Heather Miller Bookophile

  Book Rating:    Book Trope:  Football Romance,  Marriage of Convenience,  Spicy Lessons,  Man Obsessed,  He Falls First and HARD,  Virgin FMC, A SL  Back to our favorite small town, Kroydon Hills. We have  Ryker Beneventi. He plays professional football. He lost his hearing in a accident when he was younger. It wasn't just his parents who learned sign language, it was the entire family and extended family all learned so he would be included in everything. He does wear hearing aids that have really helped him when he can't read lips or misses the signing.     We met Delaney towards the end of book #3, Sweet Surrender. Delaney is 24 and Ashton's older sister. Delaney works the local bar and small store. She has an apartment over the small store. Delaney is very skiddish. She had a rough childhood / teenage years. Delaney doesn't drink, or do drugs, and she's also a virgin. She has been around guys but never been with ...

  Book Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️ Book Trope:  Family drama.  Long lost love. Re-united second chance love.   Alaric is a physiological and loves what he does. He is stretched way too thin. He is always working, always on call. His family owns and operates a winery in town. His grandmother - Evie, is a bit of a headache for everyone in the family. Evie often calls on Alaric to vent to him. Alaric just wants to work. When Liz comes back into his life he wants to be with her but dealing with his family the hospital is often to draining on him.  Evie thinks everyone in town is out to get her. She thinks people are poisoning the water to the vines and she is always blaming and judging her family.  Liz, has been in Vancouver but recently moved to Paradise to be closer to her brother and his family. She works in hospital administration. She deals with the CEO / and board members weekly if not daily. She’s always looking to see what could be improved at the hospital....

  Book Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Book Trope: he falls first. Grumpy vs sunshine. Age gap.  Grey Brooks - is 44, the high school shop and baseball coach. He also coaches the teacher softball team during the evenings. Grey has lived in the small town his whole life often spending his younger years living with his grandmother. His parents were addicts and he never knew day to day if they would be sober or not. He learned how to check for body pulses when he was 5 years old. So, he just spent time with his grandmother and ultimately moving in with her.  Grey has never really had a long term relationship with. He’s dated on and off. But never had anyone stick around. His school teaching schedule and coaching schedule can be a bit much and he was never sure he could give someone the time they would need during baseball season.  Molly is 24, and an elementary school librarian. She just moved to the small town and loves it. Her house is a money pit. She has tried to learn how to...

  Book Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️ Book Tropes: second chance romance. Young love.  Keats Matthews is going to college, he also works as a bus boy at catering events. He was taking a break away from the crowd when Sosie asks him for a cigarette. They start talking and like what each other was saying. Then she disappeared. When Keats walked back into the millionaires house he sees her being greeted by her father who is making her birthday announcement. Sosie is used to being thrust into the spot light thanks to her father. She does her part of smiling and nodding but she is about to break. Keats got a little glimpse of her true self while they were talking.  Keats and Sosie have a beginning of what could lead to a beautiful romance. But, her father gets in the way and threatens to take everything from Keats that he has. Her father threatens her and makes her feel small and unloved. She wants Keats to have a future and she doesn’t want to be the one to threaten anything he may have in t...

  Book Rating:  Book Tropes:  Single dad/Sheriff,  Child’s teacher,  Neighbors,  Grumpy/ Sunshine,  Close proximity,  Small town vibes. This is book #3 in the Blossom Peak series. You can read each as a standalone as the characters are explained as who is who.  Rhonan Hart is the single dad next door to where  Vienna just moved in , in Blossom Peak. His daughter Ellis and a student of Vienna's.  Rhonan is  Lainey's  older brother and best friends with her   fiancée     - Fletcher. Rhonan is a Deputy Sheriff, he loves helping others and protecting his small town he's always been a part of.    Vienna is a new   substitute   teacher, filling in for the regular Kindergarten teacher who is out on maternity leave. Vienna has a degree in early childhood education but never was able to put it to use before. Vienna has secrets she isn't ready to open up and share her story. She se...

  Book Rating Book Tropes:  Billionaire Romance,  Friends to Lovers,  Age Gap,  Surprise Baby, Single Dad,  Roommates to Lovers,  Forced Proximity Jude Kensington is the playboy of Pembroke Hills Country Club, and a billionaire bachelor. Jude's best guy friend is Cal who is newly engaged to Lucy, who is Charlotte's best girl friend. Jude is a notorious flirt, who always flirts with Charlotte.  Charlotte has been working as a bar cart girl at Pembroke Hills Country Club for the past year. She moved from Arizona after falling in love with Martha's Vineyard area. She loves the people and the atmosphere of the area and the golf course. Charlotte and Jude met last year and became fast friends. The place Charlotte has been renting wants to have someone else come in and pay the full rental fee for the summer time and now Charlotte is needing a new place to live.  Jude recently got a knock on his door. A lady he dated last summer has a 4 month old ba...