Valentina SaddlerThe wild to my tame the chaos to my calm. She’s been my best friends little sister for longer than I can remember until one day she wasn’t. One day, she turned into a beautiful, breathtaking young woman and I had to make her mine.Our love was all consuming. Taking us all over the states and even across the pond for a year before I enlisted in the Air Force. We promised each other … promised each other forever. Taking vows and making her my wife was the easiest decision I’ve ever made. We were on our way to a happily ever after, but that’s the thing about those. They only exist in movies. This isn’t a movie, this is our life.
This is our beginning and our end.
Declan O’Sullivan
Romantic, handsome and beyond caring, Declan O’Sullivan stole my heart and I didn’t have a chance. I spent every waking moment wrapped in his arms, living life together in a dream. Only our life didn’t stay that way, it became a nightmare.
We were too young to face these obstacles, too vulnerable, too inexperienced in life. We naively thought love would be enough, but it wasn’t.
This is our start and our demise.
This is the prequel novella to book 2 in the Saddler’s Series. It should be read before book 2. This contains content for 18+
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Valentina Saddler has always liked Declan O’Sullivan, little did she know the feeling was mutual. They vow to each other, Val will keep Declan wild and Declan will keep Val safe. They’re young, but both know what they want. They traveled the world, and when Declan enlisted in the Air Force, they thought their love would be enough to get them through the time apart and deployments. This book is the beginning and the end all in one.
Ripped my heart out. This is a short novella that gives us the full scope of how things began, and unfortunately how things ended for Val and Declan. Let me tell you though, this book may not be full length, but it packs an emotional punch I don’t know that I was fully prepared for. I am so ready for the next book ‘Saddler’s Sacrifice’ to come out. I need more from Valentina and Declan.
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Nicole Rodrigues has done it again. This prequel novella will have you falling in love with Declan and Valentina as you follow them on the adventure of a lifetime. What starts as a sweet love story turns into an all-consuming, soul mate kind of love. When life gets in the way of their love, your heart will break for the turmoil they are thrown into, and you can’t help but root for the HEA they deserve. Saddlers Start is the prequel to Saddler’s Sacrifice, and I can not wait to see more of this story unfold. Nicole has a way of breaking my heart with her books, but she always puts it back together, and I can’t wait for the conclusion of Dec and Val’s story to heal my broken heart.
This book. I felt like an emotional wreck after reading it. I loved getting the background of Valentina an Declan’s relationship, the good, the bad, the steamy and the ugly. Seriously, I am DYING for more of them after finishing this one up.
This is a pretty quick read and Nicole really packs a lot in there. Val and Dec had a whirlwind romance that took them all over the world. They met at a young age and everything moved at a fast past. It was love at first sight for them both, they knew what they wanted and didn’t care what anyone else had to say about it. It was them against the world.
I would HIGHLY recommend reading this one before reading Saddler’s Sacrifice which is coming out next month. Though, I haven’t read Saddler’s Sacrifice yet, I have a feeling this one provides a lot of much needed information about their past and their relationship with each other.
Get ready to travel the world with this steamy, emotional rollercoaster!
Saddler’s Start by Nicole Rodrigues
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This novella gave me all the feels.
Valentina and Declan are basically childhood sweethearts. Declan is her older brothers best friend,
making Valentina off limits, but he can’t help but notice as she becomes a woman. They fall head over heels in love, so so young, and decide on a wild adventure before he enlists in the Air Force. For a year they travel and love and live, then he enlists and everything changes. Loss changes him. And my heart literally breaks. I need the next book like ASAP!!!!
This book made me cry so hard!!!
Their love story, written as only Nicole Rodrigues can do, is sweet and steamy and complicated. This book also caused me to take a moment and remember all of the sacrifices that service men and woman and their families make every day to keep us safe. To everyone that has served our country, thank you and I pray God bless you and your families.
Wow this book was incredible! The intense chemistry between Valentina & Declan was swoon worthy, but the in depth detail of what families endure when a loved ones are deployed was heart wrenching, i cried more than once! This author is amazing, her ability to really get readers gripped on the story, waiting with baited breath on what happens next is what makes an outstanding author. Look forward to future books
OMG, my heart! This one is a real tear-jerker that takes you on a true roller-coaster of emotions. Nicole Rodrigues has struck again and she hits you right in the heartstrings with this one!
Valentina Saddler called to my soul. She’s such a passionate, free-spirited little gypsy and as such, she was the photographing traveler in all of us. She was so young and carefree and in love with the hunky stud, Declan O’Sullivan. He’s loved the spunky blonde since day one and he finally gets the guts to ask his BFF’s sister out.
Dec and Val are adorable together and hot, hot, hot! Their love is all-consuming, a beautiful story of passion, youth, and blissful ignorance, until unexpected circumstances begin to drive them apart, but secrets abound and everything isn’t as it seems.
You’ll travel to exotic destinations, you’ll fall in love with these two young souls that just can’t satisfy their zest for life or one another, and your heart will break right along with theirs in their tale of love and defeat!
Wars aren’t always started by foreign invaders and Saddler’s Start is no exception…