Title: Inked Hearts
Series: Lines in the Sand #1
Series: Lines in the Sand #1
Author: Lindsay Detwiler
Release Date: 21 October 2017
“Six years, a complex about my freckles, a love for pastrami, and a fear of failure. That’s what he gave me before slaughtering my heart and my faith in men.”
Suffering from the sting of betrayal, twenty-eight-year-old Avery Johannas quits her job and moves hundreds of miles away to Ocean City, the beach town of her dreams. With the help of her zany roommate, Jodie, Avery finds a new career, home, and freedom. Throughout her self-exploration, she makes only one rule: She won’t give her heart to a man again. She’s living for herself this time.
But then she meets Jesse.
A tattoo shop owner, the green-eyed Jesse Pearce is wild with a touch of mystery. As Jesse and Avery explore Ocean City and their friendship, they’ll have a hard time drawing a line in the sand between their hearts.
When summer nights get a little more heated than either expected, they’ll have to ask themselves: Can they let go of their notions of love, or will their hearts be permanently inked by past pain?
Avery Johannas thought she had everything she had always
dreamed about, loving parents, fantastic career and an adoring husband. That is
until she found him cheating on her in their bed. Fast forward to divorce and
upping sticks to move to another town to start over. Avery has always been the
good girl, the one to rely on but her heart has let her down in the past and she now vows that no man will have a disastrous effect on her life ever
again. Her heart is closed. That is until she meets Jesse.
Jesse Pearce has also known loss and pain in his past and
like Avery he too had made a new start in Ocean City over a decade ago. Now he runs his
own tattoo business and it is through this that he meets Avery for the first
time. With both of them protecting their hearts, there is little chance of them
being anything other than friends or is there?
This was a very slow burn gentle romance. It was very light
hearted and different to the usually hot panting passion reads I am used to and
usually prefer. However I liked the simplicity of the storyline and the emotion
of two people finding each other and finding a way to a different dream together.
Although the passion between the two was alluded to, most
happened off page so if you are looking for some hot action then it’s not
happening here. That’s not to say there was no romance as there was, just a
simple old fashioned romance. It was sweet and I loved both characters from the
onset. The secondary characters provided the comedy and the string that kept
the two on track to find their happy. Loved the dogs too!
Overall a simple slow burn light hearted romance that was
enjoyable for a rainy Sunday afternoon. 3.5 stars
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A high school English teacher, an author, and a fan of anything pink and/or glittery, Lindsay's the English teacher cliché; she love cats, reading, Shakespeare, and Poe.
She currently lives in her hometown with her husband, Chad (her junior high sweetheart); their cats, Arya, Amelia, Alice, and Bob; and their Mastiff, Henry.
Lindsay's goal with her writing is to show the power of love and the beauty of life while also instilling a true sense of realism in her work. Some reviewers have noted that her books are not the “typical romance.” With her novels coming from a place of honesty, Lindsay examines the difficult questions, looks at the tough emotions, and paints the pictures that are sometimes difficult to look at. She wants her fiction to resonate with readers as realistic, poetic, and powerful. Lindsay wants women readers to be able to say, “I see myself in that novel.” She wants to speak to the modern woman’s experience while also bringing a twist of something new and exciting. Her aim is for readers to say, “That could happen,” or “I feel like the characters are real.” That’s how she knows she's done her job.
Lindsay's hope is that by becoming a published author, she can inspire some of her students and other aspiring writers to pursue their own passions. She wants them to see that any dream can be attained and publishing a novel isn’t out of the realm of possibility.
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