BOOK INFORMATION
When Love
Happens
Ribbon Ridge # 3
Ribbon Ridge # 3
By: Darcy Burke
Releasing May 26th, 2015
Avon Impulse
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BOOK SUMMARY
In a town as small as Ribbon Ridge and with
a family as large as the Archers, even the best kept secrets don’t stay buried
for long...
Tori Archer is married…well, on paper
anyway. She hasn’t actually seen her husband since the disastrous morning after
their impulsive Vegas wedding. The memories of their intense passion may still
make her weak in the knees, but Tori knows their marriage was a mistake.
After six months filming abroad, television
producer Sean Hennessy wants nothing more than to track down his sexy,
captivating wife and get her into bed… fast. So when his boss sends him to
Oregon to persuade the famous Archer sextuplets-the former stars of a reality
TV show-to do a reunion special, Sean sees the perfect chance to win Tori back.
Only, Tori wants nothing to do with him and
is determined to push him away. But their attraction is as hot as ever and Sean
will do anything to prove their relationship was more than just a fling…because
he knows that when real love happens, it changes everything.
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EXCERPT
Ribbon Ridge, Oregon
Tori Archer sipped her Nocktoberfest, Dad’s signature beer for the annual Ribbon
Ridge Oktoberfest, which was currently in full swing. She clung to the corner
of the huge tent, defensively watching for her “date” or one of her annoying
siblings that had forced her to go on this “date.”
It wasn’t really a date. He was a professional colleague, and the Archers
had invited him to their signature event. For nine years, the family had
sponsored the town’s Oktoberfest.
It featured Archer beer and this year, for the first time, a German feast
overseen by her brother Kyle, who was an even more amazing chef than they’d all realized. Today was day
three of the festival and she still wasn’t tired of the fondue. But really, could one ever tire of cheese?
“Boo!”
Tori jumped, splashing a few drops of beer from
her plastic mug into her fingers. She turned her head and glared at Kyle. “Did
you sneak through the flap in the corner behind me?”
“Guilty.” He wore an apron tied around his waist
and a custom Archer shirt, which read CHEF below the bow and arrow A-shaped
logo. “How else was I supposed to talk to you? You’ve been avoiding everyone for the past
hour and a half. Where’s
Cade?” He scanned the crowd looking for her not-date, the engineer they’d hired to work on The Alex, the
hotel and restaurant venue they’d
been renovating since last spring. With a special events space already
completed, they’d turned
their focus to the restaurant and would tackle the hotel next.
Tori took a drink of the dark amber Nocktoberfest
and relished the hoppy flavor. “Don’t
know.”
Kyle gave her a sidelong glance. “Didn’t you come together?”
“No. Though it wasn’t for your lack of trying. I met him here. We chatted. He saw
someone he knew. I excused myself to get a beer.” An hour ago.
Kyle turned toward her and frowned. “I don’t get it. Lurking in corners
isn’t your style. You’re typically the life of the
party. You work a room better than anyone I know, except maybe Liam.”
Tori narrowed her eyes. “I’m better at it than he is.” Their brother
Liam, a successful real estate magnate in Denver, possessed many of the same
qualities she did: ambition, drive, and an absolute hatred of failure. Then
again, who wanted to fail? But it was more than that for them. Failure
was never an option.
Which didn’t mean that it didn’t
occasionally come up and take a piece out of you when you were already down for
the count.
Kyle snorted. “Yeah, whatever. You two can duke it
out at Christmas or whenever Liam decides to deign us with his presence.”
Tori touched his arm. “Hey, don’t take his absence personally. He
keeps his visits pretty few and far between, even before you moved back home.
Which is more than I can say for you when you were in Florida.”
Kyle’s
eyes clouded briefly with regret and he looked away. “Yeah, I know. And
hopefully some day you’ll
stop giving me shit about it.”
She laughed. “Too soon? I’m not
mad at you for leaving anymore. I get why you had to go, but I’m your sister. I will always flip you shit
about stuff like that. It’s
my job.”
He returned his attention to her, his blue-green
eyes—nearly identical to her own—narrowing. “Then it’s my duty
to harass you about Cade. He’s
totally into you. Why are you dogging him?”
It seemed that since Kyle and their sister Sara
had both found their soul mates this year they expected everyone else to do the
same. Granted, their adopted brother Derek had also found his true love, and
they’d gotten married in
August. What none of them knew, however, was that Tori was already spoken
for—at least on paper.
CAT'S REVIEW
"When Love Happens" is the story of Tori and Sean. They met, had a whirlwind romance, fell in love and got married very quickly. But due to Sean's work schedule and a family tragedy, they are now further apart then two people ever could be. I absolutely adored Sean. He's hardworking, kind, patient, loving and determined - he loves Tori and will fight for her and their marriage. Oh, and he's English, too, so I could hear his accent in my head whenever he spoke. Tori, I had a harder time liking her. I never fully understood her. I did feel bad for her as she was highly affected by the family tragedy and tried to be strong for her family. Overall, she seems to be a good person - caring and loving, just not with Sean. It frustrated me how she treated him. I enjoyed the story line - there was just enough drama and angst to make it enjoyable without the reader becoming too anxious. The secondary characters, mostly Tori's siblings (she's a sextuplet) were wonderful. I haven't read the previous book in this series but don't think that it affected the storyline (although I suppose it would have given me a bit more background but don't think I missed anything because of not reading it). This is one that I would recommend and I look forward to catching up on the first two books of the Ribbon Ridge series. (Received book from Edelweiss for honest review)
★★★★
AUTHOR INFO
Darcy Burke is the USA Today bestselling author of hot, action-packed
historical and sexy, emotional contemporary romance. Darcy wrote her first book
at age 11, a happily-ever-after about a swan addicted to magic and the female
swan who loved him, with exceedingly poor illustrations.
A native Oregonian, Darcy
lives on the edge of wine country with her guitar-strumming husband, their two
hilarious kids-who each seem to have inherited the writing gene in some
form-and two Bengal cats. In her "spare" time Darcy is a serial
volunteer enrolled in a 12-step program where one learns to say "no,"
but she keeps having to start over. Her happy places are Disneyland and Labor
Day weekend at the Gorge.
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