"Unbreakable is everything you expect from a Melanie Harlow novel: emotional, sexy and a love that's worth risking it all for. I could not get enough of Henry and Sylvia's story!"
-- Corinne Michaels, New York Times bestselling author
Unbreakable, an all new “do not miss” sexy and emotional second chance romance from USA Today bestselling author Melanie Harlow, is available now!
In hindsight, I should not have had that fifth mimosa at Breakfast with Santa.
Or the sixth, seventh, and eighth.
But my shame over the public meltdown that resulted was nothing compared to being abandoned by my husband of fifteen years for a much younger woman—and did I mention she’s pregnant?
For the sake of my children and my pride, I pack up and head for my childhood home and the small town where I grew up. Cloverleigh Farms would be the perfect place for a fresh start.
Falling for Henry DeSantis wasn’t part of the plan.
Sure, he’s easy on the eyes and hard in the bedroom (also the hallway, the bathtub, and on top of his desk), but he’s newly divorced too, and things between us are moving so fast I’m afraid neither one of us has had enough time to heal. Not to mention the fact that I’m a single mom now—my kids have to come first.
But Henry makes me feel beautiful and sexy and wanted and strong—things I haven't felt in years. We understand each other, and when I’m in his arms, I’m tempted to trust again. To love again. To let myself be loved without fear.
But deep down, I’m terrified.
Is this all too much, too soon? Or am I a fool to let a second chance at happily ever after pass me by?
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Sylvia and her husband are going through a divorce, and she moves home to Cloverleigh with her two children. Henry has been working with the farm for years, and is going through his own divorce after the pressure of failed pregnancies left his marriage broken.
The two form a friendship, and a bond while sharing their feelings about their failed marriages and how their dreams of families were quite different than their realities. While working together, their feeling for each other grow on a more intimate level. When faced with a decision to save her spiraling daughter, she chooses her children over Henry. He respects her wishes, until he is visited by said daughter who changes their futures.
This was an emotional second-chance story for both characters. The other sisters from the previous releases are in this book, as are Mia and Lucas! This was probably my favorite of all the books in this series thus far. The inclusion of the family, the struggles of a woman’s self-image after a divorce, the emotions from the male perspective in Henry’s disappointment and despair after not being able to have a family and divorce, strength of finding happiness after heartbreak…all told in a way that is realistic and refreshing.
Excerpt
“Want
to unzip my dress?”
“That
would be a hell yes.” He took my hand
and pulled me to my feet. “Turn around.”
I
turned, lifting my hair off my neck. Slowly, he pulled the zipper down my back,
and the red dress fell to my feet. Stepping out of it, I suddenly felt
self-conscious. I hadn’t been fully naked in front of a man without the cover
of darkness in a long time. I hadn’t been fully naked in front of anyone but my
ex since I was twenty—and I didn’t have that body anymore. I’d had two
children. Even though I knew it was stupid, that nagging little prickle of
insecurity still stung . . . I’d been left for a younger
woman. He’d told her I didn’t excite him anymore. Was my body to blame? Before
I could stop myself, I covered my chest with my arms, wrapping one fist inside
the other and tucking them beneath my chin.
“Hey.”
Henry turned me by the shoulder so I was facing him again. “Don’t do that.”
“What?”
I had trouble looking him in the eye.
He
tipped my chin up. “Don’t hide yourself from me.”
“I’m
not hiding,” I said, but of course I was.
Taking
me by the wrists, he forced my arms down to my sides, and looked at me.
I
started to panic a little.
I
was totally bare before him—stretch marks, C-section scar, less-than-perky
breasts and all. Unlike many of my friends, I’d never had surgery to restore my
post-baby body to its former tight, bouncy, unmarked state. Now I was kind of
wishing I had.
I’d
never felt so naked or vulnerable in my life.
“Sylvia,
I’m going to say this once,” Henry said seriously. “And then, since you’ve
learned not to trust words entirely, I’m going to spend the rest of the night
showing you that it’s true—I think you are the most exquisite woman on the face
of the earth, in every way. There is no part of your body, no inch of your
skin, that isn’t perfect, because it’s yours.”
He took my head in his hands and kissed me, hard but sweet. “And all I want to
do is make you mine, even if it’s just for tonight.”
“Yes,”
I whispered. I rose up on my toes, pressing my lips to his again while my hands
went to work unbuttoning his shirt. “Make me yours tonight, Henry. That’s all I
want to be.”
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