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THE CRUELEST TRUTH
L. Renee Richard
Release Date: August 21

Buy Link:
https://a.co/d/g830jJ7
Available in KU

Why you need to #ONECLICK this book…

🔥Contemporary Romance
🔥Romantic Suspense
🔥Nanny Romance
🔥Hot Single Dad
🔥Emotional Romance
🔥Afraid to Commit
🔥Sworn-off Relationship


Blurb
She needs a job.

He needs a nanny.

What could possibly go wrong?

Nadia Kennedy is having the time of her life. After completing her third year of college and securing a promising career after graduation, she returns home for the summer.

On her way to her twenty-first birthday dinner, a strange phone call rocks her to her core. Left to figure out her life as it falls apart, she decides to go to the lake house she frequented every summer as a child.

When things are finally going well, and Nadia starts to develop feelings for Manny Torres and his five-year-old daughter Catalina, she opens the door to discover the cruelest truth of all.

When everyone and everything in your life has been a lie, the path forward could just prove to be unforgivable.

MY REVIEW


After Nadia loses her parents, she decides to go back to her parents' lakehouse for the summer. It's where she feels safe, feels their presence. But she wants to keep herself busy, so ends up becoming the nanny for the sweetest, most adorable little girl, Catalina. Now she's falling in love with her. Catalina's dad though? He's a very different story. He keeps Nadia at a distance until he no longer can. Until their chemistry absolutely can't be denied. But she's not here forever, is she?


Manny has closed himself distant from everyone but his daughter since her mother left. Then along comes a beautiful, younger, woman, and she somehow gets under his skin. But he cannot open himself up to the possibility of pain again, especially with someone who won't be sticking around. The connection between them keeps growing stronger until one day they can't resist. They're falling, Catalina's becoming attached, and every day that passes brings them closer to when she leaves. how can they make this work?


Nadia and Manny are so sweet together, adding adorable Catalina made them even sweeter. The tension is thick, until they finally couldn't bear it any longer, then they positively set my Kindle on fire. The twist gave the story even more emotional depth and both Manny and Nadia's were there for each other through it all. This is the first I've read by this author, but after this, I'm looking forward to much more from her.


Meet L. Renee Richard
L. Renee Richard is a Hispanic author who lives in rural New England with her family. She’s a born and raised South Texan girl who implements BIPOC characters into her books, imbued with her cherished Hispanic culture. She is an avid reader, complete with her never-ending TBR, and a romantic at heart who appreciates a strong female main character and a good book boyfriend in the books she reads or writes. She loves summers in New England, sitting on the beach with a book, driving with the windows down through rural roads on cool autumn nights, and iced matcha lattes. Her books promise angsty romance where the journey to a happily ever after isn’t always easy, but it’s worth the trip.

Connect with L. Renee Richard
https://linktr.ee/l.reneerichard

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