BLURB Four words posed in a question started the beginning of our future. Will you marry me? Ten years of love and laughter, triumphs and failures, losses and gains later, and four words threatened to end it all. Everything has a beginning and an end. I just never saw mine coming. Especially when I finally thought we were getting it all. Until my husband and lifeline uttered…. I want a divorce. Only I had four words of my own. Words that should be said out of happiness Continue Reading
Guest Post: Relationships on the Rocks by Rebecca Grace Allen
Rebecca was kind enough to do a guest post on one of my absolute favorite tropes, the relationship/marriage in trouble. In my opinion it is easy to fall in love, but staying in love takes some work. That is one of the reasons I love this trope. I'll turn this space over to Rebecca and her thoughts on the topic. I’m not a rom-com kind of gal. When it comes to reading romance, I am here for the heartache and the overcoming of obstacles. I want to see the characters put through the Continue Reading
Mandi’s Mini Reviews
Surprise Baby, Second Chance by Therese Beharrie Released: July 26, 2018 Contemporary Romance Mills & Boon Reviewed by Mandi I love to read marriage in trouble tropes. To explore a couple already committed to one another, yet having emotional issues always sucks me in. But this one was a little too slow for me. Rosa left her husband four months before the book starts, without a single explanation. She has her reason (I don't want to spoil it since it doesn't mention specifics in the Continue Reading
The Marriage in Trouble Trope
I love, love, love a marriage in trouble trope in a romance book. It’s different. It’s not hero/heroine meets hero/heroine, flirt, court, say I love you. No. These two are already in love but circumstances have either forced them apart, or lack of communication has driven them to feel alone. And now we get to see how they put it all back together again, which can be even more sexy than new love. In a marriage in trouble trope, the couple knows how to love to each other, but sometimes they have Continue Reading