You don’t get to make decisions for me, Mr. Pierce.”“You’re wrong, baby. I do.”
Making the Match, an all-new spicy, heartfelt and emotional second chance standalone romance in the River Rain Series from New York Times bestselling author Kristen Ashley, is available now!
If you love second chance, single parent romance, pining, a couple over 40, redemption and forgiveness, this is the book for you.
Decades ago, tennis superstar Tom Pierce and “It Girl” Mika Stowe met at a party.
Mika fell in love. Tom was already in love with his wife. As badly as Tom wanted Mika as a friend, Mika knew it would hurt too much to be attracted to this amazing man and never be able to have him.
They parted ways for what they thought would be forever, only to reconnect just once, when unspeakable tragedy darkens Mika’s life.
Years later, the impossible happens.
A time comes when they’re both unattached.
But now Tom has made a terrible mistake. A mistake so damaging to the ones he loves, he feels he’ll never be redeemed.
Mika has never forgotten how far and how fast she fell when she met him, but Tom’s transgression is holding her distant from reaching out.
There are matchmakers in their midst, however.
And when the plot has been unleashed to make that match, Tom and Mika are thrown into an international intrigue that pits them against a Goliath of the sports industry.
Now they face a massive battle at the same time they’re navigating friendship, attraction, love, family, grief, redemption, two very different lives lived on two opposite sides of a continent and a box full of kittens.
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That's exactly how I picked up this book. I knew it would be important and beautifully written.The Blurb just pulled me in. I picked up my first book by Kristen and I must say, I was completely taken by her prolific and visceral understanding of human relationships.
There's a Mature romantic couple. Tom Pierce and Mika stowe are not only of mature age, their no nonsense, no fills attraction morphs into a very sensible relationship of sorts.
It Pulled me in from page 1 itself. The prose flowed freely and purposefully eliciting all the right emotions that were abundantly embellished at every page.
It was the heart-warming quality driving this love story forward, not to mention the blazing chemistry between the two characters and their peripherals, that owned me cover to cover.
The chemistry blazed and roared, till they lost their souls into each other.
Smart as whip banter, colourful family characters that gave Tom & Mika's personalities more edge, softened some and made them well rounded. More importantly they became more human. Kristen doesn't shy away from showcasing their erroneous ways or pitfalls just to suit the story.
in fact she makes it the talking point of the plot. I got to see the whys of Tom's fall from the pedestal.
Learnt how to forgive like Chloe, sasha and ultimately Matt.
“Pedestal city. By the way, Mom, those pedestals come in one size and the top is only a couple of inches wide. No matter how hard they try, no one can stay balanced up there. Everyone forced on one falls off.”
Heard the closure apology by Genny and accepted him completely and devotedly like Mika.
it had the perfect combination of engaging plotline and fulfilling character development, but it was first and foremost a fun, heart-warming read.
It lost its way in the second half in the crowded plot but soon loose threads were neatly tied and it became wholesome again
"4 stars because Love is the heart. The heart is a muscle. And muscle has memory that doesn’t die.”
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