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Miami Nights Series Boxed Set, Books 1-4
From New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Marie Force comes a steamy contemporary romance series about love, loss, family and the ties that bind us to one another...
Book 1: How Much I Feel
First impressions can be truly deceiving... Might the cocky doctor be worth a second look?
Book 2: How Much I Care
Two strangers find love in the most unexpected way—by saving a life.
Book 3: How Much I Love
It wouldn’t be fair to drag her into my life when my future is so uncertain. But I can’t resist her.
Nochebuena
A Miami Nights Christmas Novella
Book 4: How Much I Want
Who knew that falling in love could be so dangerous?
Book 1: How Much I Feel
First impressions can be truly deceiving... Might the cocky doctor be worth a second look?
Book 2: How Much I Care
Two strangers find love in the most unexpected way—by saving a life.
Book 3: How Much I Love
It wouldn’t be fair to drag her into my life when my future is so uncertain. But I can’t resist her.
Nochebuena
A Miami Nights Christmas Novella
Book 4: How Much I Want
Who knew that falling in love could be so dangerous?
1286 pages, Kindle Edition
First published October 20, 2022
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Marie Force
209 books8,439 followersMarie Force is the New York Times bestselling author of contemporary romance, romantic suspense and erotic romance. Her series include Gansett Island, Fatal, Treading Water, Butler Vermont and Quantum.
Her books have sold more than 12 million copies worldwide, have been translated into more than a dozen languages and have appeared on the New York Times bestseller more than 30 times. She is also a USA Today and #1 Wall Street Journal bestseller, as well as a Speigel bestseller in Germany.
Her goals in life are simple—to finish raising two happy, healthy, productive young adults, to keep writing books for as long as she possibly can and to never be on a flight that makes the news.
Join Marie’s mailing list on her website at marieforce.com for news about new books and upcoming appearances in your area. Follow her on Facebook at www.Facebook.com/MarieForceAuthor and on Instagram at www.instagram.com/marieforceauthor/. Contact Marie at marie@marieforce.com.
Her books have sold more than 12 million copies worldwide, have been translated into more than a dozen languages and have appeared on the New York Times bestseller more than 30 times. She is also a USA Today and #1 Wall Street Journal bestseller, as well as a Speigel bestseller in Germany.
Her goals in life are simple—to finish raising two happy, healthy, productive young adults, to keep writing books for as long as she possibly can and to never be on a flight that makes the news.
Join Marie’s mailing list on her website at marieforce.com for news about new books and upcoming appearances in your area. Follow her on Facebook at www.Facebook.com/MarieForceAuthor and on Instagram at www.instagram.com/marieforceauthor/. Contact Marie at marie@marieforce.com.
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June 27, 2023
How Much I Feel 4.5 stars
How Much I Feel is Marie Force’s first book in her Miami Nights series. IMHO it’s a great start. Our heroine Carmen Giardino is a wonderful character. She is smart, kind, funny, strong and caring, vulnerable all wrapped up in a beautiful, sexy package. Through Carmen’s eyes the author gives us a view of Miami Florida, the city, its residents and its cultures its history and in particular its tight knit Cuban-American community residing in Little Havanna. Carmen is a 29-year-old widower whose husband Tony a Miami policeman was killed in the line of duty 5 years ago. After recovering from the grief of the tragic loss of her childhood best friend, lover and husband, Carmen, supported by a loving and large family attended college to earn both her graduate and post graduate degrees. Having recently earned her post grad. degree the story opens with Carmen beginning her first day on the job as Miami-Dade Hospital’s new assistant director of public relations. Unfortunately, her immediate supervisor, the director of public relations choses that day to go into labor early and the president of the hospital assigns Carmen to babysit the newly hired medical superstar pediatric neurosurgeon who is scheduled to arrive at 9:00 a.m. that morning. Babysitting an entitled, arrogant surgeon is not what Carmen had in mind when she accepted the hospital’s job offer after working so hard and so long to earn her degrees.
When Dr. Jason Northrup arrives at the hospital twenty-minutes late on his first day in an expensive convertible Porsche 911 (Priscilla) with Betty, a busty, bleach bottle blonde in the passenger seat he proceeds to treat Carmen like his personal assistant living up to or down to all of her preconceived low expectations of him. Unfortunately for Carmen the handsome doctor is also the first man since her husband died who wakes up all of her important lady parts in a very big way.
From this point forward Carmen proceeds to have what might be the second worst day of her life, topped only by the day her husband was killed. Despite all the bad if somewhat comical things that happen to Carmen that day, she also discovers that Dr. Northrup despite his poor first impression, isn’t the arrogant, egotistical, entitled guy she thought he was. Which causes what she considers her unfortunate physical attraction to the too good looking for his own good doctor to grow. After she learns of the scandal the doctor was involved in while working in New York City that sent him to Miami and now has him in limbo as the Miami-Dade Hospital Board of Directors decides whether to extend hospital privileges to him, she agrees to help him try to repair his public image. Her boss, the hospital president is so down with the idea of turning Northrup’s reputation around that he assigns the job to Carmen as her fulltime job for the next two weeks until the board meets again to decide the doctor’s fate, despite the fact that with her immediate boss out on maternity leave, other things that demand her attention are piling up at the office. This puts Carmen and the good doctor in constant close proximity where they find their mutual attraction impossible to ignore even though there are so many reasons they should. Before you know it these two are practically living together spending nearly every waking and sleeping hour together. Carmen struggles with a sense of guilt and feelings of disloyalty to the memory of her late husband as she marvels at the emotional and physical connection she shares with Jason. Carmen knows she should tread slowly and carefully with this new lover not knowing whether he’ll even be around in a couple of weeks if the hospital doesn’t hire him. Jason even tells her as much as he wants her, but he doesn’t want to do anything that might end up hurting her after she’s already been through so much heart break. But the heart wants what the heart wants and they both throw caution to the wind as they burn up the sheets, the shower and just about every other surface in Carman’s condo. Despite the bliss they find in each other’s arms Jason’s uncertain future hangs over their heads like the Sword of Damocles eventually causing Carmen to take a step back in a too late attempt to protect her heart while Jason determines what his future will look like.
While I found this story to be very good to excellent, it wasn’t IMHO perfect. What is? How could the nice guy that Jason turns out to be treat Carmen so cavalierly when they first meet even as he acknowledges he was immediately attracted to her? As much as I appreciated how devastatingly Tony’s death affected Carmen and would continue to do so for the rest of her life, I got just a little tired of constantly reading about it. I got it. The author didn’t need to repeatedly beat me over the head with it. Carmen is a habitual lifetime rule follower, but it still struck me as odd that once she’s promoted to the level of Director of Public Relations she’s still so concerned about being reported by Mona for being a few minutes late for work? Even if Jason had known Ginger, the woman he was sleeping with was the wife of the Chairman of the Board of the hospital he was working at, how was what was going on in his personal life grounds for firing in his professional life? It’s not as if he was caught using or selling drugs. And why would the hospital’s board of directors allow their chairman to fire such a highly regarded surgeon because of it? It’s not like he was using or selling drugs. I also thought maybe Ginger got a little bit of a raw deal and by the end of the story might have deserved just a little sympathy or forgiveness from Jason. Yes, she used him to embarrass her husband and try to force him to give her a divorce but it also appeared that even if she hadn’t planned on it, she had developed real feelings for Jason by the time her plan came to fruition. She took full responsibility for what happened and did everything she could to repair the damage she’d done to Jason’s career. And she flew all of the way to Miami just to apologize to him in person and possibly reconcile with him. So she didn’t seem like the total heartless bitch she was originally portrayed as. I thought Jason could have at least been a little less hostile towards her when she showed up at his hotel. Lastly, I don’t know what’s right or what’s wrong in this situation but ultimately Jason was ready to give up everything he’d spent his career working towards to be with Carmen, while as much as I loved her, Carmen wasn’t willing to give up anything to be with him. Not if it meant moving away from her family and the city she grew up in or even the job she’d only recently started. To this reader it seemed Jason chose being with Carmen making being with her the most important thing in his life while to Carmen he came in second to living near her family and keeping her new job.
How Much I Care 3.5 stars
I really liked the two main protagonists in this story Maria and Austin and of course Austin’s daughter Everly. I also liked the fact that the author made Carmen and Jason the two protagonists from the first book important secondary characters in this one. What I didn’t like was how much this story resembled How Much I Feel as the plot was much the same. It all revolves around a female protagonist Maria, who is wedded to living in Miami where her family and job are and a male protagonist Austin, whose job may force him to live somewhere other than Miami causing the female protagonist great angst while she tries to protect her heart by not falling too much in love with the male protagonist. Maria and Austin become acquainted when Maria becomes the bone marrow donor for Austin’s two-year-old daughter Everly who is diagnosed with Leukemia. Following the rules of the organization that helps match prospective donors with needy recipients they are limited to how much they can communicate with each other for the first year after the donation. No names and almost no personal information are allowed to be shared. Why? I’m not really certain. Despite the restrictions Austin and Maria exchange mostly anonymous emails for six months. Then when Everly reaches the first anniversary of her bone marrow transplant the gloves come off and they are free to share personal information. Which they both anxiously do. And without ever even meeting or they are half-way in love through their email correspondence which are almost love letters. When they do finally meet its’ much like most Marie Force romances where they fall in lust and love on sight with the most attractive member of the opposite sex they’ve ever seen. And that’s all good with me. My problem is just like in How Much I Feel when Carmen falls in love with Jason but is trying to protect her heart because there’s a good possibility he won’t remain in her beloved hometown of Miami and she won’t consider leaving to be with Jason, Carmen’s cousin Maria is similarly committed to remaining in Miami where she is surrounded by loving family and works at a job she loves as a nurse at a free clinic in Little Havanna. Austin is a free agent star baseball pitcher who most likely will take an offer from a team on the other side of the country able to afford the coming off-seasons most prized free agent. So just as in the first book much of the story, drama and angst in this book is built around what will happen when the male protagonist has to chose between his career and the woman he loves. Will he chose her or his career? If he leaves Miami will she follow him?
I suppose it isn’t fair to compare this story to the first one in the series because first books usually have more as the author lays the groundwork for the rest of the series as far as introducing and describing the relationships between all the characters and the geographic area the series is going to be set in. We did in this story learn about Miami’s most upscale real estate which wasn’t mentioned in the first book. Still the whole, “Will he leave and if he does will she go with him?” and “I have to protect my heart because he could be leaving story line” being repeated was a bit disappointing. Which is why this book earned on less star than the first.
How Much I Love 4 stars
If I’m going to criticize the author for the similarities between the first two stories in this series, I must give her kudos for this story which has one of the more original plots I’ve ever read in contemporary romance.
Dee is the younger sister of Maria. She, Maria and Carmen are extremely close. Just before Carmen’s bachelorette party Dee learns that Lucas, the man she had dated on and off for years and believed she was in a committed long distance relationship with leading to marriage, a year ago married someone else without even telling her, is now divorced and regretting he dumped Dee. This sends Dee into an emotional tailspin for reasons I never really did understand? She says she no longer loves him so “fuck him!” Dee and Maria are Carmen’s co-Maids of Honor. Dee is paired up in Carmen’s wedding with Wyatt Blake M.D. one Jason’s medical school friends serving as one of his groomsmen. They hit if off immediately. They hit if off so well that Dee steps out of character doing something she’s never done before and has a one-night stand with Wyatt leaving her in a multi-day fog of sexual bliss and pleasant soreness. She considers it a revenge fuck, a one-time thing, but it really was Dee’s need to feel attractive and desirable again if even only for one night. Maybe it’s because I’m a guy but like other parts of this story, I also didn’t get how it could be a revenge fuck if Lucas nor anyone else ever knows about it? Afterwards, when Wyatt returns to Arizona he keeps in regular contact with Dee, through text messaging. She is shocked and worried when her one night stand tells her he’s coming back to Miami for a job interview and wants to see her while he’s there. Why that bothers her I don’t know and the rest of the story did nothing to help me understand it. Why was Dee worried that a guy she was obviously attracted to and gave her the best night of sex in her life was coming to Miami and wanted to see her or even the possibility that he might get the job and move there? Again maybe it’s just a Women are Venus Men are from Mars thing? Dee is very down on herself at this point in her life. Her life in New York City proved a major disappointment. She never earned enough money to take advantage of all the entertainment venues the city has to offer. Then she lost her job as office manager when the doctor she was working for retired. Now despite a B.S. in business she’s back in Miami working as a server at her aunt’s and uncle’s (Carmen’s parents) famous restaurant. Her beloved mommy is struggling to beat Stage 3 Breast cancer. Then there’s the whole Lucas wants her back thing that I really don’t understand why it depresses her rather than giving her some sense of satisfaction? Despite all this she agrees to Wyatt’s request to have dinner with him. They have dinner at Maria’s and Austin’s fabulous mansion and then go back to Dee’s apartment. They get naked and start fooling around but when Wyatt tells Dee it can never be anything more than fun, she puts a stop to it telling him despite what they did the last time he was in Miami she’s not that kind of girl. Yeah! Finally a contemporary romance protagonist who isn’t down with casual sex. Wyatt respects and completely understands Dee’s decision and sadly goes back to Jason and Carmen’s penthouse where he’s staying, with his blue balls.
Dee can’t sleep so she Google’s Wyatt and discovers he’s a heart transplant recipient who is famous in medical circles for outliving the average of eleven years most heart transplant recipients get after receiving their donor heart. Dee puts two and two together and realizes the reason Wyatt avoids relationships is because he fears he’s living on borrowed time. She calls Wyatt and picks him up in the middle of the night. And suddenly this same woman who wasn’t sure she even wanted to see her former one-night stand again, wants to show him how it feels to be in love. Somehow she convinces Wyatt to forsake his long held rule against getting too involved with a woman and go “All In” with Dee whom he just can’t resist. Much to the dismay of her family who fear (as Wyatt does) that Dee will be crushed if she falls in love with Wyatt and he dies, they begin a whirlwind full blown romantic relationship where they’re tossing around the L-word within a day or two and making plans for a future together however long that future may be. Their motto is “Today is all that we’re guaranteed so lets live it to the fullest.” Eventually they get everyone else on board with their plans. Well everyone but Wyatt’s parents who after spending his life first watching him nearly die from heart disease and then worrying about all that can go wrong after the transplant surgery are not at all happy with his plans to move away from them and relocate across the country in Miami with Dee. As Dee helps Wyatt pack up his Phoenix townhouse in preparation for his cross country drive to Miami the couple suddenly realizes that in their rush to be together that perhaps there are important issues they have never discussed that might stand in the way of their happily ever after.
While this is going on we also get a couple of chapters devoted to Lucas whom after almost accidentally committing suicide mixing drugs and alcohol wakes up in the hospital and is informed he is an alcoholic who already has the liver of a man twice his age. The hospital’s psychiatrist points out that he married a woman he didn’t love while blackout drunk in Las Vegas. He’s in jeopardy of losing his job for poor performance and he nearly killed himself mixing drugs and alcohol. The doctor recommends rehab for Lucas and won’t sign off on
How Much I Feel is Marie Force’s first book in her Miami Nights series. IMHO it’s a great start. Our heroine Carmen Giardino is a wonderful character. She is smart, kind, funny, strong and caring, vulnerable all wrapped up in a beautiful, sexy package. Through Carmen’s eyes the author gives us a view of Miami Florida, the city, its residents and its cultures its history and in particular its tight knit Cuban-American community residing in Little Havanna. Carmen is a 29-year-old widower whose husband Tony a Miami policeman was killed in the line of duty 5 years ago. After recovering from the grief of the tragic loss of her childhood best friend, lover and husband, Carmen, supported by a loving and large family attended college to earn both her graduate and post graduate degrees. Having recently earned her post grad. degree the story opens with Carmen beginning her first day on the job as Miami-Dade Hospital’s new assistant director of public relations. Unfortunately, her immediate supervisor, the director of public relations choses that day to go into labor early and the president of the hospital assigns Carmen to babysit the newly hired medical superstar pediatric neurosurgeon who is scheduled to arrive at 9:00 a.m. that morning. Babysitting an entitled, arrogant surgeon is not what Carmen had in mind when she accepted the hospital’s job offer after working so hard and so long to earn her degrees.
When Dr. Jason Northrup arrives at the hospital twenty-minutes late on his first day in an expensive convertible Porsche 911 (Priscilla) with Betty, a busty, bleach bottle blonde in the passenger seat he proceeds to treat Carmen like his personal assistant living up to or down to all of her preconceived low expectations of him. Unfortunately for Carmen the handsome doctor is also the first man since her husband died who wakes up all of her important lady parts in a very big way.
From this point forward Carmen proceeds to have what might be the second worst day of her life, topped only by the day her husband was killed. Despite all the bad if somewhat comical things that happen to Carmen that day, she also discovers that Dr. Northrup despite his poor first impression, isn’t the arrogant, egotistical, entitled guy she thought he was. Which causes what she considers her unfortunate physical attraction to the too good looking for his own good doctor to grow. After she learns of the scandal the doctor was involved in while working in New York City that sent him to Miami and now has him in limbo as the Miami-Dade Hospital Board of Directors decides whether to extend hospital privileges to him, she agrees to help him try to repair his public image. Her boss, the hospital president is so down with the idea of turning Northrup’s reputation around that he assigns the job to Carmen as her fulltime job for the next two weeks until the board meets again to decide the doctor’s fate, despite the fact that with her immediate boss out on maternity leave, other things that demand her attention are piling up at the office. This puts Carmen and the good doctor in constant close proximity where they find their mutual attraction impossible to ignore even though there are so many reasons they should. Before you know it these two are practically living together spending nearly every waking and sleeping hour together. Carmen struggles with a sense of guilt and feelings of disloyalty to the memory of her late husband as she marvels at the emotional and physical connection she shares with Jason. Carmen knows she should tread slowly and carefully with this new lover not knowing whether he’ll even be around in a couple of weeks if the hospital doesn’t hire him. Jason even tells her as much as he wants her, but he doesn’t want to do anything that might end up hurting her after she’s already been through so much heart break. But the heart wants what the heart wants and they both throw caution to the wind as they burn up the sheets, the shower and just about every other surface in Carman’s condo. Despite the bliss they find in each other’s arms Jason’s uncertain future hangs over their heads like the Sword of Damocles eventually causing Carmen to take a step back in a too late attempt to protect her heart while Jason determines what his future will look like.
While I found this story to be very good to excellent, it wasn’t IMHO perfect. What is? How could the nice guy that Jason turns out to be treat Carmen so cavalierly when they first meet even as he acknowledges he was immediately attracted to her? As much as I appreciated how devastatingly Tony’s death affected Carmen and would continue to do so for the rest of her life, I got just a little tired of constantly reading about it. I got it. The author didn’t need to repeatedly beat me over the head with it. Carmen is a habitual lifetime rule follower, but it still struck me as odd that once she’s promoted to the level of Director of Public Relations she’s still so concerned about being reported by Mona for being a few minutes late for work? Even if Jason had known Ginger, the woman he was sleeping with was the wife of the Chairman of the Board of the hospital he was working at, how was what was going on in his personal life grounds for firing in his professional life? It’s not as if he was caught using or selling drugs. And why would the hospital’s board of directors allow their chairman to fire such a highly regarded surgeon because of it? It’s not like he was using or selling drugs. I also thought maybe Ginger got a little bit of a raw deal and by the end of the story might have deserved just a little sympathy or forgiveness from Jason. Yes, she used him to embarrass her husband and try to force him to give her a divorce but it also appeared that even if she hadn’t planned on it, she had developed real feelings for Jason by the time her plan came to fruition. She took full responsibility for what happened and did everything she could to repair the damage she’d done to Jason’s career. And she flew all of the way to Miami just to apologize to him in person and possibly reconcile with him. So she didn’t seem like the total heartless bitch she was originally portrayed as. I thought Jason could have at least been a little less hostile towards her when she showed up at his hotel. Lastly, I don’t know what’s right or what’s wrong in this situation but ultimately Jason was ready to give up everything he’d spent his career working towards to be with Carmen, while as much as I loved her, Carmen wasn’t willing to give up anything to be with him. Not if it meant moving away from her family and the city she grew up in or even the job she’d only recently started. To this reader it seemed Jason chose being with Carmen making being with her the most important thing in his life while to Carmen he came in second to living near her family and keeping her new job.
How Much I Care 3.5 stars
I really liked the two main protagonists in this story Maria and Austin and of course Austin’s daughter Everly. I also liked the fact that the author made Carmen and Jason the two protagonists from the first book important secondary characters in this one. What I didn’t like was how much this story resembled How Much I Feel as the plot was much the same. It all revolves around a female protagonist Maria, who is wedded to living in Miami where her family and job are and a male protagonist Austin, whose job may force him to live somewhere other than Miami causing the female protagonist great angst while she tries to protect her heart by not falling too much in love with the male protagonist. Maria and Austin become acquainted when Maria becomes the bone marrow donor for Austin’s two-year-old daughter Everly who is diagnosed with Leukemia. Following the rules of the organization that helps match prospective donors with needy recipients they are limited to how much they can communicate with each other for the first year after the donation. No names and almost no personal information are allowed to be shared. Why? I’m not really certain. Despite the restrictions Austin and Maria exchange mostly anonymous emails for six months. Then when Everly reaches the first anniversary of her bone marrow transplant the gloves come off and they are free to share personal information. Which they both anxiously do. And without ever even meeting or they are half-way in love through their email correspondence which are almost love letters. When they do finally meet its’ much like most Marie Force romances where they fall in lust and love on sight with the most attractive member of the opposite sex they’ve ever seen. And that’s all good with me. My problem is just like in How Much I Feel when Carmen falls in love with Jason but is trying to protect her heart because there’s a good possibility he won’t remain in her beloved hometown of Miami and she won’t consider leaving to be with Jason, Carmen’s cousin Maria is similarly committed to remaining in Miami where she is surrounded by loving family and works at a job she loves as a nurse at a free clinic in Little Havanna. Austin is a free agent star baseball pitcher who most likely will take an offer from a team on the other side of the country able to afford the coming off-seasons most prized free agent. So just as in the first book much of the story, drama and angst in this book is built around what will happen when the male protagonist has to chose between his career and the woman he loves. Will he chose her or his career? If he leaves Miami will she follow him?
I suppose it isn’t fair to compare this story to the first one in the series because first books usually have more as the author lays the groundwork for the rest of the series as far as introducing and describing the relationships between all the characters and the geographic area the series is going to be set in. We did in this story learn about Miami’s most upscale real estate which wasn’t mentioned in the first book. Still the whole, “Will he leave and if he does will she go with him?” and “I have to protect my heart because he could be leaving story line” being repeated was a bit disappointing. Which is why this book earned on less star than the first.
How Much I Love 4 stars
If I’m going to criticize the author for the similarities between the first two stories in this series, I must give her kudos for this story which has one of the more original plots I’ve ever read in contemporary romance.
Dee is the younger sister of Maria. She, Maria and Carmen are extremely close. Just before Carmen’s bachelorette party Dee learns that Lucas, the man she had dated on and off for years and believed she was in a committed long distance relationship with leading to marriage, a year ago married someone else without even telling her, is now divorced and regretting he dumped Dee. This sends Dee into an emotional tailspin for reasons I never really did understand? She says she no longer loves him so “fuck him!” Dee and Maria are Carmen’s co-Maids of Honor. Dee is paired up in Carmen’s wedding with Wyatt Blake M.D. one Jason’s medical school friends serving as one of his groomsmen. They hit if off immediately. They hit if off so well that Dee steps out of character doing something she’s never done before and has a one-night stand with Wyatt leaving her in a multi-day fog of sexual bliss and pleasant soreness. She considers it a revenge fuck, a one-time thing, but it really was Dee’s need to feel attractive and desirable again if even only for one night. Maybe it’s because I’m a guy but like other parts of this story, I also didn’t get how it could be a revenge fuck if Lucas nor anyone else ever knows about it? Afterwards, when Wyatt returns to Arizona he keeps in regular contact with Dee, through text messaging. She is shocked and worried when her one night stand tells her he’s coming back to Miami for a job interview and wants to see her while he’s there. Why that bothers her I don’t know and the rest of the story did nothing to help me understand it. Why was Dee worried that a guy she was obviously attracted to and gave her the best night of sex in her life was coming to Miami and wanted to see her or even the possibility that he might get the job and move there? Again maybe it’s just a Women are Venus Men are from Mars thing? Dee is very down on herself at this point in her life. Her life in New York City proved a major disappointment. She never earned enough money to take advantage of all the entertainment venues the city has to offer. Then she lost her job as office manager when the doctor she was working for retired. Now despite a B.S. in business she’s back in Miami working as a server at her aunt’s and uncle’s (Carmen’s parents) famous restaurant. Her beloved mommy is struggling to beat Stage 3 Breast cancer. Then there’s the whole Lucas wants her back thing that I really don’t understand why it depresses her rather than giving her some sense of satisfaction? Despite all this she agrees to Wyatt’s request to have dinner with him. They have dinner at Maria’s and Austin’s fabulous mansion and then go back to Dee’s apartment. They get naked and start fooling around but when Wyatt tells Dee it can never be anything more than fun, she puts a stop to it telling him despite what they did the last time he was in Miami she’s not that kind of girl. Yeah! Finally a contemporary romance protagonist who isn’t down with casual sex. Wyatt respects and completely understands Dee’s decision and sadly goes back to Jason and Carmen’s penthouse where he’s staying, with his blue balls.
Dee can’t sleep so she Google’s Wyatt and discovers he’s a heart transplant recipient who is famous in medical circles for outliving the average of eleven years most heart transplant recipients get after receiving their donor heart. Dee puts two and two together and realizes the reason Wyatt avoids relationships is because he fears he’s living on borrowed time. She calls Wyatt and picks him up in the middle of the night. And suddenly this same woman who wasn’t sure she even wanted to see her former one-night stand again, wants to show him how it feels to be in love. Somehow she convinces Wyatt to forsake his long held rule against getting too involved with a woman and go “All In” with Dee whom he just can’t resist. Much to the dismay of her family who fear (as Wyatt does) that Dee will be crushed if she falls in love with Wyatt and he dies, they begin a whirlwind full blown romantic relationship where they’re tossing around the L-word within a day or two and making plans for a future together however long that future may be. Their motto is “Today is all that we’re guaranteed so lets live it to the fullest.” Eventually they get everyone else on board with their plans. Well everyone but Wyatt’s parents who after spending his life first watching him nearly die from heart disease and then worrying about all that can go wrong after the transplant surgery are not at all happy with his plans to move away from them and relocate across the country in Miami with Dee. As Dee helps Wyatt pack up his Phoenix townhouse in preparation for his cross country drive to Miami the couple suddenly realizes that in their rush to be together that perhaps there are important issues they have never discussed that might stand in the way of their happily ever after.
While this is going on we also get a couple of chapters devoted to Lucas whom after almost accidentally committing suicide mixing drugs and alcohol wakes up in the hospital and is informed he is an alcoholic who already has the liver of a man twice his age. The hospital’s psychiatrist points out that he married a woman he didn’t love while blackout drunk in Las Vegas. He’s in jeopardy of losing his job for poor performance and he nearly killed himself mixing drugs and alcohol. The doctor recommends rehab for Lucas and won’t sign off on
March 26, 2023
Great read.
I really enjoyed this collection, I do love a binge read and being able to read books 1-4 without any hassle was so fab. I loved all the ladies and their men, such great women who've been through so many twists but they still had faith in their men, when the right one arrived!
I really enjoyed this collection, I do love a binge read and being able to read books 1-4 without any hassle was so fab. I loved all the ladies and their men, such great women who've been through so many twists but they still had faith in their men, when the right one arrived!
April 6, 2023
wow
This was a great story…or 4. I love Marie Force’s books and these were terrific. Can’t wait for Milo’s story. Great love stories
This was a great story…or 4. I love Marie Force’s books and these were terrific. Can’t wait for Milo’s story. Great love stories
April 6, 2023
Great Series
Loved the family setting of this series. Great character development, close family ties and of course Hot Romances. Looking forward to the next book in the series.
Loved the family setting of this series. Great character development, close family ties and of course Hot Romances. Looking forward to the next book in the series.
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