It’s been three years since Padraig Collins lost the love of his life, Mia, and since then, he’s been sleepwalking his way through each day, focusing only on work and family, while hanging out with his best friend, Emmy. He’s determined to make that enough, not ready or willing to take a chance on loving and losing again.
The sum equivalent of Emmy’s experience with relationships is contained within the pages of the romance novels she writes while sitting at the end of the bar at Pat’s Pub. That is if she doesn’t count the secret crush she’s been harboring for Padraig since the first day she laid eyes on him. Unfortunately for her, Paddy’s heart still belongs to Mia.
Two tragedies later, Padraig finds himself reaching out to Emmy, only to discover she’s no longer there. And it will take the combined romantic efforts of the entire Collins’ family to help him win the heart of his best friend…and his second chance at happily ever after.
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EXCERPT
She tried to break the kiss, needing air, needing answers, but Padraig tightened his hold.
“Not yet,” he murmured against her lips. He was gentling his kiss, but he wasn’t letting her go.
“Paddy,” she whispered.
He shook his head. “No,” he insisted again. “Not yet. I’m not done.”
She jerked slightly, then shivered when she felt him pull her blouse free of her jeans, slipping his hands underneath, his fingers stroking the bare skin at her waist. Her pussy clenched in response. Actually, everything clenched in response.
“God,” she breathed, when his hands shifted north, engulfing her breasts. He pinched her nipples, more roughly than she would have expected, the pain setting off some sort of sensual current that had her rolling her hips against him.
Why were they wearing so many clothes? Because suddenly, all she could picture was him stripping her blouse and bra off, dragging her jeans down, and taking her against the shelves.
Oh my God. They were in the pub. His entire family was just outside this storage closet.
Had he locked the door?
Was there a lock on the door?
She pushed against him more firmly this time. If she didn’t stop him now, she was going to spontaneously combust. “Paddy, please.”
He relinquished her lips, his forehead pressed against hers.
“What are you doing?” she asked.
“Kissing you.”
“Practice kissing?”
He scowled. “No!”
She blew out an exasperated breath. “Then what?”
“I didn’t like seeing you with Joe Moretti.”
Emmy frowned. “Is this an overprotective thing? Or…” She wouldn’t let herself ask if he was jealous. Her self-preservation genes were finally kicking in. She’d been wearing her heart on her sleeve for too long and her pride was tired of taking a beating.
“No. Not overprotective,” he said, placing one soft kiss on her lips. Then another. His sweet kisses were as deadly to her libido—and her heart—as his hungry ones.
“Then what?” she prompted, praying he’d say the word her heart longed to hear, the one that would mean he felt something for her stronger than friendship.
And then…she got her wish.
“I was jealous, Em. I’ve been seeing red ever since you walked in the pub with him. Spent the last couple of hours fighting the need to walk over and punch the guy’s lights out.”
She slowly shook her head. “But you said—”
“That kiss last week wasn’t practice, and it wasn’t me reaching out to you because I was sad about Mia. And I want you to forget everything I said on Christmas Eve because I was wrong. I was lying to myself and you. I can’t be just friends with you anymore, Emmy.”
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Virginia native Mari Carr is a New York Times and USA Today bestseller of contemporary romance novels. With over one million copies of her books sold, Mari was the winner of the Romance Writers of America’s Passionate Plume award for her novella, Erotic Research. She has over a hundred published works, including her popular Wild Irish and Compass books, along with the Trinity Masters series she writes with Lila Dubois.
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This is the final book in this series and I am so sad to see it end. I have not read every book but the ones I have read are ones that I loved and will keep re-reading over and over. One of the books I did NOT read was the one where Padraig met Mia and married her. I just felt it was too sad a book and couldn't deal with that. So this book is really the first book I have read that Padraig starred in.
Padraig is a 31 year old hot, widower. He met the love of his life, Mia four years before and fell in love instantly and they had one happy year together before she died. This story is 3 years after her death and Padraig is still mourning her when this book starts.
Three years before this book starts, Padraig met Emmy at the bar he works at and he and his family brought her into the fold. She is his best friend and they met when her parents died so they both have understood each others pain. But now Emmy wants more and she asks him if he is interested, when he turns her down, she decides to start dating and meet someone who can give her a family and love.
I absolutely LOVED Emmy. She is all alone in the world and she becomes this awesome romance writer who has a huge success professionally but personally her personal life is not going anywhere and she decides to get one. She asks Patraig and when he turns her down she moves on. Even when Padraig leaves her at a pivotal time she doesn't wallow, she is a mature and strong woman and I adored how she takes life and faces all her fears and moves on.
Padraig was a harder character for me to like and love. He is definitely hot when he finally confesses to his feelings for Emmy and he is definitely very alpha and possessive which I also loved. But he has also built a shrine to Mia and he is so afraid to fall in love and truly move on. To some degree I felt he missed the real message of Mia and that is that life is worth living every second and you hold on and love it without regrets and fear. The lesson he took from Mia is that life and love is precious but also to fear letting someone truly into his heart and he learned to run from love because something can happen to them. And I was angry at the younger him and Mia because that one year really ruined him and did irrepairable damage to him. He really needed some counseling and no one ever mentioned that might be a good idea.
The book ends on a wonderful note. I loved getting a glance of the future and the children that the Collins family has in their future, I hated seeing this series end and I cried many tears for Padraig and Mia in this story. It was a really heartfelt story and I love the Collins family. But the real star in this story was Emmy. I adored her so much.
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