Can a hot paramedic resuscitate this mail woman’s flatlining spirit of adventure?
Gwen Elsmere fell in love with Sebastian Kirkwood when she was sixteen, but a dead frog stole her chance to land the guy of her daydreams. Ten years later, when Gwen makes a desperate 9-1-1 call, Sebastian re-enters her life as the first paramedic on the scene. Unfortunately, she’s smeared in blood, and he’s engaged to another woman. The awkward rescue is far from the passionate reunion she’d secretly hoped for. Still, Gwen’s brief transformation from postal worker to neighborhood hero has her reevaluating her cautious nature.
If she can save a woman’s life, why can’t she change her own?
As Gwen challenges herself with adventures, big and small, she discovers an unlikely sidekick in her former crush. Sebastian reveals glimpses of the goofy teenager who first made her swoon, but there are shadows behind his eyes she wants to shine a light on. When Gwen discovers the sexy EMT is not as spoken for as everyone in Green Valley believes, she dares to hope for a second chance to risk her heart. But even as a chemist cat, drag queens, and glitter beards reward her new outgoing nature, secrets, pain, and fear threaten to snuff out her courageous spirit.
Gwen will have to decide if Sebastian and she are better late than never or better never together.
‘Letter Late Than Never’ is a full-length contemporary romance and can be read as a standalone. Book #3 in the Green Valley Heroes series, Green Valley Chronicles, Penny Reid Book Universe.
My Rating:
Favorite Quotes:
Sibling love— it’s an odd category, where one moment you want to shove their head in a toilet, and the next, you’re researching how to hide a dead body because someone said the wrong thing to them.
Ryan shifts in his seat, and I wonder if his butt ever goes numb, like mine sometimes does on longer days of driving. When that happens, I usually pull off to the side of the road and do some jumping jacks. Good to keep the blood pumping. Also earns me strange looks from random people driving by.
My Review:
This was a fun and amusing read that covered a lot of ground and ticklish issues while slipping in snippets of previously featured Green Valley characters and quirky residents. I adored this couple, their storylines were entertaining as well as insightful, and engaging. This was my introduction to Ms. Connolly’s work as her main genre is not one I am drawn to dabble in, yet I delighted in her word skills and would eagerly pick up more of her rom/coms in the future.
About the Author
Lauren Connolly is an award-winning author of contemporary and paranormal romance stories. She’s lived among mountains, next to lakes, and in imaginary worlds. Lauren can never seem to stay in one place for too long, but trust that wherever she’s residing there is a dog who thinks he’s a troll, twin cats hiding in the couch, and bookshelves bursting with stories written by the authors she loves.
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