Title: Stay With Me
Author: Jessica Prince
Series: Hope Valley
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Rory Hightower had a good life. She had a loving family, great friends, and a job she adored, running Hope Valley’s local watering hole, The Tap Room. But there was just one thing missing. Ever since she was a little girl, she knew there was one special guy out there just for her. Her dream man. And when Cord walked into her bar, she knew instantly it was him. Which made losing him all the more painful.
Cord Paulson had only ever had one person he could depend on. And that bond ran deep. But when he moved to Hope Valley and met the breathtaking bartender with the bright blue eyes and stunning smile, he felt an instant connection. He wanted Rory from the moment he laid eyes on her. But when his past came back, and his loyalties were put to the test, he made the biggest mistake of his life.
Then one night changes everything. After avoiding him for months, Rory has no choice but to lower her guard and let him back in. And Cord plans to use that to his full advantage. He’s determined to repair the damage he caused to her heart and win her back. He may have lost the love of his life once already, but there’s no way he’ll make the same mistake twice.
**The Hope Valley series is a series of interconnected, standalone, small town romances.**
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| FINALLY we get Cord and Rory’s story, but man was it worth the wait! This series is so freaking good with hot and sexy alpha men and women with sass and so much heart, and we definitely get a healthy dose of that here! Cord broke Rory’s heart, and perhaps his own, when he made a decision that did not include her in it. FF months later and they are both miserable, he wants to make it better, but will she let him? Is she also for him to go all in for her too, or is the past coming back again? All in all, I freaking love Cord. He made some mistakes, but I get it. Whose to say that if we were not in his shoes that we wouldn’t do the same thing. Rory does not forgive and forget too easily, but she is EXTREMELY loyal. The ending made my heart happy and adored how everything played out, great job Jessica! PS: Thank you to Jessica Prince and Love Affair with Fiction for allowing me an advanced copy of the book to read and review! |
Born and raised around Houston Texas, Jessica spent most of her life complaining about the heat, humidity, and all around pain in the ass weather. It was only as an adult that she quickly realized the cost of living in Houston made up for not being able to breathe when she stepped outside. That’s why God created central air, after all.
Jessica is the mother of a perfect little boy–she refuses to accept that he inherited her attitude and sarcastic nature no matter what her husband says.
In addition to being a wife and mom, she’s also a wino, a coffee addict, and an avid lover of all types of books–romances still being her all time favs. Her husband likes to claim that reading is her obsession but she just says it’s a passion…there’s a difference. Not that she’d expect a boy to understand.
Jessica has been writing since she was a little girl, but thankfully grew out of drawing her own pictures for her stories before ever publishing her first book. Because an artist she is not.
