Review/Excerpt & Giveaway: When Love Happens by Darcy Burke

When Love Happens
Ribbon Ridge # 3
By: Darcy Burke
Releasing May 26th, 2015
Avon Impulse

Blurb
In a town as small as Ribbon Ridge and with a family as large as the Archers, even the best kept secrets don’t stay buried for long...

Tori Archer is married…well, on paper anyway. She hasn’t actually seen her husband since the disastrous morning after their impulsive Vegas wedding. The memories of their intense passion may still make her weak in the knees, but Tori knows their marriage was a mistake.

After six months filming abroad, television producer Sean Hennessy wants nothing more than to track down his sexy, captivating wife and get her into bed… fast. So when his boss sends him to Oregon to persuade the famous Archer sextuplets-the former stars of a reality TV show-to do a reunion special, Sean sees the perfect chance to win Tori back.

Only, Tori wants nothing to do with him and is determined to push him away. But their attraction is as hot as ever and Sean will do anything to prove their relationship was more than just a fling…because he knows that when real love happens, it changes everything.


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Excerpt
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Ribbon Ridge, Oregon

Tori Archer sipped her Nocktoberfest, Dads signature beer for the annual Ribbon Ridge Oktoberfest, which was currently in full swing. She clung to the corner of the huge tent, defensively watching for her “date” or one of her annoying siblings that had forced her to go on this “date.”
It wasnt really a date. He was a professional colleague, and the Archers had invited him to their signature event. For nine years, the family had sponsored the towns Oktoberfest. It featured Archer beer and this year, for the first time, a German feast overseen by her brother Kyle, who was an even more amazing chef than theyd all realized. Today was day three of the festival and she still wasnt tired of the fondue. But really, could one ever tire of cheese?
Boo!
Tori jumped, splashing a few drops of beer from her plastic mug into her fingers. She turned her head and glared at Kyle. “Did you sneak through the flap in the corner behind me?”
Guilty.” He wore an apron tied around his waist and a custom Archer shirt, which read CHEF below the bow and arrow A-shaped logo. “How else was I supposed to talk to you? Youve been avoiding everyone for the past hour and a half. Wheres Cade?” He scanned the crowd looking for her not-date, the engineer theyd hired to work on The Alex, the hotel and restaurant venue theyd been renovating since last spring. With a special events space already completed, theyd turned their focus to the restaurant and would tackle the hotel next.
Tori took a drink of the dark amber Nocktoberfest and relished the hoppy flavor. “Dont know.”
Kyle gave her a sidelong glance. “Didnt you come together?”
No. Though it wasnt for your lack of trying. I met him here. We chatted. He saw someone he knew. I excused myself to get a beer.” An hour ago.
Kyle turned toward her and frowned. “I don’t get it. Lurking in corners isnt your style. Youre typically the life of the party. You work a room better than anyone I know, except maybe Liam.”
Tori narrowed her eyes. “Im better at it than he is.” Their brother Liam, a successful real estate magnate in Denver, possessed many of the same qualities she did: ambition, drive, and an absolute hatred of failure. Then again, who wanted to fail? But it was more than that for them. Failure was never an option.
Which didnt mean that it didnt occasionally come up and take a piece out of you when you were already down for the count.
Kyle snorted. “Yeah, whatever. You two can duke it out at Christmas or whenever Liam decides to deign us with his presence.”
Tori touched his arm. “Hey, don’t take his absence personally. He keeps his visits pretty few and far between, even before you moved back home. Which is more than I can say for you when you were in Florida.”
Kyles eyes clouded briefly with regret and he looked away. “Yeah, I know. And hopefully some day youll stop giving me shit about it.”
She laughed. “Too soon? Im not mad at you for leaving anymore. I get why you had to go, but Im your sister. I will always flip you shit about stuff like that. Its my job.”
He returned his attention to her, his blue-green eyes—nearly identical to her own—narrowing. “Then its my duty to harass you about Cade. Hes totally into you. Why are you dogging him?”
It seemed that since Kyle and their sister Sara had both found their soul mates this year they expected everyone else to do the same. Granted, their adopted brother Derek had also found his true love, and theyd gotten married in August. What none of them knew, however, was that Tori was already spoken for—at least on paper.



Author Info

Darcy Burke is the USA Today bestselling author of hot, action-packed historical and sexy, emotional contemporary romance. Darcy wrote her first book at age 11, a happily-ever-after about a swan addicted to magic and the female swan who loved him, with exceedingly poor illustrations.
A native Oregonian, Darcy lives on the edge of wine country with her guitar-strumming husband, their two hilarious kids-who each seem to have inherited the writing gene in some form-and two Bengal cats. In her "spare" time Darcy is a serial volunteer enrolled in a 12-step program where one learns to say "no," but she keeps having to start over. Her happy places are Disneyland and Labor Day weekend at the Gorge.


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My Thoughts...

I can't help it but I think each new book in the Ribbon Ridge Series gets better and better. I know it's because in each book you get to know the characters even more. I'm really big on reading books in order and know that some series it's okay to read book 5 when you haven't read book 4, not so with this series. You really need to start at the beginning and go from there. Each book is about another family member, but you do get little looks into the upcoming characters book. Burke does a wonderful job of showing us how each family member is dealing with the loss of their brother. In When Love Happens you have the sister Tori, who's a hard nut to crack. In many ways she's a cold woman you wouldn't waste your time with in the books before her own, then in When Love Happens you get so much insight to who she is. At times I really wanted to slap her and tell you that she needed to move on and heal, but I know that everyone heals in the own time. What she puts poor Sean though is so hard to read at times. Of course most of it backfires on her giving the reading some very laugh out loud moments. After reading the first three books in the series I can't wait for the next one. 

If you've read When Love Happens I'd love to hear your thoughts. If you haven't, they are the perfect around the poor reads. Happy reading! 





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  1. Thank you so much for hosting WHEN LOVE HAPPENS!

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  2. Thank you for hosting me and for the lovely review!!!

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  3. Ahh okay so I need to try these. I have book 2 on my tbr pile still. Eeps!

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  4. Nice review! I loved your take on Tori. This series is one of my favorites now.

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