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October Reads Worth Falling For

Danger, desire, second chances, and unexpected romanceβ€”discover this month’s Fresh Fiction Featured Books.

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A poisoned cousin, a five-year-old's life, and a family with too many secrets.


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Supernatural sparks fly
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She found a body. Then she started asking the wrong questions.


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He ghosted her ten years ago. Now she’s stuck with him for Christmas.


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She’s the lady everyone overlooks. He’s the prince who can’t look away.

SECOND CHANCE SEASON

Second Chance Season, June 2017
Grand Valley #2
by Liora Blake

Pocket Books
336 pages
ISBN: 1501175351
EAN: 9781501175350
Kindle: B01M2BRKB0
Trade Size / e-Book
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"HOT ROMANCE THAT WILL APPEAL!"

Fresh Fiction Review

SECOND CHANCE SEASON
Liora Blake

Reviewed by Patricia (Pat) Pascale
Posted March 3, 2018

Romance Contemporary

What a wonderful way to start the New Year with the delightful read, SECOND CHANCE SEASON. It has it all, plenty of spice and everything nice. You will fall in love with hunky, handsome, sexy, Garrett Strickland, who was born and raised in the small town of Hotchkiss, Colorado. His dreams for his future fell apart when his father died suddenly. He dropped out of college, specializing in agriculture, and never returned. He was forced to sell the family farm because it was so heavenly mortgaged he could no longer afford to keep it. He was content helping friends and neighbors in any way he could, and spent as much time in his favorite pastime, Hunting! Hunting!! Hunting!!!! He works in a job at the Hotchkiss Co-Op that is going nowhere.

Driving to work in his no-name Truck, he sees an expensive car parked on the side of the road with the flashers on. Enter Cara Cavanaugh: long, lean, and very lovely city girl from Chicago. On an eight week freelance assignment, Cara is going to be writing about farming in rural Colorado. Their attraction to each other is instant and HOT. They are from opposite sides of life. Cara from a wealthy family, is due for a large trust fund in the next few years; while Garrett is just making it, moving along in a job that has no future but dreams about a small white house on his own land. Their chemistry is pure magic and soon Cara wonders if their fling is temporary or could it be forever?

Liora Blake knows how to spin a romantic tale with characters you love and root for. Garrett lives in a modular trailer on a dirt road, drives his big, dirty truck and is content to just stay where he is. Cara is ambitious and wants a future in freelance writing, but wonders if it is time to think about marriage and a family.

Garrett has a big heart and helps Cara by introducing her to all his farming friends in Hotchkiss where she gets to know some nice folks, meet and react with some cows, and learns interesting things about the state of agriculture in Hotchkiss, Colorado. Her articles are well received, and soon her eight weeks are over. Time to return home to Chicago.

A story of country boy meets city girl, their problems, hopes, and dreams. When Sara learns that when you find that special someone who understands and accepts the real you, it is time to take action for that forever together. It is a journey filled with laughter, hot passion, getting to know each other intimately and intellectually, and what happens when it is time for them to part. What is in their future? Is it together? What a sweet romance. Sometimes funny, sometimes witty, with a big splash of sex and an ending that will make you smile and warm your heart. Then, like me, you will be looking for what's next from Liora Blake. I am a new fan and I loved SECOND CHANCE SEASON. Bravo!

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SUMMARY

Return to Liora Blake's Grand Valley series with Second Chance Season, in which an avowed country boy meets an ambitious city girl who reminds him why dreaming big and taking a chance is worth the risk. Garrett Strickland is unapologetically country, fiercely loyal, and all about living in the present and not dwelling in the past--even if he was once on his way to a lofty agricultural sciences degree that would guarantee the brightest of futures, only to end up back home when his old man died, leaving behind a debt-ridden family farm that was impossible to keep afloat. After that, it was easy to see why dreaming big wasn't worth the heartache of losing everything. And until he crosses paths with a city girl who's hell-bent on kick-starting her own future, he's sure that good enough is just that. Cara Cavanaugh is ready for more from life, even if that means changing everything; including dumping her long time boyfriend, turning down a lucrative job at a major newspaper, and leaving behind the upscale suburbs of Chicago where she grew up. Now, she just has to pray that temporarily relocating to the middle of nowhere in Colorado will be the first step in building a career as a freelance writer--all she has to do is prove she's got what it takes to make a name for herself. Unfortunately, her tony country day school is as close to country as she's ever been. But when a goodhearted guy who looks like he just stumbled out of a country music video offers to help, she ends up falling hard...and discovering that the perfect story, as it turns out, is a love story. And it's theirs. Second Chance Season, book two in the Grand Valley series, is a charming, feel-good romance, perfect for fans of Jennifer Probst and Kristan Higgins.

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BOOK SERIES

Grand Valley

First Step Forward
FIRST STEP FORWARD
#1.0 β€’ December 2016
Second Chance Season
SECOND CHANCE SEASON
#2.0 β€’ June 2017
Ready for Wild
READY FOR WILD
#3.0 β€’ November 2017