STERLING TOUCH
L.B. Dunbar
Release Date: June 5
🔥Forbidden Romance
🔥Age Gap
🔥Older Brother’s Former Best Friend
🔥Childhood Friends
🔥Small Town
I wasn’t supposed to love him. I wasn’t even supposed to acknowledge him. But my entire life, I’ve had heart-eyes for my oldest brother’s former best friend, Cortland Haven.
I can’t help it that boys can be stupid, and a feud broke apart a long-time friendship and divided once-close families.
Try as I might to ignore Cort, I didn’t miss his eyes on me from across a crowded bar, twelve years ago. Oh, the way my skin tingled under his appraisal. The way my heart pattered knowing he was looking at me.
We shared more than a moment.
Now, we’re older and wiser. And with a little over a decade age gap between us, and a divide greater than that between our families, my heart still hasn’t gotten the memo.
No, that fickle organ has other plans for Cortland and me.
Especially when the silver fox is my son’s new baseball coach and I suddenly find myself assigned as his physical therapist.
I don’t just fall for the man adverse to touch, I tumble hard for him, when he should never be mine.
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Sterling Touch by L.B. Dunbar
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
Can we take a moment an appreciate the greatness that is this cover? Not only is it a great “couple” pose, but it is THIS STORY! I’m not sure if I’m going to do this story justice with my review, but here goes…
I feel like I’ve said this a million times in the past, but for those of you in the back, LB Dunbar is one of the best authors of later in life stories. She’s always sensitive to the “baggage” that most people carry once they’ve hit a certain point in their life and is always respectful with any circumstances she adds to her characters, and by circumstances, I mean “conditions” her characters have to struggle with and such. And finally, her characters adult properly and it just makes me happy!
There’s a lot of history in this story, not just history between our MCs, but history between their families. There are challenges coming at them left and right and if I stop to think about everything this book touched on, I am in awe that everything had a purpose, and nothing was left blowing in the wind. The story just has all these circumstances everywhere and they all mean something, and they all need to be “told” in order for our MCs to make sense and that’s my favorite part about the book. Life is messy and not straightforward and the more we live, the more we experience and these two had buckets of experience and Dunbar didn’t skimp on any of it! It was heartfelt and heartbreaking all at the same time. It was powerful yet will bring you to your knees at times. It is so immersive, that I lost track of everything once I started reading. From the cover to the very last word, this is one of the best later in life romances I’ve read in years and I cannot wait to find out who’s going to be cast as Vale & Cort for the audiobook!
Sterling Touch by L.B. Dunbar
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
Okay, listen. I absolutely fell for the 46-year-old silver fox, blue-collar cowboy. Cort is rugged, grounded, and has been quietly pining for his ex-best friend’s sister for years. And Vale? She’s a total powerhouse—smart, driven, and doesn’t take crap from anyone.
Their story is a slow burn in the best way. The tension made them impossible to ignore. Both are carrying emotional baggage and reluctant to lean on anyone. But when they finally open up about what really happened all those years ago? Now, I do have a bit of an issue with the reason her brother stopped talking to Cort—it’s a personal issues—but in the end, Cort saved him, so I guess I can let it slide.
Overall this story can be added to my ever-growing list of favorite books.
***Review copy requested and reviewed on behalf of OMGReads Blog***
L.B. Dunbar loves sexy silver foxes, second chances, and small towns. If you enjoy older characters in your romance reads, including a hero with a little silver in his scruff and a heroine rediscovering her worth, then welcome to romance for those over 40. L.B. Dunbar’s signature works include women and men in their prime taking another turn at love and happily ever after. She’s a USA TODAY Bestseller as well as #1 Bestseller on Amazon in Later in Life Romance with her Lakeside Cottage and Road Trips & Romance series. L.B. lives in Chicago with her own sexy silver fox.
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