Title: Wildest Dreams
Series: The Sterling Brothers Series Book 1
Author: Lea Coll
Genre: Small Town Contemporary Romance
Release Date: December 30, 2025
🩷Military
🩷Second Chance
🩷Holidate
🩷High School Sweethearts
🩷Inn Renovation
🩷Holiday
Renovating a mountain bed-and-breakfast was supposed to be my fresh start—until the only man who can save the project is the one who once shattered my heart.
We were high school sweethearts before he left for the Army and I left town, both of us swearing goodbye meant forever. Now we’re back in our hometown, older, wiser… and dangerously aware of everything we used to be. He’s working for his brothers’ contracting business. I’m racing the holidays to finish the inn. Fate, apparently, has a twisted sense of humor.
When he asks me to be his holidate—just a friendly favor, a few festive events, nothing more—I tell myself I can handle it. We’re adults. The past is buried. Sparks don’t reignite that easily.
Except they do.
Every stolen glance, every brush of his hand, every memory we swore we’d forgotten pulls us closer. The chemistry is still there—hotter, deeper, and impossible to ignore. But falling for him again means risking everything I rebuilt after he left.
This time, will we finally fight for our forever… or are we destined to break each other’s hearts all over again?
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Wildest Dreams: A Brother’s Best Friend Small Town Romance by Lea Coll
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
Hmm .. I’m not sure where to begin? These two started off great. The whole being reasonably friendly with someone who broke your heart was a great start to this story. Natasha is trying to improve their home town, and Ford was trying prove he’s changed and want to put up roots. But somewhere along the chemistry was starting to fade a bit for me.
I don’t want to sound like i didn’t like the story, i did,its just I’m starting to show my age where i want to slap the living light out of our MCs with all the unnecessary drama because people refuse to talk to each other.
This story has a nice holiday cheer behind it with X-mas and its magic bringing love to the surface, but as said before something was missing for me so this time around I’m giving this one a 3.5*!
***Review copy requested and reviewed on behalf of OMGReads Blog***
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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