
Genres: Fiction / Romance / Contemporary, Fiction / Romance / New Adult, Fiction / Women
Pages: 464
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From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Fourth Wing comes a new contemporary romance about the summer a celebrated dancer returns home and unearths years of family secrets and deep regrets with the Coast Guard rescue swimmer she never forgot.
Elite ballerina Allie Rousseau is no stranger to pressure. With her mother's eyes always watching, perfection was expected, no matter the cost. But when an injury jeopardizes all she's sacrificed for, Allie returns to her summer home to heal and recover. But the memories she's tried to forget rush in and threaten to take her under.
As a Coast Guard rescue swimmer, Hudson Ellis knows that hesitation can mean the difference between life and death. He's always prided himself on being in the right place at the right time, especially when it came to Allie Rousseau...until the night he left for basic. After the biggest regret of his life, the secrets he keeps mean he can never be with the one woman he wants more than his next breath.
When Hudson's niece shows up on Allie's doorstep, desperate to find her birth mother, Allie finds herself in an unimaginable position. Allie and Hudson's past and present might be endlessly complicated. The thread that tied them to each other all those years ago may have unraveled, but the truth could pull them back together, or drive them apart forever.
Review:
VARIATION is a captivating contemporary romance with a bit of second chance and fake dating. Hudson and Allie met as teenagers from different socioeconomic classes and were separated by Allie’s mother’s severity. Despite that, they forged a close friendship that ended when he failed to show up for her after a tragic accident. That accident shadowed Allie’s life, as she lost her sister and suffered a complex injury that impacted her ballet career.
Now, ten years later, she is back home recovering away from prying eyes, and Hudson and his niece are in her life. What unfolds is a captivating story about family, life dreams, and protecting what you love at all costs. I loved this author’s fantasy novel, so I wanted to see if she had the same substance with a different genre. Oh boy, this author can captivate me, I think, in anything she writes. I was wrapped up in the romance and the family drama and on the edge of my seat to see how it would all work out. Great read.
I’ve liked this author’s contemporary romance in the past, just now read Fourth Wing finally and loved it! Glad to hear this was pretty good too.