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HAULING ASHE by L.B. DUNBAR is LIVE!!
Release date: January 27, 2022
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Amazon US: https://amzn.to/3mBn9L2
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Tagline: Life might be a highway, but the last thing this grumpy silver fox expected was a road trip across the country with a ray of sunshine.
Blurb:
Tucker Ashford has forgotten who he was. The former rock star – Tucker Ashe – turned social media sensation knows exactly where life took a U-turn. Problem is, he’s convinced it’s too late to circle back. When he needs a ride from Chicago to California for his daughter’s wedding, an eight-state journey with a quirky woman is more than he bargained for, but quite possibly the chance he needs to rewind time.
Mae Fox is ready to discover who she is. After two decades of marriage (gone wrong), motherhood (still going), and a not-so-small business (going quite well), she’s looking for the adventure of a lifetime – alone. However, her well-planned escape of come-what-may down the Mother Road is slightly detoured when she’s asked to haul a grumpy silver fox across the country.
The highway is a melody of cheesy sight-seeing stops, nostalgic locations, and a playlist that rocks as two lonely hearts take a road trip down the path of second chances and the possibility of love over forty.
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Hint: Can be read as a standalone, but if you’ve read After Care, Midlife Crisis, and Second Chance, this is the elusive original band member who left them behind.
Trope: later in life romance; second chance romance; road trip romance; travel; dating after loss; dating after divorce
What to expect:
*Grumpy silver fox
*Ray of sunshine
*Cross country shenanigans
*Second chance
*Love over 40
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There's something very poetic and haunting about second chance romances. This particular story is about second chance in life. Second chance at abandoned dreams and missed possibilities.
Some people achieve theirs, some never do and some sacrifice everything in the name of love.
Having read many..MANY road trip books, ranging from Runaway teens to guitar toting tweens and some bunch of friends playing relays with a car...I can with 100 % certainty say this is THE Best Road Trip Book EVER!!
And on top of that its the BEST Dunbar book .
The level of understanding, the mature thinking minds and the sensibility that should accompany the roiling passions, is ALL present in this book. Dunbar is perpetually giving us intelligent romances in the mature age bracket, but she's outdone herself in this one.
The couple Tucker Ashford "Ashe" is in dire need to travel to LA from Chicago. His paranoid flying fears keep him in strictly Road Only option. Only he's out of transportation and whaddya know..Mae Fox-Holland is on a self rediscovery trip on rt 66 from start to finish in LA.
"I was in need of a long overdue life assessment. A restart to my engine. Like the travelers on that iconic seagoing vessel, I considered myself a voyager, setting sail across the country on a maiden trip even if I wasn’t a fair, young maiden. "
Reluctant co-travellers, hostile moods and griping hitchhiker in the backseat..there's not room enough in the powder blue prius for them to avoid each other. Forced proximity besets shifting tempers, some tolerance level is decided so that they make it to final destination in one piece.
"Speaking of bad moods, one minute I want to request a backseat rendezvous, and the next, I want to stuff him in the trunk and pretend I’m not carting a body back there. He is so…frustrating. "
I had the feeling they were travelling in reverse, through their own memories. stopping at pits of remorse, forgiveness & redemption. Dunbar highlights remorse, fears & sorrow that roil both the characters hearts. Sometimes it brought a fond smile on the lips and sometimes regrets at the turns not taken. At ghost towns which spoke to their disappointments- " you shoulda, coulda stayed."
Of abandoned stops and places which never had any visitors much like their own kins.
Ashe carries A closet fill of skeletons in his heart. People who moved on, people who forgot him, people who cheated on him, people who still Harbour grudge for him, people who put up a detour barricade in his life.
Mae is running from herself too. from destroyed marriage and indifferent people.
A powerful message accompanies this journey for them and for us readers.
"We make a decision, and we can’t go backward. We can turn around, start again, but we can’t ever change the original direction. We can only look toward the future, despite our powers to glance in rearview mirror. "
Two wayward, lost souls find solace together, one step at a time and realise it's never too late to make a fresh start.
My sexy silver foxes made an appearance doubling the fun and heat-o-meter!!
This book has now started a spark of desire in my heart.
I wanna do this trip.... Take a leaf from Mae's page. Maybe I WILL do it.
I enjoyed this book immensely. Became invested in Ashe & Mae, in their trip. Was rooting for them throughout. I couldn't resist but imagine a picture perfect happy ending for them both and Dunbar delivered!!
5 stars for Gemma and Harmonica
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