We all have that one person we never get over.The one person who haunts your dreams, crushing your soul when you wake up and realize they’re gone.The one person whose name is tattooed forever across your heart.Like the clashing kaleidoscope of tattoos that run down his arms.Connor McLean.My brother’s best friend.I’ve loved him my entire life.And I’ve been the invisible sidekick. The pesky little … invisible sidekick. The pesky little girl with fluffy hair and gangly legs.
I always thought I’d grow up and he’d finally see the real me. That he’d watch the little girl blossom into a woman worthy of his love.
But he left.
Connor joined the SEALs and broke my heart.
So, when I see his familiar swagger across the bar. When his cocky smirk makes my heart flutter, I know this is my chance.
It’s wrong to deceive him. To pretend I don’t know him. But I need him to give me one night. One chance to see that I’m not a little girl anymore.
However, my secret is nothing compared to the one Connor has been holding all these years. The one that could tear us apart before we ever have a chance.
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Conner and Charlotte, the classic trope of the little sister in love with her brother’s best friend. Conner broke Charlotte’s heart when he left their hometown to join the Navy but now he’s back. Can they have a future together? There are some doubts and bumps in the road, for sure. To find out if Charlotte and Conner find their HEA, pick up Eddie Cleveland’s newest release. Romantic scenes interwoven with steamy, off-the-chart sexytimes scenes make for a story not to be missed.
**Eddie Cleveland gave this book a series, title & cover makeover Oct 2018. It’s now titled Once Upon A Time**
Great story. I’ve already read the other fairytale stories and now this one, the start of it all, completes the group. It totally fits why Eddie Cleveland gave this a series, title & cover makeover. I agree it wouldn’t have fit in the Woodsman group (I’ve read the first two but hadn’t gotten to the third before its makeover. Glad I procrastinated )
Connor & Charlotte’s story is beautiful, sexy & oh so romantic. They struggled a bit but came out on the other side to their HEA. Highly recommend this and the rest of Eddie’s fairytale stories. Time well spent.
A spellbinding romantic read that lures you into the lives of Connor and Charlotte and keeps you turning pages until the conclusion. Deep-rooted emotions tug your heart-strings, mouth-watering seductive scenes wow you while gripping suspense and action leave you a bit anxious. There is, of course, a well-deserved heavenly happy ever after.
Connor a Navy Seal has come back to his hometown after fourteen years and his new residence is a cabin set deep in the Willamette National Forest. His emerald eyes hold you captive and his herculean build is quite impressive. Connor does have a distressing past from his hometown that still haunts his memories. Charlotte has sass, is quite the beauty and has had a girly crush on her brother’s best friend since childhood; fantasy dreams still plague her nightly hoping one day Connor would be hers. When they meet again after fourteen years Connor does not recognize the girl she once was; her bewitching smile leaves him feverish and senseless setting his sunless world on fire. One heated night of passion catapults them into a tangled web of family drama.
Mr. Cleveland’s gift for writing has combined a bit of reality and fantasy to make this a most remarkable story. The characters come alive with clever dialogue, and the back stories of Connor and Charlotte give you insight into their personalities. Connor is definitely an alpha male but his compassionate side also shines in this story. The relationship between Connor and Charlotte was at first a bit rocky, but they did have fun together and in the end, they are perfectly matched; their romance is filled with respect and much devotion. If you treasure intoxicating romance stories this is definitely a fabulous book for your library. I found this to be a most gratifying read and loved it so much {I voluntarily reviewed an advanced copy}. Without reservations, I recommend this book.
There isn’t a book yet, written by Eddie Cleveland, that I didn’t like. I enjoyed The Woodsman’s Baby as well, but was a little disappointed in a couple of Beta issues, that caused me to stumble and back track in my reading to figure out if I remembered wrong or if in fact there was an inconsistency.
I was disappointed in Charlotte. In the beginning she’s a Sunday School teacher, or at least a substitute, but her language was shocking. I was glad to read in the end, that she was attending church. And at times, I felt like her actions against her brother was childish.
Overall, it wasn’t a bad story and the writing was good, but it wasn’t my favorite from Author Eddie Cleveland.
Loved the characters and the story line. Steamy and sexy
4.0 out of 5 stars
He is a “Woodsman” because he can really handle his “wood”!
So this story is not about a lumberjack. Nor is it about a “Grizzly Adams sort of character. I guess you would consider our hero a “Woodsman” because he lives in the woods? or is it because of what I said in the title? Connor, the man in question is a terrific new book boyfriend. He is sex on a stick…gifted genetically and physically in all the important lickable ways… and he knows what we,women like.
He meets this mocha bronze beauty in a bar as he was celebrating his return home from a career in the military as an officer with the SEALS. The beautiful woman, Charlotte is holding back a secret from Connor. They share a night of delicious lust, but for Charlotte, what they shared is the culmination of longing and a love for Connor since she was that little girl, Lottie with gangly long legs and puffy hair following her brother Marcus and Connor everywhere. This reunion should be the remarkable beginning of a love and life together for Connor and Charlotte “but the course of true love never did run smooth.” Shakespeare (A Midsummer Night’s Dream) The storyline deals with our main characters working out past grievances real and imagined. They all must deal with the surprise of a new baby made by the love of Charlotte and Connor.
Peppered throughout the story are the hot erotic love scenes between Charlotte and Connor. I so enjoy a male writing sexy scenes for a primarily female audience. A little testosterone in the mix gives it a different flavor. And Mr. Cleveland’s writing is no exception. However, I did miss the build up, the delicious tension, the secret touches, the will she or won’t she question lingering in the air before they actually have sex… a little foreplay please.
I so loved the ladder scene, but other than that, the loveplay was a little one note with the overuse of the word “splash”.
Oh I just know I will be attacked with many “unhelpful” votes, but please notice how balanced my small critique is and yes I encourage readers to choose works by this author because the bottom line is that they are smokin’ hot. He will only get better, I am certain. So, for some tasty testosterone in your sex salad one click your way to the delights of the “Woodsman” and his…need I say more?