Behind every successful man there is a woman.What happens when you’re the woman behind an entire team?The final book in the USA Today best selling Vested Interest series.Sandy Preston has been den mother, friend, confidante, and the guiding force behind the men of BAM for years. Now they have new lives, and hers has drastically changed. Can she move on and find love a second time around?Will the … and find love a second time around?
Will the men she considers family accept the changes?
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Sigh…What a beautiful ending to one of my favorite series.
I’m so glad that Melanie decided to write this book because Sandy needed to love again and get her HAE.
This book is very beautifully written. As a reader of mature romances I loved it and hope to read more of this trope from Melanie.
Sandy and Jordan’s story is about finding love again after loosing the love of your life and start living again.
They were perfect for each other. Jordan was the perfect gentleman and so patient with Sandy.
Reading how the men of BAM loved Sandy was beautiful. As a reader of this series you know how much they love her, but reading it throughout this book was so beautiful.
Everything in this book is amazing. The storyline and the chemistry between Sandy and Jordan, reading about the men of BAM and the epilogue.
Melanie did an outstanding job on Sandy’s story.
I have mixed feelings after reading this book because I’m so happy that Sandy got her book, swooning about their story and sad this series is over.
Thank you Melanie Moreland for an amazing series and for always writing beautiful books.
My Rating: STARS!
I’ve been waiting with anticipation for Sandy’s story. She is the woman that takes care of all the men of BAM. She is their surrogate mother who loves and nurtures them like the children she never had while helping them run their empire. It is with bittersweet feelings I review this book as it is the final one in the Vested Interest Series and I am not ready for them to end.
Sandy’s husband Max has been dead for over a year and she had taken care of him for his last few years as he had a debilitating illness. As Sandy decides to get on with living and start dating, it is hilarious to see Bentley, Aiden, Maddox, and Reid carry on like they are her parents. I laughed out loud in some parts as well as cried in others when she grieved or thought about her life with Max. I am a widow so I understood her feelings of guilt of moving on and feeling happy without him.
Jordan was such a sweetheart and I loved him. Together they were the perfect couple! They had a few hurdles to overcome but love can conquer all! This was full of steam and love and family! The ending was everything you could possibly want and the Epilogue gave us peeks many years into the future. It made me cry tears of happiness and sadness both, seeing this family made not of blood, but of bonds and love. How close they are, always have each other’s back, and know the true value of friendship and family. Such a great series and a great ending! I’m hoping she reconsiders and comes back to write some more about this wonderful family!
Sandy is the final book in the BAM series and it definitely ends on a high note!
Sandy is the motherly figure but also the glue that holds the company together! Since her husband passed, she has decided to try dating again! Needless to say its not without its hurdles! Is she really ready? How can Jordan be the man she needs him to be to even consider the possibility!
This book was well written, so incredibly heartwarming and the myriad of emotions were high whilst reading! Sandy is surrounded by her boys at BAM and you can see that she is very deserving of a happy wonderful life! She deserves a man who will treat her like the queen she is! The budding friendship between them was so beautiful but sometimes what you feel comes to the surface and takes hold! Can Sandy move forward??
With the support and incredibly caring extended family, this book brings the BAM men and women full circle and what a truly amazing circle it is!
It’s definitely sad to say goodbye but these amazing fictional characters will stay in my heart forever! An emotional, enjoyable story!
Another incredible story from Melany. From the beginning to the end keeps you hooked.
This time is a different story, it is about Sandy. We have known her since the beginning of BAM series.
She has been like the mum for all BAM boys and finally she has her own love story.
After losing the love of her life she is depressed, but life has a surprise for her.
It’s the first book I read where the main characters are older than me and have had a life before and know the true love.. etc. To be honest I thought maybe I wouldn’t connect with them and believe in their love but it surprised me and I really enjoyed it.
I loved the prologue.
I recommend this book
This is the final book of the Vested Interest series… It is sad to say goodbye to these characters, but I am so glad that Sandy got to love again, and the sadness is gone. Sandy is an interesting character; she is the force behind the BAM boys and always had an important whole in the books as someone that is the glue that hold them together.
She is a widower now after taking care of her ill husband and must start over. It is fun to read how the BAM boys act all over when she is trying to use a date app and at the same time her romance with Jordan is written so carefully and beautifully.
Melanie Moreland was very respectful and treated Jordan and Sandy masterfully in this book.
I started a marathon to read all the books again!
But a word of advise, please take your tissues with you when starting to read this book because you will cry, but will laugh and cheer for these characters as well! It is a book of feelings.
I was always curious to know more about Sandy, because like Bentley says, she is the glue that holds everything together. And in this book we get to know her and everything that made her the person she is.
This one was the most adorable story thanks to Jordan, he is a GENTLEMAN. He is the man all women desire. He allows Sandy to get her life back at her own pace.
“Your past made you the woman you are. Let the future benefit from that. ”
Sandy is still in the past, she lost the love of her life and she is not ready to open herself to love again. And like Sandy, Jordan lost the love of her life but he is ready to give love another chance and show Sandy she deserves to be happy again.
I loved everything in this books, specially because I fell in love again with the boys, specially Reid.
If you have loved all the series you can’t miss this one. And if you haven’t read them, you need to give it a chance. Just reading Sandy’s boom will make you fall in love with her boys.
‘Sandy’ is about an unusual heroine – Sandy is a woman in her 50’s. Jordan, the hero, is also in his 50’s. If you’re familiar with books in the fantastic BAM series, then you know who Sandy is, and likely remember Jordan too.
The opening scene in this book actually gave me chills and real tears too, all within the first few pages. I cried again several times in this story, all different types of tears – happy ones, sad ones, tears of frustration, exultation, and remembrance. As somebody who was widowed in my 40’s, the feelings and pain experienced by both Sandy and Jordan echoed through me with bone-chilling realism. It’s amazing how this author can inhabit the soul of a fictional character and breathe life into the joy and sadness and very existence of that character. Don’t misunderstand…this is not a depressing story. It is a very positive friends-to-lovers story about the transformative power of love.
This wonderful book wraps up all of the stories in the series, and has made me want to go back and read them all again. You can read this as a standalone and still enjoy it immensely. But it’s even better when you’re familiar with the BAM boys.
By the way, am I the only one who won wants Colin to have a story??? Colin is the son of Sandy’s heart, and his story is begging to be told. Maybe if we all beg with enough enthusiasm and sincerity, Melanie Moreland will consider directing her incredible story-telling, word-crafting talents in that direction.
If anyone has ever read my reviews of the Vested Interest Series, you know how much I love those BAM boys! And I was so happy to revisit all of them in Vested Interest #7 which is Sandy’s second chance at love and the last book in this incredible series. Sandy’s story is heartwarming and sweet with just the right amount of heat. I loved Sandy in all of these books and so enjoyed how much she held everything together…like glue, so needless to say it was nice to see everyone, the boys and their wives, come together to help guide her (even though she doesn’t need it most of the time!). Jordan is so swoony and kind and the perfect counterpart for her. I was looking forward to reading this last book, but on the other hand, I was kind of dreading it because I don’t want to say goodbye to these wonderful characters. Families come in all sorts of shapes and sizes and in all different aspects of life and the BAM family came together because of their tragic childhoods and became the kind of family that everyone want to be a part of. I will miss them so I’m sure I’ll be re-reading them all again some day in the future! Another 5-star winner from Melanie!
Sandy: A Vested Interest Book by Melanie Moreland is filled with all the feels!
I love the BAM men, and they definitely come through for Sandy when she needs them most.
Moreland reminds us there is no time limit on grief, and that true friendships are ones to be treasured.
I’m so sad this is the last book in the series, but I’m so grateful to Ms Moreland for giving us these amazing characters.
5 Emotional Stars
Love Again
I have enjoyed getting to know Sandy throughout the Vested Interest Series. She is the matriarch of the BAM clan and a force to be reckoned with. Sandy is a straight shooter, a nurturer, and strength personified. Ms. Moreland did a fantastic job with this second chance at love story.
The friendship and attraction between Sandy and Jordan was effortless. It warmed my insides and blanketed me in comfort. Their love story was swoony and emotional and buoyant. I loved seeing all of these characters and the loving family they have created. This book brought me an abundance of joy.
This is the last book in the BAM Vested Interest Series and I am not ready to let them go.
I feel like I know the characters so well having read from the beginning with Bentley so this one had me emotional from the outset. The story of a mature relationship, both Sandy and Jordan have known love and loss, but are ready to move forward and try something new. Sandy deserves to be happy, we’ve watched her look after each of the BAM boys in her own way and it was good for the focus to be wholly on her story for a change. The boys are so cute in this one, and each time they spoke to Sandy they had me all emotional. I loved that she didn’t take any of their nonsense, but they all knew how to touch her heart.
I felt it was a perfect end to the series, although I hope we do get to see them all again because I’ve become attached.
5 STARS
This book was so heartwarming and so sweet that it brought tears to my eyes! I loved how Sandy carries herself with class and a loving strength with an ability to put all the BAM boys with their meddling in their place. This is the final book in the Vested Interest series and Melanie has penned a perfect conclusion. Sandy by Melanie Moreland is an EPIC romance that will join the ranks of the BIBLIO-ARISTOCRACY!!!
I am gutted this series is over, that this is the final story. But I am so happy that we are ending with Sandy’s story. She is the linchpin of the Vested Interest series. Sandy has been there from the start. Before there was BAM, Sandy was there. Sandy was the guiding light for all our BAM boys and their tech genius, her favourite, the son she never had.
There was so much emotion in her story. There were tears more than once but every one of them was worth it. This is a fabulous story. I love Sandy, her story everything I wanted it to be. It is a lovely goodbye to everything BAM, giving the woman who’s been there for everyone else her HEA.
I put off reading this book because I knew it was the end of one of my favourite series and I didn’t want it to end but Ms Moreland really tied this series up superbly and I didn’t think I would be saying this but she left the best for last, there I said it !!!!
Sandy is the woman that holds all the men of BAM together, she is mother, confidante and work organiser but now they have their own families and she is left alone after losing her husband just over a year ago. Is is time to start dating again for the woman who does so much for the men of BAM is it time for her to find someone else to spend the rest of her life with or is it all too soon….
Sometimes the most obvious is right under our noses, sometimes it’s the person we least expect who becomes the love of our life’s and sometimes it takes two people who have both lost the love of their life’s to realise that they aren’t replacing their loved ones they are just starting another chapter.
The men of BAM and their families feel like friends to me and I was sad to have this series come to an end but I will go back and read these books over and over because they are all special to me. Ms Moreland did a wonderful job tying this series up and I really hope at some point down the line we get maybe a Christmas novella or a second generation so we can catch up with out favourite family and their friends. Great addition to a great series.
This book is part of the book series The Vested Interest and I absolutely loved it. It is a quick read and this book is the seventh book in this series. This author is such an amazing writer that you cant help but get hooked on each of her books that she releases and this book is so beautifully written that you just have to read the last book in this series.
Sandy lost her husband Max and she is lost without him even though a year has passed and she has had the guys watching out for her and supporting her. They actually now encourage her now to get out there and date. When she meets Jordan they have a lot in common after he is also a widow.
Jordan works at the company and he has always been interested in Sandy but was waiting for the right time. Jordan really respects Sandy and doesn’t want to rush her for anything.
They both have a lot of chemistry and they hit it off. Watching them and seeing how Sandy learns to let someone in again is so beautiful to see and I loved these two together.
The way that this author writes her characters in a way that you cant help but love them and I really thought that Sandy and Jordan were amazing together and I really loved Sandy and how she always looked after everyone. This book is fantastic and everyone must read it. ARC provided in exchange for an complimentary honest voluntary review. Thank you to the author and the publishers for allowing me to rad and review an early copy of this book. This was an amazing love story and a beautifully written romance book that I will highly recommend dot everyone when it get released.
This book is expected to be released on 11th June 2020.
WOW… how do you say goodbye to a book series that you loved! AWESOME story to an awesome series! Sandy was the glue to the group and it was nice to see she ended the series on a happy note! WONDERFUL epilogue that you have to read twice because the first time you have tears in your eyes! THANK YOU Ms Moreland for a great ride and patiently waiting for the next!
Sandy is the final story in Vested Interest, the matriarch figure of the BAM boys. If you have read any of the previous in the series, Sandy is their office manager who became a widow not too long ago.
Bring on the tears. I couldn’t stop them. I haven’t experienced loss like Sandy has, but Melanie Moreland wrote it so well that I felt it.
A coworker of hers, of a similar age and who has experienced a similar loss, is Jordan. They’ve been friends and Jordan is ready for more. He’s just been waiting for Sandy to be ready. I loved how their relationship slowly progressed. That even though they both had been married for so long, they felt the butterflies and nerves and the sparks all the same.
The way the BAM boys rally around Sandy is the highlight of the story. They have all become a true family and it was great to see. Really gonna miss this series and I might have to venture in for a reread.
Sandy and Jordan’s love story is about taking a chance to love again after the both lost their spouses, it’s their second chapter of their lives.
While Jordan has been ready to ask Sandy out she hasn’t been quite ready, finally she’s ready to take the step and start dating, Jordan doesn’t give her a chance to find someone else. I loved how caring Jordan is and the ease their relationship seems to be. A little hiccup with Sandy wanting a take a step back but Jordan s little angry though patient. Their journey was a beautiful story
The epilogue brought tears and smile I didn’t want it to end. From the beginning of Bentley’s story to the last word in Sandy’s the journey of the Bam boys has been filled with so many emotions and showed us what family is even if it’s not the family your born into but the family you make! I’ll miss them!
The one that holds them all together, the one that they consider their honorary mom. While Sandy never had any children of her own, she does have a stepson, grandchildren that treat her as such and then there’s the boys of BAM. They each became her unofficial adopted children. Her family grew even more when she decided to love again after losing her husband and who she thought was the same only love of her life. Jordan waited in the background knowing that he and Sandy could become alive again together. They have both known heartache by losing their spouses, at different times in their lives. They are living their lives to the fullest with the boys of BAM right in the middle after all they are Sandy’s boys.
A perfect ending to a perfect series. It was nice to have everyone come full circle and see all of their endings. Another winner for Melanie!