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Come To Me Freely
A passion that won’t be denied despite the circumstances. Though Leigh cared deeply for Jim, it was his fiery older brother Tre who held the key to her heart. For the past ten years she’s lived with the daily pain of knowing that Tre turned his back on the passion that had flared hot and bright between them.A second chance at a once-in-a-lifetime love. Tre knew from the moment that he first saw Leigh stroking his half-wild horse that her elegant, delicate appearance belied the depth and strength of her spirit. He’d dared to make Leigh his own, showing loyalty to nothing and no one beyond the laws of nature that clearly decreed that she was his. When Leigh denied what should have been undeniable, he knew the bitter taste of betrayal.Now a family tragedy has forced Tre and Leigh together once again. Guilt, anger and betrayal rage between them, but so does a desire hot enough to incinerate all else in its wake.
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First published July 16, 2008
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Beth Kery
187 books2,694 followersBeth Kery is the New York Times and USA Today best selling author of over thirty novels, novellas and serials. She writes contemporary romances as well as erotic contemporary romances, her hallmarks being emotional intensity, leap-off-the-page realistic characters and steamy sexual tension.
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August 11, 2012
Wonderful angsty story! Would have given it 4 1/2 stars except for the very last page. I wanted a bit more of a sure thing for the perfect HEA.
Spoiler************
Quote from the last page:
" 'I won't be going anywhere for awhile now, Tre. and when I do, I'll let you know when you'll be seeing me again. Is that good enough?'
'I suppose it'll have to be,' he murmered contentedly before he sank his head and covered her mouth with his." WTF kind of end is that to a very good book????
Spoiler************
Quote from the last page:
" 'I won't be going anywhere for awhile now, Tre. and when I do, I'll let you know when you'll be seeing me again. Is that good enough?'
'I suppose it'll have to be,' he murmered contentedly before he sank his head and covered her mouth with his." WTF kind of end is that to a very good book????
January 20, 2013
This is a riveting and complicated love story / erotic romance. READ THIS BOOK!
Leigh is the widow of Jim, who became a paraplegic when the two of them were high school sweethearts. Summer before college, she met his brother Tre, who was on leave from the service. Definitely there was chemistry between the two, but no action. Tre returned to the service, Leigh married Jim. Tre felt Leigh rejected him; Leigh thinks Tre deserted her.
10 years later they are faced with dealing w/ each other, at the funeral of Tre's father and Leigh's father in law. Tre and Jim's family were more of a family to Leigh than her own parents, which adds additional complications and feelings of alienation, now that she's widowed.
There's some great storytelling that occurs, and the erotic romance is intense. There's a lot of anger, hurt, misunderstanding to work through. The characters are likable and sympathetic. There are some plot twists that you will not expect... 5 stars, my friends!
Leigh is the widow of Jim, who became a paraplegic when the two of them were high school sweethearts. Summer before college, she met his brother Tre, who was on leave from the service. Definitely there was chemistry between the two, but no action. Tre returned to the service, Leigh married Jim. Tre felt Leigh rejected him; Leigh thinks Tre deserted her.
10 years later they are faced with dealing w/ each other, at the funeral of Tre's father and Leigh's father in law. Tre and Jim's family were more of a family to Leigh than her own parents, which adds additional complications and feelings of alienation, now that she's widowed.
There's some great storytelling that occurs, and the erotic romance is intense. There's a lot of anger, hurt, misunderstanding to work through. The characters are likable and sympathetic. There are some plot twists that you will not expect... 5 stars, my friends!
March 15, 2015
Cheating...no explanation necessary.
January 20, 2011
I think it’s Beth Kery’s contemporary books that speak to me more than any of her other I’ve read so far. Not that her historicals and paranormals aren’t worth reading. Far from it. There’s just something to her contemps that pull every emotion to the forefront for me and that keeps me turning the pages to see what her characters are going to do next. Come To Me Freely is definitely one of those, full of love and betrayal, full of romance and heartbreak. And that is why I enjoy reading her books.
It’s been ten years since Tre and Leigh have seen each other. Their last encounter, though it started out full of promise, ended badly. They were attracted to one another from the moment the met, but one thing kept them apart. Tre’s brother Jim. A quadriplegic since the age of 16, Leigh stood by Jim throughout his trials and tribulations of being wheelchair bound until his death just a couple of years before Leigh has come home to attend Jim and Tre’s father’s funeral.
Now Leigh is back to where it all started, and she’s face to face with Tre once again. Right after his one-night stand takes her leave of him as Leigh stands at his front door, funeral casseroles in hand. She thought their meeting would go easier after so many years, but Tre is now hard and cold toward her. Thinking she can get through the next few days of emotional stress, however, doesn’t last long and Leigh know she wants Tre just as much as she did years ago before she married his brother. But Tre is the one that left when something good was happening between them. Can she forget that and the guilt she still harbors over her husband’s death?
Keeping himself under control had never been so difficult and Tre’s not sure he doesn’t want it to snap anyway. Leigh always got to him and it’s no different now. But getting to know her as a woman instead of a 16-year-old girl is food to his soul and agony to his body all at the same time. When she falls ill and has to stay put for a while, Tre is the one who steps in to take care of her and suddenly he knows he wants a future with this woman. But his guilt at the knowledge he was ready to betray his brother so many years ago still eats at him, what will she think of him once she knows his secrets.
The attraction between them can’t be denied and they decide to give a relationship a chance despite all their misgivings and despite the hurt that may end up crippling them both if they can’t get past all of the things that have come together and led them to this point in time.
So far, it’s the books of Ms. Kery’s that have such a tragic element to them that I’ve enjoyed the most. She has an affinity for bringing all the emotion in and around that tragedy front and center and forcing her characters to work with it, yell at it, swear at it, wallow in it, do whatever it takes to succeed and triumph over it. That’s the lynchpin for me in her writing. I keep reading until I know how those characters are going to react to all that emotional upheaval. That’s when you really get to know her characters.
Tre and Leigh have so much to overcome from their past and though it looks like in the beginning there’s no way they can do that. It’s their reaction to their mutual attraction that drags them together and allows them learn of one another all over again, which leads to some wonderful love scenes between them, full of what could have been but ready to face whatever today brings.
Another huge success for Ms. Kery!
It’s been ten years since Tre and Leigh have seen each other. Their last encounter, though it started out full of promise, ended badly. They were attracted to one another from the moment the met, but one thing kept them apart. Tre’s brother Jim. A quadriplegic since the age of 16, Leigh stood by Jim throughout his trials and tribulations of being wheelchair bound until his death just a couple of years before Leigh has come home to attend Jim and Tre’s father’s funeral.
Now Leigh is back to where it all started, and she’s face to face with Tre once again. Right after his one-night stand takes her leave of him as Leigh stands at his front door, funeral casseroles in hand. She thought their meeting would go easier after so many years, but Tre is now hard and cold toward her. Thinking she can get through the next few days of emotional stress, however, doesn’t last long and Leigh know she wants Tre just as much as she did years ago before she married his brother. But Tre is the one that left when something good was happening between them. Can she forget that and the guilt she still harbors over her husband’s death?
Keeping himself under control had never been so difficult and Tre’s not sure he doesn’t want it to snap anyway. Leigh always got to him and it’s no different now. But getting to know her as a woman instead of a 16-year-old girl is food to his soul and agony to his body all at the same time. When she falls ill and has to stay put for a while, Tre is the one who steps in to take care of her and suddenly he knows he wants a future with this woman. But his guilt at the knowledge he was ready to betray his brother so many years ago still eats at him, what will she think of him once she knows his secrets.
The attraction between them can’t be denied and they decide to give a relationship a chance despite all their misgivings and despite the hurt that may end up crippling them both if they can’t get past all of the things that have come together and led them to this point in time.
So far, it’s the books of Ms. Kery’s that have such a tragic element to them that I’ve enjoyed the most. She has an affinity for bringing all the emotion in and around that tragedy front and center and forcing her characters to work with it, yell at it, swear at it, wallow in it, do whatever it takes to succeed and triumph over it. That’s the lynchpin for me in her writing. I keep reading until I know how those characters are going to react to all that emotional upheaval. That’s when you really get to know her characters.
Tre and Leigh have so much to overcome from their past and though it looks like in the beginning there’s no way they can do that. It’s their reaction to their mutual attraction that drags them together and allows them learn of one another all over again, which leads to some wonderful love scenes between them, full of what could have been but ready to face whatever today brings.
Another huge success for Ms. Kery!
December 4, 2015
If your looking for an author that has hot alpha heroes and great schmex scenes, Beth Kery is definitely the author for you. "Come to Me Freely", is one of my favorites.
Enjoy!
Enjoy!
October 23, 2018
I love the actually ok forbidden romances, and this one is ... so complex. It's always a bit borderline if/when brothers are involved, but it's just so well written here - the raw emotion, the bitterness and misunderstanding ...
I think one thing you have to "suspend disbelief" for is the outrageous attraction the hero and heroine have for each other, that make the [heroine usually] act in ways that not only she never would but that your "average bear" definitely wouldn't either.
I thought that Tre caring for Leigh while she was sick really showed how he felt - I don't know I was convinced they were in LOVE from the start but (and by which I mean what 11? years ago?) And then the loving Jim like a brother but ... [hm]
So there were some plot holes - and also in this kindle version typos etc...
But it's crazy sexy and a lovely romance.
As soon as I finished this book I had to get the book teased at the end, so that says something yeah?
Anyway C+ or B-
I think one thing you have to "suspend disbelief" for is the outrageous attraction the hero and heroine have for each other, that make the [heroine usually] act in ways that not only she never would but that your "average bear" definitely wouldn't either.
I thought that Tre caring for Leigh while she was sick really showed how he felt - I don't know I was convinced they were in LOVE from the start but (and by which I mean what 11? years ago?) And then the loving Jim like a brother but ... [hm]
So there were some plot holes - and also in this kindle version typos etc...
But it's crazy sexy and a lovely romance.
As soon as I finished this book I had to get the book teased at the end, so that says something yeah?
Anyway C+ or B-
July 28, 2017
Love and strange bed fellows!
Death and and old flame. Sometimes it's a good combination, sometimes it's not. Fate, what ever you want to call it can get interesting! A must read! Loved this book!
Death and and old flame. Sometimes it's a good combination, sometimes it's not. Fate, what ever you want to call it can get interesting! A must read! Loved this book!
November 21, 2022
Didn't like how it ended
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August 7, 2011A passion that won’t be denied despite the circumstances. Though Leigh cared deeply for Jim, it was his fiery older brother Tre who held the key to her heart. For the past ten years she’s lived with the daily pain of knowing that Tre turned his back on the passion that had flared hot and bright between them.A second chance at a once-in-a-lifetime love. Tre knew from the moment that he first saw Leigh stroking his half-wild horse that her elegant, delicate appearance belied the depth and strength of her spirit. He’d dared to make Leigh his own, showing loyalty to nothing and no one beyond the laws of nature that clearly decreed that she was his. When Leigh denied what should have been undeniable, he knew the bitter taste of betrayal.Now a family tragedy has forced Tre and Leigh together once again. Guilt, anger and betrayal rage between them, but so does a desire hot enough to incinerate all else in its wake.
September 25, 2012
Classic Beth Kery. Really great story. I loved the chemistry between Tre and Leigh. I thought it was really cool how she flipped back and forth between present-day and 10 years ago to build up to "ok, so just why didn't these two end up together?" Great plot...I agree with the other reviewer that said that the HEA wasn't quite sewn up as nicely as I would have liked, but well...if she hadn't forgotten about him in ten years and he never fell out of love with her, I think it's a foregone conclusion that these two are never splitting up. :)
March 17, 2015
Ok, first of all and most importantly, who shortens "Trevor" to "Tre" ?? It's impossible to pronounce it, as it would be short for Trevor, as "Treh"(rhyming, I guess, with "Meh"), and it's unlikely to be pronounced "Trey," (ETA: or "Tree"???) because that makes no sense. I spent the ENTIRE BOOK trying to pronounce it in my head and failing from cognitive dissonance. That said, the book wasn't that great either. So, back to "meh."
May 19, 2013
Great powerful storyline. However, the ending not so. I was on board with the confrontation with Doris, the revelation about Charlie and Sarah's cryptic musing in the beginning. I did not think that the ending could have been written by the same author- what a let down. It was lame and almost any other outcome would have been better.
October 14, 2012
Plots are starting to sound familiar. Married one but wanted the other. Familiar storyline to tricked truths. I just couldn't get past the similarities.
April 23, 2013
Not as intense as the other book I read,Exercising Sean's Ghost....but had a twist at the end and was a good read.
July 14, 2023
loved this book 100%, should have been longer
November 27, 2014
Great story
I Love the style of the way this Author writes her stories. She puts it all together nicely. I'm looking forward to reading more of her stories..
I Love the style of the way this Author writes her stories. She puts it all together nicely. I'm looking forward to reading more of her stories..
September 20, 2012
Trade Paperback
May 6, 2014
Beautiful story. Couldn't put it down.
March 24, 2017
I loved this entire story -- God the waiting.... it was killing me...
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