REBORN YESTERDAY
Series: Standalone
Author: Tessa Bailey
Genre: PNR Romance
Cover Design:Hang Le
Release Date: March 16th, 2020
A timeless love story with bite.
It was a night like any other for funeral home director Ginny Lynn, until the
exceptionally handsome—and unfortunately deceased—young man on her
embalming table sat up, opened his emerald eyes and changed the course of her life
forever, making her feel quite fluttery while he was at it.
Humans aren’t supposed to know Jonas Cantrell, or any vampire, exists. It’s kind of a
major rule. Despite his instantaneous bond with perfectly peculiar Ginny, he has no
choice but to erase her memories of their one and only meeting.
That was the plan. Before a reluctant Jonas can wipe Ginny’s mind clean, she reveals
a secret that brings their worlds crashing together. Human and vampire. Past and
present. Darkness and light. And while their love is strictly forbidden, it might be the
only thing that can save them…
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“Will there be a million weeping women at your wake?” She tapped a finger to her lips. “There will be, I’m sure of it. The place will overflow with tears. I better make sure our flood insurance is up to date.”
As she commenced circling the table once more, her white lab coat scratched against the hem of her green plaid dress, which fell sensibly to her knees. It was cold in the funeral home, especially downstairs where P. Lynn Funeral Home’s guests were kept in preparation for their final goodbye, so she’d pulled on thick black stockings with a flower pattern before coming below to work the night shift.
Dressing with care was Ginny’s way of showing respect to the people she worked on—a fact her stepmother and reluctant business partner often scoffed over—but a T-shirt and jeans simply didn’t cut the mustard when she’d been entrusted with a loved one’s care. Ginny had designed and sewn her current ensemble in class and she definitely shouldn’t be wondering what Dreamboat here would think about the cut and fabric. Or if he’d notice she’d fitted it a touch tighter in the hip zone than usually made her comfortable.
“I need help.” She gathered her auburn hair over one shoulder. “You agree, don’t you? Finally, you’ve gotten peace and quiet from your multitude of admirers and here I come, trying to annoy you into reanimation so I can find out the color of your eyes. You must want to die all over again.”
Continuing her journey around the table, Ginny’s gaze ticked to the clock, reminding her she should have started working half an hour ago. Why was she so reluctant to begin? Where did she get off experiencing the weight of loss when she’d never crossed paths with this individual before?
“Anyway, I know what you’re thinking. She’s brought up my legion of female fans three times now. She must be jealous.” Ginny stopped beside Dreamboat and looked down at his regal brow, the masculinity of his jaw, and a horrible welling started in her chest. “I think you’d be right,” she whispered in a red-cheeked rush. “I think if you’d smiled at me even once on the subway a decade ago, I’d be out avenging your death right now. Isn’t that crazy?”
Just to be sure a terrible (wonderful) mistake hadn’t been made, Ginny lifted her right hand, letting two fingers hover over Dreamboat’s pulse. Her heart rate spiked at the prospect of touching him, which didn’t bode well for tonight’s task of filling his veins with formaldehyde. How could she give him the proper care he deserved if she couldn’t stop shaking?
A bracing breath passed between her lips.
She touched her fingers down to his pulse.
Nothing.
There had been no mistake.
He was thoroughly, devastatingly dead.
“I’m so sorry,” Ginny managed, her tears welling at such a rapid pace that one escaped, glopping heavily onto the man’s stone cold torso.
His eyes shot open.
His…eyes shot open?
4.5 ‘I Revere You’ Stars
O.M.G! Reborn Yesterday completely blew my PNR loving mind! So engagingly peculiar, sizzlingly sexy, effortlessly intriguing and mysterious! From the incredible world building to the extremely heart touching and complex characters, I was ENGAGED beyond belief. I neither wanted to put it down, nor for it to finish, that’s how BRILLIANT Ms. Bailey’s first PNR is! Utterly fantastical!
I was going to go with my standard review type, but after thinking a ton about it, I realize I need to keep this short and pretty, because I don’t want to give nothing away so you can enjoy every moment, and the thrill of unveil this that is the first of Ms. Bailey’s Paranormal Romance. It is so worth it all the anticipation, because Ginny and Jonas are EPIC! As is this world!
“Christ, Ginny, you are so endearing, it’s painful.”
It was a crime to cover those guileless hazel eyes for even a second. They were the epicenter of life and spirit and hope. Beautiful, beautiful girl.
She was addictive.
And endearingly kind. Funny. Gorgeous. Dreamy. Brave, if a little sad.
Ginny, a twenty four year old mortician, lives quite isolated – and not always by her choice – from the rest of the world, until one night, a body lands on the table, and her world conception of the world is blown away, a a whole NEW and dangerous world where vampires are real as well as other supernatural beings, and her quiet little life is no more.
I have to say, Ginny is now one of my all time fav female characters. It is so rare for me to be so completely enchanted by a female lead, but she did that! she’s just so quirky, endearing, and sweet. Her innocence is adorable and her peculiar individuality is just something so unique, that is no wonder Jonas is instantly enchanted, if he wasn’t already impacted by the instant attraction.
“It’s as if I already know what you’ll taste like. I recognize you.” His lips brushed across her pulse. “I recognize this like it’s welcoming me home.”
“With this kiss, I willingly damn myself to a lifetime of suffering.
“Mine,” he breathed, planting a hot, open-mouthed kiss over her pulse. “Inevitably, undeniably mine. May God help us all.”
“You’re a feast after a famine.”
Jonas, a vampire born in the fifties, on the other hand is the perfect example of the tortured – specially by his conflicting and undeniable pull to Ginny – soul. We could see and feel straight away these two were written in the stars!
Of course he had to be all that is Tessa Bailey’s deliciousness of male character, an Alpha in every way, protective, possessive and oh so sexy and evidently the filthiest of talkers (*that ‘angry sexy times tho…), but his decade of birth gave his a certain charm and this gentleman ‘caveman’ and a smooth talking ability that left me breathless and swooning constantly. His old school manners, that fit perfect with Ginny’s adoration of all things classic, made him so special and stand out amongst the Alphas we see and read about these days, and I fell HARD for it. The way he treated Ginny, revered her, truly worshiped and adored her, was a stamp of the classic EPIC love story!
Call it intuition, but she was no longer simply herself. Not merely Ginny. She bore the invisible mark of this vampire on her soul. This. Being together. It was supposed to be. Being without him wasn’t an option at all. It was taking a machete to the eternal ribbon of fate.
“I live for you. I crave you without cease. Your beauty, your blood and your spirit sustain me.
“I crave you, too.” She squeezed her eyes shut, feeling every word like a twist in her chest. “Constantly.”
Ms. Bailey had already my utter devotion to her words, but the way she completely encompassed everything I adore in PNR and still it was so Tessa Bailey… I’m at awe! Reborn Yesterday indeed was is now one of my all time favorite paranormal romance, and another proof to that brilliance is clever and intriguing way the author exposes these secondary characters, teases us with their snipetts of obvious connection, and insane chemistry, and leaves already begging for the next one. That is the case with Roksana and Elias, I’m already dying for their story!!! <3 <3 <3 <3 <3
“Some things a man doesn’t get over so easy,” he said, quoting The Quiet Man and making her heart soar. “Loving you is one of them. I will do it eternally, Ginny.
ARC kindly provided by the author via Social Butterfly PR
for an honest review
Tessa Bailey is originally from Carlsbad, California. The day after high school graduation, she packed her yearbook, ripped jeans and laptop, driving cross-country to New York City in under four days.
Her most valuable life experiences were learned thereafter while waitressing at K-Dees, a Manhattan pub owned by her uncle. Inside those four walls, she met her husband, best friend and discovered the magic of classic rock, managing to put herself through Kingsborough Community College and the English program at Pace University at the same time. Several stunted attempts to enter the workforce as a journalist followed, but romance writing continued to demand her attention.
She now lives in Long Island, New York with her husband of eleven years and seven-year-old daughter. Although she is severely sleep-deprived, she is incredibly happy to be living her dream of writing about people falling in love.
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