Heart Block
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Happily ever after is easier said than done... Sarah Matamoros can't complain. After immigrating from Mexico when she was nine years old, she's content with the life she's made for herself in sunny San Diego. She works hard at her mother's housecleaning service by day and spends the evenings with her quirky eight-year-old daughter, Grace. From a very young age, Emory Owen had several concepts drilled into her head. Success is everything. Be the best. Fight your way to the top. Expectations were high in the Owen household and the world was watching. Born into a high society family, Emory never wanted for anything...at least anything money could buy. When she meets Sarah, hired to sort her mother's home, her sterile life suddenly sparks into color. But when the emotional logistics of combining two very different worlds proves to be too much, a terrifying turn of events spurs the question: If love exists, can it really find a way?
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1 primary book2 released books#1 in Heart Block
Heart Block is a 2-book series with 1 released primary work first released in 2012 with contributions by Melissa Brayden.
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Emory hired Sarah to organize her house and ended up opening her heart to the feisty single-mother.
In Melissa Brayden's Heart Block, Emory is stoically dealing with her mother's death and one of the items on her list is hiring someone to clean out her mother's house. She hires Sarah's mother's company on the recommendation of her business partner and ex-lover. Sarah takes the job personally as the company is overbooked at the time and she loves to organize. When Sarah meets Emory, she immediately has feelings she has never felt before for a woman. She also sees how stressed, detached, and isolated within herself Emory is and tries to help her. Brayden takes us through the dark emotions of death with a light touch while ensuring the growth of Emory's character and the relationship between Sarah and Emory. The story is told from both characters point of view which is I think is important as we are viewing two completely different yet the same paths, Emory is concentrated in how others view her and how far her company can get ahead. Sarah is concentrated in family and then she realizes her feelings for Emory and how her very traditional family will deal with her homosexuality. Yet they are both are the same path of changing and accepting who they are growing to be, the question is: will they grow together?
I think this is the fourth or fifth book I have read this year where a heterosexual woman discovers feelings for a woman and THEN she is the sexual aggressor. I always find this highly amusing because when I first really came out, I was so not the aggressor unless I had a drink in me. I was a lot younger then so maybe that is the difference between the characters and me. The sex is PG-13 which is kind of to be expected as one of the characters is new to the scene. The relationship is fully developed as is the one between Emory and Grace, Sarah's daughter. You will not be disappointed with the romance and you will not be dragged down by the emotional issue of death. Enjoy!
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