American heiress Amelia Hathaway needs to start anew.
Her husband cheated on her, and when everything she wanted in life slipped
through her fingers, she fell apart. When she did, she took another heart
wrenching hit as she lost the respect of her children.
When her ex took her family from California to live in the small town of
Magdalene in Maine, Amelia decided it was time to sort herself out. In order to
do that and win her children back, she moves to Cliff Blue, an architectural
masterpiece on the rocky coast of Magdalene.
Her boxes aren’t even unpacked when she meets Mickey Donovan, a man who lives
across the street, a man so beautiful Amelia takes one look at Mickey and knows
she wants everything from him.
The problem is, she finds out swiftly that he’s friendly, he’s kind, but he
doesn’t want everything back.
Amelia struggles to right past wrongs in her life at the same time find out who
she wants to be. She also struggles with her attraction to the handsome
firefighter who lives across the street.
But Amelia will face a surprise when her friendly neighbor becomes
not-so-friendly. As Amelia and Mickey go head to head, Amelia must focus on
winning back the hearts of her children.
She soon discovers she also must focus on winning the heart of a handsome
firefighter who understands down to his soul the beautiful heiress who lives
across the street is used to a life he cannot provide
5 Soaring Stars
ARC received from author in exchange for
an honest review
Soaring
was an amazingly fantastic, ridiculously sexy, feel good read that proved once
again why Kristen Ashley will forever remain my literary queen of romance. This
love story embodied everything KA spoils me with - a unique and descriptive
writing style, brilliant dialogue, an incredibly strong heroine, super hot
dominant Alpha, a cast of secondary characters that stole my heart and
passionate moments that set my kindle ablaze.
But words sometime fail me when trying to put together my review because
it’s so difficult to fully describe what I experience and how truly touching
her romances are. Once stepping into Amelia and Mickey’s world, I became
totally overwhelmed and consumed. My emotions were constantly ebbing and
flowing as their joys thrilled me, their fears filled me with worry, and their
despairs flooded my heart with sorrow. And in the end, I hated leaving this
couple, their friends and family behind. I needed to savor this story over and
over again before gathering my thoughts.
Amelia
(Amy) is a woman who has all the money in the world, yet missing everything she
needs for a happy life. A bitter divorce set her life on a downward, negative
spiral - leaving her shattered, miserable, lacking self-confidence and losing custody
of her children. In an effort to regain their love and respect, she decides to
reinvent herself and begin a new life in Magdalene, Maine.
Her
character wrecked me - I ached for all her pains and cried tears over all her
sorrows. Seeing her lonely life and dealing with the children’s indifference,
sliced right through the very heart of me. Starting over at the age of 47 takes
courage and BALLS – I just love how brave she was. Amelia’s endless struggle to
find fathomless inner strength and discovering her self worth left me
awestruck. She is my new all-time favorite kick-ass heroine.
Fortunately
for Amelia, along with her new life comes a very handsome neighbor. A knight in
shining armor of sorts…Michael Patrick Donovan. The mere mention of his name
makes me quiver in all the all the right places.
Oh,
Mickey you’re so fine…and you REALLY blew my mind...
I’m in love with you!
He’s
the sinfully sexy, outrageously macho construction worker/volunteer
fire-fighter/boxer that had my head spinning. One minute I adored his sweet and
tender ways; a single dad who melted me seeing the way he loves his children. In
the next, I wanted to strangle him for all his stubbornness! My feelings for
Mickey yo-yoed throughout most of this read as he found difficulties dealing
with Amy’s wealth. Fighting off his attraction brought out a callous side to
Mickey, and boy did this couple really go toe-to-toe.
The more he battled his
feelings, the more sexual tensions escalated, until it deliciously exploded in
some of the most sizzling sex scenes ever. It frayed my nerves to no end, but I
loved every lust filled moment of it. For me, the more ‘jerk-like’ the KA hero,
the deeper I fall in love with them as they struggle to find their way to
redemption. It’s crazy, but absolutely true, and Mickey fights hard to win
Amy’s (and my) love and trust. Mickey has a noble heart and feels deeply for
his woman. He was an emotionally driven, compelling character whose gentle and
protective side had me soaring, feeling all gushy inside. I now have a new
Alpha-hero to obsess and drool over.
Amy
and Mickey’s romance was inspiring as well as beautiful. Soaring was a powerful
love story of passion, hope, mending broken hearts, bringing together of
families and self-discovery. Kristen Ashley never ceases to wow me with her
flawless story telling talents, which always leaves me hungry and wanting more from
her imagination. Each one of her tales claims a little piece of my soul. I love
that this series focuses on main characters that are more mature in age. It’s a
rarity to find steamy romances evolving around older main characters that not
only I can relate to, but readers of all ages can also appreciate. Ashley has
that magical touch bringing such characters to life. Soaring easily became another
‘must reread’ favorite of mine.
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When trying to write a review for a Kristen Ashley novel I find myself
in a state of utter loss of the English dictionary.
I really need a
thesaurus so I can find every single adjective for Phenomenal and
Extraordinary. Simply put she from the first page introduces us to
characters that have you gripping the book waiting to find out more and
hours have passed and any interruptions cause havoc on your senses. I
liked Mickey in The Will but in Soaring.. I first liked him..then really
kinda didn't like him for a while at the same time wanted Amelia to
climb him like a tree. He had me mad ..amused and flustered. What this
brought me to was how ingenious a writer this author is to make me feel
like I wanted to move to a town in Maine and open up a coffee shop or
boutique just to run into these characters as if they are real. Amelia
and her past had me literally depressed and sobbing for a lot of the
beginning of this book. Kristen has a way of breaking you down to build
you back up stronger and more beautiful than ever before. That's what I
found in this breathtaking story. . change..acceptance and beauty after
pain.
Page after page of moments that I'd never be able to explain..
to experience something like this you have to read it yourself. There
just isn't enough words..she took them all.
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Teaser from Soaring by Kristen Ashley
I was born a middle class white child in Gary,
Indiana, USA. One of the last of a dying breed. I nearly killed my mother and
myself making it into the world, seeing as I had the umbilical cord wrapped
around my neck (already attempting to accessorize and I hadn’t taken my first
breath!). Mom says they took me away, put her back in her room, she looked out
the window, and Gary was on fire (Dr. King had been assassinated four days
before). She remembered thinking it was the end of the world. Quite the
dramatic beginning.
Nothing’s changed.
All I’ve ever wanted to do was write (well, and be
the Queen of the World, but you gotta start small) and I’ve published a
gazillion books and counting (and a gazillion is a lot! shoo!).You can learn
about my titles that have been released or that are soon to be released in the
Titles section of the website.
Even though I jump genres, there is always a theme to
my books…humor (hopefully), engaging characters (again, hopefully) and romance
(definitely).
My loves are movies, music, food and fashion and I
partake of all of them as often as I can (the middle two more than the others,
the former, which takes time I don’t often have and the latter, which takes
money I rarely have). In fact, I love food so much, I like to share my good
fortune so I put my recipes on offer for you on this page (see top menu and
don’t miss them, they’re awesome!).
I grew up in Brownsburg, Indiana and have lived in
Denver, Colorado and the West Country of England. Thus I’m blessed to have
friends and family around the globe. My family was (is) loopy (to say the
least) but loopy is good when you want to write and growing up it was large and
multi-generational. We all lived together on a very small farm in a small farm
town in the heartland. I grew up with Glenn Miller, The Everly Brothers, REO
Speedwagon and Whitesnake (and the wardrobes that matched). Needless to say,
growing up in a house full of music, clothes and love was a good way to grow
up.
And as I keep growing up, it keeps getting better.
So here I am, thank goodness.
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