Review / Release Blitz: Sterling Touch (Sterling Falls #6) by L.B. Dunbar

STERLING TOUCH
L.B. Dunbar
Release Date: June 5

Buy Link:
https://a.co/d/8UJo6VS
Available in KU

Why you need to #ONECLICK this book…
🔥Forbidden Romance
🔥Age Gap
🔥Older Brother's Former Best Friend
🔥Childhood Friends
🔥Small Town

Blurb
I wasn’t supposed to love him. I wasn’t even supposed to acknowledge him. But my entire life, I’ve had heart-eyes for my oldest brother’s former best friend, Cortland Haven.

I can’t help it that boys can be stupid, and a feud broke apart a long-time friendship and divided once-close families.

Try as I might to ignore Cort, I didn’t miss his eyes on me from across a crowded bar, twelve years ago. Oh, the way my skin tingled under his appraisal. The way my heart pattered knowing he was looking at me.

We shared more than a moment.

Now, we’re older and wiser. And with a little over a decade age gap between us, and a divide greater than that between our families, my heart still hasn’t gotten the memo.

No, that fickle organ has other plans for Cortland and me.

Especially when the silver fox is my son’s new baseball coach and I suddenly find myself assigned as his physical therapist.

I don’t just fall for the man adverse to touch, I tumble hard for him, when he should never be mine.

MY REVIEW

Long ago Vale (Valentine) and Cort (Cortland) had a moment. That moment could have become more, but a feud between him and his best friend at the time, aka her older brother Stone, has had him persona non grata with her family ever since. Now she's back and they keep running into each other, and more significantly, he's her son's coach. All their close proximity is bringing the old feelings back, and it's now a test of wills to see who will give in first. They're going to test their feelings, and discover things about each other they never knew. There are a lot of obstacles in their path to happiness, though - her brother and the rest of the family, all the things unsaid and unknown, and pain and betrayal.

Cort and Vale's history was complicated, littered with so much pain that I wondered if they'd ever be able to get past it all. Their journey was a slow burn, hampered by his condition, and of course the feud between her brother and Cort. Cort's backstory was especially heartbreaking - he had to come to terms with his part in the feud, but more significantly, to forgive himself and realize he wasn't a bad person, even if he had made super questionable choices in his past, and he had to finally tell Vale what had happened. I shed a few tears along the way, but I absolutely fell in love with this beautiful couple. The final installment of Sterling Falls, Stone's story Sterling Stone, is next, and excited to finally see who takes Stone to his knees.

Meet L.B. Dunbar
L.B. Dunbar loves sexy silver foxes, second chances, and small towns. If you enjoy older characters in your romance reads, including a hero with a little silver in his scruff and a heroine rediscovering her worth, then welcome to romance for those over 40. L.B. Dunbar’s signature works include women and men in their prime taking another turn at love and happily ever after. She’s a USA TODAY Bestseller as well as #1 Bestseller on Amazon in Later in Life Romance with her Lakeside Cottage and Road Trips & Romance series. L.B. lives in Chicago with her own sexy silver fox. To get all the scoop about the self-proclaimed queen of silver fox romance, join her on Facebook at Loving L.B. or receive her monthly newsletter, Love Notes.

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