Title: Trusting Forever
Series: Monroe Brothers
Author: Lea Coll
Genre: Small Town Contemporary Romance
Tropes: Forced Proximity, Holiday Romance, Single Dad/Nanny, Childhood Crush, Grumpy meets Sunshine, and Friends to Lovers
Release Date: Tuesday, February 13, 2024
This Christmas, I might finally find my way out of the friend-zone and into my best friend’s heart.
Sebastian and I have been best friends forever. He knows everything about me, except that I’ve secretly crushed on him for years. When Sebastian finds himself without a nanny over the holidays, he makes me an offer I can’t refuse. Move into his cabin on the family’s Christmas tree farm and be a nanny to his little girl.
I’d love to step out of the friend-zone and into his arms, but it’s time I accepted that Sebastian will always look at me as his faithful friend. Determined to change my single status (and tired of the pitying comments from our families), I jump at the opportunity to participate in the Christmas tree farm’s bachelorette auction. I might not find Mr. Forever, but I might just find Mr. Fun-For-The-Holidays instead.
Imagine my surprise when Sebastian outbids everyone to win a date with me. I would’ve considered it a pity date, until I arrive at the ice-rink covered with fairy lights and enough mistletoe to make even Scrooge a romantic. I’m swept out of the friend-zone and into a hot and steamy night with my best friend.
Just when I’m sure that my Christmas wish has been granted and Sebastian and his daughter start to feel like family, his ex shows up threatening to destroy everything we’ve built.
Will he choose me, or will I be pushed back into the friend-zone?
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Trusting Forever: A Single Dad Holiday Romance by Lea Coll
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
Sebastian and Hanna have been best friends since they were little. They stuck together through thick and thin but lately Hanna has been feeling like it’s time to let her crush on him go. She decided it was time to make a new year resolution and was to really start dating again. She wants to have a family and time is ticking.
Sebastian is a single dad juggling his job and helping his family farm. Having Hanna there helps him worry less about his adorable little girl. He’s been crushing on her for a long time but too afraid to say anything afraid he’ll lose her friendship. But her resolution sends him into panic mode and he shows her how good they could be together. But being together turns out is not that easy. He’s having problems with the new arrangement and when his past comes knocking back at this door, he’ll have to decide if he’s ready to call her his or is he going to let her go.
From start to finish this story pulled at my heartstrings. Just when you think all is right with the world his analytic brain gets in the way. This was a very realistic read and I knew these two were going to be fire together.
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Lea Coll worked as a trial attorney for over ten years. Now she stays home with her three children, plotting stories while fetching snacks and running them back and forth to activities. She enjoys the freedom of writing romance after years of legal writing.
She grew up in a small town in Pennsylvania and currently resides in Maryland with her family.
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