Mine To Hold: Friends to Lovers small town romance (Southern Weddings Book 2)

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I received a complimentary ARC copy of this book from the Author and Wildfire Marketing Solutions in exchange for an honest review.

They did their homework and hired two of the greats making this another exciting audio to take me outta my own head and worries for a while.I am not sure, but it seems has if the author has lost her touch when it comes to writing quality romance. She’s protecting a shocking secret and desperately needs refuge from a stalker determined to see her dead. Ace was hurt by the events that unfolded but as he spends time with Shelby, he begins to realize that this just might be the best time that could have happened to either one of them. This is a delightful friends-to-lovers story about Ace accompanying Shelby on her honeymoon so they can drown their sorrows, only to end up drowning in one another.

The action-packed, suspenseful words of Kennedy Mitchell kept me engaged from start to finish and the performance of the narrators just added to it. And as for this book, I can say that it started in a really good way and raised my hopes but as soon as their relationship started, it went downhill for me. these were just two people who had been hurt and humiliated, and took that and cultivated a real relationship. Shelby thought she had her future all planned out and was marrying the man she was destined to spend her life with the next day until she receives some correspondence that wasn’t meant for her, and she isn’t about to just accept the situation.She asks her best friend, Ace, who is now newly single due to his girlfriend cheating, if he’d like to accompany her on the honeymoon. Finding out that your fiance is a cheating scumbag just before your wedding is enough to knock anyone off their feet. I wasn’t the biggest fan of the third act breakup and the random alluding to Ace being with someone else. There were a few good aspects and surprises that developed between Shelby and Ace but I wished there was more. Regardless though, this is still a beautiful friends to lovers romance and I can't wait for more in this series!

It's a gorgeous journey for them as they do just that, and I loved watching these two figure it all out. I think because you find out about the cheating with the characters, so it lets you feel a connection to them and want them to be happy, and are really perfectly ok with them getting together fairly quickly after the botched wedding. While I was listening, I happened to look to see how much time was left and there was only 30 minutes!As they fight to stay alive and catch the killer, they struggle to resolve the guilt of their past pleasures.