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A Soldier's Promise Kindle Edition

by Tory Richards (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
4.0 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
He's a soldier home for the holidays, his brother's last wish for him to take care of his wife and baby weighing heavily on his mind. Keeping promises are important, but this one will be hard. Ryan has been secretly in love with Shannon for years. Their attraction is hot and consuming, but will they be able to get over the guilt that threatens to keep them apart?

Excerpt - She pulled back the curtain, her eyes rounding when she recognized Ryan’s form heading down the front steps with his bag in his hand. Was he leaving because of her? That would crush Marsha! Without thinking, Shannon whipped the door open and stepped onto the porch.

“Ryan!” If he heard her, he ignored her, and continued walking toward the garage. “Ryan!” Shannon picked up her robe and dashed down the steps and into the snow. The cold immediately went through her slippers. “Ryan, please wait!”

He rounded the garage and disappeared. Shannon couldn’t believe that he didn’t hear her. She rushed to catch up with him, almost falling when she stepped on an icy patch of snow. She entered the garage just as he opened the door to his jeep. “Ryan!”

He stiffened but didn’t turn around as she expected. Shivering, Shannon stepped in front of him, putting herself between him and the open door. She didn’t know what she was going to do; only that she had to stop him in some way. “What are you doing?” she asked, flinching from the unwelcome coldness in his eyes. It was just getting light enough for her to see his expression, hard and set as usual.

“I would think that’s obvious,” he said flatly, a tick appearing in his jaw. His gaze was focused somewhere over her head.

“Your leaving will ruin everyone’s holiday. Every year, all they ever talk about is you coming home.”

His gaze zeroed in on hers with deadly accuracy. He looked so angry, as if he was about to explode. Shannon felt the urge to reach up and kiss away the firmness of his mouth until it was soft and friendly.

“Are you leaving because of, ah, what happened?” She didn’t have to spell it out; they both knew what she was referring to.

“I think it’s better this way.”

“I’m not blaming you,” she began. “It’s something that just happened, a moment that got away from us.” Trying to sound as if it was insignificant didn’t come off as convincing as Shannon wanted it to. She could barely look Ryan in the eye because of the heat filling her cheeks.

“What makes you think it won’t happen again?”

Shannon’s eyes rounded in surprise. The little thrill his words caused evaporated quickly when she realized he wasn’t happy about his earlier loss of control. Would it happen again? She didn’t have the nerve to ask. Deep down part of her wanted it to. She could tell he wanted to leave, but she was in his way.

“Ryan please, if you can’t stand being under the same roof with me then I’ll leave. Just, please, don’t hurt your family this way.”

It surprised Shannon that his leaving would hurt her, too. Their gazes held for a long moment. Shannon wasn’t beneath begging to get him to change his mind. She loved Marsha and the rest of the family too much to cause them undue pain.

“Please, stay.” To her mortification, she felt the hot sting of tears fill her eyes. It occurred to her that she was asking as much for herself as for them. Did he feel the pull between them? The intensity of it astounded her.
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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B07N1NRPM5
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  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ April 1, 2019
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 623 KB
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  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 175 pages
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Tory Richards is an author who writes smut with a plot. She's an Amazon bestselling author in erotic romance and romantic suspense categories. Born in Maine, she's lived most of her life in Florida where she went to school, married, and raised her daughter. She's retired from Disney and spends her time with family and friends, traveling, and writing.

Visit her website/blog here: http://www.toryrichards.com

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  • Avonna
    3.0 out of 5 stars A Soldier's Promise
    Reviewed in the United States on May 14, 2019
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    A SOLDIER’S PROMISE by Tory Richards is a new contemporary romance set during the holidays. This is a standalone story.

    Shannon Hayes and her small daughter have been invited to spend the holidays with her deceased husband’s extended family. David was killed in action overseas this past year and she is happy to be surrounded by his large family’s love after having grown up in an orphanage. David’s mother, Marsha treats Shannon as one of her own.

    Shortly after Shannon arrives, she is surprised by the arrival of Ryan Hayes. Ryan is a career Marine, and David’s older brother. He rarely makes it home and Shannon knows how important this is to the whole family, but there is an obvious tension between the two. Shannon is attracted to her brother-in-law even as he tries to ignore her and her attempts at friendship to the point of being harsh. Ryan is dealing with the guilt of lusting after his sister-in-law even before the death of his brother. That is one of the reasons he has stayed away.

    Their attraction grows and consumes them, but their guilt could end everything. Both made a promise to David, but can they fulfill it together?

    I loved the Hayes family and their holiday traditions. Marsha was a loving matriarch who was happiest when all of her family was around her. She understood Ryan and his feelings and was able to give Shannon advice and understanding. All of the Hayes siblings, partners and grandkids were entertaining and great secondary characters.

    I enjoyed this romance. Shannon was a loving and caring person, but I felt that Ryan was unemotional and a jerk for much too long into the story. I know he was hiding his true feelings and was filled with guilt, but I could not fully engage with him until half way through the book. He did redeem himself in the end. The sex scenes were explicit and hot, but each scene had Shannon biting Ryan and for me, it was repetitive and a little weird when it always happened. I was glad to see Ryan and Shannon get their HEA and I liked the family holiday setting. The characters make this romance.

    Written for and posted first on The Romance Reviews.
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  • Jbarr5
    4.0 out of 5 stars Soldier's Promise
    Reviewed in the United States on December 30, 2020
    A Soldier's Promise By Tory Richards
    Starts out with Shannon and she's agreed to go to the inlaws for Thanksgiving and again for Christmas. There is plenty of room and all her husbands family and kids will be there.
    Her husband was a solider and he died in Iraq fighting the war. She's left with a very young child who she loves.
    She is given the room with an attached bathroom that she shares with the next bedroom. She has a great time with all the other women and kids, so much to do in the winter in Vermont.
    Ryan who no one has seen since the dads' funeral even showed up. He's a Marine and was in the same ambush as David, her husband. Little does she know he will keep a promise he made to his brother.
    She also has a secret of a promise she made to her husband before he left to fight the war. She learns more details about the night he died and about Ryan and his pain and medical issues.
    Like how the family reacts to him being there but he takes off after Thanksgiving to visit his friend in Maine but returns for Christmas. She does get to talk to him about things that really matter.
    Lots of sex scenes which I was not expecting.
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