STOLEN DREAMS
Persephone Autumn
Release Date: November 1
Buy Link:
https://mybook.to/StolenDreams-SB4
Why you will love this book…
👦🏻 Single Dad
💚 Age Gap
🚫 Forbidden
👩🏽❤️👨🏻 Interracial (Indigenous heroine)
🤤 Food Porn
🔥 Cooking lessons
👨🏻🍳 Gourmet chef
🏫 School Counselor
⛰️ Small Town
👀 Only sees her
🔍 Romantic Suspense (check CWs)
Persephone Autumn
Release Date: November 1
Buy Link:
https://mybook.to/StolenDreams-SB4
Why you will love this book…
👦🏻 Single Dad
💚 Age Gap
🚫 Forbidden
👩🏽❤️👨🏻 Interracial (Indigenous heroine)
🤤 Food Porn
🔥 Cooking lessons
👨🏻🍳 Gourmet chef
🏫 School Counselor
⛰️ Small Town
👀 Only sees her
🔍 Romantic Suspense (check CWs)
Blurb
If anyone’s going to make me break my own rules, I’m glad it’s him.
For years, I’ve had a clear picture of my life. College. Career. And eventually, love.
My family insists on playing matchmaker. My best friend says to have more fun before settling down. All I want is to focus on work, help my students, and make a difference in the community.
But a night out to celebrate the end of the school year rewrites my entire future.
When Ray Calhoun III sidles up to my table, I recognize him immediately. Gourmet restaurant chef. Online celebrity known for his titillating cooking videos. Single dad to one of my students.
And when his dark eyes lock with mine, I forget how to speak, how to breathe.
With a little persuasion, Ray convinces me to help him with a summer cooking program for kids. Six weeks of food, fun… and stolen glances. The more time I spend with Ray and his son, the more smitten I am. And when he asks me on a date, I take a leap and say yes.
As our relationship turns serious, Ray’s dark past rears its ugly head.
Determined to keep his son safe, Ray goes into protector mode and limits activities outside the house. But as days turn into weeks, as his son grows more miserable, Ray must make a choice. Be defined by the past and live in fear or let go and move forward.
And with one decision, our world flips on its axis.
If anyone’s going to make me break my own rules, I’m glad it’s him.
For years, I’ve had a clear picture of my life. College. Career. And eventually, love.
My family insists on playing matchmaker. My best friend says to have more fun before settling down. All I want is to focus on work, help my students, and make a difference in the community.
But a night out to celebrate the end of the school year rewrites my entire future.
When Ray Calhoun III sidles up to my table, I recognize him immediately. Gourmet restaurant chef. Online celebrity known for his titillating cooking videos. Single dad to one of my students.
And when his dark eyes lock with mine, I forget how to speak, how to breathe.
With a little persuasion, Ray convinces me to help him with a summer cooking program for kids. Six weeks of food, fun… and stolen glances. The more time I spend with Ray and his son, the more smitten I am. And when he asks me on a date, I take a leap and say yes.
As our relationship turns serious, Ray’s dark past rears its ugly head.
Determined to keep his son safe, Ray goes into protector mode and limits activities outside the house. But as days turn into weeks, as his son grows more miserable, Ray must make a choice. Be defined by the past and live in fear or let go and move forward.
And with one decision, our world flips on its axis.
MY REVIEW
Kaya loves her job as a child/student behavior specialist, especially when she's able to help children like Tucker, an adorable boy who is so obviously crying out for some help. Then she meets his father, Ray, and she knows she'll never be the same again.
When his ex took off with his son, Ray vowed to get him back. And though he did indeed, get Tucker back, the years away left both of them with baggage. Then his mother tells him he's working too much and not spending enough time with Tucker. Thus the idea is born for him to use his culinary skills to teach Tucker and other kids during the summer. He needs someone to help him with those kids - enter Kaya, the beautiful woman he meets at his restaurant. Their feelings quickly intensify, but there's a giant obstacle, Ray's inherent distrust of relationships and commitment. If he can get past his demons though, they might have a chance of something beautiful.
I love being back in Stone Bay again. There's so much here in Kaya and Ray's story to love besides its setting, though. Kaya is amazing - an indigenous child behavior specialist with a huge, tender heart, she's the perfect addition to Tucker and Ray's lives, the needed partner to make them complete. Ray needed someone who could not only strongly connect and bond with his son, he needed someone who could bring his own heart back to life. There's a suspense element too that weaves perfectly with all the relationships, and it rounded out the story in a very satisfying way. Kaya, Tucker and Ray are such a great family unit, and they have me very impatient for the next Stone Bay story, Raptured Souls.
Meet Persephone Autumn
USA Today Best Selling Author Persephone Autumn lives in sunny Florida with her wife, crazy dog, and two lover-boy cats, and she’s never far from her daughter or grandpup. She’s an avid lover of ethnic food, especially Asian, and has fun discovering ways to veganize her favorite non-vegan foods. If given the option, she would get lost in nature on purpose.
For several years, she’s always done some form of writing. After pairing her poetry with images and posting them on social media, she received peer praise and started her novel writing journey.
Although her core style is romance, Persephone dips her toes in other genres from time to time. All stories deserve for their voice to be heard and she plans to write where the characters lead her.
Connect with Persephone Autumn
https://www.persephoneautumn.com/my-instagram
USA Today Best Selling Author Persephone Autumn lives in sunny Florida with her wife, crazy dog, and two lover-boy cats, and she’s never far from her daughter or grandpup. She’s an avid lover of ethnic food, especially Asian, and has fun discovering ways to veganize her favorite non-vegan foods. If given the option, she would get lost in nature on purpose.
For several years, she’s always done some form of writing. After pairing her poetry with images and posting them on social media, she received peer praise and started her novel writing journey.
Although her core style is romance, Persephone dips her toes in other genres from time to time. All stories deserve for their voice to be heard and she plans to write where the characters lead her.
Connect with Persephone Autumn
https://www.persephoneautumn.com/my-instagram
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