Title: Wide Open Spaces
Author: Aurora Rose Reynolds
Series: Shooting Stars #2
Publisher: Self-Published
Release Date: August 29, 2016
Genre: Contemporary Romance, Erotic Romance
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That moment your life changes.
That moment that changes your life.
That moment you love someone more than you love yourself.

That was the moment we gave our son up for adoption and the moment I was left bare. A wide-open space that would forever be empty. There are moments that define you as a person, moments that prove just how strong you are, moments you push yourself to keep going forward when all you really want to do is give up. It was in one of those moments when I reached out and found him waiting for me.

When Shelby Calder left home fifteen years ago, she never planned on returning to the Alaskan town she left behind. But after the death of her grandfather and a bitter divorce, she hopes going home will be a fresh start for her and her ten-year-old son.

Zach Watters has made a lot of mistakes in his life. But when he sees Shelby Calder, looking more beautiful than ever, standing outside her childhood home, he promises himself that letting her go won't be a mistake he ever makes again.

Some things never change and love is one of them.

Title: Wide Open Spaces

Series: Shooting Stars #2

Genre: Contemporary Erotic Romance

Author: Aurora Rose Reynolds

Release Date: August 29, 2016

“Zach Watters has made a lot of mistakes in his life. But when he sees Shelby Calder looking more beautiful than ever standing outside her childhood home, he promises himself that letting her go won’t be a mistake he ever makes again.”

Excerpt

“Then why did you marry her?” I ask, wondering if I’m really ready to go there with him, but it’s too late to change my mind. The question is out, and as much as I don’t want to know the answer, I need to know the answer.

“I wanted my kids to have what I didn’t. I believed that, with time, we could find a way to be happy.”

“Maybe we shouldn’t talk about this,” I say, changing my mind as nausea and jealousy turn my stomach.

“You loved your ex, baby. I know you did. I didn’t have that. I wanted it but never had it with her or anyone else since you.”

“Please stop.” Feeling tears burn the back of my eyes for him, I close them tight. Max and I were happy and in love in the beginning, and I hate knowing Zach never had that… the kids didn’t see or feel that.

“I wish my past didn’t hurt you so much. I’m sorry for hurting you the way I have. If I could take your pain away, I would.” He gathers me against him and tucks my head under his chin.

“As sad as it makes me, I wish you would have had that with her or someone else,” I say, and his arms tighten so much that my lungs compress.

“I don’t,” he growls.

“What?” I wheeze, and he loosens his grip just enough for me to take a breath.

“I don’t want to think about what would have happened if I had been with her or someone else when you came back. I don’t want to face that demon inside of me that knows what I would have done.”

“Zach—”

“I’ve been in love with you for almost eighteen years. I carried your missing pieces around inside me for that long, Shelby. I know it would have made me an asshole, but there is only one you. You’re the only place I’ve ever called home.” His voice is thick with emotion, and that wound inside of me fills up a little bit more. I hate his words, but a part of me is relieved he feels that way, that he feels so deeply for me.

“There’s been a wide open space inside me since we placed Samuel and I left you behind. But, from the moment I came back, it’s slowly been filling up.”

He goes quiet at my words. Several moments pass before he speaks again. “One day, that space will be full. I swear, with everything I have in me, I will make sure it’s overflowing and that you never feel empty again.”

My Review

I don’t know what it is about this series, but there is something so beautiful about it. Maybe it’s the picturesque scenery, maybe it’s the second chance love stories, maybe it’ s the characters I fall head over heels for, but whatever it is, I cannot get enough! I made the mistake of saying at 2 am that I would read just one chapter and then proceeded to read until I had to get ready for work in the morning. So now I am dragging tail yet feeling like it was so totally worth it!

Even though there were a few parts that I felt were rushed, and a few things I felt were left out altogether, overall it was a beautiful love story about forgiveness and second chances. It was about working through grief and blending families. It was about Shelby and Zack and the type of love that we all dream of, a love that never died or diminished even though many years had passed. I FELT these characters, I lived their sadness and longing and hopelessness. But I was also there when the sparks lit again, when truths were spoken, and when hearts were mended. I loved every stumble and misstep, especially when they led to the bedroom…

I love how seamlessly Reynolds creates worlds; she has an uncanny knack at giving us side characters we are invested in long after the story is over, to the point where we are begging for their story. And the beautiful thing about it is it never takes away from the main characters love story. If anything, it just adds to their depth. This series seems more Contemporary where her Until series is more New Adult. Don’t get me wrong, I adore them both, but it was great seeing her move to a different genre yet still maintaining the factors that make an ARR book what it is; breathtaking, scorching hot, and unforgettable.

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Fighting to Breathe

(Shooting Stars #1)

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Lea Lamb and Austin Wolf were young when they fell in love. They never imagined the future could hold anything other than together-forever.

When Lea’s father dies in a tragic fishing accident, she’s crushed under the weight of her grief and catches a glimpse of another type of future, one she knows she’s not strong enough to face.

Austin is angry. For the past fifteen years, he’s believed the woman he loved with every ounce of his soul left him without so much as a backwards glance.

When Lea unexpectedly returns to their hometown, all the years of heartache inside Austin bubbles to the surface and presents itself as blinding rage.

Faced with the truth about the past, a newly discovered secret, these former lovers will learn that if they want to have any chance at the future they’d given up on all those years ago, they will have to rescue one another from drowning in pain so debilitating it will leave them both fighting to breath.

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