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Review / Blog Tour: A Reckless Memory (Oil Knights #1) by Marie Johnston


A Reckless Memory, an all-new second chance, small-town standalone romance from bestselling author Marie Johnston is available now!


I fled minutes before my wedding when I learned my fiancé had been paid to marry me. Ten years, too many crappy exes, and one drunken decision later, I’m now his boss.

A night out with a friend turned into shots and duping an old ex of mine into taking a job at my budding horse rescue.

The last time Ansen Barron saw me, I was fishtailing away from our wedding with his dog. When he arrives, I expect him to reverse right back down my driveway after he learns I’m his boss.

I don’t expect to find a jaded man in the place of the easygoing guy I was once engaged to. I also don’t expect my heart to race when he’s around.

Or for him to treat me like I always meant more to him than a payday.

I don’t regret hiring him. He’s the best man for the job, and he’s trying to prove he’s changed, one melting kiss at a time.

But no matter how hot we are together, I can’t forget I once thought he was the best man for me and maybe it’s safer for my heart if he stays a reckless memory.


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MY REVIEW

A night filled with poor decisions has landed Aggie the man who broke her heart. Now Ansen's here, is down on his luck and needs the job she (fueled by her best friend drunkenly egging her on) offered him. If she can keep remembering the pain of discovering he was only going to marry her because her father paid him, she can work with him, then send him on his way when the job is done, her heart intact.


Aggie is the kind of heroine I love best - she's strong and determined to be independent, regardless of her overprotective brothers' wishes. I love how much she stood up for herself, to her brothers and to Ansen. Now Ansen on the other hand, I had a really hard time connecting to him, I just never forgave him for what he did to Aggie in the past, and he wasn't exactly the strongest character in the present. It's only because Aggie loved him that he got the slimmest of passes from me. Everyone else aside from Ansen, though, I loved. This second chance has me eager for more Oil Knights now.

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