Secretly Mine
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4.5 • 15 Ratings
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Publisher Description
She's back in town with no time for the rebel who stole her heart long ago…but now he's playing for keeps.
Fifteen years ago, Dash Stratton married the spunky girl next door to protect her, a secret they've both kept for a decade and a half. Now, she's back for the first time since that day, and she needs a divorce. Can Dash convince her that the man of her dreams is the one she's been hiding all this time? He has thirty days to change her mind, or lose her forever.
When Leila Kerrigan inherits a sprawling lake house, the last thing she wants is to return to her hometown to sort out the will. But when she arrives and learns she must live in the house for thirty days before selling it, she realizes it's a chance to recover from the freefall her life is in.
But all hopes of a quiet, restorative hideaway are ruined when Leila discovers that her co-heir and roommate for the next month is the town bad boy she married fifteen years ago…and hasn't seen since. Dash is tall, muscled, moody, and ridiculously attractive. A virtual stranger…who is much too tempting for a woman who has no heart left to share.
Leila has thirty days to sell the house, persuade Dash to set her free, and heal secrets she has held for too long. But the accidental single dad has secrets of his own…and he's not willing to lose Leila a second time.
“All the big feels.” Five-star Goodreads Review (Tammy M).
"This series has blown me away!" Five-star Amazon review (D. Brousseau)
ABOUT THE AUTHOR: New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Stephanie Rowe is "contemporary romance at its best" (Bex 'N' Books). She is a Vivian® Award nominee, and a winner and five-time nominee of the RITA® award, the highest awards in romance fiction. The author of more than sixty novels, Stephanie write small-town contemporary romances, contemporary western romance, paranormal romance, romantic suspense, and cozy mysteries.
Customer Reviews
Secretly Mine
Secretly Mine by Stephanie Rowe
Birch Crossing series #5. Contemporary romance. Can be read as a standalone. Some previous characters appear but enough background is included.
Leila Kerrigan and Dash Stratton got married when she turned eighteen. The wedding was to protect Leila from her step-father and Leila immediately left town after the ceremony. She back in town fifteen years later, when she inherits half a house with conditions that she must live there for thirty consecutive days. With Dash. She needs the money from the sale of the house, but Dash needs the house to care for his children.
Touching, cheerful, tender and poignant. I loved the jokes each made about them being married for 15 years which were both funny considering the situations and pointed. Both Leila and Dash have emotional issues to work through. They help each other over hurdles and problems as if they actually have been partners for length of their marriage.
Beautiful and heartwarming ending and epilogue.
The swoons, the healing and the love
Phew. This book…just wow….it really packs an emotional punch. This author paints such rich and vibrant pictures with her words. The characters are so three dimensional they could almost walk off the page in all their messy, lovable, relatable humanness. I was right there with Leila and Dash feeling all the big feels - the love, the joy, the fear, the sadness, the laughter, the regret, the pain, the tears, the hope and the healing. Leila is a 33 yo woman whose life recently imploded. Homeless, jobless, and short on funds, she returns to Birch Crossing, the small town she escaped from 15 years ago to sell the house she inherited. Dash is a 40 yo construction worker and welding artist in Birch Crossing. Leila is also his wife who he married 15 years ago to protect her and has not seen her since. He also recently unexpectedly became a dad. Unbeknownst to Leila and Dash, they inherited the house together with a 30 day cohabitation requirement before any decisions are made and Dash needs to keep the house as much as Leila needs to sell it. There are many obstacles and a boatload of baggage between them and their HEA but I loved the journey to get there. The story was well written and included witty dialogue, three dimensional characters who grow, and an engaging storyline as shown through sweet moments, steam, laughs, supportive friends, painful pasts, slight danger, and all the heart squeezing love. This book is a true standalone in an interconnected series. Despite not having read the other 4 books, I was able to follow the story without feeling like I was missing things. I loved this book so much that I’m now going to go read the other books in the series.