Published: September 26, 2024
Length: 384 pages
Format: Kindle Unlimited
Genre: New Adult
Series of Standalones: Sunday Morning #1
Characters: Sarah, Matt and Isaac
POV: dual (but mostly Sarah’s), 1st person

𝒞𝑜𝓃𝓉𝑒𝓃𝓉:
age gap, virgin heroine, small town, cowboy hero, military, bad boys, cheating, forbidden love, taboo, love triangle, boyfriend’s older brother, western, religious, Footloose vibes

Review

The chemistry was fire, the tension so palpable you could cut it with a knife, the banter top notch, but my mind kept screaming to me: THIS IS ISAAC, MATT’S BROTHER! How can you be okay about a brother being so disloyal to another? I am not usually a fan of cheating in books and it makes cheating 10X worse when it comes to someone so close to you. Specially a brother! So I was constantly repressing myself for being enjoying this so much, but I just couldn’t help myself. Even knowing that everything I was reading was so damn wrong I was still glued to the pages like there was no tomorrow.

“Nothing happened,” he said. “You can walk up the drive with your head up because nothing happened.” I stared at the floor and nodded. As soon as I opened the door, I hopped out and headed up the road. The gravel crunched beneath his tires when he pulled forward to make a U-turn. Something happened. I turned and ran toward his truck, smacking my hand on his window. He glanced up at me and stopped. Adrenaline took over, and I opened his door, grabbing the steering wheel and his shirt to step up and kiss him. Isaac hesitated at first, but in the next breath, he tangled his fingers into my hair and kissed me with an open mouth. The kiss didn’t end abruptly like a mistake; it ended slowly like neither one of us wanted it to end at all. I bit my lower lip when we pulled apart just enough to look into his dark eyes. “It happened,” I whispered. A gorgeous grin stole his lips. “It happened,” he echoed. Isaac was right. I hopped down and headed toward my house with my chin held high because it happened.“

Damn you, Jewel E Ann for having written something so wrong but also SO GOOD. In the end Isaak prove me how wrong I was to judge him. Judge his loyalty. His character. His heart. The emotions this book evoked…ugh! Damn you, Jewel E Ann…for also making me cry. All the damn fckng stars!! A new favorite for sure!

“We’re all sinners. What makes you think I’m so innocent?”

“What are you doing?” I asked, freezing because it felt like a trap. “Being a gentleman.” “You’re not a gentleman,” I said while tossing my purse behind the seat and stepping into the car. “Sunday Morning, I’m a lot of things you know nothing about.” He shut my door.”

“Isaac was marking me again, only this time, it was invisible. But sometimes, the things we couldn’t see made a deeper impact and the most permanent mark.”

“Oh, the guilt. Why did everything I desired in life have to be wrong, sinful, or disappointing to others?”

Blurb

Her boyfriend’s older brother should be off-limits, but he’s a sinful temptation.

Sarah is a preacher’s daughter and a people pleaser. She’s also on the verge of graduating high school and following her dream of singing in Nashville. The only thing standing in her way is that the entire town of Devil’s Head, Missouri, thinks she will marry Matt, the son of the town’s richest rancher.

But Sarah’s not sure he’s her future husband, especially when his older brother, Isaac, returns home after serving six years in the Army. He has tattoos on his arms and bad habits that are not “father-approved.” When he’s not working on the ranch or roping at the rodeo, Isaac hangs out in the barn, playing his guitar. He’s trouble, but Sarah’s music-loving heart gravitates toward him.

Isaac loves consuming Sarah’s mind, crawling under her skin, backing her into corners, and whispering inappropriate things in her innocent ears.

After weeks of playful banter and guitar lessons blurring the line between right and wrong, Issac makes Sarah a proposition she can’t refuse.

But when the unthinkable happens, and everything she knows is destroyed, will Sarah make the right choice?