For the first time ever, your favorite Italian family and their rollercoaster love stories have been compiled into one collection with added bonus scenes at the end of each book. The Carpinos are together—Overflow, Beautiful Life, and Athica Lane—with more Jude and Gabby, Tony and Leigh, and Cam and Paige goodness. These full-length romantic suspense novels have it all: heat, humor, angst, and … alpha men who will scorch your kindle. That’s over 1,300 pages of binge-worthy reading available FREE with Kindle Unlimited.
Overflow
There’s nothing like getting caught in the middle of an FBI raid to change your life…
That’s what happens to Gabrielle Carpino. Just when she forced herself to move on with life after tragedy touched her family, she finds herself thrown into a tailspin so swift, she can’t find her bearings.
Being cuffed and patted down by Special Agent Jude Ortiz is enough to wake anyone up. With his dark chocolate eyes and commanding ways, Gabby can’t resist. And between battling criminals, flooded basements, fantasy football drafts, and her crazy Italian family, Jude also finds himself unable to resist her charms.
That doesn’t mean he isn’t wrestling feelings he hasn’t allowed in years. Nightmares that are his reality have paralyzed him from living a full life. Yet, he can’t help himself when it comes to her and Jude moves in to watch over Gabby.
But just when life seems to be settling down, demons surface from the past. Horrific ones that carry a vengeance so evil, no one saw them coming.
Beautiful Life
Webster’s defines to heal as “to make healthy, whole or sound; restore to health, free from ailment.” But Webster’s also defines to heal as “to free from evil; cleanse; purify: to heal the soul.”
My soul is shattered.
I’m one hell of a mess because I need both and I don’t know how both can possibly happen. Sure, I know my body will heal. I understand the science of healing—it’s my profession. But the ache in my heart and fear in my head? I’m not sure I’ll ever get over that. Losing your unborn child at the hands of your abusive husband will do that to you. I’ve been trained to fear those who are supposed to love—conditioned to watch my every move and word so as not to suffer the consequences. For me, healing might never be a possibility.
Or I didn’t think so until Tony Carpino fixated himself in my life.
Tony is patient. Determined. He knows exactly what I need even before I do. He wants to give me everything, make my life beautiful when it’s always been ugly. But as determined and patient as he might be, I don’t know if I can ever be whole again. It doesn’t matter how long I’ve wanted him … and I’ve wanted Tony Carpino for a long time.
This is a story of heartache and broken souls. A story of being exactly what the one you love needs when they need it, even if it goes against every being of your nature.
Because love isn’t love unless it’s selfless.
Athica Lane
Cam Montgomery is a single full-time dad who knows his priorities: his kids, his job, his team, his business. Dealing with his disaster of an ex-wife is bad enough, not to mention delinquent football players and a meddlesome mother. Cam doesn’t have the luxury of time for anything more, especially a relationship. Even if it is Paige Carpino—smart and sweet but at every turn.
Paige might come in a small package, but she makes up for it in spirit. She’s dedicated to her new business, her family, and a select group of friends.
Until one day in a burger joint, an asshole practically enters her into a wet t-shirt contest with his drink. Who knew a disaster like that could be the beginning of your life? Or more importantly, that asshole would be your reason for being. But anything can happen when you finally put yourself out there. Throw in the Carpino’s, the Montgomery’s, and an eighty-five-year-old bossy woman in the mix, and it’s a recipe for something big.
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I am so in love with the Carpino family! I have read these books so many times and I continue to love them just as much if not more each time I open them.
The great thing about this box set is the bonus scenes you get with it! HOLY COW! Between Jude’s letter to Gabby, Leigh’s memory of before, and Paige and Cam’s alone time, you will be on a rollercoaster of emotions. You will go from crying to gasping, to fanning yourself, and back to tears before it’s over! But one thing is certain, you will fall head over heels in love with all of these amazing characters! You will laugh at the Carpino craziness but you will love each story endlessly!
An absolute MUST READ!!
The Carpino Series features Overflow, Beautiful Life, and Athica Lane. Three novels in one. I loved that all three novels were in a box set simply because once you start the series you won’t want to stop. Each novel features a different couple and three different storylines so there is something for everyone. If you’re into romance with heart than this series is for you. Brynne has a way of creating characters that will stay with you and this is one of those series for me; not to mention I can relate to the big, loud, protective Italian family!
4.75 Stars! The Carpinos are near and dear to my heart. They started it all. I devoured Overflow, and my love of Brynne Asher’s books has only grown as she’s added more to her bibliography. She’s a one-click author for me. Getting these bonus scenes of some of my favorite characters is a special gift, and I can only thank Brynne for being so good to us.
Overflow: Originally Read On: 11/02/2014 – 5 Stars!
Loved, loved, loved Gabby and Jude! Read my full review of book 1 here: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1094725080
Overflow Bonus Scene: 5 Stars!
This poignant letter showcases everything good about Jude Ortiz and just how strong his love is, for Gabby. I’ll admit it brought tears to my eyes, but it also solidified Jude’s spot as my number one Brynne Asher hero (he always has been despite others fighting him for the position). The story went well with the original book, and it was fantastic being with old friends again.
Beautiful Life: Originally Read On: 02/13/2015 – 4.5 Stars!
Tony showed us just how a determined alpha male can create a beautiful life by being sweet, protective, patient, gentle, and firm. Get ready to swoon. Read my full review of book 2 here: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1174991543?book_show_action=false&from_review_page=1
Beautiful Life Bonus Scene: 4 Stars!
This was a fun glimpse into Tony and Leigh’s past. Knowing they grew up together is one thing, but seeing it is a whole new level of awesome. See where some of their feelings originated in this sweet, little flashback.
Athica Lane: Originally Read On: 09/17/2015 – 5 Stars!
Ladies get ready to swoon for single dad, hot teacher, and athletic god Cam Montgomery! Cam can be intense, and I loved when he turned that intensity on Paige. They had some bumps to iron out, but their chemistry and attraction was undeniable from the start. Not to mention, Paige is just plain cool. I loved her vivacity, loving heart, and the strength she showed in sticking to what she wanted.
Athica Lane Bonus Scene: 5 Stars!
I love, love, love epilogues! It’s a huge part of a story for me, so getting this extended epilogue from Paige and Cam is divine! It’s steamy, hot, and oh-so-sweet.
The Carpino series is one that I come back to time and again, and you won’t want to miss it. This in-your-face, loving, boisterous family will draw you in immediately, and you won’t want them to let go. Every time I read, I find something new to love. I also wish and wish that Brynne will keep giving us Carpino books to fall for.
5 CARPINO STARS!! This collection is phenomenal!! I loved all three books.
Overflow…..Is Jude and Gabby story and full of all the feels that keeps you flipping pages. As always this authors takes us on a beautiful ride that you never want to end.
Beautiful Life……Is Tony and Leigh’s story and what a emotional rollercoaster this was, but so worth all the ups & downs. You will be so in love with these two.
Attica Lane…….Is Cam and Paige’s story and this one was my FAVORITE. I absolutely loved this story, the feels were off the pages. This author’s writing is so captivating and beautiful.
You definitely need to read this collection….you will love it.
Brynne Asher slays it with The Carpino series, one of my absolute favourite series in ages, she just created an awesome world for a beautiful family!! You need this new boxset with the expanded epilogues, a look back at what might have happened, a brilliantlove letter, and maybe a sneak peak for what could be around the bend for Brynne Asher and the Carpino family?!? In addition to the extended epilogues, there are a few yummy recipes, this whole series is just to die for!
When I finish a book I always want more. More from the characters, more of their “life”…..just more……now I have it!!! The bonus scenes that Ms. Asher has given us is EVERYTHING!!!
I’m pulling out my tear rating:
for ALL the bonus material!!!
I love Brynne Asher! She can do no wrong in my eyes. I’m super happy she decided to give us an update on our favorite Carpino family! I do wish it was a tad bit longer, but overall enjoyed it.
The Carpino series is full of sweet, sexy goodness. In this series you get it all – love, angst, humor, family drama. Overflow, Beautiful Life, and Athica Lane are full-length romantic suspense novels and are the stories of Jude and Gabby, Tony and Leigh, and Cam and Paige. Each book gets better and better! Plus, this box set includes really sweet bonus stories on each couple that add to the goodness.
In Overflow, Jude and Gabby are able to overcome both of their difficult pasts and find happiness together.
In Beautiful Life, Tony and Leigh find love in a sweet, low angst, second chance romance.
Athica Lane is my very favorite and a really good read. Paige and Cam’s romance is sweet, sexy and has the perfect amount of drama, with the bonus of some cute kids.
Since I read this series several years ago, I have devoured Ms. Asher’s subsequent books, but these will always remain among my favorites. I enjoyed revisiting my “old friends” the Carpinos in this fun boxed set! I love this series. Brynne Asher never disappoints. I envy those reading these books for the first time. You will fall in love with these characters and their stories, which are full of fun, sexiness and heart.
Original reviews:
Overflow: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show…
Beautiful Life: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show…
Athica Lane: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show…
Ms Asher is one of those authors I can read over and over again. Humor and heat is a winning combination! It isn’t often that an author will take some of her best characters, your favorite characters and give you more time with them. When it happens you grab hold of this gift and don’t let go. The Carpino Series Collection combines all three of these amazing books with extra scenes and made this reader extremely happy! 6 stars for The Carpinos!
The first book I ever read by Brynne Asher was Athica Lane. I had no idea it was the 3rd book in a series but quickly fell in love with the Carpino Family. I snatched up the previous 2 books and devoured them in one day. Since then, Brynne has become an automatic buy for me and continues to give us amazing stories about people and families you feel like you could know in real life. Grab this box set and settle in. I guarantee it will not disappoint.
I LOVE the Carpinos – all of them. I have no shame in saying that Cam is my absolute favourite of the lot (Athica Lane). He’s my guy, so I am right here super excited for any bonus scene that has Cam included.
I’ve read the 3 books in this series more than once, but I’m back here again because of my 2 favourite words = BONUS SCENES. There are three bonus scenes in this collection, one for each book in the series – Overflow, Beautiful Life, and Athica Lane.
My original ratings for these books are
Overflow – 4 stars
Beautiful Life – 4 stars
Athica Lane – 5 stars.
Add the bonus scenes and I’m rounding my overall rating up to 5 stars. Because The Carpinos and bonus scenes are irresistible to me 🙂
I’m a rebel. I’ll read a book series out of order if a later book calls to me, and in this case, Athica Lane wouldn’t let my attention go!
I love finding books that make my heart happy – and Paige and Cam’s HEA overflows my heart with all the feel-goods! Give me a alpha male who’s got some rough edges but makes up for it in the best of ways, and a charming, girly, sassy, sweet heroine who’s his perfect match, who’s both soft and strong, and I will melt and swoon through the whole story!
I adored the extra little bonus scene showing life a few years later and just how good Paige and Cam still are together.
Review update 3/6/20 – read Overflow
Jude and Gabby’s story touched so many pieces of my heart and left it overflowing with satisfaction.
I loved how Jude and Gabby met and how even without both of them getting the true significance of it, from that first moment in each other’s presence, that was it for the both of them. I loved the family connections/drama and how family matters – and not all family is blood. I loved experiencing Gabby’s insecurities and working through her grief with her. I loved the moments of peace and easy mixed in with havoc and tension. I loved how everything fell together and they worked through the hurt and their pasts. I adored how Jude treated Gabby and refused to lose her to anything.
**fav quotes**
She’s only been mine for five days and that’s exactly what she is as of right now. Mine.
So, quit asking me if I’m gonna come to you at the end of the day, because as long as this is good, I plan on coming to you.
Baby, watch out. You prance your sweet ass out here in that little thing, I’m comin’ after you.
“Who’s that?” I whisper. “That’s my dad. Come on, I’ll introduce you. Trust me, he’s not nearly as overwhelming as your family.”
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Mixing up a great blend of laughter and love, family and friends, sweet and steamy, Overflow is a beautiful love story that’ll settle into your heart.
Bonus scene: That letter from Jude was just perfection! So much heart and emotions all wrapped up in a gorgeous letter that catches us up to where they are now. I melted and fell in love with Jude all over again!
In my opinion there is absolutely nothing Brynne Asher could do to improve on the fabulousness that is the Carpino series, except… give us more, and she’s only gone and done it. Three extra bonus scenes from the crazy Carpino family and those that love them. An absolutely heartstoppingly stunning beautiful letter from Jude to Gabby. A never before glimpse into Tony and Leigh before they became the adults we came to love, and a sweet and oh so sexy look into the future of Cam and Paige.
I would recommend buying this set, just for the original books, each one is 5 stars in its own right, but with the addition of the bonus content, you really would be crazy (and not in a good way like the Carpinos) not to!
This series is definitely one of my favorites! There isn’t a hero or heroine included here that I’m not totally in love with. The writing pulled me in as though I was spending time with a close friend and I experienced everything these characters did. The laughs, the tears, the drama and danger, and the love. Sigh. Add in the bonus scenes included in this set, and oh my heart!! It’s like double chocolate goodness on top of double chocolate goodness. (I’m partial to double chocolate, just sayin’.)
It just doesn’t get any better than this!
This series is a fun, sexy, and full of heart series that only gets better and better with each book. These books capture my attention and I flew through them, I just couldn’t get enough. Each book has its own feel, their own dramas and are fresh and made me want to be a part of their family. If you are looking for a series that will make you laugh, make you cry, and leave you with a smile, well, look no further! This series is a favorite reread of mine and the author is now a automatic one-click!
5 “Give Me All The Carpinos” Stars
I am so excited that the Carpino Series is all in one box set AND includes bonus scenes at the end for each couple. I am a big Brynne Asher fan and normally do not get the box sets but this one I could not pass up.
Overflow – This book has one of my all time favorite beginnings, ever. I love the scene of how the H and h meet … so hot!
Beautiful Life – This story really pulled at my heartstrings and tells such a wonderful story of finding love again.
Athica Lane – Cam and Paige take us on one roller coaster of a ride. This book has so much humor and steamy, over-the-top Alpha that I just loved it.
The bonus scenes at the end made me want to do a reread of the whole Carpino family again!! I just never wanted it to end.
These bonus scenes are amazing.
This set will be kindle unlimited soon.
Overflow
Jude writes Gabby a letter expressing his undying love for her. Very emotional!!!
Beautiful Life
This is Leigh at 17. She has had a thing for Tony a long time. Her and Gabby are at a corn maze. Tony shows up!!
Athica Lane
Cam and Paige are supposed to be getting ready to go eat at her parents. Cam has just learned something amazing. They are calling in sick.
Nothing Brynne writes disappoints and the Carpino series with the bonus scenes are no exception. Hot, heavy, and suspenseful. Bravo, Brynne.
A reread of one of my most favorite series isn’t exactly difficult but throw in bonus content with a box set? There goes my weekend. 🙂
These stories are every bit as good as I remember, maybe better than the first time even! The bonus content for each book is SO GOOD and so fitting for each of the characters. I always love a peak into the future or past, really anything to do with the Carpinos is going to make me happy though!
Brynne Asher has become one of my favorite authors in the past few years so of course the Carpinos are one of my favorite families. This box set is so awesome, not only are all three books together, but what makes it extra special is all the bonus scenes!!
In Overflow, we meet Jude and Gabby. I loved their story so much, we get a bit of mystery, drama, some angst and my favorite type of hero; a protective and an oh so alpha law man. Protecting and claiming Gabby was Jude’s goal and it was an amazing ride. We get an awesome epilogue but with the bonus content in the box set we also get this beautiful tear jerker of a letter from Jude to Gabby.
In Beautiful Life, we get Tony and Leigh’s story. Leigh has not had the easiest life and then to have gone through a wife’s worst nightmare. Thank goodness for having such an amazing support system from the Carpinos. Gabby, her best friend and Gabby’s cousin, Tony is there for her. The love story between these two was bumpy but Tony was determined to finally get his girl. In the bonus content, we get a little history of these two.
In Athica Lane, we get my favorite trope, the single dad. Cam, the “grumpy bear” is the father of Jordy and Cara and Paige is the younger sister of Tony Carpino. The start to their story was not the greatest, but as they got to know each other, their attraction became undeniable. My favorite of all three. And in their bonus content, we get to see a bit of the heat that flows between these two.
This box set gave me a wonderful chance to re-visit this amazing family. I definitely recommend getting this box set!