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My Kind of a secret pregnancy, military romance

Once upon a time, a boy and a girl met and fell in love…
That’s the way my love story began, but unlike the fairy tale, it ended with me standing in the cemetery, watching my prince get lowered into the ground, along with all our dreams.
Now he’s gone and I’m lost.
Until an impromptu trip to my family’s beach house has me spending time with Ryan.
With his help, I’m learning to live again and make plans for the future.

My Kind of a friends to lovers, surprise baby romance

You don’t find love... it finds you.
Alec is the steady in my crazy, the light to my dark. My best friend.
He might be the one for me, but I’m not the one for him.
He deserves to have a wife, kids, a home—the complete package.
How can I build those things with him when I feel so incomplete, afraid I’ll never be enough?

My Kind of a roommates-to-lovers, single dad romance

I’m surrounded by love, yet have no one to call my own.
But then Chase, my new roommate, is suddenly there.
He could be the perfect guy for me, if he wasn’t nursing a broken heart.
The more time I waste looking for love, the more I realize that what I want has been right in front of me all along.

718 pages, Kindle Edition

Published March 24, 2022

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Nikki Ash

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Nikki Ash resides in South Florida where she is an English teacher and mom by day and a writer by night. When she’s not writing, you can find her with a book in her hand. From the Boxcar Children to Wuthering Heights to the latest Single Parent Romance, she has lived and breathed every type of book.

Reading is like breathing in, writing is like breathing out. - Pam Allyn

While reading and writing are her passions, her two children are her entire world. You can probably find them at a Disney park before you would find them at home on the weekends!

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March 24, 2022
I LOVE LOVE LOVE this series! My favorite from Nikki Ash!

My Kind of Love:
There’s a reason Nikki Ash is my go-to for sweet and steamy feel- good secret baby romances- she always delivers the swoony magic. My Kind of Love gave me all the tender feelings. This is a heartfelt story that charms with its sincerity and captures with its delightful and sexy character chemistry.

This story is chock full of tropes I love- secret baby, age gap, military, and second chance. Micaela has suffered an unimaginable loss as a tender age- she’s not yet even legally able to drink yet she’s already a widow. The life she envisioned for herself has been shattered- but more so, so has her spirit. Even as time passes, she’s barely living, paralyzed by grief. But fate won’t let her linger, and a coincidence finds her and family friend Ryan unexpectedly at the same beach out. Micaela is seeking to heal, while Ryan, a Special Forces sergeant momentarily on leave, is trying to learn how to relax. His life has been an unusual one- adopted into a wealthy family at a young age and fresh out of a marriage of kindness, Ryan has always been restless. Can the man who saves everyone bring Micaela back to life? And what happens when the younger, heartbroken creature somehow settles a man who can’t seem to find a center?

Ryan is the SWOONIEST hero. This man is just a GOOD and beautiful human- and he is SO good to Micaela. This strong and reliable military man is used to saving people- he’s a protector and caregiver. His own challenging background has him craving to give others the stability, safety, and care he was so fortunate to find in his adopted parents, but he can’t seem to invest in anything other than the military. Until Micaela- and his patience, his kindness, his empathy for her just melted my heart. He’s so sexy and commanding in the bedroom, but sweet, charming, and tender in the way he loves. His devotion, his attentive love I think healed me a little bit too.

Micaela pulled at my heartstrings. But she’s strong, and has a maturity well beyond her age on the page. She’s understandably shaken by her experiences, and I found her to be quite rational and self-aware in understanding not only her own grief but the triggers and fears that manifest once she starts to heal- and once she starts to connect with Ryan, a man whose life path is unsettlingly similar to the man she’s already lost. Through it all, she’s so resilient and thoughtful - and watching her heal and rebuild her dreams was such a sweet and intimate journey. I found myself respecting her tremendously.

Nikki always writes such sweet and sexy chemistry- and MKOL is some of the best. These two connect so quickly and seamlessly, and Nikki builds such emotional nuance to their budding relationship as she incorporates their baggage. Their hearts are somehow the answer to the others’- Micaela calms and centers Ryan, helps him discover what love actually is, while Ryan provides the emotional safety Micaela needs to be brave enough to start to live again. Both of them, for different reasons, are so heartbreakingly lonely - a man who can’t stop running from everyone, and a woman who can’t seem to take a single step forward. And suddenly, they move in sync- the path forward is together, only not just how we or they imagined it. Nikki beautifully captures their sweet but hesitant connection- and they are just so adorable.

MKOL certainly has aspects of love that are hard and sad, but its heart is resoundingly hopefully and uplifting. Micaela and Ryan learn that love isn’t one size fits all- that there are different kinds of love all around and different paths to your soul mate. And, when you find the one that is just right for you, you don’t run away, you don’t hesitate- you love to the fullest. Their story certainly has left my heart pretty damn full. Swoon.

My Kind of Beautiful:
I am just so in love with this series! My Kind of Beautiful is just that- beautiful. A beautiful and emotional love story about two best friends who finally find a path to each other- only that path is unexpected at every turn. The carefree surfer and the devoted fire fighter are engrossing and charming leads, and their surprisingly emotional, sweet but bumpy journey to love was totally consuming- I read this cover to cover in one sitting. No one does sweet, tender love stories like Nikki Ash- and My Kind of Beautiful is now amongst my favorites from her.

Alec- SWOOOON. He is everything I love about a Nikki Ash hero. This sexy firefighter is beautiful inside and out- he’s a devoted friend and colleague, a loving family man, a man who loves fiercely and usually without restraint. And once he’s able to lean into his love with Lexi- it is unconditionally unrestrained. Nikki’s heroes always show me just how pure, sincere, and deep a man’s love can be- the kind of love we all hope to find. Despite never knowing if he can find a path to being with his best friend, Alec loves her faithfully anyways while by her side. Because he’s a man who leans into his heart. And once he opens up that heart to her- OH LAWD. The way he loves Lexi takes my breath away- the care, the tenderness, the unflinching patience and devotion. This is how you love.

And I simply adored Lexi. I loved her wild, carefree spirit. She has an artist's soul- she sees the beauty around her, views the world with hopeful, but critical eyes. Her passion, her zest for life is what drives her- I could feel the energy of her character pulsing off the page. I fell in love with her just like Alec. Nikki gives her a bit of existential conflict- torn between the person she thinks everyone wants her to be and the version of herself that she wants to be, the version she hasn’t quite figured out. She’s a bit lost, which makes her so relatable, but her heart is always with Alec. Outside of her family, he’s her constant- which is why she feels such fear about exploring her feelings for him. She can’t lose her person- and having only part of him is better than none at all.

Their chemistry is sweet, sincere, emotional, and tender- the kind of chemistry that no one writes like Nikki Ash. Since these two are best friends already, we jump right into a well established connection. Their familiarly, their comfort with one another, the way they know each other feels so real and intimate- and it makes the emotional angst of their hesitation feel more palpable and authentic, and the transition into more than friends feels natural. I loved them together- all the sweet love butterflies. This is the perfect evolution of a platonic connection to a soul searing love.

I love how Nikki keeps finding new challenges and obstacles to explore unconditional love in her stories. Her characters love rarely falters- that’s never really the conflict or angst. Rather Nikki always shows us how love can weather complications, pain, and unexpected hurdles- how adversity can strengthen a connection, how love can be sustained and strengthened- even if it makes it momentarily fragile. It’s why I love her love stories, what makes them so special- she doesn’t use conflict to tear her couples apart, she uses it to help them dig deeper into what’s between them. To make them stronger. And My Kind of Beautiful is such a moving articulation of that.

I know for some, the ambiguity of parts of this ending may not be your cup of tea. I don’t want to spoil- but don’t worry readers, the couple’s HEA/their togetherness is not ambiguous- we just have some unanswered questions about some other parts of their lives. But, I not only admire Nikki for ending a story in a way that may be controversial, but I also can appreciate this through the thematic lens of this story. Because life isn’t always neatly resolved- and we don’t always have all the answers. Of course, this is a more dramatic take on that uncertainty- but the point is resonant none the less. The path to love isn’t always easy or clear. The path itself is never perfect. Sometimes the road to getting there can be quiet bit of ugly. Because life isn’t always beautiful, but the love you find? That love is what is beautiful.

Nikki never fails to give me all the feelings- this is one of my favorite books of hers to date! I am so in love with this series, and I can not wait for the book coming next- we get some awesome insight into Georgia and Chase in this book, and I am DESPERATE for more. This is fast becoming my favorite Nikki Ash series yet!

My Kind of Perfect- My fav in the series!
Nikki Ash never fails to captivate and charm! My Kind of Perfect is the PERFECT conclusion to this heartfelt and swoony series about the unique paths to finding love. Swoony, sincere, sexy, and emotionally complex- this story is everything I've come to love and crave in romance. The finding love series is indeed my kind of perfect. This is a bittersweet farewell to unarguably Nikki's best series to date!

I was so excited to finally get Georgia’s story- I’ve loved her from the very moment we met her. I related to her so fiercely- her extreme introversion, her desperation to figure out her path, all while warming in the radiance of her louder and brighter sister. And when I saw the chemistry between her and Chase in My Kind of Beautiful, I was bursting at the seams to get their story. And it does not disappoint.

Our sweet and innocent Georgia finds herself rooming with the newly divorced and slightly older Chase- and overtime their coexistence blossoms into something more substantial, hesitant friends, to a meaningful connection, to an undeniable love. Like her sister’s story, her path to love is more gentle and sweet- what is more fraught are the complications that come after they’ve found their way together. Here, in the form of an unexpected and life altering surprise from Chase’s past.

What I loved most about these two is how they draw out the best of the other. Chase gives Georgia courage to pursue her “perfect path”- but to also expect that there is no perfect path, there is only the path she makes and chooses. He loves and treasures her for her softness, her quiet vulnerability and gentle heart, but he also helps her explore sides of herself she’s inadvertently repressed her hidden- some very sexy ones too (wink wink). He helps her discover her butterfly. And she helps him heal the hardened, bitter Chase- brings back the playful and loving man he was before he was burned. He doesn’t start out as swoony as the other men in this series, but then he blows them away- with his sweetness, his protectiveness, his gentle understanding and support. And he’s a little bit kinky, too. Watching them work through their emotional baggage together is so endearing and heartwarming- I swooned and smiled and cried and sighed with delight.

And that ultimately is what makes Nikki Ash so special- she lets her characters go through it TOGETHER. Conflict, drama, pain, baggage- she doesn’t allow it to rip apart a hesitant and burgeoning love for the sake of angst, rather she lets her characters lean into and grow together. Work through it as partners, imperfectly but with understanding and empathy. And that is love- THAT is romance. Leaning into a relationship that makes you better and stronger, especially when life’s unexpected challenges come your way or when you make mistakes. It’s why I find her stories so charming, and so refreshing. She lets her characters be fragile and vulnerable while letting their connection, their love, be sturdy.

I have LOVED this series so very much- swoony, sweet, sexy, sincere, and full of heartwarming themes. Themes that remind us that there is not perfect path, in life or in love. What matters is that you are living- and that you aren't scared of loving, even when the path to getting there isn't the kind of love story you expected, a beautiful in a way you never expected, or only perfect for you.
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225 reviews5 followers
March 29, 2022
Don't pass up these 3 great books

My Kind of Love
Just because you love someone it doesn't mean it is forever.
Unfortunately Micaela learns this way to early in her brand new marriage. While grieving she doesn't know how she will move on with her plans with out her husband. Then she meets Ryan or remeets Ryan, since he has been a family friend her whole life. But with being away in the military and their age difference it is like meeting him for the first time in a different light. Ryan shows her that she is young and has her whole life in frount of her, while she will miss her husband forever she has to start living again. Could she live that life with Ryan or was he just ment to be in her life for a short period of time? Can she be with someone that faces danger every day in his career? Is loving someone for even a short period of time worth it than not loving at all? Can a suprise secret that will tie Micaela and Ryan together forever be enough to keep them together. Nikki Ash does it again in an amazing can't put down book about this amazing family and now their children. A must read.

My Kind of Beautiful
Best friends to Lovers. Alec and Lexi's story was nothing short of amazing until a crazy psycho trys to destroy it all. Is their love strong enough to endor all the crazyness? Will Lexi find her self and her true path. Worth the read.

My Kind of Perfect
Perfect story of 2 people with pasts that have hurt them. Georgia is a shy introvert that has a past that has shaped her to retreat, she wants to be more out going, find a path that hopefully leads to a husband, children and the white picket fence. Chase was married young to a women he has loved forever, but she repeatedly broke his trust, cheated. So when he divorced her all he wants is to hook up, explore, have fun and not have to worry about taking care of someone who could break his heart. Georgia's sister and best friend got married and now she has retreated even more, throwing herself into her work. Could an unlikely friendship with Chase the player turn into her perfect path? Can Chase drop his one nightstands to give love a chance again? When a hidden secret from Chases past, that he doesn't even know about, destroy what Georgia and Chase have built? Can this unlikely pair make it work?
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April 30, 2022
This collection was a joy to read. The three stories could be read as stand-alone’s but in my humble opinion it’s better having the whole picture. It’s easy to emotionally connect with the characters, they’ll have you laughing, crying and swooning. With similarities each story has tragic, romantic and angsty elements with redeeming qualities. They’ll have you thinking about humanity, relationships and families. There’s no perfect mould and the ones we choose rather than are born into can be spectacular. Highly recommend this beautifully written boxset for those of you who love to read romance.
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207 reviews
October 12, 2024
great end to an epic family saga

I am feeling deeply satisfied having read this series which closes off all the arcs that started off with the Fighting books. Completely worth the investment of time and money!
81 reviews
July 13, 2022
Great stories

These three stories were so good. All with happy endings! I live how everyone is involved in everything! It's a Must read!
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145 reviews2 followers
August 3, 2022
Amazing

I absolutely loved this series! I hope to see more books to continue the storyline! Definitely recommend that everyone read this book!
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1,506 reviews
December 14, 2024
Love reading the next, next generation. Fun and my fav surprise pregnancy and kids. Good ending to a few generations that f family.
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215 reviews
December 11, 2022
OMG! I loved this series, the good, the bad, the ugly, the love ❤️ this is so amazing, you go through all of the emotions, I’ve cried, laughed, yelled and smiled. This I by far one of the best series I’ve read! I had to buy all of the other series by this author now just because I have to know if they are as amazing as this one 🫶🏼
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