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Love Me Knot: Part One
Eight years. No bonds. No way out.
A year ago, I walked away from my neglectful alphas. No more waiting by the phone, no more lonely heats, no more trying to be the perfect omega.
I’m ready to start over. Until my former alphas postpone our dissolution again, with an ultimatum that changes come home or they’ll take majority control of my lingerie business.
After all, what’s mine is theirs, right?
Exhausted, overwhelmed and sick of their shit, it’s no wonder I forget my heat suppressants. No wonder I go into heat in a fabric store.
And in the madness, I find them.
Nate, the grieving golden retriever mechanic who literally sniffs me out.
Dez, the artist, battling instinct and insecurity.
Connor, the distant pack lead, drowning himself in work to avoid his failures.
After an incredible heat together, I think that’ll be it. But Pack Morgan’s not ready to let me go, and even with my future in shambles, I can’t seem to walk away.
There’s a bond between us I can’t shake, even without a bite, but this pack’s had their own losses. Ones that left scars I’m not sure I can heal. The closer I get to Nate and Dez, the farther Connor grows until I’m left wondering where we stand.
I spent years ignoring the red flags in my former pack, and I can’t help but wonder…is Pack Morgan truly my second chance at love or another scent match gone sour?
Love Me Knot is a sweet but smutty why-choose omegaverse duet. There is no choosing, no cheating. Part One ends in a cliffhanger, but Part Two will end in an HEA.
A year ago, I walked away from my neglectful alphas. No more waiting by the phone, no more lonely heats, no more trying to be the perfect omega.
I’m ready to start over. Until my former alphas postpone our dissolution again, with an ultimatum that changes come home or they’ll take majority control of my lingerie business.
After all, what’s mine is theirs, right?
Exhausted, overwhelmed and sick of their shit, it’s no wonder I forget my heat suppressants. No wonder I go into heat in a fabric store.
And in the madness, I find them.
Nate, the grieving golden retriever mechanic who literally sniffs me out.
Dez, the artist, battling instinct and insecurity.
Connor, the distant pack lead, drowning himself in work to avoid his failures.
After an incredible heat together, I think that’ll be it. But Pack Morgan’s not ready to let me go, and even with my future in shambles, I can’t seem to walk away.
There’s a bond between us I can’t shake, even without a bite, but this pack’s had their own losses. Ones that left scars I’m not sure I can heal. The closer I get to Nate and Dez, the farther Connor grows until I’m left wondering where we stand.
I spent years ignoring the red flags in my former pack, and I can’t help but wonder…is Pack Morgan truly my second chance at love or another scent match gone sour?
Love Me Knot is a sweet but smutty why-choose omegaverse duet. There is no choosing, no cheating. Part One ends in a cliffhanger, but Part Two will end in an HEA.
616 pages, Kindle Edition
Published June 29, 2025
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June 30, 2025
The FMC's nickname is kitten.
This may be a DNF from me unless it gets better.
Kitten?! *rolls eyes*
This book was about 150 pages longer than it needed to be. So many scenes with too much dialogue didn't add anything to the story. Those scenes were there only to pad the page count, not to add any depth to the story. The author could really use an editor and not a team of friends.
While the premise started off strong (a group of people have to go on a healing journey), there was no actual forward momentum with the plot. The book was composed of a bunch of scenes.
FMC was abused for over eight years and she doesn't go into therapy? She finally lives on her own and gets to discover who she is, but forgoes all of that in an instant after meeting her scent matches?
We had a chance to get a story about an omega who was abused, finally leaving the situation, and learning to find herself and what she likes. But we don't get that. Instead we get a story of an omega who leaves her abusive pack but only learns to find herself with the help of her NEW pack. At every turn, she needed a man to help her.
She's so blind to the world around her, she doesn't see Connor for what he is until the very end of the book and by then, they've been courting for 3-5 months?
Like so many why-choose writers, this author chose to have very dumb nicknames for the FMC. I've started to realize that the less mature authors use nicknames as crutches and this book further solidifies that point. This is the authors debut novel, so her writing isn't very mature and the traps she chose to follow for the A-B-O universe only highlight that point.
Here are the nicknames/terms of endearments:
Kitten, pretty kitten, baby, angel, gorgeous, little muse, omega, sweet kitten, perfect omega, beautiful omega, sweetness.
I was REALLY hoping we wouldn't get a "little" name and I felt such disappointment when we did.
There were over 75 spelling/punctuation/tense/formatting issues for the book.
Connor's personality is where the immaturity of the author's career really shined. FMC attempts to explain to Connor that she is going through a divorce (of sorts), pulls up the court case and tells everyone to read it. Even with the proof right at his fingertips, he still calls the FMC a liar and thinks the worst of her. Three separate people pointed out to Connor that he is acting like the FMC's ex's by willfully neglecting her, and he refuses to change. It's like the author had a certain personality written for Connor and she refused to budge.
There were attempts at making the writing and characters seem elevated, but it didn't land. Like this gem: "The thing about ice is, when put again heat, it melts, leaving nothing but a puddle where barriers should be."
Wow, thanks for explaining ice melting.
There was so much telling and then retelling and not a lot of showing or allowing the audience to use their brains to fill in the blank. For example, if two people share a look (that are not the author of the chapter), we see the look, then we have the POV character explain the look to each other in GREAT detail and then tell us what the look means for everyone involved.
I do hope that the author grows for book two. I also hope that she can afford to hire a quality editor so that she doesn't waste her readers time with unnecessary scenes and dialogue so we can have a valid reading experience.
This may be a DNF from me unless it gets better.
Kitten?! *rolls eyes*
This book was about 150 pages longer than it needed to be. So many scenes with too much dialogue didn't add anything to the story. Those scenes were there only to pad the page count, not to add any depth to the story. The author could really use an editor and not a team of friends.
While the premise started off strong (a group of people have to go on a healing journey), there was no actual forward momentum with the plot. The book was composed of a bunch of scenes.
FMC was abused for over eight years and she doesn't go into therapy? She finally lives on her own and gets to discover who she is, but forgoes all of that in an instant after meeting her scent matches?
We had a chance to get a story about an omega who was abused, finally leaving the situation, and learning to find herself and what she likes. But we don't get that. Instead we get a story of an omega who leaves her abusive pack but only learns to find herself with the help of her NEW pack. At every turn, she needed a man to help her.
She's so blind to the world around her, she doesn't see Connor for what he is until the very end of the book and by then, they've been courting for 3-5 months?
Like so many why-choose writers, this author chose to have very dumb nicknames for the FMC. I've started to realize that the less mature authors use nicknames as crutches and this book further solidifies that point. This is the authors debut novel, so her writing isn't very mature and the traps she chose to follow for the A-B-O universe only highlight that point.
Here are the nicknames/terms of endearments:
Kitten, pretty kitten, baby, angel, gorgeous, little muse, omega, sweet kitten, perfect omega, beautiful omega, sweetness.
I was REALLY hoping we wouldn't get a "little" name and I felt such disappointment when we did.
There were over 75 spelling/punctuation/tense/formatting issues for the book.
Connor's personality is where the immaturity of the author's career really shined. FMC attempts to explain to Connor that she is going through a divorce (of sorts), pulls up the court case and tells everyone to read it. Even with the proof right at his fingertips, he still calls the FMC a liar and thinks the worst of her. Three separate people pointed out to Connor that he is acting like the FMC's ex's by willfully neglecting her, and he refuses to change. It's like the author had a certain personality written for Connor and she refused to budge.
There were attempts at making the writing and characters seem elevated, but it didn't land. Like this gem: "The thing about ice is, when put again heat, it melts, leaving nothing but a puddle where barriers should be."
Wow, thanks for explaining ice melting.
There was so much telling and then retelling and not a lot of showing or allowing the audience to use their brains to fill in the blank. For example, if two people share a look (that are not the author of the chapter), we see the look, then we have the POV character explain the look to each other in GREAT detail and then tell us what the look means for everyone involved.
I do hope that the author grows for book two. I also hope that she can afford to hire a quality editor so that she doesn't waste her readers time with unnecessary scenes and dialogue so we can have a valid reading experience.
July 5, 2025
eh this book had so much potential. I’m used to miscommunication tropes but this one was blatantly just adults choosing to act like children. They’re literally in their 30s and they act like teenagers.
I liked the side characters, even flawed they were mature adults. This book needed them in order to keep it afloat. Them calling out the bullshit made me eager to read more about them.
But I HATED the text message chapters. It felt so fanfiction. Every time I got to them, I groaned and wanted to dnf.
I get Daphne has a lot of trauma but the ending really solidified how childish and just immature she is. Running away at the ripe age of 30 because someone didn’t want to take her phone call? It was very clearly a high stress, volatile moment going on with Connor and her first response was to make it about herself and literally run away like she’s some 12 year old. If it was me, I would’ve shown up at the office and demanded to know wtf had my alpha spazzing out like this. She clearly isn’t that possessive and that much of *their* omega if her immediate response wasn’t to try and smooth him. She obviously didn’t try at all to trust and get to know him truly.
The other alphas were okay…they’re honestly doormats and I couldn’t get into it. I skimmed majority of the spice because i just couldn’t feel the connection between them all. One of them being a virgin literally held no weight what so ever, he threw it away the moment he got a chance.
And they did a whole lotta talkin, 600+ pages worth of talkin just to end up in the same place. And for all the characters to just be annoying as fuck.
I’ll have to be really bored and low on reading material for me to pick up the next book.
I liked the side characters, even flawed they were mature adults. This book needed them in order to keep it afloat. Them calling out the bullshit made me eager to read more about them.
But I HATED the text message chapters. It felt so fanfiction. Every time I got to them, I groaned and wanted to dnf.
I get Daphne has a lot of trauma but the ending really solidified how childish and just immature she is. Running away at the ripe age of 30 because someone didn’t want to take her phone call? It was very clearly a high stress, volatile moment going on with Connor and her first response was to make it about herself and literally run away like she’s some 12 year old. If it was me, I would’ve shown up at the office and demanded to know wtf had my alpha spazzing out like this. She clearly isn’t that possessive and that much of *their* omega if her immediate response wasn’t to try and smooth him. She obviously didn’t try at all to trust and get to know him truly.
The other alphas were okay…they’re honestly doormats and I couldn’t get into it. I skimmed majority of the spice because i just couldn’t feel the connection between them all. One of them being a virgin literally held no weight what so ever, he threw it away the moment he got a chance.
And they did a whole lotta talkin, 600+ pages worth of talkin just to end up in the same place. And for all the characters to just be annoying as fuck.
I’ll have to be really bored and low on reading material for me to pick up the next book.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
March 2, 2026
This features an FMC leaving her existing pack of neglectful assholes and unexpectedly finding a new pack.
I was looking for high-angst, but this in more in the lower tier. But that isn't a bad thing in this case. The writing here is very high-quality, in my opinion. Different characters feel like different characters, there are very few (if any) technical writing issues and everything makes sense. There was never a point where I felt like the characters were being immature or that something they did was being forced for plot's sake. They behave in ways that felt realistic for their character, flaws included.
But the real gem comes in the MMCs. Two of the three are all-in immediately (fated mate stuff), but even with that, they still actively develop a relationship with the FMC. The third has some trauma and baggage from his first marriage. (It's also the first time I've seen an omega's heat as a cause for trauma for an MMC, but it makes complete sense.) Aside from that, he's very much in a "I don't trust" mode. He fucks up pretty hard early on, the FMC shuts his bullshit down, the other MMCs in his pack are furious and don't give a fuck about his reasons, and he ends up taking accountability. He tries to do better (at least until he fucks up in a totally different way) and there's some genuine emotional maturity between him and the FMC, even as both are processing deep-seated trauma from past relationship.
That fuck-up, unfortunately, is the cliff-hanger for this duet. But the author has done such a good job at showing that the MMCs, including him, are not terrible people and are trying to be good for the FMC that I'm willing to give him the benefit of the doubt.
On top of all that, this is one of those rare RH novels where the FMC has friends. Real friends that pass the Bechdel Test and are pretty funny.
I was looking for high-angst, but this in more in the lower tier. But that isn't a bad thing in this case. The writing here is very high-quality, in my opinion. Different characters feel like different characters, there are very few (if any) technical writing issues and everything makes sense. There was never a point where I felt like the characters were being immature or that something they did was being forced for plot's sake. They behave in ways that felt realistic for their character, flaws included.
But the real gem comes in the MMCs. Two of the three are all-in immediately (fated mate stuff), but even with that, they still actively develop a relationship with the FMC. The third has some trauma and baggage from his first marriage. (It's also the first time I've seen an omega's heat as a cause for trauma for an MMC, but it makes complete sense.) Aside from that, he's very much in a "I don't trust" mode. He fucks up pretty hard early on, the FMC shuts his bullshit down, the other MMCs in his pack are furious and don't give a fuck about his reasons, and he ends up taking accountability. He tries to do better (at least until he fucks up in a totally different way) and there's some genuine emotional maturity between him and the FMC, even as both are processing deep-seated trauma from past relationship.
That fuck-up, unfortunately, is the cliff-hanger for this duet. But the author has done such a good job at showing that the MMCs, including him, are not terrible people and are trying to be good for the FMC that I'm willing to give him the benefit of the doubt.
On top of all that, this is one of those rare RH novels where the FMC has friends. Real friends that pass the Bechdel Test and are pretty funny.
March 2, 2026
A very enjoyable omegaverse read with a mature, loveable cast. All of the characters felt distinct and real, with their own personalities and baggage to work through.
While the romance between Daphne and her alphas was the main focus of the book (and I loved it, particularly whenever Nate was on-page), I also adored seeing Daphne and her friends interact. Overbearing besties in romance books can be very hit-or-miss for me, but I loved these ones and I hope they get their own books as well. I can say the same for some other side characters that popped up, too.
This book does end on a rough cliffhanger, though! External and internal conflicts galore. I'm eagerly anticipating book two. 🤞
While the romance between Daphne and her alphas was the main focus of the book (and I loved it, particularly whenever Nate was on-page), I also adored seeing Daphne and her friends interact. Overbearing besties in romance books can be very hit-or-miss for me, but I loved these ones and I hope they get their own books as well. I can say the same for some other side characters that popped up, too.
This book does end on a rough cliffhanger, though! External and internal conflicts galore. I'm eagerly anticipating book two. 🤞
April 25, 2026
A decent story. The angst was pretty good, the characters were good (although the FMC acted pretty immature for her age) the relationships felt developed enough to believe, and I liked that one of the characters who badly needed therapy went to it, even if he wasn't doing a good job at changing his behavior accordingly.
That said, this book felt really dragged out - 600 pages should be more than enough to finish a story like this (focused on the relationship, rather than plot and action). By the 75% mark I was getting bored and started skimming through chapters. I don't care to read that many sex scenes or basic life dialogue.
I don't think I'll read the second book.
That said, this book felt really dragged out - 600 pages should be more than enough to finish a story like this (focused on the relationship, rather than plot and action). By the 75% mark I was getting bored and started skimming through chapters. I don't care to read that many sex scenes or basic life dialogue.
I don't think I'll read the second book.
Did Not Finish
April 26, 2026I read over half way through and I've decided to DNF. The premise was interesting and I was really into the story at the start but the plot came to a screeching halt. Then a whole lot of nothing happened, with two of the MMCs being practically written the same. I'm a very visual reader and I like visualizing everything I'm reading but for the life of me I couldn't visualize the MMCs and that's usually a big indication that the writer isn't very descriptive when she writes.
A lot of the dialogue with the side characters could have been cut out, it felt like the author was trying to pad the book? Not really worth continuing.
A lot of the dialogue with the side characters could have been cut out, it felt like the author was trying to pad the book? Not really worth continuing.
June 29, 2025
- MFMM
- Second Chance
- Virgin MMC
- Abused FMC
- Abused MMCs
- Grovel Light
- Found Family
- Cliffhanger
I really like this book, there were some grammatical errors here and there, but I found myself really sucked into these characters stories. Our FMC is such a little survivor and I love how she continued to soldier on after everything that happened to her.
There is a big cliffhanger at the end of this book and someone has a big grovel to do if anyone in his life is going to forgive him.
Can’t wait till the next book!
- Second Chance
- Virgin MMC
- Abused FMC
- Abused MMCs
- Grovel Light
- Found Family
- Cliffhanger
I really like this book, there were some grammatical errors here and there, but I found myself really sucked into these characters stories. Our FMC is such a little survivor and I love how she continued to soldier on after everything that happened to her.
There is a big cliffhanger at the end of this book and someone has a big grovel to do if anyone in his life is going to forgive him.
Can’t wait till the next book!
June 6, 2026
Emotional
Emotionally engaging and slightly exhausting, this book was beautifully crafted to enhance the drama surrounding these characters, especially her character, given the trauma she had and continued to experience. Great cast of characters, memorable moments, and captivating romance. I can’t wait to read the rest of their story.
Emotionally engaging and slightly exhausting, this book was beautifully crafted to enhance the drama surrounding these characters, especially her character, given the trauma she had and continued to experience. Great cast of characters, memorable moments, and captivating romance. I can’t wait to read the rest of their story.
July 8, 2026
Absolutely outstanding
I cannot recommend this book highly enough.
its long, yes, but every word has earned its place.
The characters have real depth, the stakes are real, the reactions are believable, the human connection is there. And the spice sizzles.
I can’t wait for book 2!
I cannot recommend this book highly enough.
its long, yes, but every word has earned its place.
The characters have real depth, the stakes are real, the reactions are believable, the human connection is there. And the spice sizzles.
I can’t wait for book 2!
January 16, 2026
It was great and really cute, except for Connor, whom I honestly couldn’t stand.
Especially knowing he’s had nine whole years to deal with his issues, while the MC is still freshly traumatized.
I’m really hoping there’s a lot of groveling from him.
I can’t wait for the second volume !
Especially knowing he’s had nine whole years to deal with his issues, while the MC is still freshly traumatized.
I’m really hoping there’s a lot of groveling from him.
I can’t wait for the second volume !
July 1, 2026
No reason for cliffhanger
This book was excessively lengthy and could have been condensed into a single book. Considering it’s been a year since the publication of part 1 and there are no indications of part 2’s completion, it’s quite disappointing.
This book was excessively lengthy and could have been condensed into a single book. Considering it’s been a year since the publication of part 1 and there are no indications of part 2’s completion, it’s quite disappointing.
Want to Read
March 12, 2025Comes out in April but ends on Cliffy so wait till second book. One of the Alpha's is a virgin!
September 5, 2025
This was so good I can't wait to read part two!
|Ends with a minor cliffhanger.
|Ends with a minor cliffhanger.
September 21, 2025
Beta read this book and enjoyed it a lot. This is all in one package. If you love second chance,hurt comfort I highly recommend this book. Counting days to read next book
November 3, 2025
DNF - 82%
Yup... 82% page 506!!!
This book.. is DRAGING... and then I notice it's part one of two... yikes. I give up.
Yup... 82% page 506!!!
This book.. is DRAGING... and then I notice it's part one of two... yikes. I give up.
May 24, 2026
Boring. Took a while to get through and the second book is on publishing hold indefinitely? Hard to tell.
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