Book Review: One Hundred Excuses by Kelly Collins
- Kristen Lewendon
- Nov 2, 2018
- 2 min read
Aspen Cove Book 5
Author Kelly Collins takes you back to Aspen Cove where life is sweet, the tea is sweeter, and love is the sweetest of all.
Marina Caswell didn’t expect to find herself broken and alone with a four-year-old daughter. She could offer a hundred excuses as to why her marriage failed, but the truth was she’d chosen poorly. After a painful marriage and an ugly divorce, she flees with her little girl to Aspen Cove looking for a place to heal their wounded spirits and mend their shattered hearts. What she doesn’t expect to find in the quirky little town is love in the form of Sheriff Cooper, a man who insists that everything including trust, love, and respect is grown like a garden. All it needs is a bit of attention and care, something Marina has never experienced.
As the local sheriff, Aiden Cooper can recognize trouble at a glance. It usually looks pretty, smells nice, and wears heels. After his last relationship failure, Aiden doesn’t expect love to bloom when single mom Marina Caswell plants roots next door, but when he sees the sadness in her eyes, he makes it his mission to sow seeds of hope and happiness in her heart.
The tiniest kernel of love can grow when the conditions are right, but a weed from Marina’s past threatens to choke out what they’ve cultivated together. Can Aiden and Marina’s love grow and thrive, or will the past seek its revenge, causing their love to wilt and die before it can ever take root?
Find out in One Hundred Excuses
My Review:
I wish I knew of some place in real life that has the same sense of community spirit as Aspen Cove does in this book. I think I’d move there in a heart beat. It’s probably no surprise that I’m a sucker for a man in uniform, which makes Aiden one of my favorite heroes in this series. He’s just the sweetest, most lovable, big ol’ teddy bear. But don’t let that sweetness fool you. When the safety of the people he’s responsible for protecting is threatened, Aiden’s one hundred percent angry grizzly. I adore Marina. Her personal mantra of “Victor, not a Victim” is an anthem we should be encouraging everyone to embrace. This pair works perfectly together. Aiden’s gentle fierce spirit shows both Marina and Kellyn how a truly good man behaves and gives ‘his girls’ a safe place to heal and learn to trust again. I want to see this series continue forever. I received a complimentary advanced copy of this book from the author.
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