Review

What to Expect:
⋆✴︎˚｡⋆ ex-con con, part-time thief, part-time mechanic, and now somehow a full-time “muse” hero ➺ insta-love ➺ found family ➺ opposites attract ➺ he falls first ➺ dyslexia ⋆✴︎˚｡⋆

I know everyone loves this author. I was once that reader too but sadly it’s been harder and harder for me to connect with her writing.

Where are all the emotions??? The buildup??? The all the feels her stories usually gives??? The substance!!!??? Sorry, but I just couldn’t feel anything here.

I miss her old self. The author who wrote deeply stories and used to give all the feels. I think she needs to take more time to write her books. She’s been launching too many books a year and it’s losing the heart. I keep reading her in hopes to find her old self again but no such luck so far.

The Chain of Lakes Series:

The Homemaker
The Muse

∗ Each book in this series features a different couple and can be read as a complete standalone. But for maximum enjoyment, follow the recommended reading order. ∗

° ༘🖇ྀ₊˚ Favorite Quote 🖇₊˚ෆ

❝ I don’t want you to fit into my world, June. I want you to be my world.❞

Blurb

Flynn Morley has spent his life getting by with as little as possible. No girlfriend. No real home. No money to speak of. Raised in the system, he learned early not to trust people who seemed to have everything. So when he takes a job as a “muse” for a wealthy Minneapolis couple, it feels like crossing a line he never thought he would.

Then he meets June.

June is a bike tour guide with a quick smile, a calm confidence, and a way of making Flynn feel seen without being judged. Their connection is immediate and playful, built on shared humor, quiet moments, and a mutual longing for a simple life.

As Flynn adjusts to his bizarre new job, he starts encountering something he never planned for: kindness without strings attached. It challenges everything he believes about money, power, and who gets to be comfortable in the world. And falling for June only complicates things, especially when it turns out she’s carrying secrets of her own.

When June’s past surfaces, Flynn has to decide what scares him more: becoming someone he’s always sworn he’d never be or letting her see his darkest secrets. If he can’t let go of his fears, he might lose the one person who finally feels like home.

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