Sassy Southern Books

Tuesday, December 10, 2024

Series: Sage Ridge Series

Author: Devin Sloane

Series Genre: Contemporary Romance; Small Town Romance; Emotional; MCs over 35

Title: A Lifetime of Afters

Tropes: Friends-to-Enemies-to-Lovers; Grumpy/Sunshine; Surprise Pregnancy; Forced Proximity; Family Saga

Release Date: April 20, 2023

A Lifetime of Afters is a small town, friends to enemies to lovers, grumpy-sunshine, surprise pregnancy, forced proximity, family saga hybrid of steamy contemporary romance and deeply emotional women’s fiction.

What if your first love was meant to be your last?

Noelle Brevard can’t remember a time she didn’t love Hawkley Bennett.

It didn’t matter that he was her brother’s best friend.

She had to tell him.

He chose someone else.

And she left.

After ten years, she’s going home.

Number one on her to-do list is to stay out of his way.

But Mother Nature has other plans. Locked away from the

rest of the world, sparks fly and truths come to light.

Until only one secret remains.

And it’s tearing him apart.

She’s got a choice.

Protect her heart? Or give everything she has for his.

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Title: Every Bit as Perfect

Tropes: Opposites Attract; He Falls First; Family Saga

Release Date: January 23, 2024

Every Bit As Perfect is a small town, opposites attract, he falls first, family saga hybrid of steamy contemporary romance and deeply emotional women’s fiction.

Every epic love story requires a leap of faith.

Harley Bennett is done.
Done fitting neatly into others’ expectations.
Done being dismissed.
And most especially, done with men.

But she didn’t expect a man like Daire Newman. He’s everything she never dared to dream of and more than she deserves. He could have his pick of the entire female population. So why is he pursuing her?

If there’s one thing Daire Newman is sure about, it’s Harley Bennett. He can handle her sassy attitude, her curvy body, her tender heart, and her pain. He’ll do anything to get her on board.

Even if it means keeping a secret that has the power to derail everything.

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Title: No Sweeter Madness

Tropes: Second Chance Romance; Family Saga; Childhood Wounds

Release Date: May 30, 2024

No Sweeter Madness is an emotional, second chance love story about overcoming grief and childhood wounds to grab hold of the life and love that was always meant to be yours.

Sometimes the ties that bind cut you to the quick.

Wren

One rash, heat-of-the-moment decision changed the trajectory of Wren Lewis’s entire life. Eighteen years later, now a single mother of two, her only wish is to sever the strings tying her to her puppet master father.

Even if it means accepting help from Max Brevard: the only man she’s ever loved.

Max

Well-acquainted with the painful flipside of love, Max Brevard convinced himself long ago he was better off without it. But when his sister and closest friends fall, he’s tempted to take another look.

The only woman he sees is the one he never got over.
He wasn’t ready for her then.
He’s ready now.

When the hand offering Wren everything she’s ever wanted belongs to the man who once walked away, how can she risk grabbing hold?

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