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Abby: He was my best friend. My first kiss, my first love, my first everything really. But then he walked out of my life and didn\u2019t look back. It was sudden, and I was devastated. All I knew was that Iggy had enlisted in the Army\u2014and that he was leaving me\u2014likely forever. But that was twenty years ago, now my life is in shambles and I don\u2019t just have myself to worry about\u2026<\/p>\n
Iggy: I still think about her. Every time I walk through the doors of my club, Duality, I\u2019m reminded of what I\u2019m missing. Every time I take a man to the mat at the Academy, it hurts, but not as much as the pain of losing her. Every time I suit-up to fly overseas knowing I might not come back, the regret comes raging back. Life has been hell. But it\u2019s a hell I\u2019ve chosen. I\u2019m happy enough, now. But if she\u2019s in trouble, I can\u2019t stay away. I won\u2019t stay away. I\u2019ll protect her and her children with my life, and if she\u2019ll let me stay, I\u2019ll promise to never leave again.<\/p>\n
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A second-chance-romance from Sidney Halston, tying in to her other series? I couldn\u2019t wait to get my hands on this book, and I was completely sucked in to this sweet, emotional story of two broken people reunited fifteen years after they first fell in love.<\/p>\n
This book is advertised as crossover, but it\u2019s more a spin-off from the Worth the Fight<\/i> series, with cameos from characters from those books, and mentions of the Panic<\/i> <\/a>and Iron Clad Security<\/i><\/a> series. But having said that, it can absolutely be read as a standalone. I haven\u2019t read the WtF<\/i> series (love that name!), and I enjoyed meeting those characters and am feeling all excited to dive in now!<\/p>\n But this book is Iggy\u2019s story. Iggy and Abby met in high school \u2013 he as the new kid and she as the quiet, shy girl. The became best friends, fell in love and were planning on a future together when everything fell apart. Fifteen years later, Iggy is a veteran who still does some military-ish work, he also has investments which conveniently tie him into Halston\u2019s other series \ud83d\ude09 He\u2019s happy in his life, with good friends and career success, but without any ties, allowing him to throw himself into dangerous situations without too much thought. But he drops everything when he learns that his first and only love is in trouble.<\/p>\n Abby is a widow with two young children. She\u2019s created a good life for her and her kids and is fiercely independent, but she\u2019s in the wrong place at the wrong time and turns out to be the only witness to a gang-related murder. She\u2019s in trouble, and that\u2019s when help appears in the form of her first love.<\/p>\n Iggy and Abby are absolutely gorgeous. Their history burns brightly between them \u2013 not just their love for each other, but the friendship they shared. They were best friends, and we get to revisit that part of their lives through flashback, seeing them meet and fall in love, and I loved seeing their past and how much they meant to each other. But in the present things are very different, there is so much hurt and pain between them, and they have a lot to work through.<\/p>\n \u201cYou broke me once, Iggy. I\u2019ll never let you break me again. I need you to protect my kids and I’m selfish enough to take the help you’re offering, but that’s all I want from you.\u201d<\/i><\/p>\n You broke me. But even though they both moved on and built lives apart from each other, those feelings are still there, and it doesn\u2019t take long for them to be rekindled as Iggy moves himself into Abby\u2019s home, into her life and the lives of her adorable children<\/p>\n \u201cI had my reasons back then and I know it was fucked up. But that was then and this is now. You can\u2019t deny this.\u201d He points to the space between us. \u201cAre you going to pretend it\u2019s not there?\u201d<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n It\u2019s beautifully sweet, fun and emotional, and while Iggy works to protect Abby and her kids, they also begin to work through the pain of their past and the years in between. It\u2019s realistic and heartfelt, and really well done (thankfully respecting the life that Abby had with her deceased husband), and watching Iggy become a part of Abby\u2019s family is just gorgeous. And the romance develops beautifully as they find themselves falling for each other all over again.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019m going to kiss you \u2026 I need to kiss you like a man who hasn\u2019t seen his woman in fifteen goddamn years.\u201d<\/i><\/p>\n \u201cYou and I, just sex? Abby, who are you kidding?\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n I\u2019m such a sucker for a second-chance-romance and I loved this story. The feels are there right from the beginning, and though they have to work at it, their honesty as they deal with the past once and for all and embrace the second chance they\u2019ve been given is so, so beautiful!<\/p>\n \u201cI loved you back then. I loved you every waking minute of the last twenty years. I love you now. And when we\u2019re old and senile and can\u2019t remember anything, I\u2019ll still remember how much I love you.\u201d<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n Abby\u2019s kids, Oscar and Lily are freaking adorable! They bring so much light to the story, and of course any time you see a big badass fall hopelessly in love with his girl\u2019s children, you can\u2019t help but swoon!<\/p>\n This is a great read! Sweet and sexy with a bit of suspense, and well-written family themes, I loved it.<\/p>\n 4 stars.<\/p>\n An Advanced Reader Copy was generously provided by the author in exchange for an honest review.<\/i><\/p>\n <\/p>\n I\u2019m done. He\u2019s sweet, but I\u2019m over this game, no matter how nice he\u2019s trying to be. If years of speech therapy can\u2019t fix me, this guy is certainly not going to. \u201cIggy.\u201d That\u2019s as close as it\u2019s going to get at the moment. I\u2019ll go home and practice but for right now, I\u2019m done.<\/p>\n \u201cIggy?\u201d he repeats, and I shrug defeatedly. \u201cIggy. Yeah, I can live with that.\u201d He winks at me.<\/p>\n \u201cLater, Abby.\u201d<\/p>\n And then he walks away with a smug look on his face.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The Escapist Book Blog is not responsible for this giveaway<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n USA Today Bestselling author, Sidney Halston lives her life with one simple rule: \u201cJust Do It\u201d<\/p>\n And that\u2019s exactly what she did. After working hard as an attorney, Sidney picked up a pen for the first time at thirty years old to begin her dream of writing. Having never written anything other than very exciting legal briefs, she found an outlet for her imaginative romantic side and wrote the successful New Adult series, Seeing Red and Seeing Black. That first pen stroke sealed the deal and she fell in love with writing. Currently on sale is the bestselling contemporary romance series, Worth the Fight and Panic Series, as well as Romantic Suspense series, Iron Clad Security.<\/p>\n Sidney lives in South Florida with her husband and children. She loves her family above all else, and reading follows a close second. When she\u2019s not writing you can find her reading and reading and reading\u2026 She\u2019s a reader first and a writer second.<\/p>\n When she\u2019s not writing or reading her life is complete and utter chaos trying to balance family life with work, and writing (and reading). But she wouldn\u2019t have it any other way.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Facebook\u00a0\u00a0<\/a>|\u00a0\u00a0Twitter\u00a0\u00a0<\/a>|\u00a0\u00a0Website\u00a0\u00a0<\/a>|\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>Instagram<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Amazon US\u00a0 |\u00a0 Amazon UK\u00a0 |\u00a0 Amazon CA\u00a0 |\u00a0 Amazon AU B&N\u00a0 |\u00a0 iTunes\u00a0 |\u00a0 Kobo Synopsis Abby: He was my best friend. My first kiss, my first love, my first everything really. 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\nI knew that I had hurt, her but hearing her say it\u2026 I slam my fists into the steering wheel. I fucking broke my girl, and there\u2019s nothing I can do to fix it. There\u2019s no going back in time and taking away the pain I caused her.
\nEven if I try to fix things now, the damage is already done and I\u2019m the one who did it.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n
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