Enemies. Foes. Until one night changed them forever.The small town of Severton doesn’t have many secrets. One of the few is exactly why Scott Maynard, bar owner and search and rescue hero, refuses to speak, acknowledge or even breathe the same air as Keren Leigh.Keren has been Severton’s dentist for far too long and now she’s ready to move to the city, escaping the war with Scott and broadening … with Scott and broadening her dating circle in the hope of a future that doesn’t just consist of evenings at home alone with a book, ancient pyjamas and a glass of wine.
All it takes is a one-night ceasefire for all of her plans and their decade-long feud to be stirred up. But they’re not the only ones to be shaken: Severton has acquired its own arsonist and other secrets are being exposed, leaving a completely different battle to be fought.
Warning: contains alpacas, retired ladies who make their own gin and have an eye for younger gentlemen plus an alternate use for a bath.
This steamy small town enemies to lovers romance is part of the Severton Search & Rescue series but can be read as a stand-alone.
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Life gets even more entertaining in Severton. I love this series so hard, and even if you are not a series reader, just pick and choose- you can’t go wrong. You will be transported to a grand and quirky little town where you get to spectate the life of the Maynard clan. The chemistry between Keren and Scott is palatable in this story and the sizzling heat and sexual frustration jumps off the page. Best friends turned enemies, they spend years trading barbs. It’s a Molotov cocktail of explosion when Scott realizes that he might just loose the best thing that was ever in his life.
Scott is all Keren ever wanted, but they have spent the better part of adulthood picking at each other, and when she realizes that she needs to move on and maybe out of Severton, wild things begin to happen.
This book has it all: hot, dirty talking men, sassy kick-butt women, throw in a dangerous criminal stalking the town, bike disasters, handfasting, missing teeth, and Gran’s gin and you are in for a wild ride.
Keren and Scott are delicious in their battle to get back to one another!
Scott was not my favourite character in Sleighed, but I fell in love with him as soon as I started Stirred!
Keren and Scott have been fighting for years, and once Keren finds out why she almost wants to keep fighting with him. She feels insulted that he would think so poorly of her, but rather than do what it takes to put it behind them she insults him again!
Enemies to lovers is one of my favourite tropes, and Annie Dyer excels in giving us couples that hate to love each other.
On top of Keren and Scott having eye-poppingly hot, sexy times together, the Severton mystery continues with some very scary bad guys coming out of the woodwork.
I also love the humour – from Alpacas, to grannies stirring up their own brand of gin, this book is an awesome trip through a tiny village in Northern England. I can’t wait to see what happens next!
I enjoyed visiting Severton again with its uniqueness, both with characters & settings. This is book 2 in the series & I think a perfect book after Sleighed. This was a great enemies to lovers book with a ton of feels in it. Scott & Keren have been at odds for years and I enjoyed their banter back & forth, as well as the comments from Scott’s family. I laughed so hard at a lot of them. It was nice to understand why Scott started treating Keren the way he has been, for the past several years. It was also fun to see what Zach & Sorrel have been up to as well.