May 22, 2022

Small town Hero | Olivia Hyale

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My new boss is my best friend’s older brother and the golden boy of Paradise Shores.

Me? I'm the misfit single mom who never wanted to fit in...

Small Town Hero, an all-new must-read small town billionaire romance full of heat from bestselling author Olivia Hayle, is available now!

My new boss is my best friend’s older brother and the golden boy of Paradise Shores.

Me? I'm the misfit single mom who never wanted to fit in...

Being forced to move back to my hometown after a decade away is embarrassing, but

I’ll do anything to protect my little girl.

I’ll even wait tables at the elite Yacht Club… now owned by the boy I once had a huge crush on. He’s grown up and claimed his rightful place as King of Paradise Shores.

Parker Marchand was a star athlete and professional sailor who never looked at me twice. He’s strong and steady, everything my abusive ex wasn't, but I'm a struggling single mom and professional screw-up. What could we possibly have in common?

But Parker doesn't believe in no win situations. He wants to be my knight in shining armor.

His plan: Charm my daughter. Take me sailing. Out to dinner...and into his bed.

Make me forget everyone but him.

The man I’ve always wanted is within reach, but I've been burned too many times to trust again. Parker has a brilliant future and I’m running from my past.

Everyone knows knights in shining armor aren't real, and I’m too old to believe in fairy tales. Even if Parker is making it hard not to…

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My Thoughts:

Returning home to a place that barely changes versus going through a lot of changes isn't easy for Jamie, but she doesn't have any other options. Her daughter is her driving force to make life better - regardless of how much she has to humble herself. She finds a job as a waitress, drawing her back into a piece of her past.

Although parts of the book were a little slow moving, I enjoyed the overall feel that was left by the characters and plot. Definitely made the slower parts worthwhile.

Parker was exactly the hero that Jamie needed and Olivia Hayle did him a beautiful justice in making him as considerate, kind, and caring as she did. Jamie is broken when we first meet her, but her journey is admirable as she heals. The supporting cast is also a big part of her healing and support system. It was truly a beautiful part of the read.

I received a complimentary copy for reviewing purposes. All opinions are my own.

Excerpt

“Do I have to go first again?”

He smiles, slow and wide, and lowers his head. “No,” he says, and then he kisses me. It’s salty and warm and water drips from his hair onto my temple, cold against my flushed skin.

My eyes are still closed when he pulls away. “There,” he murmurs. “Not too little, not too much. We did it right this time.”

“Don’t Goldilocks this, Marchand.”

He chuckles hoarsely and then doesn’t make another sound, not as I reach up on my tiptoes and kiss him again. It’s intoxicating being this close to him.

And just like last time, he becomes a stranger under my lips. Familiar and yet novel, an entirely new landscape to explore. Parker and yet not Parker.

“Jamie,” he murmurs, his hands finding my waist beneath the towel.

My hands settle against his chest. His bare chest. He’s warm and hard under my hands, skin deceptively soft over the strong muscle beneath.

“Jamie,” he murmurs again, moving his lips to my ear. He laughs softly. “We’re in the middle of the boardwalk.”

“Oh,” I whisper against his chest.

“I don’t mind, but I have a feeling you might. You know how this town talks.”

“Yes.” I turn my head and peek past his shoulder. An SUV drives by us on Ocean Drive. “What do we do?”

He rubs a large hand up and down my arms, as if to warm me. It sends a shiver down my back. “We’ll go home,” he says, “and start our days, and do this again. When we’re alone.”

“I like that plan,” I say. My voice doesn’t sound like my own.

He smiles, small and crooked. “Come on, James. You’re getting cold, and I’m in danger of overheating.”

About Olivia

Olivia is a twenty-something hopeless romantic who loves billionaires heroes despite never having met one. Taking matters into her own hands, she creates them on the page instead. Stern, charming, cold or brooding, so far she's never met a (fictional) billionaire she didn't like.

A voracious reader of romance, Olivia picked up the pen a few years back and what followed was a love affair of her own. Now she spends her days grinning at the steamy banter she's writing or swooning at happily-ever-afters. Or, to be frank, struggling with writing about herself in third person for the purposes of marketing.

She's been writing contemporary romance novels since 2018.

They're all exclusively available on Amazon and enrolled in Kindle Unlimited.

(Phew. Now I can go back to first-person love stories!)