About the book:
When Isabelle Martin steps onto Sawyer Auto Repair’s parking lot, she can’t believe it’s come to this. After dropping out of a school she never really wanted to go to in the first place and dumping a boyfriend she never really loved to begin with, she thought coming home to Claremont, North Carolina would solve all her problems. Instead, she’s still reeling from her mom’s death six months earlier and trying, but failing to help her dad, who’s sunken deep into a whiskey-fueled depression. Working in the local, motorcycle club-owned, auto shop’s office is a last resort, but it’s the only option she has...even if it means working with Caleb Sawyer, the bad-boy biker with swagger to spare who used to drive her up the wall in high school.
Caleb Sawyer is on the fast-track to a downward spiral. He used to think he had the world at his feet--all he has to do is be patient, earn his keep in the club and in the shop, and his legacy within the Iron Horsemen MC will be his for the taking when the time is right. But that just doesn’t mean anything without his old lady by his side, who wants to leave Claremont more than she wants to stay with him. When the bottom finally drops out, nothing prepares him for the impact and he deals with it the only way he knows how--with whiskey and women. Despite all that, being around Isabelle Martin, the girl whose feathers he ruffled so easily in high school, somehow brings him back to life. She doesn’t take any of his crap, but she calls him on it without judgment and without pity.
Despite some initial animosity, Caleb and Isabelle quickly realize that the perceptions they had of each other in high school couldn’t be further from the truth. The more time they spend together, the closer they become and the more they gravitate towards each other. Both are at a crossroads, but stuck in reverse. Isabelle needs help; she just doesn’t know how to ask for it. Caleb needs a life preserver; he just doesn’t know where to find one. And ultimately, on the path to rediscovery and identity, all roads lead them to exactly what they need--each other.
Despite some initial animosity, Caleb and Isabelle quickly realize that the perceptions they had of each other in high school couldn’t be further from the truth. The more time they spend together, the closer they become and the more they gravitate towards each other. Both are at a crossroads, but stuck in reverse. Isabelle needs help; she just doesn’t know how to ask for it. Caleb needs a life preserver; he just doesn’t know where to find one. And ultimately, on the path to rediscovery and identity, all roads lead them to exactly what they need--each other.
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4 Stars
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Isabelle Martin's life has changed drastically over the last so many months. She's lost her mother, dropped out of school, and is on the verge of being kicked out of her home by her alcoholic father. With no real plan of what to do next, her best friend Becca helps her get a interview for a Job at the Iron Horsemen MC's local auto shop. There she is introduced to a world her father always warned her to stay away from. But she needs a job and a new plan for her life. While working there she starts to connect with Caleb Sawyer, he's the same cocky bad boy she knew in high school. But the more she's around Caleb the more she wants, needs, to get to know him better.
Caleb Sawyer is destined to lead the Iron Horsemen MC, he was born into that world and its all he's ever know. He's hits rock bottom though when his girlfriend ups and leaves, breaking his heart in the process. Booze and women fill his nights, work fills his days, and then its the same over and over again. The only thing that has started to pull him out of that low is the beautiful, sassy, sad, Isabelle Martin. There is something about her that pulls him in. They start to form a friendship, and he looks forward to their lunch breaks where it's just them at their picnic table. As their friendship grows, so does his feelings for her.
Carry Your Heart was the first book I have read by K. Ryan and I'm hooked. A fun, sexy, angst filled ride. Caleb and Isabelle are great characters. They have both faced loss, suffered heart break, in different ways, but its these things that bond them. Their banter was a lot of fun to read. I love the connection they formed, how they started out with a amazing friendship that grew into a beautiful love. This is a couple you'll root for. You want them to have their HEA. I'm excited to see where they go next in Carry You Home.
Carry You Home
(Carry Your Heart Book #2)
Now Available
(Carry Your Heart Book #2)
Now Available
ABOUT K. RYAN
K. Ryan is a former English teacher, who graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point in 2009. When not writing, she’s either binge-watching something on Netflix, running, reading, or cheering on the Packers. She lives in the Green Bay area with her crazy-supportive boyfriend and the best decision of her adult life, a not-so-stray cat named Oliver.
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