Blog Tour – Five Blush Review ~~ Chasing Serenity by Kristen Ashley

She’s high heels, he’s hiking boots . . . and they’re perfect together.

Chasing Serenity, an all new steamy and emotional opposites attract stand-alone from New York Times bestselling author Kristen Ashley is available now!

Our 5 BLUSH REVIEW

In true Kristen Ashley fashion, Chasing Serenity dives into two very special families. We experience the trials and tribulations of how divorce affects young adults. How parental addiction can still haunt grown men. And how love, even when someone makes terrible mistakes the way Corey Szabo did, transcends. Rating this book, I was torn between a four and a five, but ultimately am giving it five stars. The only thing I didn’t like was I found some of the background on Judge to be too long-winded. That being said, that is so minor, this book is a 5 star read. Because Ashley does what she always seems to do, which is evoke real emotion and she gives all the love. At times it was so beautiful it made me envious, thinking, I want that. I want a Judge.

“Thank fuck every woman I was ever with blew it, so I’d end up right here, right now, with you. “

I love that Judge can feel that all roads led him to her and he was incredibly grateful for it. I love the family bonds we were able to see and experience. Overall, once I sat down and got into this book, I found it was the kind you didn’t want to let go of.

New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Kristen Ashley brings a new novel in her River Rain series…

From a very young age, Chloe Pierce was trained to look after the ones she loved.

And she was trained by the best.

But when the man who looked after her was no longer there, Chloe is cast adrift—just as the very foundation of her life crumbled to pieces.

Then she runs into tall, lanky, unpretentious Judge Oakley, her exact opposite. She shops. He hikes. She drinks pink ladies. He drinks beer. She’s a city girl. He’s a mountain guy.

Obviously, this means they have a blowout fight upon meeting. Their second encounter doesn’t go a lot better.

Judge is loving the challenge. Chloe is everything he doesn’t want in a woman, but he can’t stop finding ways to spend time with her. He knows she’s dealing with loss and change.

He just doesn’t know how deep that goes. Or how ingrained it is for Chloe to care for those who have a place in her heart, how hard it will be to trust anyone to look after her…

And how much harder it is when it’s his turn.

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Excerpt

Considering the fact he’d brought in a coffee for his buddy, Rix, who managed the store, Judge was down on the floor where Rix’s office was, not on the top floor where his was, so he saw her when she walked into the shoe section. He’d dated Meg. And before Meg, there was Jess. And before Jess, there was Kimberly. They all had different color hair, Meg and Jess were tall, Kim was not. But even so, Judge had a type. He knew it. And that woman who’d strolled up to the shoe displays? She was his type. Multiplied by a thousand. Christ, she was beautiful. And bad news. He could tell that last by the outfit, including her ridiculous, high-heeled booties. He’d worked at River Rain Outdoor stores for nine years—starting as a sales associate when he was still going to college and advancing to director of the Kids and Trails program. In all that time, he didn’t think he’d ever seen a woman walk into any of their stores wearing shoes like hers. And when he came down again a half an hour later to hit Rix’s office to make some copies because the copier in the corporate offices at the top level was busted, he noticed she was still there. He also noticed he had further evidence she was bad news. That evidence? The sheer number of boxes of boots that she was trying on scattered around her. She looked like she’d not set foot on a hiking trail in her life. And she looked like she was there because she’d already trolled through all the boutiques around the square, but this hadn’t assuaged her shopping fix, because nothing really did. Therefore, there was a possibility, after making a member of staff bring her fifteen pairs of shoes, she’d walk out not buying anything. She’d do this not thinking a thing of it. However, he noted some of the boots she was trying on were riding boots, and Judge could see that round ass of hers in the saddle on top of a horse. Wearing a riding habit. Even if she was trouble, and he had not the slightest interest (or he was telling himself that), he couldn’t keep his eyes off her. Because he was a moron. That said, she caught his gaze every time. So he was looking. But so was she. His instincts proved true when he came down for the third time with more to copy, and he again walked through the shoe section to get to the office in the back. Doing this close to where she was seated, still trying on boots, because, yes, in the fifteen minutes between then and now, he had not stopped being a moron. And again, she caught his gaze. He had no clue why, but as her gorgeous hickory brown eyes hit his, he muttered, “Nice booties.” Her back shot straight, and she demanded, “What did you just say?”

About Kristen Ashley

Kristen Ashley is the New York Times bestselling author of over sixty romance novels including the Rock Chick, Colorado Mountain, Dream Man, Chaos, Unfinished Hero, The ’Burg, Magdalene, Fantasyland, The Three, Ghost and Reincarnation, Moonlight and Motor Oil and Honey series along with several standalone novels. She’s a hybrid author, publishing titles both independently and traditionally, her books have been translated in fourteen languages and she’s sold over three million books. Kristen’s novel, Law Man, won the RT Book Reviews Reviewer’s Choice Award for best Romantic Suspense. Her independently published title Hold On was nominated for RT Book Reviews best Independent Contemporary Romance and her traditionally published title Breathe was nominated for best Contemporary Romance. Kristen’s titles Motorcycle Man, The Will, Ride Steady (which won the Reader’s Choice award from Romance Reviews) and The Hookup all made the final rounds for Goodreads Choice Awards in the Romance category.

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