I am totally in love with
the Sweet, Texas series by Candis Terry so when I got a chance to read a galley
for her upcoming newest release, SWEET SURPRISE, I jumped at it. It was worth
squeezing it in. Stay tuned for a special Scavenger Hunt Tour to celebrate its
release on Tuesday, January 27, 2015. It’s going to be a blast.
***eARC provided by
publisher via Edelweiss in exchange for an honest and unscripted review.
Blurb for SWEET SURPRISE:
Fiona Wilder knows all about falling in lust. Love? That's
another story. Determined not to repeat past mistakes, the single mom and
cupcake shop owner is focused on walking the straight and narrow. But trouble
has a way of finding her. And this time it comes in the form of a smoking hot
firefighter who knows all the delicious ways to ignite her bad-girl fuse.
Can lead to
heartbreak...
Firefighter Mike Halsey learned long ago that playing with
fire just gets you burned. He's put his demons behind him, and if there's one
line he won't cross, it's getting involved with his best friend's ex. But when
fate throws him in the path of the beautiful, strong, and off-limits Fiona,
will he be able to fight their attraction? Or will he willingly go down in
flames?
Or a sweet surprise!
~*~ ~*~ ~*~ ~*~ ~*~
Jackson Wilder’s ex,
Fiona Wilder is moving to Sweet, Texas to open a cupcake shop and also so her
darling little girl, Izzy, can be closer to her father and his soon-to-bride,
Abby. On the way, she is the unfortunate victim of two drivers’ road rage. Now
she’s trying to get moved in, get the shop set up, and settled into her new life while
recovering from her injuries. When her knight in shining armor from the
accident shows up to help, she fights the offer. Not because she doesn’t want
or need the help but because she is far too attracted to the man who also
happens to be a firefighter, a very sexy, very hot firefighter. After her
failed marriage to Jackson, she promised herself she’d never get involved with another hot man like that again - it was part of her wild Fiona life she'd left behind. Then again, aren’t promises made to be broken?
Mike Halsey hasn’t
stopped thinking about the gorgeous Fiona Wilder, off limits ex-wife of his
firefighter buddy, Jackson. With a bad marriage as baggage, he has his reasons
for keeping his distance from the beautiful single mom. But when the ever matchmaking
Jana Wilder collects on her auction purchase, and asks him to work it off by
helping the sexy Fiona with her move, and her cupcake shop, he can’t refuse
even though he knows he's playing with fire. Sweetness comes in all forms and
Fiona is a sweet treat he desperately wants to taste and make his own but there’s
a code between men who live on the edge, and since he’s been there with
Jackson, he needs to keep his distance even though he doesn’t want to.
As usual, Candis Terry creates
characters that most certainly make us care. Mike is sexy, caring, and most
definitely, a knight in shining armor. Fiona is a good loving mom and has goals
to be a successful woman in business. There were times when I felt I’d read
this story before because the plot is rather typical. Then Candis does things like throws in a
sweet ‘Milo’ moment where Mike gets to show how big his heart is, or like when Fiona
gives him the space he needs to get his emotional stuff together. Fiona gets a
big star for patience and it pays off big time in the end for her, and for Izzy. Truly Sweet ending to this one.
Perhaps SWEET SURPRISE
didn’t tug at my heartstrings the way ANYTHING BUT SWEET did, or make me want
to smack anyone upside the head the way Jackson did in SWEETEST MISTAKE, but
this one was still a good solid Candis Terry read. Although, I did find it a
bit of a stretch that the relationship between Fiona and Abby could be quite so
intimately friendly. Of course, it lends itself to the fantasy of romance being
perfection.
I most certainly
recommend reading SWEET SURPRISE, book four in the Sweet, Texas series by
Candis Terry. If you haven’t tried this series, or if you already love the rest
of the series as much as I do, you don’t want to miss yet another of Jana
Wilder’s crazy matchmaking meddles. Besides, who can possibly resist such a big-hearted sexy fireman as Mike Halsey. Also, you don’t want to miss the Milo moment or the sweetest
of sweet marriage proposals.
Happy Reading Everyone
and don’t forget to come back on Tuesday, January 27th for a SWEET
SURPRISE Release Day Blast Scavenger Hunt. You know there will be great prizes.
SWEET SURPRISE, a Sweet Texas novel by Candis Terry, Avon Romance, release date - January 27, 2015, print and ebook formats at Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and Kobobooks. $4.99 digital/$7.99 print
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Candis
Terry was born and raised near the sunny beaches of Southern California and now
makes her home on an Idaho farm. She’s experienced life in such diverse ways as
working in a Hollywood recording studio to chasing down wayward steers. Only
one thing has remained the same: her passion for writing stories about
relationships, the push and pull in the search for love, and the security one
finds in their own happily ever after.
