How much would you give up for your dream?Monica Brandt doesn’t have money or power. Beauty is her only currency. She dreams of leaving her grandmother’s bakery in Langley Park and traveling the world as a model.Then she meets Gabe Sinclair.They promise to build a life together, but when offered a chance to model abroad, she chooses her dream over love.Years later and near penniless, a terrifying … later and near penniless, a terrifying event forces her to return home and confront the man she abandoned.
Despite their complicated past, passion burns hot between them.
But Monica didn’t come home empty-handed.
She has something dangerous people want.
Something that could get her killed.
Can she trust Gabe to keep her safe after she broke his heart or will their tortured past tear them apart?
The Measure of Home is a steamy, second chance, small-town romance with no cheating, a swoon-worthy celebrity chef, and a happily ever after as sweet as cherry pie. Get ready to turn up the heat with Gabe Sinclair.
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**ARC REVIEW**
I can’t believe I made it to book #4!!! You have no idea how much i’m anticipating Book #5
The story of Gabe and Monica is so heartbreaking and beautiful. Two young teenagers who find themselves in love in a moment in their life when they cherish every second. Just one moment in time changes everything and leaves Gabe in a speechless situation, he knew Monica was ambitious and eager but not as far as to move on without him and let go of their love he thought they had.
A moment in time and they meet again… Will their impromptu discovery become a happy one?
The Langley Park Series does not disappoint, each story is written beautifully and each and every character has their own story to tell. This is the story of Gabe and Monica! Enjoy every moment and enjoy the life that Langley Park has developed.
That was amazing. I keep getting blown away with each book of this series. Gabe may be my new favorite Langley Park man. This was such a great story line one with passion, suspense, heart break, and second chances. Monica was such a fun character she thought she was doing something to better her life and she ended up breaking Gabe’s heart along with her own. I liked how Gabe turned his pain into a passion for cooking and how they found each other again. This was amazing.
This is such a good book it has some laughter, romance, suspense and the happily ever after that makes your heart smile. Sometimes we just need to go home again. I definitely recommend this book and series.
Don’t read this book if you are hungry. Don’t read it after eating a mediocre dessert. Why you ask????? Because this story will make you want to eat all things German desserts, especially strudels! I made the mistake of starting this book after eating lunch and had to stop to Pinterest and Google my little heart out.
Monica Brandt lives with her grandmother, otherwise known as Oma. Her parents died in a freak climbing accident when she was little. Now she lives above the bakery her grandmother owns and helps out every chance she can. Up early at 5 am to help prep and make fresh pastries, she is able to also steal hidden glances of Gabe Sinclair as he delivers the paper every morning.
Gabe Sinclair has always wanted to talk to the girl in the bakery but has never had to courage to start up a conversation. However, one night his cousin Michael MacCaron asks him if he wants to play some two on two with some spoiled rich kids. Gabe had just finished working for his dad with their moving company, but can’t turn down beating some kids in basketball. Once they arrive at the courts, he sees Monica and learns her name. Later that night he follows Monica to outside her house and saves her for humiliation and from spending a night in jail.
After working side by side all summer Monica gets her dream dropped in her lap. She has always wanted to be a model and travel around the world, but especially go and visit Paris. When she drops off a last-minute delivery, she also ends up trying on dresses and offered the chance of a lifetime. The problem is will Michael wait for her?
Michael realizes Monica has left and is following her dreams. Realizing that he has to go back to his life as a professional mover, he is also offered a chance of the lifetime.
Will Michael and Monica be able to keep their relationship and live happily ever after? Or will the separation and long distance get to them? Also…exactly how many of you started to google strudel or German desserts?!?!?!
I highly recommend this book and have been blessed and honored to been given an opportunity to read an ARC from Krista Sandor. Each book is just as good as the last, but this one spoke to my food loving heart. If you love to cook and/or bake this is a book to read. If you like romance and books that can be read in one sitting or are willing to sacrifice sleep and work on 4 hours of rest before working a 12-hour shift…. then this is your book.
Monica left the love of her life behind to chase her dream of being a model. Now she is back home with her tail between her legs and no career. Her grandmother needs her to help with the family bakery. Gabe has an amazing career as a chef, mostly due to the encouragement of Monica’s grandmother. He has really screwed up in the public eye and is also back home. Now they are thrown together and the feelings haven’t changed, but they have. Sweet second chance love story and second chance at love story for more than one couple.
She wants to be a model and travel the world and she will dump her boyfriend when the chance comes along. She leaves him behind but it does not to the way she wants. She runs home but life is not going to be so easy. Will he help her even though she dumped him? See what will happen
I received a free copy of this book via Booksprout and am voluntarily leaving a review.
Loved this story and how easy the characters grabbed my heart.
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4.5 Stars
In high school Monica Brandt received a scholarship to attend the local private school and became best friends with Courtney Wilkes. She lived with her grandma above their family bakery and she wanted to fit in with the “rich kids”.
Gabe Sinclair works for his dad’s moving compmay and delivers newspapers. He has always had feelings for Monica but she has not really noticed him until one night when he helps her out.
When Monica leaves town to follow her own dreams, her Oma gives Gabe a chance to follow his dreams as well. When the two both return to Langley Park years later will there be anything left between them? Will the reason Monica came back to Langley Park follow her back?
This is another great book in the series and I am really enjoying them.
Monica was a great character right at the beginning and then I was mad at her for leaving Oma and Gabe. I understood that she wanted to follow her dreams but the way she just left them both broke my my heart after everything they both had done for her. I was so sad with the situation that Monica found herself in at the party as that was not fault of her own and freaky!!
Gabe was able to make something of himself but he was exhausted and done with leading the life he found himself in. I was glad that he decided to take some time for himself and get his head together by heading back to Langley Park.
I loved how both Gabe and Monica but everything aside to help Oma after she was injured and the two slowly began to talk everything over and figure out where they were both at. I loved how things began to progress between the two of them and it made me happy!
The reason Monica returned to Langley Park was extremely relevant and I wondered how everything was going to come together. I totally was not expecting what happened and who was involved! Loved the twists and totally shocked at the one revelation!
The very end was awesome and I loved how it all came together! – By Rebecca
Meet Gabe and Monica, certainly the most melodramatic pair in the Langley Park series; however, out of all the couples we’ve met their start as a couple was long-term compared to everyone else. Once they get over the dramatics and childish angst after seeing each other for the first time after years of separation, it’s all sweet and steamy.
This little world of Langley Park is growing with its connections of family, friendships, and businesses. Couples crossover into each other’s stories that allows for great world building.
Same as the previous three books, this is a second chance romance with a touch of a sinister element. The sinister element shows up in a beginning and the end of the book, so just when you think the author can’t wrap it all up, she does. Hands down if you enjoyed the first three books, then you’ll enjoy this one. Though the ending to the epilogue to set up book five has me on the edge of my seat. Book five can’t come soon enough.
Perfect second chance romance story!
I was captured from page one. From blurb we know why this story will be a second chance in the love. While in other books some retrospection is very often annoying and not necessary, here it is perfectly put in place. The story line is very precisely thought through and gave me the feeling of flowing through pages. I read this in one sitting and I enjoyed very much each and every twists and turn. I loved the angst, the suspense and how everything unravelled at the end.
The characters are perfectly developed and not only main characters. I will for sure read rest of the books from the series as this is my first book of this author.
This is another great book in the series and I am really enjoying them.
Monica was a great character right at the beginning and then I was mad at her for leaving Oma and Gabe. I understood that she wanted to follow her dreams but the way she just left them both broke my my heart after everything they both had done for her. I was so sad with the situation that Monica found herself in at the party as that was not fault of her own and freaky!!
Gabe was able to make something of himself but he was exhausted and done with leading the life he found himself in. I was glad that he decided to take some time for himself and get his head together by heading back to Langley Park.
I loved how both Gabe and Monica but everything aside to help Oma after she was injured and the two slowly began to talk everything over and figure out where they were both at. I loved how things began to progress between the two of them and it made me happy!
The reason Monica returned to Langley Park was extremely relevant and I wondered how everything was going to come together. I totally was not expecting what happened and who was involved! Loved the twists and totally shocked at the one revelation!
The very end was awesome and I loved how it all came together!
Oh my. I was very lucky to receive an ARC of this book. For one, it was very hard to put down. I totally enjoyed Monica and Gabe’s story. It was tense, it was romantic, it kept me in suspense, it had twists and turns I never saw coming, gave me mixed emotions throughout and the ending was awesome. I was very happy with the ending, although I never suspected who was behind the incident that happened with Monica pretending to be a friend at a party. I enjoyed the way they all came together in this story. Oma was such a sweet woman and she lover her granddaughter so very much. Oma wanted her happy and she made it happen. A definite 5 star read and I would recommend this book. Thank you Krista.
Wow! Make sure you’ve got nothing planned once you open this book because you will not be able to put it down! Krista Sandor brilliantly combines sweet swoony second chance romance with gripping suspense, shocking twists and turns, and of course some fantastic friends and family in The Measure Of Home. I constantly found myself bouncing between happy sighing at Gabe and Monica and biting my nails in anticipation for the unraveling mystery.
Monica and Gabe were both completely different, yet uncannily similar at the same time. Both feeling even from a young age the need to prove themselves to others but also living very different lives. The sweet young love that blossoms then tears apart only to come back even more explosive when life thrusts these two back together is pure beauty while still filled with the ups and downs that come with all new relationships. Side by side with the electric chemistry these two have is a suspenseful mystery that weaves throughout their story and keeps you guessing every time you thing you’ve figured it out. That all combines to create a truly captivating read that will have you falling even more in love with this series!
4.5 Stars!
Krista does it again with another GREAT couple from Langley Park! These characters grabbed my heart from the start ~ Monica was a sheltered girl that was thrown into and spit out of the Modeling world and Gabe was the sweet small town boy that made it big doing what he loved, but not loving what he was doing! And a shout out to Oma….I simply LOVED her. It killed me that these two stubborn people did not search for closure through the years. I loved that this story was based around the Bakery, in this town with all my favorite Langley Park characters there to support the long-lost residents. The balance of angst, sweetness and suspense was perfect and kept me flipping the pages through this one.
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The Measure of Home is another great read in the Langley Park Series. I loved it. I loved Gabe and Monica. They had amazing chemistry, scorching sexy scenes and were perfect for each other. Loved loved them! Looking forward to reading Zoe’s book!