THEN YOU HAPPENED
Author: K. Bromberg
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Release Date: February 3rd, 2020
Jack Sutton was the man I didn’t want to need.
His know-it-all attitude. His annoying suggestions. His outlook on life.
He was determined to help me while I had resolved to figure it out on my own.
But he taught me things I’d forgotten.
How to trust. How to believe in myself. Who I was.
The problem?
I went and fell in love with him.
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Tatum Knox was the disaster I should have walked away from.
Her ruined reputation. Her failing business. Her chaotic life.
She hated me at first sight and yet intrigued me all at the same time.
I was only supposed to be there six months.
I was supposed to use that time to make amends for things I’d done wrong.
Instead I fell in love with her.
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They say it’s better to have loved and lost, then not to have loved at all. Does that hold true when the love is based on a lie to begin with?
(THEN YOU HAPPENED is a STANDALONE enemies to lovers, small town romance. Full-length at one hundred and seven thousand words)
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“Just face it, Knox. You’re head over heels in love with me.” Jack finally smiles, dimple winking and those eyes lighting up as he takes a step toward me, holding the scoop to his chest. “You can’t be near me because you want me, and you can’t talk to me because you get all flustered and tongue-tied.”
“There is nothing about you I find attractive,” I lie.
He places the scoop in my hand but doesn’t let it go when I try to take it. “It’d be much easier and a whole lot less distracting if I could say the same of you.” He lets go of the scoop and dips the tip of his hat in an aw-shucks kind of way. “But I’m not one to lie.”
Our eyes hold across the short distance as his comment floats through the air and fades like the dust specks dancing in the sunlight.
“That won’t work, you know?” I say.
“What won’t?”
“You trying to charm me every time you want something. I know your kind, Jack Sutton, and I’m not impressed by them.”
“Is that so?” He shifts on his feet and adjusts his hat before re-crossing his arms over his chest. “And what kind is that?”
“A man who uses his good looks and smooth words to get his way with people. A man who turns on the charm to disguise it.”
His eyes darken and then narrow. “Just like you’re the woman who keeps living her privileged life . . . fiddling while Rome burns down around her?” he counters, making me want to scream that he knows nothing about me or how I live or what I’ve been through for the last year. A small part of me is shouting about how that was his point, but I tell the voice to shut up. “And if by good looks and smooth words, you’re implying I’m like Fletcher, I suggest you not infer that again.” That muscle in his jaw feathers in contempt.
“I’m not the woman you think I am.”
He twists his lips and stares at me in a way that feels like he is seeing right through me. It’s unnerving and unsettling, and I force myself not to look away because his silence is telling me that maybe he thinks I am.
I’m not sure why that bugs me. Why I want him to see me as someone different.
“I’m not even certain you know who that woman is either.”
5 ‘ Her Wild’ Stars
WOW, oh Woooowww!!!! THEN YOU HAPPENED is now my all time favorite western Romance/ Enemies to lovers! Ms. Bromberg just wows me every single time and Jack and Tate’s romance is the very definition of EPIC LOVE STORY ! As always with the author’s gems, there’s this pure, raw intensity and passion that transfix and enthralls from the very first line and steals our heart with every single scene! Pure romance magic!!!!
Tate and Jack’s story begins with the second just arriving at the small town of Lone Star and immediately getting a earful about his new employer. Let’s just say that the town has it out for the widow, in a big way, and oh boy, that, gathered with what life has put her through, specially her late husband, Fletcher, to say she’s instantly on the the defensive is saying little.
But there’s something about the sadness in her eyes that makes me want to clear it away. That makes me want to push buttons to get that fire back because temper I can deal with.
Temper at least gives me something to fight against.
She has all the reasons in the world never to trust anyone ever again, so when her new ranch manager shows up, and she knows he got a feel for the land before coming to her, plus his self confidence and cocky smirk just set her teeth on the edge while fighting the instant insane attraction and spark it can be felt in the air, Tate Knox was ready to shoot on sight, and I adored that!
Ahhhh, there is just something so incredibly satisfying about the dichotomy between sizzling and palpable chemistry, and the spark of animosity, the duo of insta-lust /insta-hate that makes for an incredible enemies to lovers, and here we had that in spades!
“Is your attraction to me that hard to fight? I’m sensing it is.”
I fight the smile and lose as I bark out a disbelieving laugh. “That’s exactly it. You’re right. I can’t resist you.”
“See? Don’t you feel better now that you got that off your chest?”
Fire.
Beauty.
Pain.
Fucking Tate.
And the result, besides the most brilliant of the back and forths?! The most exquisite of banters! I just adored how both of them never backed down, never gave an inch, but still managed to remain focused and mature in their decisions, reaching a compromise when necessary! Of course that was also translated in the sexy times, because when it was impossible for them to ignore their scorching attraction, both were so amazingly mature and open about their feelings, I wanted to cheer and bow down to Ms. Bromberg. So refreshing and such an incredible turn on, when characters are open about what they want and how much they want it!
Now I know she has the determination of a giant and the grit of a titan.
She’s slight in stature with small features, perfect tits, and a great ass, but it’s her unforgettable personality that draws me to her. Fire and ice when she needs to be and sunshine and storm clouds at other times.
Tatum Knox. The unexpected woman I can’t seem to get enough of. I’ve definitely fucking fallen for her. And hell if that isn’t a hard one to swallow.
And want they did! That off the charts chemistry and banter transformed in the sexiest of intimate scenes, where passion, and growing love shone through in every touch, every thought, every caress! Jack and Tate were indeed EPIC kind of love, I’ll say it again!
Jack was such a perfect Alpha! We could feel just how smitten he was from that very first meeting, but our discovery of his true nature…. He was the most supportive male character I had the pleasure of reading, because not only did he help Tate heal – as did she to him – but he was perfect in doing it, at every step of the way. He knew just when to push, when to let her breathe, when to cheer for her, and specially when to show her just how strong she was on her own, it was AHHHMAZING!!!
As I try to figure out how to find myself again. As I figure out how to learn to live again.
And maybe dream a little too.
“How you view the world through a lens should be shared.”
“Today is the day you own your wild.”
Tate… WOW… Ms. Bromberg has given us some fantastic and strong female leads, but Tate, I don’t know why, but she touched me like no other so far, and that is saying a lot with how much I girl crush about her female MCs. She was just so on defensive, so justified, so broken, but still soooooo strong. I adored her! I loved even much witnessing Jack helping her heal, specially because of how he did it, so that she was like discovering herself again… It was BEAUTIFUL! And made me swoon – BIG TIME! – even more for this cowboy. *Deep and dreamy sigh*
But then you happened.” He shakes his head ever so subtly and a ghost of a smile—one laced with regret and sorrow—curves up his lips. “Your grit and ferocity and devotion and love and your wild happened.”
Then you went and made me fall in fucking love with you, Tatum. Then you happened.”
Ms. Bromberg truly blew all my expectation of this small town/ western/ enemies to lovers romance out of the stratosphere! Such richness and complexity of the main characters – and yes, also the secondary ones like Will or Fiona, that I’m dying to know more about – ; perfectly crafted and detailed setting and premise; slow and oh so realistically blossoming of their relationship; organic, realistic and passionate transition from that sparking initial friction/animosity to ‘once in a lifetime’ kind of love, every single part of this tale was masterfully crafted in a way that is impossible not to fall in love with these two. Jack and Tate are now part of not only my all time favorite couples, but of my all time favorite HEA! This ending and that Epilogue made my romance loving heart SOAR!!! <3 <3 <3 <3 <3
We started with nothing and ended up creating everything.
I am home.
I am whole.
I am complete.
ARC kindly provided by the author via Social Butterfly PR for an honest Review
New York Times Bestselling author K. Bromberg writes contemporary novels that contain a mixture of sweet, emotional, a whole lot of sexy, and a little bit of real. She likes to write strong heroines, and damaged heroes who we love to hate and hate to love.
A mom of three, she plots her novels in between school runs and soccer practices, more often than not with her laptop in tow.
Since publishing her first book in 2013, Kristy has sold over one million copies of her books across sixteen different countries and has landed on the New York Times, USA Today, and Wall Street Journal Bestsellers lists over twenty-five times. Her Driven trilogy (Driven, Fueled, and Crashed) is currently being adapted for film by Passionflix with the first movie slated to release in the summer of 2018.
She is currently working on her Everyday Heroes trilogy. This series consists of three complete standalone novels—Cuffed, Combust, and Cockpit (late spring 2018)—and is about three brothers who are emergency responders, the jobs that call to them, and the women who challenge them.
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