Even the town’s black sheep needed a friend sometimes

Southern Storms, an all-new angst-filled friends to lovers romance from Brittainy C. Cherry, is LIVE!!

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Blurb

All I wanted to do was run away, I never expected to crash into his arms…

After leaving the city life behind to escape my loveless marriage, I moved to small town Havenbarrow for a fresh start.

What I didn’t expect was to find myself drawn to the town’s black sheep.

They called him troubled. Cold. A man with a dark past.

What everyone seemed to miss about Jax was the splashes of light in his eyes. The random acts of kindness he performed when no one was watching. The way he made me smile and laugh.

Jax helped unpack the baggage I’d been carrying around with me. He was patient with my pain and gentle with my scars. He was the stillness during my hurricane.

Yet when both of our pasts come back to haunt our present days, we realized quickly that sometimes love stories didn’t end the way we’d hoped.

Sometimes you were left with only the damage from the storm.

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Review

5 “I want you forever” stars!

Wow! Just wow! Southern Storms blew me away! It consumed me and I was overwhelmed with the amount of raw emotion this story evokes. The words in this story lit me up and filled me with so much joy even though the heartache and unimaginable pain crushed me at times. I felt like I was right there with the characters, suffering with them, healing with them, and loving with them. This is my new favorite story and I know it will stay close to my heart for years to come!

Kennedy grew up with a wonderful family full of love. She was free, wild and her own unique person. She was a force to be reckoned with when she was a child and but things changed when she was an adult. Her spark was taken away from her in the most horrific of ways. Not only did she face the unimaginable, but she was beat down and belittled until she was just a sliver of her old self. She moves to Havenbarrow to try to take control of her life again when a ghost from her past reappears. She isn’t ready for the things he makes her feel and just how much he would change her life.

Her best friend from childhood who she hasn’t talked to in fifteen years lives in Havenbarrow but Jax is not the same sweet, shy boy he was when they met at summer camp. He is hardened and broken, and known as the town asshole. He does not need new friends, especially one who is stirring up old feelings he doesn’t want to have.

The man I’d become was not the boy she used to know.
I didn’t need visitors from my past to come back to haunt my present day. My mind was already a professional at haunting me with past regrets every single day. I didn’t need more ghosts coming back to me.

Kennedy and Jax had a wonderful connection when they were children. I loved seeing flashbacks of their childhood and the budding friendship that turned out to change their lives. It felt real and it was everything to them. When they disappeared from each other’s lives, they never expected to see each other again. Then, Kennedy shows up in Jax’s hometown and they aren’t prepared for how they make each other feel or how their lives will change because of the other.

The romance in this story is beautiful and heartwarming. The healing of two broken souls who find a second chance at love is one of my favorite plots and Jax and Kennedy’s love story is everything I could have wanted and more.

I cried with Kennedy and my heart broke alongside hers with the devastation she felt and horror she went through. But she is stronger than she thinks and experiencing her growth alongside her was amazing. I loved that she had a backbone yet still was vulnerable in so many ways. It made her real and relatable and my heart really felt for her. I appreciated that she knew when to ask for help and that she found the strength to face her fears and her past.

Kennedy is hurting when she sees Jax again but there is pain in eyes, too. No matter how she is pushed away she lets her kindness reach out to him. She is determined to find the boy she once knew.

Jax didn’t sound like the jerky villain in this town’s story. What it seemed more like was that he was the broken hero, the one who’d fallen apart so much he’d retreated toward the darkness over the light.
Very much like I had after tragedy found me.

Jax is so much more than meets the eye. He is such a great guy. A tender heart that had broken so completely that it no longer beat. He doesn’t allow people to see his pain and refuses to let others get near to him with the exception of the few people who were there for him when he needed them most. Those people mean the world to him and to them he shows how big his heart is even if he denies he has one. He is swoony and sweet, and I loved him!!

Jax had worked through so much already but he still has farther to g, and Kennedy is there for him. They are each other’s rocks and the connection they shared as children never severed despite years apart. I loved that they could be themselves and accepted each other unconditionally. They were happy to just be around each other.

His stillness felt so comforting, as if his silence was the warmest blanket he was wrapping around me.

As I read their story, I experienced not only the grieving and pain, but the healing and growth and love that they share when they open up to each other. They are far from perfect but they are perfect for each other. When it is most important, they show up for each other, and they stay. And that was everything.

I fell hard for Jax and Kennedy. I feel whole when I think about them even though I still have pain from their pasts. Their love completes them and I had the biggest smile and warmest heart by the ending. The epilogue is believable and I couldn’t have asked for more.

“Can I tell you a secret?”
“Anything.”
“The day I realized it was you, it turned back on.”
“What turned back on?”
“My heart.”

I have to add that the secondary characters are absolutely wonderful. Kennedy’s sister and her neighbors each hold a special place in my heart. Their support for both Kennedy and Jax was uplifting and they proved just how much they loved them.

Overall, Southern Storms is easily one of my favorite reads of 2020. It is emotional, raw, real, and unputdownable! A fantastic friends-to-lovers romance beautifully blended with second chances, and a must read!

*ARC generously provided by the author and Social Butterfly PR*

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About the Author

Author Brittainy C. Cherry is an Amazon #1 bestselling author.

She has been in love with words since the day she took her first breath. She graduated from Carroll University with a Bachelors Degree in Theatre Arts and a minor in Creative Writing.

Her novels have been published in 18+ countries around the world. Brittainy lives in Brookfield, Wisconsin with her fur babies.

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