Rating: 4.25🌈
“I didn’t want to kiss you goodbye—that was the trouble—I wanted to kiss you goodnight—and there’s a lot of difference. “ – Ernest Hemingway”
— Heart Unbroken by Casey Cox
I love a romance that is introduced with a remarkable quote that ties into the story and characters as this one does here.
Second chance at love, lovers reunited. Yes, please.
Casey Cox gives us two wonderful characters in actor Rove Sullivan, and hotelier Leo Carter, ok three with Leo ‘ best friend, Tal.
From a quick awkward meeting at Leo’s resort earlier in Rove’s career before he’s a big star, to the present where events bring them together again, Cox makes us believe that the men actually do make a deep impression on each other in the early moments. When events happen to cause each to reach out to each other, again Cox has supplied the groundwork emotionally for the reader to understand the context and connect with them.
I so enjoy Cox as a writer. The author’s romances are interesting, the characters are human beings with faults and strengths that are relatable, no matter the circumstances because they can be understood across many different levels. Job failures because of things outside of their control? Loss of dreams? Perhaps the hardest of them all. Learning when to let go of something that keeps you from moving on.
Heart Unbroken is another heartwarming contemporary romance from Casey Cox that I’m recommending. I only hope that we get a chance to see a sequel for Tal’s romance sometime soon.
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Description:
ROVE
Five years ago, we had a fleeting connection. Instant attraction, sizzling chemistry, and scorching-hot sex.
It was only brief, but it was…everything.
Then my career takes off. I become one of the biggest openly out Hollywood A-listers. I’m on top of the world—rich, famous, and successful.
Until a cruel red carpet gotcha stunt blows my life apart. In the blink of an eye, I lose everything I’ve spent two decades working and sacrificing for.
I’ve got no one to turn to and nowhere to go… Except back to the man I met five years ago.
LEO
Five years ago, I met someone unforgettable.
He made me feel something I thought I’d lost forever. Something that died with my beloved Dante a decade earlier.
I never expected to see Rove again. When he returns, the spark, the chemistry, the connection, is right where we left it five years ago. Actually, it’s only intensified.
The more time we spend together, the clearer it becomes—there’s no way I can let him go again. Can we find a way to make it this time?
HEART UNBROKEN is a second chance at love MM romance with two men in their 40s, a naked meet-cute, an only-one-bed situation, found family, 90s pop culture references, and a ‘sail into the sunset’ happily ever after (literally).
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