Aimie my beloved: Rising Ridge by: Alexa Jacobs

Rising Ridge is a YA/NA novel that is definitely worth checking out.

Rising Ridge is about twenty year old woman named Olivia Reynolds. As she returns home, she has to face everything she left behind when she moved to New York. She also has to face her brother's best friend Dean, whom she has tried to bury her feelings for. When lines between childhood friends and secret lovers being to blur once more, Olivia must decide between the possibilities of her future and the ties of her past.

The characters were all likeable, the novel was an easy read, and in the end there was an HEA (happily ever after). Check it out, it is definitely worth the read.

Rating:

★★★★

Summary from Goodreads:

Olivia Reynolds was free. Twenty years old, living in New York City, and having absolutely no idea what she wanted to be when she grew up, every day would be an adventure, or at least that was the plan. When a phone call from her brother lands her back in her home town, and dealing with an unexpected tragedy, she comes face to face her brother’s best friend Dean and realizes that the feelings she had buried long ago were still there. Dean Winston has lived with the fact that Olivia walked out of his life two years ago, and was never coming back. With her back in town, he struggles to be the friend that she needs him to be, and not the lover that she once wanted him to be. With lines between childhood friends and secret lovers once again blurring, Olivia must decide between the possibilities of her future and the ties of her past. Some strings just refuse to be cut.

Special Thanks:

Thanks to Alexa Jacobs (Author of the Rising Ridge) & Sarah (YA Bound Book Tours) for giving me the opportunity to review Rising Ridge.

Buy Links:

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About The Author:

Alexa Jacobs was born and raised in the suburban outskirts of Baltimore, Maryland. She met her husband through friends in high school, and began what turned out to be a short lived career in the financial industry. With her first child, she became a stay at home parent and threw all of her energy into becoming the queen of Pinterest before Pinterest was a thing.

When her second child headed off to kindergarten, Alexa thought that it was time for a career change.

After a decade with at least one child underfoot 24 hours a day, it was time for her to discover who she was going to be when she grew up.

Turns out, she was a mom who sat by the window and cried the entire day on that first day of “freedom” from early parenthood.

A few months, and many kindergarten volunteer days later, she sat down at the computer and dusted off the rough draft of a story she had crafted years ago. That draft turned into her debut book, Rising Ridge.

Alexa is a member of the Romance Writers of America, and participates in many writer circle groups.

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