All Roads Lead to You by Jennifer Probst
Release Date: July 23, 2019
All Roads Lead to You, an all-new standalone contemporary romance by New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Probst.
Happily single, Harper Bishop trusts in only one passion—her rescue farm and healing her thoroughbred, Phoenix. Her dream is to lead him to the Triple Crown. But how unreachable is it without experience or help? A handsome new guest at her family’s B&B has what it takes to make it come true. And with his irresistible brogue, warm smile, and soothing touch, he’s a major distraction.
After a bitter betrayal, horse trainer Aidan O’Connor has fled Ireland for a vacation in New York’s Hudson Valley. When he sees the horse with the fighting spirit he’s inspired with a new goal: to train Phoenix to win. He’s also facing an unexpected new challenge: his feelings for Harper.
How can she dare to open her heart to a man who’ll only be there long enough to break it?
So Harper and Aiden agree: try to keep it professional, and focus only on Phoenix and the finish line. But along the way they could also learn a few lessons in love, trust, and taking chances. And as painful as it promises to be, saying goodbye.
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Excerpt:
Ignoring her tingling nipples and flip-flopping belly, she threw back her shoulders and rose to full height. “I clearly remember having this same conversation a few weeks ago,” she said, trying not to let her voice wobble. “We agreed to keep it strictly business.”
“We did. But it’s getting harder for me not to touch you.”
Her heart galloped in her chest. Sweat pricked her skin. She remained silent, tangled between her head and her heart.
A rough laugh escaped his lips. “This would be easier on my ego if you’d admit you’re having the same problem.”
She shook her head and pressed her fisted hands against her eyes. “You sure don’t know the art of subtlety, do you?”
He shrugged. “No time for that shit. Well?”
She let out a half laugh, half groan. “I think this is the strangest conversation I’ve had with a man.”
“Are you hot for me, Harper?” His voice was all grit and gravel and sexy as hell.
Lust speared through her, raw and hungry and demanding. “Yeah.”
“Good. I’m obsessed with kissing you. So I have a proposal.”
“Of course you do.”
“One kiss. Let’s try it out. Maybe it’ll bomb once we give ourselves permission,” he said.
“I’m swooning from your romantic intentions.”
His lips kicked up in a grin. She wanted to trace her finger over his mouth to see if it was as soft as it looked. “Sorry. What do you think?”
“I think I’ve stepped into a new dimension. Tell me this, Irish. Do we want the kiss to bomb?”
He nodded. Eased closer. “I think it would be for the best. Neither of us wants a complication in our solid business partnership. We have a long road ahead of us. Sex makes things messy.”
Her brow shot up. Oh, he was good. Pretending to be all rational and cool while he stalked her like a graceful panther. Her blood grew thick and heavy, and the throbbing between her thighs raged. The real problem revolved around one simple, plain fact.
She was dying to kiss Aidan O’Connor.
Just once.
The tiny voice inside her flared to life and whispered a warning.: One kiss will never be enough. Not from this man. Not with the way you already feel about him.
God, she didn’t want to listen to reason right now.
Harper tilted her head. “True. If the kiss fails, we can get back to work without all this bullshit. Move on and focus on the real relationship here.”
“Phoenix,” he said.
“Exactly. Can you promise one thing?”
He took a few more steps. His scent wrapped around her like a silken cloud, spicy and clean and addicting. The leashed heat from his body practically ripped a purr from her throat. She curled her fingers, digging her nails into her palms to try and hold back from jumping into his arms.
“What do you need me to promise, love?”
A shiver worked down her spine. She imagined that lilting brogue whispering dirty commands in her ear while he thrust deep inside her. “If the kiss sucks, no hurt feelings. We move on and don’t talk about it. I can’t take any weirdness between us.”
“Agreed. I hate weird.”
He was right there, face close, inches from her body. The last time he was this close, he was angry. This time, his eyes crackled with hunger. His powerful thighs braced hers, and when he leaned in, his hard erection pressed against the seam of his jeans so she felt every glorious inch of promise. She licked her lips in anticipation, and slowly raised her arms to hook around his shoulders.
“Just once,” she whispered in warning.
He cupped her cheeks with rough, calloused palms. His amber gaze locked on hers. “Yes.”
“We’ll get it out of our system and move on.”
“Harper?”
“Yeah?”
“Shush.”
His mouth closed over hers.
This is the final book in the Stay series and what a great way to finish and round off the series.
All Roads Lead To You is an emotional read with strong characters who you can’t help loving.Harper Bishop runs a rescue farm for abused and neglected animals of all sorts, shapes and sizes and one of her rescues is a thoroughbred horse named Phoenix. Harper is focused on getting Phoenix healthy and trusting humans again which may in turn lead the horse making a comeback to the racetrack but she doesn’t have all the skills needed to train a racehorse, lucky for her one of the guests at the family B&B is a Irish trainer on his holidays. Aidan Connor is trying to work out where he wants to be and what the future holds for him and helping out with Phoenix could be the perfect distraction as he works his life out.........
This book has all the feels, it’s emotional, it has characters that have depth and it’s a captivating read with some adorable lines as we get to know all the animals at the farm. This book is beautifully written and I highly recommend it for all romance lovers.
The characters were strong and well developed, not only the main characters, but also the secondary characters who I hope get their own stories soon.
All Roads Lead To You is a well written, emotional story with hot and sizzling scenes, as well as a great deal of humour and wonderful characters. I really liked Harper and Aidan from the start.
Harper Bishop runs a rescue farm for neglected and abused animals and is focused on returning her thoroughbred Phoenix back to health and perhaps to race. The only problem is she lacks the experience and skills needed to achieve this.
Aidan O’Connor is on vacation from Ireland staying at the Bishop family B & B and farm in New York’s Hudson Valley. He is trying to decide what is next in his future after parting walls with his ex partner. A horse trainer, he has the skills needed to help Harper train Phoenix to reach his potential.
Aidan and Harper connect from the first, but neither are prepared to open themselves up to the possibility of a relationship so they agree to focus on Phoenix. However as they get to know each other, they realise how much they have in common; with attraction and passion soon igniting.
Harper knows it is dangerous to develop feelings for Aidan, after all he will be going back to Ireland so any relationship can only be temporary. Will she take a chance and risk her heart?
Will Aidan’s lack of trust mean that he throws away the chance of love and happiness? Or will Phoenix and the other rescued animals help both Harper and Aidan to learn trust and find love?
I was captivated with this story from the first to the last chapter.
I received an ARC of this book through the publisher via Netgalley
This series just keeps getting better and better!
All Roads Lead to You is Harper Bishop’s story and oh how I loved every single page of this book.
It brings all the feels to you and Harper’s compassion for animals completely melted my heart. Harper loves animals and runs a horse rescue farm on the same property as her sister, Ophelia’s B&B.
This book has a really awesome and unique twist where it brings the world of horse racing into the mix which really piqued my interest. The main animal is her horse Phoenix that she rescued and saw in him a true racer. When Aidan O’Connor comes to the B&B for a little holiday, he never knew he’d find his next champion horse to train. When he finds himself bored, he goes down to the barn and meets Phoenix for the first time. He sees something in him and knows that he has to see what he has. He also wants to get into Harper’s good graces by helping out around the barns.
The connection between Harper and Aidan is intense but they fight it to keep it in Phoenix’s best interests. But eventually, they end up giving in to one another and it turns out to be an absolutely beautiful romance.
I loved all the attitudes that each animal and character has in this book. Phoenix has attitude in spades and when Captain Hoof enters the mix (you’ll see who I mean) things just turn adorable.
This book is just as much about the animals as it is about Harper and Aidan and I truly loved that!
There is absolutely nothing that I disliked about this book and I truly can’t wait to see what Ms Probst writes next!
All Roads Lead to You is a sweet, heartwarming, fun to read romance! You will fall in love with the characters, the animals and this story!
“Wounded souls recognizing each other” seems to be the theme of this book. From the humans to the animals, fate seems to have brought them all together and given them an opportunity to be healed by each other.
Harper runs a animal rescue farm and that is where Aiden ends up on his travels. He finds it filled with a wonderful family, a beautiful woman named Harper and a bunch of crazy animals. The one animal that catches his eye is a horse named Phoenix. Harper has been working on healing this beautiful horse for a while now, but Aiden realizes that this horse has the talent to be an amazing race horse. He was a horse trainer before he showed up here and now with Harpers help he has a chance to train a potential champion! It also gives him a chance to get to know Harper and bond with her while caring for and training this horse and he is pleased to find the feeling is mutual.
The added bonus of this book is the enjoyable antics of a crazy chicken and the taming of an ornery horse who finds friendship from goat dressed up in a chicken costume and loves it!
“Wounded souls recognizing each other” seems to be the theme of this book. From the humans to the animals, fate seems to have brought them all together and given them an opportunity to be healed by each other.
Harper runs a animal rescue farm and that is where Aiden ends up on his travels. He finds it filled with a wonderful family, a beautiful woman named Harper and a bunch of crazy animals. The one animal that catches his eye is a horse named Phoenix. Harper has been working on healing this beautiful horse for a while now, but Aiden realizes that this horse has the talent to be an amazing race horse. He was a horse trainer before he showed up here and now with Harpers help he has a chance to train a potential champion! It also gives him a chance to get to know Harper and bond with her while caring for and training this horse and he is pleased to find the feeling is mutual.
The added bonus of this book is the enjoyable antics of a crazy chicken and the taming of an ornery horse who finds friendship from goat dressed up in a chicken costume and loves it!
About Jennifer:
Jennifer Probst wrote her first book at twelve years old. She bound it in a folder, read it to her classmates, and hasn’t stopped writing since. She holds a masters in English Literature and lives in the beautiful Hudson Valley in upstate New York. Her family keeps her active, stressed, joyous, and sad her house will never be truly clean. Her passions include horse racing, Scrabble, rescue dogs, Italian food, and wine—not necessarily in that order.
She is the New York Times, USA Today, and Wall Street Journal bestselling author of sexy and erotic contemporary romance. She was thrilled her book, The Marriage Bargain, spent 26 weeks on the New York Times. Her work has been translated in over a dozen countries, sold over a million copies, and was dubbed a “romance phenom” by Kirkus Reviews. She is also a proud three-time RITA finalist.
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