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Into the Emerald
Jo Flynn has never been in love. She is still looking for that connection. Sparks and tingles. Humor and tenderness. Desire. On a business trip to Raleigh, North Carolina a need for more coffee sends her to a cafe where a chance encounter with a beautiful woman with emerald green eyes changes her perspective of what she's been looking for and her own beliefs about herself. Sarah Evans was not ready to date again. Her last girlfriend took her by surprise and kicked her out of their apartment, moving in the new girl the same weekend. When she took the only available seat remaining at the coffee shop that day, she didn't plan on meeting someone like Jo. An intoxicating and sexy woman with a smile that cripples her. She was only there for coffee. Overwhelmed with unfamiliar feelings, Jo neglects to tell Sarah that she has a boyfriend, perpetuating an emotional evening that ends with the two of them falling asleep together in Jo’s hotel room. Time and distance keep them apart until after weeks of waiting, they share an incredible night together. An emotional connection tied up with intense physical attraction. Jo takes a new job, moves across the country and throws herself into a love affair with all the excitement, humor and confusion a new relationship can bring. Sarah overcomes her fear of being hurt again and seeks to claim Jo as her one and only. Will they take a leap to make it forever? This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, businesses, places, events, locales, and incidents are either the products of the author’s imagination or used in a fictitious manner. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events is purely coincidental.
244 pages, Kindle Edition
First published October 17, 2018
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Rae McDaniel
9 books6 followersRae McDaniel is a lesbian romance author living and working in the beautiful Pacific Northwest.
An avid hiker and lover of nature, she spends her weekends searching for new waterfalls, followed by a mad scramble to get all the housework done.
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Rae worships coffee and drinks far too much of it every day. She finds humor and joy in each day and enjoys sharing that with others.
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An avid hiker and lover of nature, she spends her weekends searching for new waterfalls, followed by a mad scramble to get all the housework done.
Now Available! Sol's Ruin: Book one of the Out from the Under Series!
Book one of the Coffee and Emerald series: Into the Emerald, Crimson and Amber, and The Essence of Green are available now on Amazon in e-book and paperback format.
Follow Rae to find out more about the Coffee and Emeralds series and other books on the horizon.
Rae worships coffee and drinks far too much of it every day. She finds humor and joy in each day and enjoys sharing that with others.
Visit www.RaeMcDaniel.com to sign up for the newsletter and chat live with Rae when she's available.
Find her blog here: www.RaeMcDaniel.com
Listen to her podcast, Lavender Lines and Lowdowns here:
https://open.spotify.com/show/6wOqWiZ...
It's also available on Amazon, Apple, IHeartMusic, Google podcasts and others!
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Displaying 1 - 13 of 13 reviews
June 24, 2019
Cute romance with a bit of insta-love, not much angst plus a lot of “make love” FTB scenes.
We follow Sarah and Jo as they fall in love and tell each other at least three times per page, have great, supportive friends and family and have a lot of meals and showers that are judiciously documented.
The book is written in 1st person that flip-flops between our two mains so much that I had a lot of trouble figuring out who was the POV character. Often, in the middle of a scene I’d realize I had forgotten who was speaking. It didn’t really matter as both of the mains are indistinguishable from each other and speak and think in exactly the same way. There was one very short and odd scene in the 3rd person where Jo’s best friends are discussing something about Jo and Sarah.
Not a bad read overall. They didn’t have sex right away, which I thought was a nice touch because it’s a toaster oven story, although they did kiss,make out and sleep together right from the start, but they’re both adults so I didn’t have much issue there.
This book had a lot of technical errors; commas left out, homonyms incorrectly used (eek vs eke) and sometimes we’d have one scene from one POV and then have to read it over again from the other POV, which I found slowed down an already not-action-packed story.
Three stars.
We follow Sarah and Jo as they fall in love and tell each other at least three times per page, have great, supportive friends and family and have a lot of meals and showers that are judiciously documented.
The book is written in 1st person that flip-flops between our two mains so much that I had a lot of trouble figuring out who was the POV character. Often, in the middle of a scene I’d realize I had forgotten who was speaking. It didn’t really matter as both of the mains are indistinguishable from each other and speak and think in exactly the same way. There was one very short and odd scene in the 3rd person where Jo’s best friends are discussing something about Jo and Sarah.
Not a bad read overall. They didn’t have sex right away, which I thought was a nice touch because it’s a toaster oven story, although they did kiss,make out and sleep together right from the start, but they’re both adults so I didn’t have much issue there.
This book had a lot of technical errors; commas left out, homonyms incorrectly used (eek vs eke) and sometimes we’d have one scene from one POV and then have to read it over again from the other POV, which I found slowed down an already not-action-packed story.
Three stars.
November 4, 2018
2.75 stars, this book starts out with promise. The characters are interesting enough, but it just seems to fall flat. It is s happy ending with a second book coming. Free on KU.
November 15, 2018
I enjoyed this story of two women falling in love and trying to figure out life around their love. Someone mentioned the story falling flat. I think the story contained a lot of what other people might consider minutia. I think of it as details in life. I felt like I was following their lives with all the bumps in the road. Picture moving. Yup, all those details. I liked it.
November 27, 2020
Strange, slightly strained, short sentences, that drove the story forward, but it never felt comfortable. Drove relentlessly from A to B, alternating narrative.
April 2, 2019
Looking forward to the next book in the series.
February 9, 2019
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This is a well written book. Love the characters and look forward to reading the series as it progresses. Keep writing you have talent.
This is a well written book. Love the characters and look forward to reading the series as it progresses. Keep writing you have talent.
February 17, 2019
Sweet
I love the main characters. Jo and Sarah are so good together and so much in love. There are nice love scenes and a great ending.
I love the main characters. Jo and Sarah are so good together and so much in love. There are nice love scenes and a great ending.
August 23, 2019
Fantasies of "forever love" fulfilled
This story is everything we imagine when we dream about finding our forever love: attraction, connection, emotion, passion, satisfaction… perfection!!
I'm excited & interested to see what awaits for the relationship & lives of Jo & Sarah in the next phase of this series.
This story is everything we imagine when we dream about finding our forever love: attraction, connection, emotion, passion, satisfaction… perfection!!
I'm excited & interested to see what awaits for the relationship & lives of Jo & Sarah in the next phase of this series.
July 7, 2019
Cute story
This was a cute,sweet story that on some levels can be very relatable. Jo and Sarah start out on a lovely merry go round romance and four months later they end up with the HEA ending. Very sweet.
This was a cute,sweet story that on some levels can be very relatable. Jo and Sarah start out on a lovely merry go round romance and four months later they end up with the HEA ending. Very sweet.
June 18, 2020
Not my cup of tea
The beginning of this book was quite good. However it became very predictable and as a reader I like books which have a few twist an turns. The style of writing with short staccato sentences also made it seem rushed.
The beginning of this book was quite good. However it became very predictable and as a reader I like books which have a few twist an turns. The style of writing with short staccato sentences also made it seem rushed.
June 9, 2019
I loved reading this book and am looking forward to book 2.
In the beginning the personalities of Jo and Sarah are hard to visualize in the mind, except for amber and green eyes.
In the beginning the personalities of Jo and Sarah are hard to visualize in the mind, except for amber and green eyes.
September 26, 2019
Fantastic
I really enjoyed this book. It isn't the usual stuff you read and that's why i enjoyed it. Thank you
I really enjoyed this book. It isn't the usual stuff you read and that's why i enjoyed it. Thank you
January 8, 2020
We see Jo and Sarah's journey from meeting at a coffee shop in NC to how they got together and went from a LDR to living together and all the struggles all of that brings.
The pase was slow, sometimes I had to stop angad a break before I resume reading again and since I have to have closer, I went and bought the 2nd one.
Overall an okay reading for when you don't have new books.
The pase was slow, sometimes I had to stop angad a break before I resume reading again and since I have to have closer, I went and bought the 2nd one.
Overall an okay reading for when you don't have new books.
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