Return to Red Maple Falls for this newest installment to the steamy small-town series where a wounded Marine and a grieving single mother help each other find light in the darkness.Being a Marine is all Jax Marshall knows, but a tragic event has him honorably discharged from the service and back in the last place he wanted to be–his hometown. Struggling to come to terms with his injury while … injury while dealing with PTSD, his life is further rocked when his younger siblings are less than welcoming. Encouragement from his eldest sister provides him with the push he needs to give therapy one more shot. Not once expecting that decision to change his life.
Kristen Morgan never imagined she would be a single working mom, but a house fire left her widowed and grappling to rebuild life for her and her two boys. In the midst of a panic attack while waiting for her son to finish his therapy session,she strikes up a conversation with a handsome, brooding ex-Marine who turns out to be a complete jerk.
As their encounters become more civil and the attraction too hard to ignore, these two broken hearts begin to find comfort in each other. But when one of them ends up in danger, they have to decide if being together is worth the fight.
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Theresa Paolo is a new author yo me. I fell in love with her storyline and her characters immediately. Jax came home a broken Mareine. He just wanted to live quietly. Kristen had two young sons to care for. She wasn’t looking for a man. But when these two meet its fireworks. no matter what they do to deny it. Love the sweetness and the not so sweet.
Jax is a wounded Marine who returns to his hometown, Red Maple Falls, to be with his brother and sisters. Because he has PTSD he doesn’t believe he will fall in love. But he does- with another wounded person, Kristen, who has lost her husband in a fire, and has panic attacks.
I love this series and Red Maple Falls’ elderly women who pinch handsome young men and flatter them outrageously. It is a hoot!
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Loved this sweet romance with Jax who at eighteen joined the Marines in order to support his siblings and stayed away for twelve years before having to retire due to a injury. Kristen lost her husband in a fire and is now struggling to raise her two sons when she meets Jax in the counselors office when her son goes. This is a well written story with a lovely plot and loved all the characters added to the story.
Overall a great book I enjoyed reading. I had a great time getting to know the well developed characters with plenty chemistry between them. The easy flow of the storyline kept me interested to the last page.
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A book in two series A Red Maple Falls Novel, #10/Marshall Family, #4, a well written story that held my interest until the end. Ex- Marine Jax Marshall and widow Kristen Morgan and her sons Noah and Travis. These two will have a lot from their pasts to get over so they can get a happy ending. I want to read the next book. I received a free copy of this book via Booksprout and am voluntarily leaving a review.
One of my favorites of the Marshall family, and a great book on the realistic view on mental illness and PTSD. Loved all the characters (the kids were fantastic!) and can’t wait to spend more time in this small town. Love, love, love!
I thought this was a good book easy to read. Needed to get a little more deep regarding Jax background a little more
Once I started reading Jaded Until Jax, I could not put it down. I absolutely loved the two main characters – Jax and Kristen. This is another in many Red Maple Falls novels written by Theresa Paolo. I love how once you have read one book, the characters reappear in future stories; however, this book can be read as a standalone novel.
The dialogue between Kristen and Jax was fun from the very start, as Kristen tends to babble when she is having a panic attack. The characters sure started out on a rocky road, and it was enjoyable seeing them learn to understand each other and value their friendship. The chemistry between the two is steamy.
I found myself looking for opportunities to read whenever I could in order to find out what happens next in the story. That’s a sign of a good book for me. I breezed through the book in three days. I absolutely love the town of Red Maple Falls and the families who live and love there. Got to read them all!
Jaded Until Jax is a Red Maple Falls romance by Theresa Paolo. Jax Marshall has returned home from the service, albeit not by choice. His leg took a serious hit from an IUD that killed his best friend, and the Marines are no longer an option for him, partially because of his PTSD. His sister, Layla, is pretty happy to have him home, but his younger siblings, Chase and Brooke are less than thrilled. When he was off fighting a war and sending home money, they were missing their brother. With their parents being gone, Jax and Layla were all they had had and Jax had ditched them. Kristen Morgan is a young widow with two little boys. Her husband had been killed in a house fire fifteen months earlier and she was coping by staying busy. Far too busy; she was exhausted. Her elder son suffered from abandonment and grief issues, hence her being in the waiting room of the therapist at the same time Jax was there. He was inexplicably rude to her; she was simply trying to make small talk.
Both of these folks were damaged. Meeting one another was not going to cure the damage, but it could make life easier for everyone. Jax is a strong, if misguided character and Kristen is simply shattered. It shows in every move she makes. Her children are children, and often too much for her to manage. She is seriously deep in survivor’s guilt. Both are pretty well-written characters, evoking sympathy from the reader. It is a relatively simple plot, with some interesting side trips but it is Red Maple Falls and to a fan, that is all that need be said. I urge all romance lovers to become fans of Red Maple Falls. This was a good book. I recommend it.
I received a free ARC of Jaded Until Jax from the author. All opinions and interpretations contained herein are solely my own.
Amazing!! This is a beautifully written story about two people who suffer extreme emotional pain and how they work through it individually and together.
I enjoyed the story of Jax and Kristin. Both have suffered severe traumas in their lives and Jax has also endured a painful physical injury ending his overseas service with the Marines. Jax saw his best friend killed by a suicide bomber and Kristin’s husband died in the house fire which destroyed their home. What seems like an unlikely friendship comes together under the skilful handling of the author. The story is helped along by Kristen’s two young and very funny little boys and, of course the people of Red Maple Falls where everybody knows everyone’s business.
I received a free ARC copy of this book and give my review of it freely.
Jaded Until Jax is the latest in Theresa Paola’s Red Maple Falls series. Jax Marshall comes home after twelve years in the Marines with both physical injuries and PTSD. Kristen and her two sons lost her husband, their father, in a house fire. She lives in fear that something will happen to her sons and has severe anxiety, panic attacks. This is a beautifully written story. Jax and his family have to try to reconnect after all the years apart. Kristen and Jax support each other through the trauma of their anxieties surrounded by the love of the folks of Red Maple Falls.
Jaded Until Jax is an emotional story of two people, each battling demons from their pasts. Jax is back from years in the service, haunted by flash-backs, survivor’s guilt, trying to fit back into a family he broke away from when he left to join the service. Despite the fact that he joined the military to provide for them financially, he still left and his brother and sisters felt abandoned. Kristen lost her husband in a house fire, and struggles with her own demons of survivor’s guilt and panic attacks as she struggles to move forward and raise her two young sons. Together they find understanding, hope, healing, and a reason to move on. This is a story filled with captivating characters, a delightful return to Red Maple Falls, emotion, family, friends, chemistry, and love. Heartwarming and compelling, well worth a read!