Delivered with a Kiss (Veteran Movers Book 4)

Love this author. Enjoyed every book in the series.

I enjoyed this series.

What I liked:
The writing style
The characters
Part of a series: Veteran Movers
Standalone
HEA

I look forward to reading more from this author.
I voluntarily read and reviewed an ARC.

Steamy, funny, witty, heart breaking HEA. This book has it all. It was a roller coaster of emotions and had me wanting to just reach in and give them all a hug! Tilly and Smith’s sassy yet loving relationship was my favorite! Well written!

I enjoyed the ending of this series, the Veteran Movers by Marie Harte. Smith and Erin’s story will take you on an emotional rollercoaster ride. The series wraps up the continued mystery and answering any lingering question that you might have had.

This was a heartwarming, sweet, well-written book. Erin moved to a new city and was dumped by her boyfriend. Smith, hired to move her belongings, helped her find a place to live. The book held my attention and I didn’t want to put it down. I enjoyed it and would recommend the book to others.

Delivered with a Kiss has a heroine who uproots her life for a man she thought she loved and a hero so down trodden I couldn’t help but infuriated on his behalf. Erin moves all the way from Kansas to Washington based on an ultimatum issued from her boyfriend Cody. When she arrives, her entire life shatters on Cody’s front lawn, and in front of Smith, the moving company employee. She doesn’t expect any kindness or assistance from the burly, scowling Marine standing beside her but then he surprises her.

Smith Ramsey has had a helluva past few weeks and seeing a pretty woman on the verge of collapse tops it right off. While his upbringing wasn’t anything to brag about, leaving her alone, defenseless, and with nowhere to live was not in his repertoire. Smith quickly jumps into action and secures Erin with housing in his apartment building and a part-time job assisting the landlady. Pretty soon the duo are dancing around each other while sparks fly and attraction begins to consume them.

There is a large amount of emotion the author poured into this book. Smith’s childhood was awful and after returning from his time in the Marine Corp, his life, which he thought couldn’t get any worse, actually does get worse. Much, much worse. He learns his mother isn’t biologically his and he has brothers. A struggle to stay afloat, Smith hides his feelings from everyone until it just about breaks him. This book tests the bonds between family members and between a man and woman. There is a reason communication is the key to any relationship and there is a serious lack of it throughout a good portion of the book.

Please note Delivered with a Kiss is the first book I’ve had the chance to read in Marie Harte’s Veteran Movers series. I typically read series books in order but wandered off the path for this one. I will be going back to the beginning and reading the rest of the series. That said, having never met the supporting characters from the first three books, I thought maybe I’d have a hard time figuring things out. That is not the case, as the author does a great job bringing the reader up-to-speed without taking away from the present events, couple, and situations. The supporting characters are unique in their own right and I enjoyed getting to know them along with Erin and Smith. I also love the way the author firmly lets the characters know that family isn’t just those with the same blood pumping through their veins. Family is anyone you want it to include.

Delivered with a Kiss is the fourth and final book in the Veteran Movers Series by Marie Harte and Smith’s story was a wonderful way to end this series. There had been some questions left unanswered in the previous 3 books so I was happy to see everything tied up and questions answered with this one. I have loved each and every one of these stories, but Smith’s was a heartbreaker for me. I loved how he and Erin helped each other and grew throughout the whole book. I love when a female lead learns to stand on her own two feet and allows herself to voice her own opinions and desires and Erin did that with Smith’s help. And it was just as enjoyable seeing Erin help Smith with his demons and shortcomings. A very well written and entertaining series.

This is my favorite of Marie Harte’s series, and this is my second favorite book in the series. That’s because I love Reid so much, but Smith is a close second. He has so much baggage to carry, and he answers some questions that Reid and Cash had left after their mother died. I liked the realistic family dynamic with the brothers and their cousin. I am so glad for Smith to get his HEA!
These guys are terrific, but we all know that the ladies make them better. Erin is the perfect match for Smith. It takes them a little bit to work that out because she is gun shy after her recent break-up. That leads to some misunderstandings, but those were natural in this context. I really enjoyed Erin and admired her grit.
I enjoyed seeing the first three couples some more and the cameos by other characters. They make this world feel so real when they cross paths like that. Tilly is a terrific character who provides humor and insight at the right times.
There is a lot going on in this book, and I gave it 4 stars the first time I read it. This second time, I knew where we were going, and I was able to enjoy it more and felt that I misunderstood a couple of things the first time. This book is definitely worth reading more than once, so I have given it 5 stars now.

.25 stars–DELIVERED WITH A KISS with the fourth and final instalment in Marie Harte’s contemporary, adult VETERAN MOVERS erotic, romance series focusing on the men and women who work for Vets on the Go!-a moving company designed to employ former servicemen. This is Marine Smith Ramsey, and editor/you tube vlogger Erin Briggs’ story line. DELIVERED WITH A KISS can be read as a stand alone without any difficulty but I recommend reading the series in order for backstory and history between Smith, and the brothers he never knew.

Told from dual third person perspectives (Erin and Smith) DELIVERED WITH A KISS follows in the wake of Erin Briggs move fro Kansas to Seattle, a surprise move to surprise her boyfriend, a man who had moved on with someone else. With no place to go, or help to get her there Erin comes face to face with Vets on the Go mover Smith Ramsey, the man with whom Erin will fall in love. When Smith offers up a solution to her current dilemma, Erin finds herself working part time for an elderly woman whose acerbic and saucy personality hides a heart of gold. What ensues is the building romance and relationship between Smith and Erin, and the potential fall-out as Smith’s issues of trust and extreme lack of self-esteem are at odds with his attraction and growing love for Erin Briggs.

Smith Ramsey is the product of an adulterous affair, and only recently discovered that the woman he thought was his other, was his aunt, and that the man he never knew, fathered other children including our story line hero. Working for Vets on the Go! would place Smith in the direct line of fire with his siblings, siblings he struggled to accept or love. Erin Briggs moved to Seattle in an effort to move on with her life, a life that no longer included her long-distance boyfriend. Meeting Smith Ramsay gave Erin a hope for the future but Smith struggled to accept anyone into his life, including the woman with whom he would fall in love.

The relationship between Smith and Erin is one of immediate attraction but a distinct lack of communication, and issues of self-esteem forced our couple to overthink their friendship, as well as their growing attraction that is constantly sabotaged by Smith’s inability to let go of the past. The $ex scenes are intimate, erotic and intense but I dislike the use of a certain four-letter word in my romance story lines, and in this case, the word was used as shock value as the heroine, as well, did not like the use of the word.

There is a large ensemble cast of colorful and energetic secondary and supporting characters including all of the previous story line couples including Smith’s brothers, Cash Griffith and Jordan Fleming (Smooth Moves #2), Reid Griffith and Naomi (The Whole Package #1); and their cousin Evan and Kenzie, and Evan’s mother (Aunt) Jane Griffith; Vets on the Go employees, Hector and Lafayette. We are introduced to Smith and Erin’s landlady Tilly Fine, her nephew Rupert, and friends Willie, firefighter Brad Battle; Erin’s ex-boyfriend Cody and his girlfriend; Smith’s ‘mother’ Margaret Ramsey.

DELIVERED WITH A KISS is a story of family and betrayal; acceptance and moving forward. Marie Harte reveals the man behind the mask of pain that for so long protected Smith from the life he had lived. The premise is emotional and entertaining; the characters are dynamic, broken, fun and forgiving; the romance is seductive and captivating. DELIVERED WITH A KISS answered the reader’s questions about the who, how and why of Smith Ramsay, and revealed the triggers that send a 6’5” Marine into a spiral of low self-esteem and a loss of control.

Perfect story for Smith to finish the series! We finally get to see under Smith’s gruff and growly demeanor to who he is and why. Erin Briggs is perfect for him. And landlady Tilly just about stole the book! No one writes characters and interactions between them as great as Marie! I am a huge fan. I can’t tell you how delighted and satisfied I am with this story…it’s absolute perfection.

The Ramsey-Griffith brothers have had a turbulent history because of their parent’s love triangle and infidelity that spawned bitterness and rejection. We finally have the whole story of these three brothers childhood and their parents. Because of the love triangle hurt tuned to bitterness and rejection which led to Cash & Smith’s feelings of rejection. They turned into men that protected their hearts with a thick skin of growl and grumpiness with their huge formidable bodies. Smith’s self talk is that he’s unlovable, and trash as his mother threw him away. Smith we come to find out has a heart of kindness and love that he makes sure no one sees.

Erin Briggs has uprooted herself from Kansas to move in with her boyfriend Cody when she accepts his ultimatum for their continued relationship. Smith is the Vets On The Go moving man who is handling her stuff. Erin finds Cody has another girlfriend never expecting Erin to come and she dumps him on the spot. Smith is there offering comfort when she breaks down and offers her an apartment in his complex he knows just vacated. To get lower rent as she doesn’t have a huge income from her editing job for a few internet agricultural magazines she agrees to be cook and housekeeper for their landlady Tilly. Tilly is very much like Erin’s grandma back home, cantankerous and a real ball buster. Erin finds it comforting and not at all hard to deal with. And so we begin the evolution of Erin seeing into the Smith he hides and Smith slowly beginning to heal with acceptance and recognizing he’s loveable and valued by others and family.

I voluntarily read and reviewed an advanced readers copy of this book. All thoughts and opinions are my own.