Tragedy, it can strike anyone.Healing after it can take weeks, months, years, or even decades.Bijou Augustine has struggled.Being a young widow, raising her daughter alone, and now her biggest challenge of keeping her late husband’s dream going, Bijou feels like she is slowly losing grip on her life.Living in a small town in Georgia doesn’t make for a great economy. Having a youth center is … youth center is necessary but not worth donating money toward for services.
Growing despite, Bijou begins making calls to search for donations, but one call changes everything.
Willing to work for nothing, mountain man Noah sweeps in with a glint in his penetrating gaze that captivates Bijou the moment they meet.
She’s awkward and he is clearly still healing from his own pain.
But there is more to it, there has to be with how he is always checking his surroundings. But the thrill of something new clouds Bijou’s thoughts.
Whatever he is hiding may be more than Bijou can handle with her already packed plate.
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Back in the Ring by Brooke May
Rated 4 stars
The story seemed nice. I liked the idea of her trying to keep the dream from her husband alive. This was slow moving and there is a lot of inner speculation. I enjoy reading a story with more dialogue and little less description and inner thoughts. I sadly spend some time skimming. We spent quite a bit of time getting to know Bijou. Her life, her family and her struggles. Wait…i don’t want to forget the tree… i liked that idea a lot. Not so much information on Noah. Unless he is in the other stories he was an enigma. I really struggled with how quickly the relationship of the two MC’s moved forward. It felt wrong to me. Maybe if he had showed up in the book sooner but he wasn’t a main fixture until she needed help. But then I guess that rules out the insta-love they shared. So maybe the timing was right.
Let’s talk kids. Claire was different. At times she was the annoying tween. Other times it’s like she was the adult. Even though Holder didn’t have many scenes..he was a cutie. The other secondaries were good but I felt Mara was over the top. Maybe if she was a single friend i could see her acting that way. Although at the end I loved what she did to the reporters.
So this is the fourth book in this series and it can be read as a stand alone. I have not read the previous stories and had no problem following the storyline.
The story was good and had a nice idea behind it. I easily moved right through it.
A great addition to the series. This book was not what I was expecting based in the other books in the series but was an amazing read. This book can definitely be read as a standalone from the other books in the series.
Bijou and Noah’s story is a great second chance romance book.
Another brilliant read from Brooke May. Being my second read from this author I knew what to expect, but what I didn’t expect was for this read to be as good as it was. Back in the Ring is part of The Predator Series and can be read as a standalone.
This was an incredible book of moving on, and having a second chance at love, all the while trying to carry on living a painful day to day life whether that’s from laying low or trying to carry on a legacy of a loved one and be struggling even more so.
The emotions that are in this read are real, raw and relatable to many people, and while reading I could feel the characters Noah & Bijou emotions roll of the page. While you are rooting for the characters throughout you do wonder whether their individual pain and heartbreak to strong for them to move on and get a HEA with each other.
None of the less with all the emotions in this read, with one minute having tears in my eyes and the next smiling its a brilliant romance read that I couldn’t put down, I was captivated and from start to finish.
After this read, I can’t wait to see what happened in the other books in this series! I will definitely be going back and reading the others and whatever else this author brings – Brooke May has definitely become one of my go-to authors after this one!
This book should not be missed!