BE WITH ME
J.H. Croix
Release Date: June 5
AVAILABLE IN KINDLE UNLIMITED
He hides his grief behind charm and easy smiles. She’s spent her whole life surviving on her own. Falling in love is out of the question.
The first time I laid eyes on Adele Jacks, she was staring down a wild animal, bold and unforgettable. She stole my breath before I even knew her name. And I'm the guy who doesn't lose his breath over anyone.
I never planned to fall in love. Not ever. I’m the guy who laughs everything off, the charming cynic who hides his scars behind jokes. But Adele? She’s a force of nature who upends my life.
She's tough, she's smart, and she's hiding something. She's the kind of wilderness guide who can out-hike me any day and stare down a grizzly without blinking. Before I know it, she’s working at my family’s wilderness resort—walls up, defenses sky-high. She’s slipping through the cracks in my heart every time I catch the vulnerability she tries to hide.
The longer I know her, the harder it becomes to keep things light and uncomplicated the way I always have. Because underneath the flirting and easy smiles, I’ve spent years avoiding anything that feels too real.
But with Adele, I want to protect her, claim her, and make the world safe for her.
When a ghost from her past crosses our path, and I see the flash of something she thought she'd buried — I realize there's nothing I won't do to take care of her. Because somewhere between the slow burn, the reluctant sparks, and the small-town chaos, Adele became my forever. Scars and all.
Even if falling for her means finally risking my own heart, too.
A steamy, emotional small-town firefighter romance featuring a flirty wounded hero with hidden scars, a fierce heroine, forced proximity, slow-burn chemistry, found family, and a protective hero who falls hard and fights harder.
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4 Stars
This is book 3 in the Heartfire Falls Series and it was great to reconnect with the Silver Family. In this book our fun loving Cole gets his eyes and his heart opened wide when he least expected it. A story full of letting walls down and opening up for something more.
Cole has always kept his emotions closed off to everyone. The fun loving, flirty jokester as he is known for hides all the things he doesn't want to feel. The losses they have endured sit deep down. Never letting anyone in close, sure he was not a saint. He was not prepared for the feeling that Adele brings out in him.
Adele is travelling Alaska one hike at a time. Though an Alaskan native, she feels free and strong when hiking. After so many hospitals and visits since her childhood, she feels the need to roam. She doesn't like people worrying about her but doesn't hide her issues either. Keeping people at arms length seems to be her thing. But slowly brick by brick she is getting used to the idea of Cole being around and liking it more than she wants to.
Grab your copy and watch the story unfold as these two let the chemistry take over and see where it leads them.
*** Advanced copy provided in exchange for an honest review. ***
USA Today Bestselling Author J. H. Croix lives in a small town in Maine with her husband and two spoiled dogs. She writes swoony contemporary romance with sassy women and alpha men who aren't afraid to show some emotion. Her love for quirky small-towns and the characters that inhabit them shines through in her writing. When she’s not writing, you can find her cooking, counting the turtles in her backyard pond, and running with her dogs, which is when her best plotting happens.
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