HopeEver feel like you’ve lost your way and everything is falling apart?As my husband prepares to leave for a business trip a single, secretive text comes across his phone. I didn’t plan to take a trip down memory lane on the eve of our anniversary. But taking this trip down memory lane leaves me in tears, sharing a story of deceit, lies, …and misunderstandings. The man I gave my heart to ten … gave my heart to ten years ago is being ripped away.
Carter
We lost each other over the past decade.
That’s why I’d tried to push off this trip until after our anniversary. As usual, my career took precedence over what was important… US. Yet, the last thing I expect when the plane lands is a call saying that my wife thinks I’m having an affair. I almost lost her once and promised that would never happen again. Now I’m headed home to claim what’s mine before someone else does.
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I really loved In your Arms once it hit my kindle I devoured it this story just drew me in to were there was no putting my kindle down . Enjoyed the fact that we get past and present chapters of the couple and seeing how they found one another after being torn apart then seeing what happens after they find a happy ending . This would be the second book that I’ve read by the author and I’m excited to see what’s to come of this series and the other oh and I need to read book one the couple is mentioned in this but I don’t think you’d run into any spoilers so this can be read as a standalone . Love seeing couples that have found a happy ending but also what goes on when we hit the end . The chemistry between the couple is supper HOT the sex scenes are steamy it had me fanning my self . I can’t wait to read more by S.l Sterling in the future .
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hero=10 heroine=10 secondary characters=10
Chemistry=10 steam=7 romance=8
humor=4 darkness level=2 action=2 mystery=2
enjoyment=10 angst=3 story line=10 Story ending=10
character development=10 pacing=10
cover=10 Blurb =10 Stars =5
Is this part of a series =yes
Can it be read as a standalone = yes
would I recommend this book=yes
would I re read this book=yes
would I read future books by this author= yes
4.5 Stars
Carter and Hope could be a couple that lives in your neighborhood. They are a happy family of 4 but finding out how they got where they are today, through flashbacks, will take you on a rollercoaster ride. They are also a couple that is like many today in that, after years together, insecurities, life and work can cause a distance that no couple wants. I loved seeing the history of this loving couple and finding out how they would be able to keep their happily ever after on the present.
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This is the second book in this series. Hope and Carter’s marriage is in trouble, and this story flits between the past and the present, and is an emotional roller coaster journey from beginning to end. This is a well written story which is realistic, with twists, and love, which all had me intrigued and hooked throughout. I look forward to reading more from this talented author, whose work I recommend for all.
Hope & Carter have been married for years. With Carter’s busy career, Hope feels the spark between them has fizzled. While Carter is getting ready to leave on a business trip, she sees an incoming text from Carter’s phone, it’s the last person she would ever expect Carter to be talking to. This person nearly destroyed them, so why is he getting texts from her? Hope feels that he is slipping away & those feelings bring up memories of the past.
An emotional read full of misunderstandings & miscommunications. The story goes back & forth from past to present, as both Carter & Hope desperately hold onto the love that brought them together. A great read! Looking forward to the next book!
A very well written and enjoyable quick story.
I loved how this book showed the past and the obstacles the characters had to overcome to be together. And also how relatable it was. I think it was well written and had a good storyline.
I read this in one go start to finish and really enjoyed it.
Ooohhhh…what a great story!
This story of Hope and Carter is one of many misunderstandings, miscommunications, and deceit. Carter is keeping information from Hope, and Hope knows something is going on and fears it is an affair…
This was an emotional, heart-wrenching, and frustrating story…which I really enjoyed. The author, S.L. Sterling does a wonderful job with the storyline and the flashbacks to give a history of all the relationships. Plus, I loved the resolution in the ending!
This is my first book by S. L. Sterling and it was AH-MAZING!! I don’t even know how to give it all the credit it deserves. It was so good that as soon as I finished In Your Arms, I purchased the first book in the series – A Kiss Beneath The Stars! They can be read as stand alone.
I freaking loved Carter and Hope. This book was a roller coaster ride of emotions. I can not tell you how many times S. L. Sterling broke my heart and stomped on it. Thankfully she put it back together. My blood pressure while reading this book was crazy. All the feels are in this book. I wanted to hug Carter and Hope and then pop Felice in the face!
Well done S. L. Sterling and congrats on this new release. You are definitely a 1-Click author.
This was a beautiful, emotional read. I couldn’t put it down!
This is an intriguing romance between Carter and Hope. They grew up together but because he was not in the same social class as her parents they looked down on Carter. Hope always was fond of him but when her father pushed Trent into her life it caused problems between her and Carter. When all the drama unfolds, Hope will have a new outlook on her father and Carter will once again be the number one person of her life. But there are others working in the background to place a wedge between them. Will they succeed?
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Firstly, I want to take a moment to appreciate the cover, it is so so pretty
Having never read S.L. Sterling’s work before I had no idea what to expect. But, I was so impressed.
I absolutely loved this story, it was sweet, romantic, dramatic and steamy. It seems I have a few books to catch up on because I am already in love with the Malone brothers.
An easy and quick read that left me wanting to know more about their family
Married for 10 years, career, kids, feel like you and spouse are drifting apart….this is Carter and Hope and this could be any number of people in real life. The story hooked me from the beginning. Carter and Hope’s story of how they met and fall in love is told in a series of flashbacks and I loved getting to know them in this way. I’m loving the Malone brothers and can’t wait to read more!
hope and Carter met back in school before he left for college and their relationship ended and both were heart broken. The story jumps back and forth between the future to the past. flash forward to 13 years later and hope feels like something’s gone wrong in her marriage and she immediately sees a name pop up on her husbands phone from his past and immediately thinks the worse but it may not even be what she thinks and may just be a huge miss understanding. it’s her anniversary and her husband Carter has to cancle their weekend away for a client’s case and she thinks it has to do with the person calling and leaving messages on his phone. In hope to save their marriage hope decides to catch up with her husband and join him on his trip. meanwhile Carter knows he has to tell hope about something hes been keeping from her and needs to before he loses her trust in him forever and he already feels like shes slipping away. This was a cute and fun read about a couple who are still in love with one another and want nothing more than to save their marriage. I really enjoyed this story and look forward to reading more from this author.
This is yet another superb book from. S.L Sterling. The book is wellwritten, fastpaced and a real pageturner. The storyline is intriguing and the characters wonderful. Can not wait to see what the next book will be about.
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She see a text and believes he is having an affair and he is supposed to be on a business trip. No more he is going home to sort his marriage out, no matter what. Can he show her he is there for her? Can he prove he is not having an affair? Find out if they can save the marriage
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This was an ok read. It just felt like the past took up much of the book. It is a nice thought that the past was included to show where and why they are having issues now in the present but it seems there was more past then present. These two really needed to communicate better with each other.
Carter and Hope are perfection. I loved going back to their second chance, their highs and lows, the strengths they share. Great read, love this series!
First I am going to say that I RARELY and I mean RARELY give a book no rating. I hate rating books because if you don’t like it doesn’t mean someone else wouldn’t like it but this book was over the top and I hated how the main character Carter treated his wife and the things he said and did in the beginning of their relationship.
This book has a BIG TRIGGER for me and that is a serial manwhore who is married. I mean give me a break. If you don’t want to be with your wife then you effing divorce her or better yet if you know you can’t keep it in your pants then don’t get married. This book had me so enraged I almost did not finish it but I said no way maybe this story gets better and he changes his ways and they get their HEA and they do but the majority of the book is of Carter cheating on his wife and I just couldn’t get with the program.
If I was Hope I would have left his arse a long time ago and moved on because hell to the mother effing no would I ever deal with a cheater. I have been married for 22 years and I told my husband if he ever wanted to step out the marriage tell me because that means it’s time to go and move on because i am not doing it for him.
If I was Hope’s friend I would have schooled her in the ways of how a marriage is supposed to be and told her and helped her leave his arse on the door step looking mighty stupid!
I loved the second story in the Malone brothers books! I really liked how the story went back in time to tell their relationship ups and downs.
Carter and Hope’s marriage is in trouble. She wonders if he’s cheating on her because he’s been distant lately. And then there are the disturbing, damning texts from his ex that she sees on his phone. Can their marriage be saved or has Carter just put the final nail in the coffin that is their marriage when he bails on their anniversary weekend to go to see his “client”?
I want to clarify first that the three stars is not because this is a horrible story, it’s just not my style. I disliked the fact that the majority of the story is set in the past, with only a few chapters set in the present. So I got very little of their current relationship, them as a couple in the now. The blurb makes this sound like a marriage in trouble, which it is, but what this story is NOT is a story of fixing that marriage. The resolution takes up less than a chapter, then they’re onto their HEA as if nothing had happened. What this story IS is a telling of the back and forth whiplash their relationship WAS in the past. There are Carter’s exploits as a manwhore, and Hope’s spineless character when she was young. I still don’t know if she matured or grew because there’s so little time spent with the characters in the present. What I do know is that she was a doormat to her parents in the past and that Carter was a serious womanizer. Yuck.
So, I didn’t connect with or like either character in their pasts, and I have no idea what they’re like in the present, so 3 stars seems fair.
Absolutely Awesome Read, well written, great characters, Awesome story line, easy read to hold you on their journey, this genre might not be for everyone but it’s a really wonderful story can’t wait for more from this Author.
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