By: Kelly Eadon
Releasing
July 5, 2016
Forever Yours
TEMPTATION NEVER
TASTED SO SWEET...
When life
hands lemons to Beth Beverley, she makes mouthwatering lemon squares. Mostly
because they're coveted by the sexy single dad who owns Belmont's most popular
coffee shop. But that's where her crush on Griffin has to end. Her sweet treats
are selling like crazy cakes in his shop, and she doesn't mix business with
pleasure. Too bad his sinful smile has her flirting with the idea of forever.
Griffin
Hall definitely needs to keep his eyes--and his hands--off Beth. Since he's
traded in late-night gigs and partying for bedtime stories with his little girl
in his arms, he doesn't have time for anything else. So why does Beth's big
heart and easy way with his daughter make him finally feel alive again? But
there's a little secret Beth doesn't know, something he can't bear to tell her
. . .
Beth Beverley is a busy women; she is a part-time baker, part-time
seamstress, part-time drama teacher for
children and throw in some babysitting! She is one women whom is run off of her
feet but that doesn't stop her from having feeling for the delicious hunk that
owns Little Ray Of Sunshine Coffee Shop…Griffin Hall.
Griffin Hall has a past that he keeps hidden from the world, mainly
because he is focused on being a father to his daughter Mabel, but another side
is terrified on his past being used against him again and having his daughter
taken away from him. But despite all of that he is intrigued by Beth Beverley
so much so, that he can't get her out of his head.
Griffin decides to take a leap of faith with Beth and they start seeing
one another and quickly get wrapped upped in each other, until Griffins secrets
of the past show up and could destroy everything that they have built together.
WOW! Kelly Eadon has blown me away again with another story from that
small little town of Belmont. I absolutely loved Beth's character and her Jill
of all trades life! Griffin character is a mixture of sweet and HOT!!
Seriously! I need to move to this town! Mabel's character is really the show
stealer! She has all that sass of a 4 year old and you can’t help but love
her…and Black Kitty.
The writing was not jumpy or filled with fluff and nonsense, but smooth
and brilliant and truly made this book a delight to read.
The plot was superb and I couldn't help but full in love with the
little town and the people in it! I also loved the way that the author has
written the lead male as the single father and the insecurities that any single
parent would have. I also love how the Beth also has nerves about starting a
new business after failing! I love the way the author has inspiring messages woven throughout it.
I give The Family Man 5 stars!
He lifted a few containers out of a
picnic basket and opened them on the blanket. “But you remind me of this town
in Italy. I know that seems like a weird thing to say, that you remind me of a
town. But it’s full of all these paths that take you to completely unexpected
places. Everywhere you turn, someone is trying to feed you. Everyone smiles all
the time, and they have a little street theater with puppets that the kids
gather around to watch.”
He lifted his eyes to her and
grinned. “If you were a place, Beth, you would be this place. We played a
concert in a city nearby, but we had a day off and I explored the town by
myself. The whole time I kept thinking how great it would be to share it with
someone. The other night it came to me: I had to have lunch with you in
Urbino.”
Her breath caught. Wow.
He gestured to the food he’d laid
out on the blanket. Olives, figs, cheese, bread, dried fruit. Her mouth watered
just looking at it. “So here you go. Lunch in Urbino.”
Her eyes stung and she blinked hard.
This could not be happening. This could not be real.
“Wow.”
The corners of his mouth dropped and
his eyebrows furrowed. “Do you like it?” He dropped his gaze to his lap, where
his hands fidgeted. “Is it too much?”
She threw herself at him, covering
his face with kisses, not caring if she knocked anything over. “It’s the most
incredible thing anyone has ever done for me.”
His fingers closed around her waist
and he tugged her into his lap. He pressed his mouth to hers and used the tip
of his tongue to trace the seam of her lips.
A high-pitched whistle pierced the
air. She raised her head and found a group of teenage boys giving them the
thumbs-up.
Her face heated and she crawled back
to her spot on the other side of the blanket.
She reached for the container of
olives and spooned a few onto her plate. “I feel like I should warn you that
dessert is entirely off-theme.”
He raised an eyebrow and popped a
fig into his mouth. “Oh yeah?”
She nodded. “Oh yeah.”
Then she reached for the plastic bag
in her purse and plopped it onto the blanket, so that one of the cookies was
faceup inside the package.
He leaned toward it, his eyes
narrowing. “What kind of cookie is that?”
She’d iced them pink and then used magenta
piping to create little curlicues. “Pig butt.”
His gaze jerked to hers and he
blinked a few times. “A pig butt cookie?”
The tickle in her throat became too
much, she burst into giggles. “Just the decoration, not the flavoring. I found
them on Pinterest. Nailed it, right?”
He threw his head back and laughed.
“Yup. You nailed it. That is most definitely a pig’s ass. Martha Stewart, the
person not the van, would be impressed.”
With a giggle, she tipped her head
back to let the sunshine warm her face.
It was as near to perfect as a date
could be.
Kelly Eadon is a romance writer living in Richmond,
Virginia with her husband and a house full of rescue animals, aka "the
kraken". She swears like a sailor and says whatever pops into her head. In
order to counteract her big mouth, she wears high heels whenever possible. In
her spare time she spins, kick boxes and attempts to renovate her farmhouse.
She hates sanding drywall, loves to cook, drinks lots of wine, gets scary
competitive at trivia, and enjoys time spent exploring with her rescued beagle
mixes.
