On Broken Wings
A Wild Aces Romance
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5.0 • 2 Ratings
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- £3.99
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- £3.99
Publisher Description
The author of Into the Blue and Fly with Me returns with the third high-flying Wild Aces romance...
A year after losing her husband, Joker, the squadron commander of the Wild Aces, Dani Peterson gets an offer from his best friend, Alex “Easy” Rogers, to help fix up her house. Dani accepts, and their friendship grows—along with an undeniable attraction.
Racked by guilt for loving his best friend’s widow, Easy’s caught between what he wants and can’t have. Until one night everything changes, and the woman who’s always held his heart ends up in his arms. Yet as Easy leaves for his next deployment, he and Dani are torn between their feelings and their loyalty to Joker’s memory.
But when Dani discovers something that sends them both into a spin, the conflicted lovers must overcome the past to navigate a future together...
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
This addition to the Wild Aces fighter pilot series (after Fly with Me) catapults a military widow and her late husband's friend through grief, guilt, and lust in an emotionally raw love story. One year after Dani Peterson's husband, Joker, died, her life is still in a holding pattern, suffused with unrelenting grief. Joker's friend Alex "Easy" Rogers has been helpful to Dani, but also a bit distant. Dani is unaware that Easy has been in love with her for years. He kept his feelings buried out of respect for Joker; now that Dani is widowed, Easy's guilt and stifled lust are a tedious seesaw of feelings. On the eve of Easy's Afghanistan deployment, he and Dani become lovers. A predictable sequence of events has Dani and Easy facing their fears and their increasingly complicated relationship. Cleeton realistically re-creates the emotional devastation wrought by a young spouse's sudden death, followed by a gradual realization of the healing power of love.
Customer Reviews
5 "Easy" Stars
If you’re already a fan of Chanel Cleeton’s Wild Aces series, then you know Easy needs no introduction. From the moment he was mentioned in the first novel, Fly with Me, myself and I’m sure everyone else included was sure he would next up for the CC treatment. It’s simply genius the way our frenzy was fed with Chanel’s decision to delay our gratification.
At this stage I have to point out the fantastic flow of this series. The onus of the first novel was the red hot passion between Noah and Jordan, and Into the Blue focused on Eric and Becca’s skilfully emotive second chance romance. With all the novels in the series I was completely enamoured with the integrity of each couple. They all drew on something new from me, cementing its must read status. Delaying Easy’s story only seemed to heighten my enthusiasm for a story that was begging to be told.
It may be a strange thing to say but I felt as though I already knew Easy. He had a reputation of being a ladies man, but no one would dare deny his veracity. He’s a man who is loyal to a fault, and being in love with his late best friend’s widow is a personal hell for him. He has been in love in Dani from the moment he saw her, and distraught as the realisation is he, he has long come to the fact that the most he would ever be was a friend.
Unrequited love is a huge draw for me as a reader. This combined with the forbidden element made for heavenly reading. On Broken Wings was an anticipatory delight and there’s no part of it I did not love.
Through their friendship he has been a huge support to Dani, and has been with her through her darkest times. Through it all he has always been respectful and set aside his feelings for her. Navigating their friendship since her husband’s passing is uncharted territory and it’s an eye opening experience for them to discover how entwined their lives are.
I lived for this romance. I became its personal cheerleader. Easy and Dani are characters that deserve so much happiness and in finding theirs, I found mine for them. The abundance of angst, emotion, and passion along with my personal love of this couple and series, make it one of my top reads of the year.