Review: Legacy (Ashford Creek #1) by Carrie Ann Ryan

Legacy, the first installment of Carrie Ann Ryan's Ashford Creek series, is NOW LIVE!

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🩷 Age Gap
🩷 Best Friend's Sister
🩷 Fling
🩷 In Peril
🩷 Opposites Attract
🩷 Small Town
🩷 Secret Romance
🩷 Tortured Hero
🩷 Unrequited Love
🩷 Virgin

Blurb
With one scowl, I fell just that much harder for Callum Ashford—NFL star turned small town brewer. He’s not only older, but he’s my brother’s best friend. Two very important reasons I should stay away.

Only two years ago, after the worst night of my life, he kissed me and I can’t keep him off my mind.

When the only house available to rent in town happens to be the one across the street from him, the close proximity does its work.

We can’t keep our hands off each other. Yet as the heat rises, so do feelings. He might want me, but he wants peace more.

There’s a darkness within him I know he fights. Just as there are secrets his family needs to uncover. But when the danger comes full force, it won’t be from the obvious corner. No, we both have our pasts we chose to hide.

And our fears.

Yet when I break, he catches me.

And I hope I have the strength to do the same.

**Legacy is an age gap, best friend’s little sister, small town romance and the first in the Ashford Creek series featuring Callum and Felicity. Each one can be read as a complete standalone. A HEA is guaranteed!**

MY REVIEW

Felicity's been pining for her brother's much older best friend, Callum, for years, but aside from a scorching kiss a few years ago, he's never shown any interest in her aside from being his best friend's sister. She needs to get over him, but how can she when he starts showing he is interested? But then he pulls away again. His hot and cold act is enough to give her whiplash. If only he would tell her once and for all how he really feels, regardless of his friendship with her brother.

Callum has never felt good enough for Felicity, it's why he's always tried to keep her at a distance. His father's blood runs through him after all, automatically making him a bad idea for his beautiful, sweet Felicity. But perhaps he's always had the wrong thoughts about himself, and Felicity's making him see that. He simply cannot keep away from her now that she's his neighbor. And now that he's got her, he's not letting go, even if his best friend finds out and hates him for it.

What an epic introduction (after the prequel Careless) to a new series! I've been seriously impatient for their full story ever since I read Careless, and boy did it exceed my expectations. Their chemistry set my Kindle on fire, the will they, or more accurately, when will they, had me loving the angst, and I absolutely loved how they finally settled into their feelings. It took awhile, took becoming neighbors and the close proximity having its way with Callum's restraint. I wanted to hug Callum every time he thought he wasn't good enough for Felicity because he thought he was like his horrible father. Thank God Felicity and her family relieved him of that notion for good, because I probably would have cried if they hadn't finally gotten on the same page and allowed themselves to fall in love. Callum's brother Bodhi's story Crossroads is next, and I am eagerly waiting for it.