Lakesides and Longing

by Kimmy Loth

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I left home at 18 and never looked back. It’s not that my home was horrible or anything, it’s just that my cheating scumbag of a husband didn’t approve of my family.

He’s gone and now my brother’s way overprotective and visits me at least once a month and has all my neighbors texting him if they think something is wrong.

I keep telling him I’m fine.

Even if I can’t drive anymore because of my panic attacks.

Even if I wake up screaming every night.

Even if someone breaks into my house.

That was one too many things for him so now he’s left his meathead bff to watch over me and I can’t stand the man.

But one night we fall asleep together watching movies and suddenly everything is different. The problem is if my brother finds out, he might kill us both.

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Book Details

Genre

Contemporary Romance

Subgenre

Destination / Vacation, Small Town

Series

Michigan Millionaires • Book 6

Audience

Adult

Bell Peppers

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Profanity

2 Mild

Violence

1 None

Drugs, Alcohol, Tobacco

2 Mild

Publication Date

September 4, 2021

Language Versions

English

Narration Type

Human

Fiction Form

Novel

Sensitive Themes

Serious car/transport accident, PTSD or trauma recovery, Grief or loss of a loved one, Adultery or infidelity

Swooning

Omg these books!! Heart stopping delicious. Just wish they were longer and more in-depth. Finished the book in just a few hours.

Such Sweet romance

Lakesides and Longing is a part of Kimberly Loth’s Michigan Millionaires romance series, and if you’ve been reading these stories, you’re not going to want to miss this one. Lakesides and Longing can be read as a stand-alone novel, but once you read this book you’re going to want to read the previous books. All Blake wants is to lay low for a few months, heal from another Debbie situation, but what he gets is exactly what he needs.Lakesides and Longing is that perfect summer romance that you’re going to want to read as it will be the perfect novel to wind down summer with. The author brings two characters together who would have never known how much they needed each other. Blake, while successful in his work, is apparently unsuccessful in his on/off relationship with Debbie. One would think that the way she handles things that he’d get a clue, but love is blind. LOL! He’s quick to turn up his nose to Paige because of her eccentrics, but I love reading how they grow on each other a day at a time. The relationship grows at a good pace which I really like. There is no rushing or insta-anything. There is the initial attraction on both sides, but nothing that is sped through.My only real complaint about this story is on Paige’s part. I get that she’s had a sketchy past due to her dead husband, but for her to make a snap judgment on Blake, I didn’t like it. There is no chance to explain or anything. She immediately shuts him out based on a social media post! I’d have understood of the image was recent, but the fact that it wasn’t...I can't help to be disappointed in Paige. Now, I kinda understand him apologizing to her, but I really think that her not apologizing especially since it was her issues that created this problem..it’s a miss.I’m rating this book 4.5 out of 5 stars. This book is so beautiful and made my heart flutter and everything. LOL! I really need some similar romance in my life. LOL! I’m probably nit-picking a bit but Paige was in the wrong and should have apologized for her snap judgment. I understand insecurities, but she should have at least talked to him first instead of believing what she saw on social media. If you enjoy the Michigan Millionaires series you’re going to love this book. I can’t wait for the next.

Such a great book

This book is so great! My daughter loves it and is reading all the kimmy loth books! She is having lots of fun and definitely would buy more of these books reccomended!

it was okay

The premise started out fantastic, and the story grabbed me for just about over third of the way. Trope of sharing the same house, and bed because she has nightmares. Cliche but cute. Then the story got stale. The hang up being they can’t get involved because of the overly protective brother and then the FMC jumping to conclusions and assuming that the MMC slept with his former hangup. Those were weak plot devices, so the story just unraveled in the end. And I felt like the writing slacked off too, with the scenes becoming unimaginative. Totally could have cut the girls from her artist group. Those pages in Vegas were a waste of time. The chapters toward the end just grew shorter and less gripping. The epilogue was the worst. It didn’t do a good job at wrapping up the story or introducing the next characters in the next book. Instead of an epilogue, it should have been a continuation and ending of the current story because their getting together in the prior chapter was weak and without chemistry. With this author, her books are sometimes good, sometimes not. I rolled the dice with this one and lost.

Opposites Attract and Forbidden Romance

This is the seventh book in the Michigan Millionaires series. It can be read as a standalone book, but couples from the previous books are in this book also.Blake has been in an on again, off again, relationship with a manipulative woman. She is marrying someone else and he is heartbroken over it, while his friends feel it is for the best. Blake goes to stay on Mackinac Island in Northern Michigan with his good friend Lukas.Lukas gets a call that his reclusive sister, who lives alone deep in the woods of Northern Michigan after her husband's death in a car accident when she was driving, had a break-in during the night at her home. Lukas needs to bring Paige home, with him, where she will be safe but she doesn't want to leave her isolation. He sends Blake to stay with Paige to be sure she is safe.Blake is a high level scientist, practical, pragmatic and fact driven. Paige is a free-spirit, artist who believes in crystals and horoscopes. The two try to be civil to each other without really understanding the other. As the days go by, they learn more truths about the others painful pasts. They learn to be supportive of each other and start developing feelings. Paige is afraid of betrayal and unfaithfulness. Blake is afraid of trust and damaging his close friendship with Page's brother. Can these two opposites find common ground and build something together?