Claire Kingsley

We are back to Echo Creek Washington for the next Miles brother story. Leo Miles is back home after an IED explosion almost took his life while on duty overseas. He has locked himself away on his family’s property ashamed of how his burns scare those he encounters. His outlet to cope has become the virtual world of computer gaming where all he shares is his handle of Badger, and his voice over the headset. Hannah known only to Leo by the gaming handle he has given her of Gigz has also escaped the hell of her personal life in the online world. The two enjoy taking on the virtual villains together until Hannah gets the courage to flee her abusive boyfriend. When she and Leo meet in person. she slowly draws Leo out of his shell and into the world beyond the gates of Salishan Cellars. Things get tense when the twin threats of Hannah’s ex stalking her, and Leo’s quest to bring down his father both come to a head and have to be faced in the real world.

After leaving his family behind and screwing up his life by putting his work ahead of everything else (most importantly his now ex-wife Zoe) Roland Miles is called back to the family wine business. He needs to fix things with the winery, but that means spending time around Zoe who works for the business as the events coordinator. Little by little he sees the errors of his past and soon longs for a second chance. Family tensions boil over and secrets are revealed. From laugh-out-loud moments to steamy scenes this book will leave you wanting more.

An adopted brother of sorts, Chase has lived with the whacky Cooper Miles for a while now. When Cooper’s little sister Brynn returns from college, Chase find’s his crush on Brynn has only magnified from when they were both younger. She is now twenty-one, and should be fair game if only she weren’t his best friend’s sister.  So starts the problem for the two of them. Chase is bound by the bro-code to stay away from Brynn. Does he? Nope. When Cooper finds out, the crap hits the fan, and we watch Brynn and Chase deal with the fallout. The elder Miles, Cooper’s horrible father is out of the picture in this book, but it doesn’t seem as if that will last.

Manipulated into appearing to be a homewrecker on national television, Leah Mae Larkin retreats to her small hometown of Bootleg Springs. She wants to escape everything and everybody, until she bumps back into Jameson Bodine. They need each other to escape their crappy lives. His life has turned into as much a bummer as hers after evidence has turned up implicating his late father in the disappearance years ago of Callie Kendall. Old friends reunite to become more than just friends, and before long, Leah Mae questions ever having left town in the first place.

We are back to Salishan Cellers Winery for the next Miles brother story. Cooper the brother who finds finds many things “awesome”, and says whatever comes to mind with a refreshing lack of filtering gets the third book. He is hilariously out of control and yet still loveable with his fresh view of the world, but it is his uninhibited dealings with the opposite sex that are going to get him in trouble. Amelia Hale has has been left at the altar by a groom who decides to not only sleep with, but also run off and marry one of her bridesmaids. Now that is what we call a bad day. This sends Amelia to the closest bar for huge helpings of alcoholic memory eraser. Cooper encounters Amelia there, still in her wedding dress, and she upends his world. Let the fun begin.