Thursday, September 22, 2022

[Blog Tour + Review] Making the Match by Kristen Ashley


It was never meant to be . . . and then it was.

MAKING THE MATCH, an all-new spicy, heartfelt and emotional second chance standalone romance in the River Rain Series from New York Times bestselling author Kristen Ashley, is AVAILABLE NOW!!



ABOUT THE BOOK.

If you love second chance, single parent romance, pining, a couple over 40, redemption and forgiveness, this is the book for you. 

Decades ago, tennis superstar Tom Pierce and “It Girl” Mika Stowe met at a party.

Mika fell in love. Tom was already in love with his wife. As badly as Tom wanted Mika as a friend, Mika knew it would hurt too much to be attracted to this amazing man and never be able to have him.

They parted ways for what they thought would be forever, only to reconnect just once, when unspeakable tragedy darkens Mika’s life.

Years later, the impossible happens.

A time comes when they’re both unattached.

But now Tom has made a terrible mistake. A mistake so damaging to the ones he loves, he feels he’ll never be redeemed.

Mika has never forgotten how far and how fast she fell when she met him, but Tom’s transgression is holding her distant from reaching out.

There are matchmakers in their midst, however.

And when the plot has been unleashed to make that match, Tom and Mika are thrown into an international intrigue that pits them against a Goliath of the sports industry.

Now they face a massive battle at the same time they’re navigating friendship, attraction, love, family, grief, redemption, two very different lives lived on two opposite sides of a continent and a box full of kittens.

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FALL IN LOVE WITH TOM AND MIKA.

Amazon Paperback: https://amzn.to/3PBUDF5
B&N Paperback: https://bit.ly/3RLmUKd

ADD TO GOODREADS.




READ AN EXCERPT.

She looked beyond him and called, “Hey, Mom.”
Suddenly, Tom felt like he’d been punched in the chest, his breath not coming easy.
Dragging some in, he turned and saw Mika standing there. 
She was wearing a kaftan dress with a low V at the neck, draping sleeves and a string through an empire waist that gathered the material. The print on a black background was mostly reds, oranges and pinks with bright accents of green and blue and turquoise. She had some flat, embroidered mules on her feet. And her still-golden hair was up in a messy knot on top of her head.
Even though she was dressed like she was hanging around the house, she wore makeup. Mostly neutral but with black cat’s-eye, drawing focus to her eyes and the startling sea-blue color of the iris. She had some delicate chain bracelets at her wrists and a number of piercings in her ears, with studs or small hoops running up the shell, and dangling beads coming from the lobe.
She looked the picture of what a poet, photographer, novelist, filmmaker would look like. An easy style that was not unique, but she made it that way.
She was also still one of the most attractive women he’d ever laid eyes on.
In fact, he’d go so far as saying she was in the top two, vying for number one.
“Tom,” she greeted.
“Mika,” he replied, and then was surprised yet again in his short visit to her home.
He saw a soft pink rise in her cheeks, the kind a woman got when she felt nervous or didn’t know what to do with flattery, something he hadn’t offered, unless she caught it in his gaze.
She looked to her daughter and ordered, “Scram, kid.”

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OUR REVIEWS.

4.5 Stars from Renee!
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

The story has laughs, secrets, pain, grief, and heartbreak.

If you have not read the below I would recommend reading those books(s) first:
After the Climb (River Rain, #1)
Chasing Serenity (River Rain, #2)
Taking the Leap (River Rain #3)

This is Mika and Tom’s story. Mika fell in love with Tom at the first meeting, but he had a wife. She walked away. Now they are both not attached but each has their own issues they are working through. They must deal with there issues while working together. Can they figure out their own lives in order to build something together? Or are somethings just too much to overcome?

I highly recommend this book.

☆~☆~☆~☆

4.5 Stars from Brianna!
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Kristen Ashley is back with her addicting River Rain series, and Making the Match is the fourth book in this beauty as a gahhhh my heart.

This go round we have Mika and Tom's story and y'all, what a journey this was, unexpected in moments. I was hooked from the very start of this book and didn't stop until the pages quit turning. This was an emotional page-turning romance that got me in my heart and made me believe in love.

Fans and readers of this series, you are in for a treat with this one.

I can't recommend this author, series, book enough.




MEET KRISTEN ASHLEY.


KRISTEN ASHLEY is the New York Times bestselling author of over sixty romance novels including the Rock Chick, Colorado Mountain, Dream Man, Chaos, Unfinished Hero, The ’Burg, Magdalene, Fantasyland, The Three, Ghost and Reincarnation, Moonlight and Motor Oil and Honey series along with several standalone novels. She’s a hybrid author, publishing titles both independently and traditionally, her books have been translated in fourteen languages and she’s sold over three million books.

Kristen’s novel, Law Man, won the RT Book Reviews Reviewer’s Choice Award for best Romantic Suspense. Her independently published title Hold On was nominated for RT Book Reviews best Independent Contemporary Romance and her traditionally published title Breathe was nominated for best Contemporary Romance. Kristen’s titles Motorcycle Man, The Will, Ride Steady (which won the Reader’s Choice award from Romance Reviews) and The Hookup all made the final rounds for Goodreads Choice Awards in the Romance category.

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