Romance Book Review!! ~ Endless Southern Love by Heidi McLaughlin (Magnolia Grove Series)

Title: Endless Southern Love
Series: Magnolia Grove Series
Author: Heidi McLaughlin
Release: August 29, 2024
Genre/Tropes: Second Chance; Enemies-to-Lovers; Small Town; Single Dad
Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/199905008-endless-southern-love
Bookbub: https://www.bookbub.com/books/endless-southern-love-magnolia-grove-book-8-by-heidi-mclaughlin

Blurb:

Single dad, Wade Jenkins, Magnolia Grove’s landscaping hottie who likes to mow lawns without a shirt on is thrown for a loop when his spirited seven-year-old daughter Goldie comes to live with him. While Wade’s thrilled to have his daughter full-time, there’s one little issue . . .

The elementary school principal.

Lemon Walsh is a woman who doesn’t live life to the fullest, despite her best friend urging her to all the time. When someone from her past shows up front and center, she has no choice but to finally reconcile the decision she made in college.

Will one of her students be the catalyst for change?

Buy Links (Kindle Unlimited):

Amazon Universal: https://mybook.to/EndlessSummerLove_MG
Amazon US: https://amzn.to/3TicLaD
Amazon CA: https://bit.ly/4cISKkg
Amazon UK: https://bit.ly/3yYDPF0
Amazon AU: https://bit.ly/4cHwhnU

I love a good second chance romance. Two people who were in love at one time and for whatever reason it didn’t work out just provides an excellent source of built-in drama that moves the story forward. I love reading about that first meeting after a long time apart, the awkwardness, the old rush of feelings and then…the remembered not-so-good feelings.

Endless Southern Love had all of that in spades. Wade and Lemon used to be a thing and then they weren’t, but they both live in the same small town. It’s easy-ish to avoid each other until Wade’s daughter comes to live with him and who else works at her school? You got it. Lemon.

From there this story really takes off. It’s fun and bittersweet, it’s frustrating (I’m looking at you, Lemon!) and it is steamy. It was a really good read with some great characters.

Another win for the Magnolia Grove series!

Teasers:

Excerpt:

“Wade . . .” I say his name for the first time, to him, in years. It hurts, hearing my voice call out to him.

He stops and sets his shovel down. I didn’t expect him to walk toward me, but he does. Each step of his is deliberate and forceful, almost like he’s trying to leave his impression in the grass. He’s wearing his khaki cargo pants and from experience I know each pocket has something he’ll need today. A tool, twine, or trimmer line for the weed wacker. I’ve spent countless hours sitting on my parent’s front porch, watching him cut lawn with precision.

I’m out of breath when he comes face to face with me. He stands close. Close enough that we share the same air. Everything in my mind tells me to step back, to put a wall between us, but my heart sings at the closeness. I know I’ll never win the battle of hating him as long as we’re in the same town.

We stare at one another, taking each other in. His dark hair, brown eyes, and scruff all call to me, beg me to get lost in everything that is Wade Jenkins. I have loved this man for most of my life, and yet he’ll never be mine.

Available Now/Coming Soon in the Series:

>> Series Buy Link → https://mybook.to/MagnoliaGrove

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Available Now → https://mybook.to/SingleSouthernFlirt

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Release Date: August 8, 2024
Tropes: Coming Soon
Blurb & PreOrder: https://mybook.to/EndlessSouthernLove

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Release Date: September 12, 2024
Tropes: Small Town Romance, Ex’s Older Brother
Blurb & PreOrder: https://mybook.to/SweetSouthernHeat

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Release Date: October 10, 2024
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Blurb & PreOrder: https://mybook.to/SweetSouthernPromises

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Blurb & PreOrder: https://mybook.to/WhisperedSecrets

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Blurb & PreOrder: https://mybook.to/BeneathSouthernStars

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Author Bio:

Heidi McLaughlin is a New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and USA Today Bestselling author of The Beaumont Series, The Boys of Summer, and The Archers.

In 2012, Heidi turned her passion for reading into a full-fledged literary career, writing over twenty novels, including the acclaimed Forever My Girl.

Heidi’s first novel, Forever My Girl, has been adapted into a motion picture with LD Entertainment and Roadside Attractions, starring Alex Roe and Jessica Rothe, and opened in theaters on January 19, 2018.

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