Review / Release Blitz: Between Now and Forever by Adriana Locke

Between Now and Forever by Adriana Locke is now live!

Neighbors to lovers can be a risky proposition in this funny, sexy, and swoony romantic comedy between a single mother and the grumpy man next door by USA Today bestselling author Adriana Locke.

When Gabrielle Solomon falls, she falls hard. Even if that means literally toppling over a porch railing in nothing but a flimsy towel—right in front of her sexy new neighbor.

Jay Stetson is 100 percent hero material with those arms, that chest, and his deliciously oh-so-sexy smirk. The chiseled hunk in flannel has an irresistible off-limits attitude while plucking Gabrielle out of the bushes and saving her from a snake. Unfortunately, he’s not indulging in what Gabrielle is offering—not with his emotional train wreck of a past.

Just neighbors. Just friends. Or so he says.

Secretly, he’s smitten with the single, fierce mama bear of two who plays Miss Fix-It at the house next door. He doesn’t even really mind the noise or the chaos her young sons cause. What he does mind is how his lonely heart races when looking into her emerald-colored eyes.

Can Jay let his painful memories go, or will he let the woman of his dreams slip between his fingers?

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MY REVIEW

Gabrielle's starting over in a sense. She and her preteen and teen boys are without their father now and trying to make do. Then she falls into the bushes next to her house and is rescued by her gorgeous but broody neighbor, and nothing is the same again. She shouldn't give into their chemistry because she just knows in her gut that Jay's the epitome of emotionally unavailable, but her heart doesn't seem to care. Her eldest son cares, though, and is an obstacle Gabrielle isn't sure they can overcome, especially if Jay's already putting on the brakes.

Ever since his ex tore his heart into a million pieces when she took away the little girl he had raised as his own, Jay's heart has been closed for business. Then a beautiful ray of sunshine and her sons barrel into his life and start to make him think he could be there for them. But their father hasn't been gone long, and he knows he's not replacement material, so he should pump the brakes now before he gets too deep with all of them. But, if he can have a little faith, and a little heart to heart with Gabrielle's eldest, Jay just may see the light at the end of what has been a very dark tunnel.

This is a sweet, mostly low angst small town romance. There's a lot to unpack in a fairly short timeline, and the ending is a bit rushed, but I still enjoyed Gabrielle and Jay and her kids, especially Carter. Grief takes its toll on everyone involved, and it had done a number on everyone in this story, thankfully Jay and Gabrielle got through it to the other side in sweet fashion.

Meet Adriana

USA Today and Amazon Charts Bestselling author, Adriana Locke, writes contemporary romances about the two things she knows best—big families and small towns. Her stories are about ordinary people finding extraordinary love with the perfect combination of heart, heat, and humor.

She loves connecting with readers, fall weather, football, reading alpha heroes, everything pumpkin, and pretending to garden.

Hailing from a tiny town in the Midwest, Adriana spends her free time with her high school sweetheart (who she married over twenty years ago) and their four sons (who truly are her best work). Her kitchen may be a perpetual disaster, and if all else fails, there is always pizza.

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