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Length: 75,000 words approx.
Colors Of Love Series
Book #1 - Lost In Indigo - Amazon US | Amazon UK
Book #2 - Touch Of A Yellow Sun - Amazon US | Amazon UK
Blurb
After the Syracuse Stallions clinch the championship, Nathan Zinkan, the renowned wild man of the AHL is arrested for a DUI. Again. When a no-nonsense judge adds a heavy dose of community service to an already stiff sentence, Nathan has to forget a summer of partying and slide on a pair of gardening gloves. His entire future now rides on how well he can behave while helping elderly urban gardeners tend to their tomatoes.
Watching local garden center owner Bran Cavanaugh working without his shirt is a benefit he wasn’t expecting. Pity Bran is also the one in charge of the community garden as well as keeping tabs on Nathan’s hours served. The two men are instantly at odds due to Nathan’s rebellious nature and Bran’s icy demeanor. Yet there’s no denying the attraction that begins to build between the hot-headed athlete and the cool as a cucumber master gardener.
Will their attraction grow into something deeper, or will it wither and die on the vine?
Review
Nathan has been chasing his demons with hard alcohol,
partying and ice hockey for a long time. At the tender age of twenty he’s on
the cusp of moving up to the big game if only his latest DUI doesn’t derail his
plans. Thankfully hours of community service and a driver’s ed course handed
down in lieu of jail time are all Nathan has to do this suck-filled summer
break. Of course all that has to be accomplished by bus because he’s also had
his license suspended. Basically Nathan is fu…well, unhappy. It doesn’t help
that the guy who will be supervising his community service time seems to have a
rod stuck up his you know where and essentially hates Nathan already. Too bad
Bran Cavanaugh is not only hotter than hot and looks good in his tight white
tee and jeans but also the nephew of the very judge who ruined Nathan’s summer.
Oh well as far as Nathan is concerned life could be worse. Then his driving
course instructor recommends attending alcoholics anonymous and Nathan
discovers he may not be able to keep the past demons riding his back buried for
much longer.
The Good Green Earth
is V.I. Locey’s third book in the Colors
of Love series and I think, one of the best. I marvel at how this author is
able to create characters who have this wickedly snarky humor that makes them
so endearing. This kind of behavior can sometimes grow old pretty quickly but
Locey never allows characters to become one dimensional or cliched. Instead the
author makes Nathan vulnerable and multi-layered—making him someone you care
about and want to see succeed. I loved Nathan from the very start. His life
leading to this point had been littered with sadness and loss and his way to
cope was to party hard and live out loud—something that the hockey world didn’t
always appreciate. When he crashes into an elderly couple’s shed, he is forced
to finally understand that his behavior could have led to accidentally killing someone
and that becomes the impetus behind the desire to get sober while forcing him to
reevaluate his life choices. It most certainly has nothing to do with Bran or
his growing attraction to the icy cold gardener who has control over his life
for the summer.
Bran has made it his mission to help rehabilitate recovering
addicts by overseeing their court mandated community service hours. His reasons
are his own but definitely are tied to his late husband and his dying wishes.
Bran lost his spouse two years ago and has yet to recover from his loss. The
bratty, privileged hockey star that has been given to him to oversee is certainly
nothing but an irritation he will have to endure. It’s uncanny how Nathan
reminds Bran of his late husband…yet they are so very different. Bran is not
impressed and certainly not attracted to the much younger man. Nope, not at all.
Oh Bran—you are so bad at hiding your feelings and I just
love that about you. Honestly these two are just magical together. It’s not
just that both guys are a bit wounded and deserve the happiness that eludes
them but that they work so very well as a couple. This novel is a classic
example of opposites attracting and the fighting prior to their finally
admitting they like each other is really fun to watch. For me, everything in
this story just molded into this beautiful romance full of hope and healing.
Bran and Nathan were good for each other—giving a much needed sense of
direction to the wounded souls that resided inside both of them. This story is
incredibly well done and I read it in one sitting—I could not put it down.
Once again author V.I. Locey gives us memorable characters
in a story that pulls at our heartstrings and leaves us wanting more. The Good Green Earth is a second chance
love story that I will reread again and again.
V.L. Locey loves worn jeans, yoga, belly laughs, walking, reading and writing lusty tales, Greek mythology, Torchwood and Dr. Who, the New York Rangers, comic books, and coffee. (Not necessarily in that order.) She shares her life with her husband, her daughter, one dog, two cats, a pair of geese, far too many chickens, and two steers.
When not writing spicy romances, she enjoys spending her day with her menagerie in the rolling hills of Pennsylvania with a cup of fresh java in one hand and a steamy romance novel in the other.
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