After three years overseas, Aiden Hamilton returns to Chicago. During his absence, he thought often of his teenage love, Tiffany, and longs to rekindle their relationship. Except there are two major hurdles—his acceptance into medical school in another state, and the continued efforts of their families to separate them.
Tiffany Baxter has spent the last three years of her life doing her best to remain invisible to her unsupportive parents. The events of her teenage years have created deep emotional scars, and despite the sporadic and secret contact from Aiden, she assumes he is lost to her forever.
Each have struggled to accept the circumstances that separated them. Both want to move on, yet overcoming the obstacles seem to be impossible. Whenever they manage to find their way back to each other, inevitably they are torn apart.
With infinite promises between them, they hope this time will be the one that binds them together.
Author of Women's Fiction, Contemporary Fiction, and Contemporary Romance.
A World of Second Chances...
Kate Smith writes full-length novels in the genres of Contemporary and Women's Fiction with a liberal dose of Contemporary Romance.
Journey with the characters as the experience love and loss, joy and pain, and beginnings and endings.
Book 1 of her new series, You Me & Us is now available worldwide in ebook and paperback. Between You Me & Us is a Contemporary Romance with a strong female lead. The second book, Before You Me & Us is scheduled to release in 2021.
The Hamilton Series consists of six full-length novels and is also available worldwide.
Kate lives in the sunny Okanagan in British Columbia, Canada and has two daughters. She loves travel, a good cup of coffee, chocolate, and beautiful sandy beaches.
As with the rest of this series, I loved this book! Kate Smith is not only a very talented author, but she is also a fabulous creator of realistic romantic relationships and family situations!
Having read all of the other installments in this series, I was a bit leery of this one. It has nothing to do with the author or the series, but I am all about Aiden and Emily and have never been a fan of Tiffany. Yes, towards, the end of the series, she began to redeem herself in my eyes, but still, she wasn’t my favorite. However, Kate Smith has completely changed my perception of Tiffany.
This young woman endured a very challenging upbringing, fell in love, endured tragedy, fell in love even more, finally got the guy, but screwed it up. My thoughts have always been that she got what she deserved, and I am still not a fan of infidelity in any way, shape, or form. However, Kate managed to characterize and humanize Tiffany in a way that I didn’t know was possible. There is certainly more to this underdog of a character than what her actions suggest. Which, of course, I always knew this but still chose not to like her.
Anyway, I won’t go into the plot much more because readers of the series already know the outcome of Tiffany and Aiden’s relationship. However, I will mention that not only does Kate Smith show a different side of Tiffany, she also shows a different side of Aiden that at times, was disturbing, but also made me love his character and who he eventually became, all the more.
Like the others in the series, Everything We Promised is emotional, endearing at times, heartbreaking at times, but most of all – honest. I can’t recall ever being so in love with a series, the characters, the author’s writing, and just the overall feeling I get after reading one of these books. I can’t begin to find the words that would truly encompass my respect of Kate Smith.