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
ABOUT THE BOOK:
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?
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Endless Southern Love by Heidi McLaughlin
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
I’m gonna start this review with a rant – Lemon…girl…I can’t remember the last time FMC enraged me to a point where I wanted to throw my Kindle into a wall. She was so fixated on blaming him for everything that has happened in the last 8 years, when in reality she was mostly to blame. I wish Wade didn’t love her and found some else for him. But the heart wants what it wants and he loved her so I guess i have to live with that.
Wade was a great dad to his little girl and his relationship with her mother made him that more attractive. He’s been trying to move on with his life, which is hard when the one woman you always loved, would rather walk into fire than talk to you. But with his daughter coming to live with him, Lemon is pushed hard to looking into herself and come to terms if she can let go off the (misguided) hurt and start fresh, with or without Wade.
As said I wish he ended up with someone who deserved him more but at the end of the book he was happy and so am (kinda) I.
***Review copy requested and reviewed on behalf of OMGReads Blog***
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.
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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