BOOK DETAILS:
Title: Unmasked Dreams
Author: LJ Evans
Publisher: Self-published
Publication Date: April 5, 2021
Genre: standalone, contemporary romance
Tropes: romantic suspense, second chance, opposites attract, slight age gap, geek romance, slow burn
Hardback ISBN: 979-8723041240
Paperback ISBN: 979-8723040526
eBook ASIN: B08XZVV635
Format: eBook, paperback, and hardback
Tag Line: “She was never supposed to be mine.”
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About the Book:
A daring and decadent romantic suspense that whirls the reader around the globe and back.
–“She was never supposed to be mine.”
Tortured Bad Boy
Quirky Scientist
Int’l Boat Races
Crime Syndicates
Second Chance
Slow Burn
Standalone
Violet Banner was under-aged and off-limits when she and Dawson Langley first met. It didn’t stop him from leaving a brand on her heart that followed her to college. Five years later, she’s come home to find him living under the same roof, and it feels like nothing has changed. Except for the science lab she’s built in the garage and the secrets he’s keeping.
After years of fighting off the tantalizing connection between them, Dawson isn’t sure he’ll be able to restrain himself once grownup Violet lands back in his world. Even the nearly deadly mistakes of their past and the three separate lives he’s leading might not be enough to prevent him from touching her.
When the clandestine activity surrounding his international boat race tangles Violet in its grasp, she can’t help wondering if Dawson is the villain of the story.
Only one thing is certain: there’s nothing he won’t do to keep her safe…even if it means making her his.
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Inspired by Daughtry’s “What About Now,” comes a determined scientist and a broody bad-boy-turned-hero who just might leave their mark on you in this adventurous, standalone, slow burn from award-winning author, LJ Evans.
Don’t miss Violet and Dawson as the star-crossed, younger siblings in the interconnected standalone, AVENGED BY LOVE.
My review:
Sometimes when you meet the right person, you know. It doesn’t matter if you try to move on or put years of distance between you. You’ve already met your person, and that’s all you need to know. Something I relate to so incredibly well that I have a very soft spot for Violet and Dawson. Dawson’s life has taken him in a very different direction than Violet’s. So used to her being off-limits, he still wants to push her away. But sometimes, the universe puts things just right.
I loved Unmasked Dreams. I loved that they bonded over their shared past and their shared hurt. I loved how protective Dawson is and that he would move the ends of the earth for Violet. This was a couple worth waiting for, and the heat between them? Wowzah! I can’t put into words how much I loved this.
ABOUT THE ANCHOR NOVELS:
The Anchor Novels from award-winning author, LJ Evans, are standalone HEA stories about true friends, real “family”, and the dreams that we reshape as we go on this wild ride called life. With vivid, endearing characters who will carve out a special little spot in your heart, they are books you might not want to miss.
♬ “𝒲𝒽𝑒𝓇𝑒 𝓂𝓊𝓈𝒾𝒸 & 𝓈𝓉𝑜𝓇𝒾𝑒𝓈 𝒸𝑜𝓁𝓁𝒾𝒹𝑒” ♬
Other books in the Anchor Novels:
Guarded Dreams — Eli & Ava, May 2019
Forged by Sacrifice — Mac & Georgie, October 2019
Avenged by Love — Truck & Jersey, April 2020
Damaged Desires — Dani & Nash, October 2020
Branded by Love — Brady O’Neil, February 2021
Unmasked Dreams — Violet & Dawson, April 2021
ABOUT LJ EVANS:
Award winning author, LJ Evans, lives in the California Central Valley with her husband, daughter, and the terrors called cats. She’s been writing, almost as a compulsion, since she was a little girl and will often pull the car over to write when a song lyric strikes her. A former first grade teacher, she now spends her days reading and writing, as well as binge-watching original shows like The Crown, A Discovery of Witches, Veronica Mars, and Stranger Things.
If you ask her the one thing she won’t do, it’s pretty much anything that involves dirt—sports, gardening, or otherwise. But she loves to write about all of those things, and her first published heroine was pretty much involved with dirt on a daily basis, which is exactly why LJ loves fiction novels—the characters can be everything you’re not and still make their way into your heart.
Her debut novel, MY LIFE AS A COUNTRY ALBUM, was the Independent Author Network’s 2017 YA Book of the Year, and the debut series has won multiple awards including Romance Audiobook of the Year in the Indie Audiobook Awards.
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