Published: April 24, 2025
Length: 416 pages
Format: Paperback
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Characters: Ellie and Ash
POV: dual, first person

Content:
꧁•⊹٭ second chance ༊*·˚. rich hero ༊*·˚. class difference ༊*·˚. secrets ༊*·˚. ༊*·˚. miscommunication ٭⊹•꧂
⚠️ 🅆🄰🅁🄽🄸🄽🄶 ⚠️
∗ death/grief ∗ toxic family ∗ overdose ∗ ∗ description of previous sexual abuse ∗
⋆✴︎˚｡⋆ Your mental health matters. If any of these topics are sensitive to you, please proceed with caution or skip this one ⋆✴︎˚｡⋆

Review

This started off really good and I felt the chemistry between the main characters but it went down hill as you read.

1- If a man is not going to make you a priority then he’s not the one for you. I felt like Becca was more important to Ash than Ellie. But I also wasn’t completely in love with Ellie. She could be really frustrating at times. Both of them.

2- Although this book wasn’t a YA, it felt like one. The characters felt really immature for their age.

3- There were moments where the book dragged and I found myself skimming through it.

4- Lack of communication doesn’t make a strong foundation for a lasting relationship. You gotta know how to communicate with your partner.

Overall, this wasn’t my favorite of this author, but there were a few parts I enjoyed reading.

“Would you say that this is the real you?” Ash asks, lifting his chin at me. “This is the me I wish I was all the time.”

“It was only three days,” I say in a small voice as he turns to stare starkly out the window. “Are we looking back at that time through rose-tinted glasses? Was any of it real?” He meets my eyes, and then says, with absolute conviction: “It was real.”

Blurb

Three days to fall in love. Six years to try to forget.

Ellie didn’t expect to fall in love while interrailing through Europe. But she also didn’t expect to meet a man like Ash. Three blistering days in Lisbon is all it takes to form an unforgettable connection—a bond deep enough for them to scrap their itineraries and plan to meet again in Spain. But Ellie arrives late, and Ash is nowhere to be found.

Six years later, Ellie has landed her dream job working as a gardener for a viscount and viscountess on their sprawling five-hundred-year-old estate in Wales. She finds peace amongst the towering topiary hedges and colorful gardens, but her idyll is shattered when Ash crashes back into her life. And when it becomes clear why he didn’t show in Madrid, her heart breaks anew—for what the truth means for her, and for his fate.

But they have never been able to resist each another, and when the sparks of their attraction fly, Ellie’s life will catch flame. She will have to make a choice.

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