A woman embarks on a journey of redemption and discovery in this heart-warming tale of love, strength, and the sea…Few people understand… addiction. And when a drunken car accident leaves her in debt and in trouble with the law, it almost breaks her.
Will the shame eat Tammy alive?
When he walked into the restaurant, she noticed him immediately. Admittedly, it was her job, but Dwayne seemed nice. They hit it off.
When he asked her out, the date was for her and her son.
Points for Dwayne.
A commercial fisherman, he wants to show her his boat. Tammy had no idea how her life would change after that date. The tranquility of open water had its hooks in her.
What she decides to do next…
…makes all the difference.
You’ll adore this second book in the series because Tammy needed a second chance and through her own grit, she made one for herself.
A sweet second chance romance packed with action, adventuresome laughs, and suspense.
*** Winner of the Readers’ Favorite Gold Medal Award for Fiction Adventure 2020 ***
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Book 2 In the Tammy Mellows series. Based on true events.
Tammy waking up in the hospital, simply not remembering how this happened. But soon it will all come to light.. Definitely will make a difference in how she handles this journey called life.
Living life paycheck to paycheck as a waitress… sure doesn’t pay the bills.. its a Struggle for sure.Tammy’s main concern is her precious son Matt.
Now there’s the Court cost..
things are tough on a single mom.
But pushing forward is what Tammy does….
Soon Tammy Meets Dwayne.
But not. Completely sure of this yet. As there’s been others that only used her.. so will things work out for tammy.. And Dwayne.
I Highly Recommend this Book.
And Book 1 Reckless Beginnings. These books are based on true events.. you will fall in Love with Tammy….
And Don’t Forget to pick up Book 3 The Reunion. The ending story..
I’m soon to read it..
I’ve Truly enjoyed these stories..
Tina Hogan Grant continues to share her amazing experiences in her book, Better Endings – Book Two of the Tammy Mellows Series, which contains a Prologue of her first book: Reckless Beginnings. Better Endings shows the resilience of a Mother working hard to support her son through the roughest of times imaginable. She had made mistakes in the past that she did not want to make again. But she faces other challenges, when she realizes she is an alcoholic. Meeting Dwayne, a fisherman, was a light that she desperately needed. He also had a son. He gave her the support and love that made her want to be a better person. Tammy decided to become a fisherwoman and work with Dwayne to catch lobsters. This turned out to be an extremely hard task. Tammy was relentless in her pursuit to prove that she could do what the men could do. I never realized how much work was involved in the process! She definitely showed everyone that she was no quitter. Tammy was also full of surprises – that were at times quite unexpected. You will have to read to find out! Lol! Oh, and the storm that erupted, while they were on the boat – had me glued to the pages. Very exciting and scary! At the end of the book, I found myself turning the blank pages – looking for more! I can’t wait to read what happens next!
BETTER ENDINGS is the second book in the Tammy Mellows Trilogy. Tina Hogan Grant takes her readers out to sea and regales them with sea-faring tales in a novel full of adventure and self-discovery.
Tammy Mellows wakes up in a hospital room after a car accident, and her perspective begins to shift. Once she meets the man of her dreams, Dwayne, she wonders how she can change her reckless beginnings into better endings. She wants to tell Dwayne everything, but she’s scared of losing him if she reveals the reason for the car crash. Furthermore, she’s fallen in love with his lifestyle, and she wants to be a commercial fisherwoman. There are many things standing in her way: her gender, isolation from family and friends, and planning for her son’s care when she’s in dangerous waters. Even though she’s a hard worker, she’s constantly reminded that there are very few commercial fisher women. Will she be able to have the man of her dreams and live a life on the sea?
I heard glass ceilings shattering everywhere, and I found myself rooting for Tammy and Dwayne as they formed their relationship and Tammy discovered more about herself. The details were plentiful, and I could easily envision Tammy’s experiences, even though I have seldom been on a boat.
I enjoyed this book, and I’m looking forward to reading THE REUNIONS. I recommend BETTER ENDINGS for experienced readers with a taste for love and adventure!
Tina Hogan Grant
Another appropriate title for the second in this series by Tina Hogan Grant. I have to admit in book one I did not think much of Tammy – the main character – because she made bad choice after bad choice. This second book kind of started the same and I was worried I wouldn’t think much better of her. But, in the end Tammy proved to be a strong woman making mostly better choices and I found myself cheering for her.
I loved learning about the lives of fisherman and have a new respect for anyone who takes that job on!
After reading book #1, Reckless Beginnings, I couldn’t wait to read this 2nd book in the Tammy Mellows series. Better Endings is another 5***** book! The author has painfully written about her own life story – the good, the bad and the ugly. In the beginning of the series, Tammy always seems to be that person who makes bad choices that have life changing and sometimes threatening consequences. But there was one choice in her life, that keeps her going … her young boy Matt. This choice will ultimately put her on a path to a different type of life. Matt is the driving force that helps her make some positive lasting choices in her life. In this book she meets Dwayne who will help her to realize what a strong, confident woman she was meant to be. Tammy makes choices that take her on a journey she never saw coming- a deep love that many never experience and a career unheard of for a woman at that time. This choice, though she never saw coming will ultimately and completely change her life! Now can’t wait to read Book #3 – The Reunions
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This was a second book in a series that is based on a true story! You can read it as a stand alone. I really enjoyed this book and I had to buy it and read it immediately after book 1. I have preordered the third book. It is a very interesting book and I literally could not put it down! I highly recommend this book.
This was a enjoyable, fulfilling read, Going on the journey with Tammy, seeing her grow from book one was refreshing, Tammy is likeable, real, honest, and the reader (at least me) immediately felt a kinship with her .
BOOK REVIEW: Better Endings. (Tammy Mellows Series Book 2) by Award-winning author, Tina Hogan Grant
“If you always do what you’ve always done, you’ll always get what you’ve always gotten. ” These words were never more true than they were for Tammy Mellows…
Tammys’ journey began with one bad decision after another, never thinking of the consequences of her haste regarding her actions and/or choices at an age when she was coming into her own and thought to have had the world at her fingertips~ nothing could touch her.
Better Endings spins what began as a heart-breaking story of struggle, loss, despair and sheer survival into a story where I found a renewed fondness for this fractured yet relatable character as she once again puts herself out there looking for the life and love she’s deserving of through resilience, and strength. A new-found self-respect towards a life she can call her own by considering carefully on an entirely different level not only for herself, but for her son, becomes more important than ever. However, Tammys’ life isn’t void of the troubles that have clung to her just yet… The ghosts of her past are still playing games with her heart and her head as she struggles to free herself.
A chance meeting, a best friend, and a sea full of possibilities and promise bring Tammy full-circle into a world where she not only belongs, but begins to cherish, and holds tightly to ~ a place to call home that settles her heart and her mind through true love, family, and a willingness to let go of the past…
Ms. Grant has created an excellent sequel~ one that had me feeling all the feels from beginning to end as she took me through the good, bad, and the ugly but more importantly, the beauty that can come from learning by mistakes made, and in finding peace with ourselves no matter what life throws our way, and did so through the eyes of Tammy Mellows. A character in every sense of the word and one I won’t soon forget.
I thank the author for my personal copy of Better Endings to not not only read and review, but one I enjoyed and can highly recommend… Book 3 in this series cannot come soon enough.
5 Stars
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Better Endings by Tina Hogan Grant
This is the second book in the series of Tammy Mellows . The first one was Reckless Beginnings which I read first. In this story Terry Mellows story continues. All she wants is a better life for her child and for herself. She meets a man that is a fisherman and lives in a boat. She makes some hard choices that change her life. I enjoyed reading this second book in the Terry Mellows Series. I am looking forward to the next book in this series. I highly recommend this book that keeps you at the edge of your seat and keeps you turning the pages.
Welcome to Tea Time this Tuesday, my Fellow Book Dragons! Tonight’s Gem is quite beautiful and calming, like the waves of the sea at sunset. It is cracked a bit and the edges are rough, this Gem has seen some hard sailing and rough water, but it seems to have come out just fine. It glows with a calming warmth and the colors of sunset. This is Gem Maker and Dragon Feeder Tina Hogan Grant’s “Better Endings”, the follow up novel to “Reckless Beginnings” but rest assured, you do not have to have devoured the first Gem to enjoy this one. This one does fine all on it’s own.
Our friend, Tammy Mellows, and that is how I will address her for I feel as if I have come to know her well now. Our friend, Tammy, is now working steady and shares a house with Judy, her friend. They are looking out for each other and watching each others children, so they can make it on waitressing income. When the story opens Tammy is in the hospital, the result of a car accident. On her birthday. Will Tammy’s luck ever change? Perhaps…
Tina has once again given us Tammy in all her reality. Tammy is not a martyr, not completely good nor bad, not completely innocent nor guilty, not completely naive nor completely tuned in; what Tammy is, is human. Tammy has faults, she smokes, drinks a bit more than her peers, is a single mom who works too many hours and is away from her boy too much, but feels the overwhelming pressure to work too much to give him all she can. She tries hard to be a good friend, sister, mom and worker. She is much like many young women in her age and she is, most of all, tired.
She meets a nice man, a decent man, a very handsome man. His name is Dwayne. He has a job Tammy has never been near before. Dwayne is a commercial fisherman. He is about to take Tammy on her first real adventure, at least her first positive one. And that is as far as I am going to go.
I loved this book, even though Tammy has her troubles, this book is full of hope. It’s a nailbiter at times, but it’s also a lovely bit of hope and right now, stories with Hope in them are to be treasured. If you are looking for a book with drama, a bit of suspense, a bit of rom-com and a lot of hope, this is the book for you! It has just recently released and I have a lovely tidbit of news for you! This is only the second book in the Tammy Mellows Series..a third is coming! Isn’t that lovely!?!
Get your copy of “Better Endings” on Amazon or wherever great books are sold! You will be quite happy with yourself for doing so! Thank you, again Tina for writing such wonderful characters and allowing us to peek in on them!
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Until tomorrow, I remain, your humble Book Dragon,
Drakon T. Longwitten
Tina Hogan Grant has beautifully written to us a love story about her life and it can well be read as a stand alone novel, of what Tammy Mellows gains in her life when she makes difficult decisions about her future and that of her son, Matt;
Tammy digs deeper than ever for strength and reaps the benefits of love and adventure and
SOMEHow Tammy invites a large, very large sea lion onto the Boat
Gotta Read!
Interesting learning about the life of a commercial fisherman while watching Tammy grow amongst the struggles of her daily life problems. This hope there will be a next story that allows us further glimpses into this life and to catch up with Judy, Donna, and Jenny. The author or has a way of spinning this story that not only makes you want more but where you can see an expanded series unfolding.
I highly recommend this book! So very well written with characters you can relate to. Heartwarming and real. A real life story that can be about any one of us. Strong female lead character that shows with hard work anything is possible!
You can’t help but root for Tammy! I loved following her adventures on the fishing boat and how she copes with the personal challenges in her life. This is the second book in the Tammy Mellows series and can be read as a stand-alone. I highly recommend reading the first book, Reckless Beginnings, as well. Looking forward to book three!
I received an ARC copy in exchange for a fair and honest review.
Once I started this book I couldn’t put it down. I finished it in two days and I can’t wait to see where Tammy’s life goes in the next installment. She is a very unique person. Not too many women would take on a life, with a young son, with a commercial fisherman. Or potentially swim with sharks! I definitely wanted to see Tammy follow her heart and she did. If you enjoy reading about strong women, who encounter real life situations and a true love story all wrapped into one, this book is for you!
I did not read the first book in the series. Thanks to the prologue, I was able to follow along easily. I will however be reading Reckless Beginnings just to have the full story.
My first book read in 2020 and couldn’t have read a better book. Am a big fan of Ms. Grant’s books and loved this one. Continuing in the Tammy Mellows series again I was drawn into the amazing life of this character. I love how we got a little reminder in the beginning of book #1 Reckless Beginnings although it can be read alone also.
After narrowly escaping with her own life from Steven, the father of her child and an abusive heroin addict, Tammy Mellows believed she finally gained control of her own self. At first I thought reading about life on the ocean and fishing was going to be boring…but I learned so much, was eager to turn the page and was just as excited as Tammy when things went right after being faced with so many obstacles. We all have demons to face one way or another and it just comes down to how we handle them. Looking forward to Book #3….because it’s not ended yet
A story about opening yourself up to love and chasing your own unique happily-ever-after, Better Endings showcases what happens when a strong woman uses her past and her pain to push forward. While this book is the second in a series, there is enough of a recap (tastefully done, after a gripping opening scene) that it could work just as well as a stand-alone read. I was in awe of the grit and stamina of Tammy, our leading lady, and found Dwayne to be absolutely irresistible. (I also learned a great deal about commercial fishing, which was a thousand times more interesting than I had ever imagined!)
There is something exhilarating about watching a young woman rise above her mistakes and follow the path her heart lays out for her, and something immensely satisfying about watching two very different people overcome the odds to make their relationship work. This book gave me the chance to do both, and I can’t wait to see what the future holds for Tammy, Dwayne, and their families.
In Tina Hogan Grant’s new book “Better Endings” we reconnect with the memorable characters from her first book in this series “Reckless Beginnings”. And it is such a treat to to see how life goes on for the heroine and those she holds dear.
Grant encapsulates her first book so well in the prolog that her second novel in this series can be read as a stand alone! Although don’t cheat yourself out of all the nuances of the fascinating first tale! And one should poise oneself to jump into this story packed full of wonderful scenes and characters take from Grant’s own life.
Grant expertly uses her own life story as a basis to weave a heartwarming tale. Showing how one woman can go from some of the worst times life can toss ones way, to finding the best. It’s not all a bed of roses for Grant’s characters. But isn’t that how we all learn to forge ahead?
This is a read that will open your eyes to life like you may not have lived, by the end, you will feel like you got very close!
I have to admit, from the first sentence of Better Endings, I couldn’t stop! I finished this book in 4 days. Tammy and Dwayne had the perfect connection. The bond that they form is perfect for a blended family. I can’t wait for another book! If anyone would like a heartwarming and heart pounding read, I suggest you check out this series!
This is one of those books that stays with you long after you have read it.
Tina Hogan Grant is phenomenal author. She pulls you into her storylines so flawlessly. She makes you feel every emotion possible.
First off let me start by saying if you haven’t read the first installment of the series than I highly suggest you pick it up today.
Reckless Beginnings book 1 was a story that pulled at your heartstrings and you couldn’t help but root for Tammy to overcome her struggles.
Better Endings is the second installment and it captivated me from the very beginning.
Everyone has something they are battling. Tammy’s will to survive and overcome her battles makes the story relatable.
I highly recommend this book.
I think everyone will find something they will appreciate about Better Endings.
5 stars
I received a copy of this book from the author in exchange for a fair and honest review.