THE ROAD TO ROSE BEND BY NAIMA SIMONE
Paperback published by Mills and Boon
Home is where the heart is.
If it was only about her she would never have come home. But it’s not about her anymore.
Sydney Collins left the town of Rose Bend eight years ago, grieving for her sister’s death and heartbroken over her parents rejection. But now she’s back newly divorced and pregnant ready to face her fears and make a home for her child in the community she once knew. The last thing she needs is trouble. Except trouble just walked in the door.
Widower Cole Dennison is still grieving for the loss of his wife and child. But after a chance run-in with Sydney, Cole finds himself drawn to her optimistic view of life. Yet when Sydney’s past threatens to upend everything she’s rebuilt, both find that a little trouble will take them where they never expected to go.
I would like to thank mills and Boon for sending me the printed paperback, The Road To Rose Bend, a box of Roses, hand cream, bath salts, and candle melts.
MY REVIEW
Even though Naima Simone is an established author who has written many romance novels, The Road to Rose Bend is my first book that I have read.
It was a real pleasure reading The Road to Rose Bend, as this story has a modern day blend added. I couldn’t be more happier as have now found a new author to add to the top of my list to follow.
I thought divorced, pregnant, single mother to be Sydney Collins was rather brave in returning to her childhood home where her parents lived. She had left her home eight years ago, but now she is back. She knows her relationship with her parents became strained since the death of her sister that she is still grieving for. But all she wants is for her parents to love their grandchild. Sydney is worried that now she was back in Rose Bend that no one would accept her.
Sydney was a young woman when she married her husband Daniel, who was much older than her, but although she was pregnant Sydney knew that she had to divorce him. Sydney thought it would easy ending her marriage and moving back to her home town, little did she know that it would cause her upset and worry. Sydney’s mother is interfering and secretly phone’s Sydney’s ex- husband Daniel, telling her daughter that’s its not too late fix things.
Pregnant Sydney knows she can’t live with in parents house and rents a cottage, as she is adamant that she is not going to go back with her husband Daniel. Sydney’s heart was in the right place as she was prepared to keep Daniel in the loop of what’s happening throughout her pregnancy. I felt really sorry for Sydney as her husband just turns up at her cottage with the biggest shock for Sydney, he declares that he is filing for custody of the baby and is going to marry another woman that is in his life. This shocking news upsets Sydney as a mother to be, all she wants is to have her baby and keep it.
The story is willing Sydney to have a better life in her home town Rose Bend. There she meets her friend’s caring brother Cole Dennison. He is grieving for his wife and son that both tragically died. He still thinks Sydney is sexy as hell! Then when Cole sees that she is four months pregnant he presumes that she is married.
The handsome Cole Dennison is falling in love with Sydney and comes up with the perfect plan to stop Daniel from seeking full custody of Sydney’s baby girl.
After reading this lovely romance The Road to Rose Bend, I really want to read Naima Simone’s next book Slow Dance at Rose Bend.
I want to recommend The Road to Rose Bend as it keeps readers guessing near the end if Sydney Collins is staying with the dashing Cole or will she return to her husband?
MY Special Thanks To
I would like to say a huge thank you to Mills and Boon for my special delivery of the paperback The Road to Rose Bend, and my box of roses, hand cream, bath salts, and candle melts.
About author Naima Simone
Published since 2009, USA Today Bestselling author Naima Simone loves writing sizzling romances with heart, a touch of humor and snark. Her books have been featured in The Washington Post and Entertainment Weekly, and described as balancing “crackling, electric love scenes with exquisitely rendered characters caught in emotional turmoil.”
She is wife to Superman, or his non-Kryptonian, less bullet proof equivalent, and mother to the most awesome kids ever. They all live in perfect, sometimes domestically-challenged bliss in the southern United States.
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