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Review: An Unexpected Everything (The Cage Family #2) by Carrie Ann Ryan


An Unexpected Everything (The Cage Family #2) by Carrie Ann Ryan is now LIVE!

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🩷 Second chance
🩷 Enemies to lovers
🩷 Single dad
🩷 Grumpy/grumpier
🩷 Found family
🩷 Small town


He left me with a note.

Weston Caldwell and I had two months together. Two months of intense heat and plans for our future. Then one day he left me sleeping with a note and never turned back. I closed off my heart and my dreams after he left and promised to take care of my family, never trusting love again.

So when I am forced to head to my family’s small town for protection, I never expect to turn around and see the man I loved.

I want to walk away and never look back, but when I find out he left for a heartbreaking reason, I’m not sure what to think. The chemistry between us hasn’t gone away—if anything it burns even brighter.

But my life is in the city and his is in this small town that draws me. Between his siblings, the town itself, and my new found family, walking away might break me.

Only Weston isn’t the only secret from my past. And it turns out, if Weston and I aren’t careful, we could lose everything before we find our second chance.

An Unexpected Everything is a second chance, right person, wrong time, single “dad”, contemporary romantic suspense in the Cage Family series featuring Weston and Isabella. Each book can be read as a complete standalone. An HEA is guaranteed!**


MY REVIEW


Isabella has to let her family take care of her for once after spending her life being their caregiver. So she's let them bring her to the small town of Cage Lake, where her newly discovered siblings live and practically own the town. She surely was not expecting to see the man who broke her heart years ago. The man who spent a summer making her fall in love him, only to leave her with a short note. Yeah, that man. But though Weston broke her heart, he never left it, and all those feelings are coming alive again after being in such close proximity. A second chance is on the horizon, if her past doesn't ruin it, and if they can get past the heartbreak they were left with before.


Weston never forgot Isabella, always regretted the way he had to leave her, without a reason given for his departure. But now she's here in his small town, and he sees his chance for forgiveness, and if she lets him, to have it all. If he can protect her from her past, and show her that he can be trusted with her heart again, that second chance can be theirs.


I love that Isabella finally let her family care for her, protect her. She was always their caregiver, and now was the time to let them return all that love. Thank God she did, because it brought her back to Weston. And what a man to come back to - he's so caring, so sweet, and just begging her to see how much they could have with each other if she'd forgive him and open her heart back up to him. Carrie's stories always get me in the heart, but Isabella and Weston are somehow even more heartfelt and heart-tugging than is her usual. I fell so hard for them as I was reading, I think they just may be my favorite couple of hers yet.

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