Faith:Our story was classic.A typical fairytale.Two young kids falling in love under an onyx sky.He was my dream …and I naively thought I was his.Until he bartered our love and sold me a lie.Now, I’m returning to the life I once knew…but not as the pathetic mess that left five years ago.I’m a married woman, wed to the richest man in Nashville.But it seems I wasn’t the only one who changed during … Nashville.
But it seems I wasn’t the only one who changed during my time away…
Hardened by life, Jace Walker’s glares drip with heat and derision.
He has war in his eyes and venom in his veins.
I thought I would be safe coming back home, but it seems I only ran from my present to be caught in the crosshairs of my past.
Jace:
I traded my future for a life.
I knew what was on the line when I made the deal, I knew what I could lose, but I also knew that I didn’t really have a choice.
I gambled and lost.
Now the one person I had dreamed of having a future with was walking back into my life bearing the last name and wearing the ring of another man.
Lips painted red, hair that same honey gold and there against her creamy throat was our promise to one another, still dangling, reminding me that I may have lied, but she ran.
I was a liar, she was a coward.
Now she was home, and she wasn’t mine.
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I just finished this audiobook and can’t get these characters out of my head. Both narrators gave a flawless performance. This story is a very well written, emotional, gut-wrenching tale full of secrets and misunderstandings. Sometimes life gets in the way and we hurt the ones we love. Jace and Faith fell in love at a young age but were torn apart and now years later Faith is back. They still have so much chemistry but also pain and so much baggage. Tennessee Truths is an awesome second chance romance that I highly recommend.
I started reading this book at 9pm and couldn’t put it down till I finished. It’s almost 2 am and I regret nothing. Wow what a beautiful, haunting, intoxicating book. I am in awe. The chemistry between Jace and Faith was more than chemistry. It was electric and it came to life on the page. One of the best books I’ve read in a long time.
Whether it was for hate or hope, it was still a fire lit with kerosene…
This is the first book I have read by Ashley Munoz and it did not disappoint. This story follows Jace’s and Faith’s journey from middle school into adulthood. A enemies to lovers, second chance romance that stands out from all the rest. This is no insta-love, rekindling romance. It will rip your heart out and sew it back together. I cried, grew angry, laughed…this story has it all. There was mystery to the story as well that had me reading well into the night wanting answers. I could not put this book down.
OMG I’m speechless I so loved this book it was amazing I couldn’t put it down a girl and a guy 🙂 guy lies girl runs but in the end it’s a perfect fairytales
Ashley has proven (again) she is no flash in the pan… Faith and Jace, kept me on my toes… their little tete a tete, drove me insane sometimes but I still kept rooting on… wanting them to make it, wanting them to have their HEA… Bryan was such a douche. The twist and turns, their ups and downs made me have to put the book down for a few minutes cause I was getting so exasperated… only to have me wonder and have to pick the book back up cause I needed to know what happened! Great Job!
Well, what can I say! Every time Ashley says she is going to publish a book, I get so excited cause she always delivers the perfect balance between sweet and real!
Tennessee Truths is everything you want to read and more!
I read this book in one siting, I just couldn’t put it down for a second!
First, she always describes the places so damn good, all you want is to move there with her characters!
Then, I already saw the cover and can say it’s my favorite!
Finally, the story was absolutely beautiful… Faith and Jace… this couple is perfection! Their journey, their chemistry, I loved them so much, probably my favorite yet!
“What we were, what we still had wasn’t just a spark, it was the whole damn fire, burning down forests, billowing smoke and steam.”
The intrigue was killing me from the first page and the way Ashley handled the plot was amazing! I really wanted to kill one or two characters, though at the end everything worked perfectly!
It was an amazing ride and can’t wait for the world to read it!
° A hidden weakness twisted the face of love into hideous anguish …
… and put a benign mask onto the face of the one who betrayed them. °
In the lead up to its release, there were so many gorgeous teasers about for Tennessee Truths. They had invoked so much emotion in me that I didn’t realise just how much I’d anticipated this book until I started reading the first page and burst into tears. My family looked at me as if I were some sort of idiot for wanting to invite this amount of anguish into my life! I love books from this author, and I love second chance romances. So, for me it was a no-brainer.
I have no idea how Ms. Munoz does it. Right from the start, she created an undercurrent of secrets, and damn it if I wasn’t hooked to the stage where murder would’ve happened if a family member had stepped between me and my need to read, paper towels for tears, at the ready.
Even as Ms Munoz laid open the hearts of Faith and Jace and stripped them bare, she did the same to me. I felt so much sorrow and pain, so much ‘loss’ for these two.
I loved everything about this couple and I choked on the anguish and despair that I felt at the apparent hopelessness of their situation. And while I had my suspicions, I was as clueless as they were, so I needed to know what the hell had happened between them, all the while knowing I didn’t want the story to end. The is a story of triumph over weakness.
Faith maintained an internal strength that I absolutely admired. In the face of continued betrayal, undeserved anger and let-downs, she took it all quietly and stoically, only showing her true despair to her one staunch supporter, and it disappointingly wasn’t Jace.
I did love his broodiness however, his unending love for Faith and his absolute love for his mother. His was an impossible situation, but for a moment, I was disappointed in him. He left Faith vulnerable. I had to have a think about my reaction to Jace for a day or two before posting my review, and I came to the conclusion that Ms Munoz wrote him as the damaged man that he was, perfectly.
What an amazing read. I felt knackered for someone who’d just been sitting and reading, but holy crap, what an epic second-chance love story. A highly recommended book and well worth more than a measly 5 Stars!
Tennessee Truths was an emotional rollercoaster. This story really pulled my emotions from deep within into the forefront of my mind. It was a really slow burn full of anger, hurt, confusion and betrayal.
In middle school, Faith found herself taking the brunt of Jace’s bullying ways. Instead of analyzing his feelings for her, he struck out. In the process, he didn’t realize the pain he caused. Once he was honest with himself and Faith, they spent the next four years so in love and happy. I loved their romantic way of passing notes to each other during school hours. By their senior year, they had planned a future together. Then, out of nowhere, Jace ends it, destroying her in the process. In doing so, he leaves her in the hands of a monster. After being gone for five years as a married woman to a tech billionaire, Faith has returned home. Even though Jace broke her first, he treats her with cold, undisguised hatred that she doesn’t understand.
I think I spent 95% of the book cussing Jace out and calling him every name in the book. I wanted him to shut the hell up and let Faith explain her choices and in turn, for him to explain his. Both of them had walls a mile thick that were constantly going up and down to the point of causing whiplash. Don’t even get me started on her jerk of a husband. Faith managed to grow the most as a character. I really loved her feisty spirit and the way her and Jace’s love story reached a satisfactory HEA and I was truly happy with how it all unfolded.
I listened to this audiobook. It was dual-narration by Lauren Sweet and JF Harding. Their narration was without complaint. I will be paying attention to any other books narrated by these two. I certainly recommend this book to readers who love these tropes within a story. This is my honest opinion, freely given.
4.5 stars I don’t think I’ve read a book that made me want to cry real and frustrated tears equally for so many times in a long time. This is full of secrets, angst, emotion and beautiful writing. My first read by this author and it tore me apart in every way. A fantastic second chance romance, full of drama and tension and incredible characters and storytelling.
I was pulled into the story of Jace and Faith from the start. I hadn’t even finished reading the beginning of their love story and already I couldn’t stand the idea of them being apart at all. I cannot even gush enough about how much I loved the role that books played in their story. As a reader, it is one of the best feelings to be so into the world of the book you’re reading that you forget you are even reading. I found myself swept up in this story for hours at a time with no desire to put it down. Living through the lives of Jace and Faith I wanted nothing else but for their love to win, “Because at night I wanted to pretend time didn’t exist and our past had never been forced to end and our future was never contrived to begin without the other.”
This book was SO good! After every chapter I was desperate for the next! I randomly selected this book from my tbr list and I’m so happy I did! This was my first book by this author and I’ll definitely be reading more from
Thank you Ashley for bringing me out of my book funk,
I was reading but not reading and I kept thinking what is up with me.
Omg I became I felt a shadow in the book.
I was in there trying to see into Faith’s (Pip) and Jase’s minds and I couldn’t get enough.
I love how your male characters seem to me, to be so real and I love seeing things from their perspective. To me there was never a question of there still being love between Faith & Jase, it was whether they could trust themselves to be who they were now and how they felt or have trust in the other one to show them the real them
Jase was honest as the sun rises every morning and I hurt that he hurt and he had been dealt such a raw deal in life, and especially by who had done it to him.
I can’t imagine the hurt he went through in the space of one year, and still kept it all to himself
I love how I seem to connect with your male hero’s, don’t get me wrong I love your female characters, but to me this story was as much about Jase as it was about Faith.
I never reread a book straight away, but I am this one.
I raced through it whilst I could in the brief moments I could.
In what is the most bizarre of circumstances going on in our world today and never having seen what is happening actually happen, this was my place to lock out or the doom and gloom.
Thank you for allowing me to receive and early copy of Tennessee Truths, I now love the title more so now I have read and thank you also for bringing this story this town and the people in it to my reading world.
Amazing I love it, I loved it, and the angst I felt all the way through made it so worthwhile.
I wanted it to keep going. But all good things come to an end.
Kathryn Lopez, I can never thank you enough for bringing Ashley and her books to my attention.
A new author, new stories and new friends.
Every once in a while, I read a new author that I feel wrote the exact story I needed to read. In this time of uncertainty (thanks, 2020), I needed a good back and forth, a good give and take, a good push and pull. This book is it.
“This is me saying I want you. I plan to marry you. You’re mine, Faith Morgan. Mine alone,”
— Tennessee Truths: A Standalone Enemies-to-Lovers- Romance by Ashley Munoz
Let me tell you something, I love a good alpha hot head, but there is something so endearing, so heart pulling about a man that doesn’t have it all together. A man that has doubt, a man that doesn’t storm in and fix everything. Sometimes it’s refreshing to read a book where the man is just as confused. Jace is, um, a dream? A fantasy? So sure, but unsure. So awesome.
And Faith? You’ll be rooting for her. You’ll be ready to fight for her.
This one is worth reading, friends.
I was not prepared for all the emotions I would feel while reading this book. I was sad, angry, heartbroken, yet full of hope. This book shredded me then put me back together. At times, I wanted to shake the two main character all while rooting for them. Faith and Jace were obviously meant for each other but both felt scorned by other. Making their way back to each other wasn’t easy and it wasn’t quick, but it was worth it.
It’s a long road to redemption in this second chance, enemies to lovers romance. Ashley gives you what you want, but boy does she make you wait for it!
What an amazing story this is. They were in love as kids making plans. Suddenly over she leaves town, but now she is back and he is different and so angry. So many feels I just loved this book.
BEST SLOW-BURN EVER, INTENSE, ANGSTY TWISTS AND UNPUTDOWNABLE
This is the first book of Ashley’s that I’ve ever read. All I kept hearing about in several book groups wa how good this story was so I read the excerpt and it definitely sounded like a good read but HOLD THE PHONE!!!!! This was a masterpiece of slow-burn books!!!
This story between Jace and Faith was extremely gripping and of course I stayed up all night finishing it. I just couldn’t think of putting it down to finish tomorrow because every time I did there was a twist or an angsty scene and it just pulled me in even deeper.
Jace and Faith are what I would call a “True Love of the Soul”. They met in middle school and after he tried and failed to grab her attention doing what little boys do, he then resorted to being a little bit of a bully towards her. But in reality there was a secret in play that Faith would have to wait almost 2 years to discover. Joined at the hip after they started to date and planning a future together fate steps in to change and evaporate all their well laid dreams. Years pass by with longing and yearning in each of their hearts but always keeping it to themselves when a terrible reality is handed to Faith which causes her to go back home to stay with her parents.
The reunion between these two is not pretty and full of heartbreak and anger. They lash out at each other while only doing themselves more harm.
I’m not saying anymore because it starts getting into the heart of the story but trust me when I say this was an incredible slow-burn of epic proportions with twists, turns, angst, tears and the deepest love anyone could have!
This book does end with an absolutely fantastic HEA and in the last 15 minutes of the book it made my heart just melt!!
Kudos and congrats to Ashley Munoz for this beautifully written story that gets all the stars!!
Wow! Just wow! This story had me on the edge of my seat. This is an angsty, emotional, rip my heart out of my chest with every turn, slow burning, and all consuming read. My first read by this author and now I NEED to read more of her words. The masochist in me is thriving.
Jace is devastatingly gorgeous with a heart of gold. Even with some of the things he says and does, it’s purely laced with good intention. I just enjoyed his character so completely.
I truly admire Faith’s strength. She has been through so much. And her love has never faltered. Faith and Jace have to chemistry that screams from the pages.
Don’t think about it, just do it, one click this read ASAP!
This was the first book I read by Ashley Munoz and it was an amazing tale. Heart wrenching, full of angst, love, loss, family, friendship, lies, truths. I laughed, I cried, I got angry. All the feels for sure. Jace and Faith are fantastic characters that make you want everything for them. Get ready for a wild rollercoaster ride. It’s a trip worth taking.
As far as second chance, enemies to lovers, this book hit all the parts. Jace and Faith went from enemies to friends when they were fourteen, to lovers when they were seventeen to broken apart when they were eighteen. Five years later, Faith is getting out of an abusive marriage and back in her hometown. To her consternation, Jace is there, hating on her and behaving like a first-class jerk. They blame each other for the break-up!
Faith and Jace were planning a future together when they were about to start college. Then Jace broke up with her all of a sudden and she ran out of town and into the arms of a billionaire playboy. Their marriage was a shambles and mostly loveless, except he expected her to be a trophy wife and show her off at events. When he started hitting her, she ran away back home.
Jace had a crappy life. Poor as dirt, living in a single-wide trailer, his mother was very sick and money was short to get her the medicines she needed. When Faith came back to town, Jace was the owner of a auto body shop, but he was still poor. What he did have an excess of was pride. He was still as attracted to Faith as always but he was like a man scorned, he totally hated her for running away and getting married to a billionaire. It was like she was the one doing the betrayal instead of him.
You realize there are a lot of secrets going on and miscommunications and misconceptions. However, these two were stubborn in keeping their secrets so their path to clearing up and getting closure and getting the heck back together was fraught with obstacles, fights, hurts, and getting away from each other. It got to a point where I was just plain aggravated at both. Faith didn’t have the gumption to take control of her life and sorting out her issues; Jace couldn’t help behaving like a jerk and misconstruing everything that Faith did and said.
The best character in all this story was Faith’s best friend Gemma. She was direct and straightforward and sang it like it is. She was supportive of Faith but also called her out on her mistakes and they were plenty. Faith’s parents accepted her back in their house but they were definitely not the warm fuzzy type of parents, they were really lacking in the support and loving part of parenting. It felt like Faith couldn’t get a break.
What kept me reading on was mostly the suspense of knowing when the monster (aka abusive husband) would strike again and how Faith would handle it. The pace in this story was choppy, it didn’t read smoothly and didn’t keep my interest except for the suspense of wanting to know what was going to happen. Also, there were frequent back-flashes to their high school days as a manner to explain what went wrong with their relation. However, the back-flashes were so many and with the choppy pace they were somewhat irritating. In summary, the plot was great, the characters not very lovable but interesting, and the execution of the story underwhelming. At one moment, I was hoping they would move on and forget each other.
Omg this book is simply Amazing. It’s very emotional for sure it will have you in tears at times. I could not put this beauty down. One of my top favorite reads this year for sure. Not leaving any spoilers but this is an absolute must read.