haven’t read those books, didn’t even know that they existed, or that this book was connected to it before I started, but I was quickly sucked into this world, the characters and their situation, which forms a major life moment for our heroine, Rosa. Rosa is 16, pregnant and living in a group home with four other foster kids (characters of The Debt series) who are subjected to hellish abuse. Rosa is the daughter of criminals and has only two goals – survive her situation and give birth to a healthy baby, and make sure her beloved boyfriend, Marco, gets custody of their little girl instead of her neo-nazi father. She manages to do just that, sacrificing her own freedom for the two people that she loves the most.
Four years later and Rosa is out of prison. She is justifiably terrified that her family continues to pose a threat to her daughter, so she intentionally keeps her distance. But there’s only one problem… Marco knows that she’s out, and he’s not prepared to watch his wife walk away again.
“What do you want?” she asked, like she honestly didn’t know.
“What I’ve always wanted. What I’ll want for the rest of my life,” I told her with the same intensity I’d used to say my vows four years ago. “You.”
Oh Marco… what a deliciously devoted hero! He is initially, understandably, furious that Rosa is choosing to stay away, but when he comes to understand the impossible situation she is in, he fights for her, desperate to have her back in his life, and he is absolutely beautiful!
“I saved your place, Rosa,” he whispered, his arms coming around me and lifting me so I was not carrying all my burdens alone. “We’ve just been waiting for you to come back to us.”
There is some drama as Marco and Rosa fight for their future, and there are cameos from The Debt characters (what an intriguing bunch!) who pop in along the way. But mostly, I was caught up in the emotion of Marco and Rosa’s reunion, and their sexy, swoony romance.
This was a really sweet read. It’s a quick one, and I would have liked to have seen a bit more time with them together, and with their little girl, establishing themselves as a family, but I was happy with how it ended and am curious to check out more of the books from this world.
3.5 stars.
An Advanced Review Copy was generously provided by the author in exchange for an honest review.
Excerpt
He looked at me across the room and slowly shook his head. “I don’t want to love you,” he said.
“I know.”
“Half the time I hate you.”
“I know.”
He looked away from me, his hands in fists, and I could feel the tension across the room, the fragile control he had on himself. How he was barely holding on. And I knew that he would never hurt me. The thing he was trying to stop himself from doing was touch me.
“I’m leaving,” he said and crossed the room in three angry steps. Everything in me told me to get out of the way. To let him go. But I didn’t. I stood right in front of the door in my gold vest and hot pants.
His face was flushed. “Get out of my way,” he said, and my mouth was full, my throat closed, and I shook my head. “Don’t make me,” he said. “Don’t make me touch you.”
It was exactly what I was doing, because I would take his touch any way I could get it.
“Fuck, Rosa,” he groaned. “Fuck you.”
And he put his hands around my arms and pulled me up and into his body so my breasts touched his chest, and between my legs I felt the hard pressure of him. I gasped and he turned. I expected him to let me go. I expected him to shove me away but he didn’t. Oh god, he didn’t. He lifted me off my feet and took two steps forward, pushing me against the wall. Not gently. But not rough. And then he leaned against me, his entire body against mine. And I was electrified. Every inch of my skin burned where it touched his.
I burned so hot I burned right through all the years. All the pain fell away and it was just us. Marco and me and the desire so pure it kept changing the course of both our lives.
He held himself so still, so carefully, and he was going to walk away. I knew he was. He would walk away and this moment would never happen again.
“Please,” I begged, because it was all I had left. No more pride. No more distance. I was only need.
About Molly
Molly O’Keefe is the USA Today Bestselling author of over 50 contemporary romances. She lives in Toronto Ontario with her husband, two kids and rescue dog.
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