Caroline Harrison has had enough. After eight long years in an unhappy marriage, she’s ready to throw in the towel. Her workaholic husband, Bentley, is done too—choosing his career over his wife. They’ve met with their lawyers and only need to get through the holidays until their divorce is finalized. Bentley isn’t ready to tell his family about the divorce, so he asks Caroline to spend one more … spend one more Christmas at his mom’s under the ruse they are still happily married. Together, they set out on a seven hour car ride in the middle of the Canadian Caribou to put on one last happy show. What could be an opportunity to rekindle their love and spend quality time together turns out to be a road trip from hell.
When a surprise snow storm catches them off guard, Bentley and Caroline find themselves in an accident without any possibility of help in their near future. At one point, their love was all they needed to survive. But now, when all they have is each other against the frigid winter storm, will they find the love they lost before it’s too late? Or will this be the end…in more ways than one for Mr. and Mrs. Harrison?
The road back to us may be a turbulent path, but in the end, it’s worth the chaos because it leads back home.
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A couple that are days from finalizing divorce work to find their way back to each other while trying to survive after an accident. This very broken couple struggle in the cold, snowy wilderness with little food and not much else while remembering who they were. Neither are very likable people at the start of the trip, but as they work together, better people emerge. I really liked this story.
~~ 4.5 Snowbound Stars! ~~
“Right in the midst of our icy hell, we’ve carved out a little slice of paradise.”
I am HOOKED on wilderness survival romances and am CRAZY OBSESSED with K. Webster’s writing, so I knew THE ROAD BACK TO US would be a win-win for me! This book, which revolves around an embittered couple who are on the verge of finalizing their divorce after 11 years of marriage and get a second chance at love when they are stranded in a snowstorm, is all kinds of amazing!
I fell so hard in love with Bentley, a workaholic, highly successful investment banker who lost his way and put his demanding job over his beloved wife. He is BRUSQUELY ALPHA, SEXY AS SIN, and so GROWLY and UBER PROTECTIVE he gave me shivers! And his love for his wife is as CARNAL as his insatiable desire for her!
“Care is my life. My heart. My goddamned soul. Everything else is just a backdrop to the love story that is us.”
In fact, his whole purpose for getting in the rat race to begin with was to provide his “Care Bear” with the life he thought she deserved. But the problem was that all Caroline really ever wanted was his love, and the life of a “trophy wife” zapped all the passion out of her.
This heroine wormed her way into my heart, too. Because while on the surface Care appears to be a rich, snobby socialite, deep down she is the same beautiful, sweet, vivacious girl that Bentley first fell madly in love with. She just lost her sense of self along the way and the festering resentment on both sides caused them to drift apart to the point that they stopped fighting for each other and divorce seemed the easiest option.
But when the squabbling duo get in a car wreck during a raging blizzard on the way to Bentley’s mom’s house for Christmas, all pretenses bite the dust and they finally strip each other bare (literally and figuratively ) and realize their marriage is SO WORTH FIGHTING FOR! But first, they need to survive the night!
As always, K. Webster wove a hot, sexy, emotionally charged page turner that permeates the heart and soul and is IMPOSSIBLE to put down. She sucked me into this marriage in crisis story so viscerally that I felt my heart beating in tandem with these incredibly nuanced characters and it felt like I was out in the elements braving the frigid temperatures and trying to stave off starvation!
I FLOVED so much about this book. I loved the snippy banter that soon morphed into sweet, love-laced endearments and gasps of earthshattering pleasure. I loved the soul burning connection that’s reestablished between these MCs as they bravely face terrifying life and death circumstances that grows grimmer as each day passes. I loved their raw intensity, their desperate frenzied passion, the heartfelt flashbacks that chronicled their courtship and marriage, showcasing the good times and bad, and I loved the aching, tender-hearted emotions that were always bubbling beneath the surface. I just plain LOVED IT ALL!
“We’re two pieces of a complicated puzzle, but when you get rid of all the other pieces, it’s suddenly complete.”
From start to finish, I as incredibly invested in these estranged lovers finding their way back together again and let me say that this horny duo sure found CREATIVE ways to use their body heat to keep each other warm (if you catch my drift!). The sex was MOLTEN HOT and plentiful!
My only tiny gripe is that I would have liked a slower build up to their reunion. The switch was flipped from bitter animosity to sweet professions of love pretty early on, and while I adored all the lovey dovey stuff, I felt more sustained romantic friction would have kept the momentum going a little longer and made their reconciliation even more palpable. But that aside, I really CHERISHED this story!
BOTTOM LINE;
THE ROAD BACK to us made me smile and cry, sigh and swoon, blush and squirm… and ultimately FEEL ALL THE FEELS! It is guaranteed to keep you toasty warm on even the coldest of nights!
A MUST READ!