LOVE WITH ME

Series: With Me In Seattle #11

Author: Kristen Proby

Genre: Contemporary Romance

 

From New York Times Bestselling Author, Kristen Proby, comes the latest in her beloved With Me In Seattle Series, Love With Me.

Best friends from college. Plus-ones since med school. A chance for something new…

Jace Crawford heals hearts for a living. More than that, medicine is his life. To become the leading cardiothoracic surgeon on the west coast, he’s made sacrifices. No social life. He barely has time to sleep. Love? Forget about it. But when everything goes horribly wrong on his table, and he unexpectedly loses a patient, Jace is suspended from work.

When a man has nothing but his job, what does he do when that’s gone?

Joy Thompson collects unwanted strays. A dog with one eye, a three-legged cat, a bird that swears like a sailor? All part and parcel of her veterinary business. It helps pass the time.

Until Jace calls out of the blue to ask her out on a real date. Spending extra time with him is dangerous. Her feelings for her best friend have always been stronger than simple companionship. If she gets attached, what happens when he goes back to work and leaves her behind?

But as the weeks progress, falling for each other is inevitable. This time, Jace’s heart is the one that will need fixing before both of them end up broken.

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4 ‘Friendship Love to Romantic Love’ Stars

Awww… Love With Me is just that: ALL kinds of Love, in all shapes and forms! Sweet, super sexy, emotional, and that trademark KP realism that just touches our hearts, Jace and Joy’s story is another With Me In Seattle success!

Knowing going in the premise and that Jace and Joy have been friends for the longest time, the very first year of college, I have to say I was surprised with the timing of the book, in which their book started. From the acknowledgement of their deep connection and true friendship in the Prologue, we are transported to a moment of enlightenment by Jace, driven also by other factors regarding his work, and a shift in the last couple of months of their relationship, he now realizes what has been also standing there right in from of him, his one true love.

I can’t explain what’s happening, other than I just can’t stay away from her.

From this point on, it was full steam ahead in the romantic spectrum, and no wonder, after all the years of complicity and friendship, the shock was only the amount of sexual attraction that they had been in denial of. Once that was uncovered… Oh la, la, the sizzle was ON!!! 

And every inch of the bottom of my foot is directly connected to my libido. Screw reflexology, this is vaginaology.

Joy truly was a joy of character: strong willed, independent, sassy and smart, much like most of Ms. Proby’s female characters, she was exactly the type of character we can relate, and feel a kindship with (minus the hate for shopping in this case, lol). 

Now Jace… Well, for a nerdy boy, he sure turned out a steamy hot man and lover! His confident and passionate nature regarding his work, truly reflect on his determination and romantic approach and decision to move them forward to where they were always meant to be. No one can say he didn’t woo and wowed her in the proper way. With his problems at work, he sure focused all that surgeon attention on proving to Joy, just how much they could risk, because they were meant to be.

“I’ve loved you for almost half my life,” I say into her hair. “But Joy, I’m in love with you.”

“It’s evolved from friendship love to romantic love,”

I have to say I was indeed surprised by the moment Ms. Proby had chosen to bring us into the story, because the timing felt kind of abrupt and that we couldn’t attest to that level of deep and natural friendship I expected to witness, as well as the slow development – or realization – towards these romantic feelings. That being say, I also understand the image of enlightenment and new step, Kristen Proby wanted to give us with this timeline, so that we could truly enjoy the LOVE story, and with the all snippets and revelations of their years of friendship that were revealed along the way, in the end we got the full picture, and though best friends, they hadn’t been that active participants  in the coming years, in each others lives, specially due to their super busy professions, therefore cementing the believability of the timing and the shift in their loving feelings towards one another.

She’s everything good in my world. She’s home.

Without a doubt another success in one of my all time fav series, and how amazing it was to see so many of the guys and girls from the WMIS gang! I truly am overjoyed with the return of this extraordinary series that hooked me up on all things KP, and with all those teasing moments regarding Levi and Starla, I’m DYING for their story!!! Let the stalking for the next With Me in Seattle begin! <3 <3 <3 <3

 

“This is who we are, Joy. This is you and me. Always. Even when it’s hard. When we fight and when we’re happy. We love each other.”

 

 

ARC kindly provided by the author via Social Butterfly PR for an honest review

 

 

 COME AWAY WITH ME (With Me In Seattle #1)

 

 FIGHT WITH ME (With Me In Seattle #2)

 

SAFE WITH ME (With Me In Seattle #5)

 

TIED WITH ME (With Me In Seattle #6)

 

BREATHE WITH ME (With Me In Seattle #7)

 

 

STAY WITH ME (With Me In Seattle #9)

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INDULGE WITH ME (With Me In Seattle #10)

 

Kristen was born and raised in a small resort town in her beloved Montana. In her mid-twenties, she decided to stretch her wings and move to the Pacific Northwest, where she made her home for more than a dozen years.

During that time, Kristen wrote many romance novels and joined organizations such as RWA and other small writing groups. She spent countless hours in workshops, and more mornings than she can count up before the dawn so she could write before going to work. She submitted many manuscripts to agents and editors alike, but was always told no. In the summer of 2012, the self-publishing scene was new and thriving, and Kristen had one goal: to publish just one book. It was something she longed to cross off of her bucket list.

Not only did she publish one book, she’s since published close to thirty titles, many of which have hit the USA Today, New York Times and Wall Street Journal Bestsellers lists. She continues to self publish, best known for her With Me In Seattle and Boudreaux series, and is also proud to work with William Morrow, a division of HarperCollins, with the Fusion Series.

Kristen and her husband, John, make their home in her hometown of Whitefish, Montana with their two pugs and two cats.

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