Tough Love

By: Melanie A. Smith

Narrated by: Rachel Woods, Luke Parker

From award-winning and international best-selling author Melanie A. Smith comes a steamy stand-alone contemporary romance about life choices, love, and finding yourself in between.

Sometimes you need a bit of tough love to get where you’re supposed to be....

Mia Anderson has been living a life that was chosen for her. But her impending 30th birthday is the wake-up call she needed to stop wasting time on all the wrong pursuits. Just as she’s figuring out what she wants to do about it, her beloved grandmother falls ill and Mia drops everything to be with her. What she didn’t expect to find in her grandmother’s tiny mountain town is the courage to quit working for her father, supplied by a little tough love from her gran. Now faced with an uncertain future, the last thing on her mind is finding love.

Nate Edwards is living a solitary life deep in the Cascade Mountains of Washington. He’s content, or at least he thinks he is—until the granddaughter of a good friend shows up and he starts having feelings he thought he’d never have again. But Mia’s future isn’t in Alpine Ridge, so acting on it would lead to nothing but heartbreak. Still, their connection is undeniable and circumstances continue to push them together, despite their resistance. Will Mia stick to her decision to carve her own path? And if she does, will it be with Nate? Or is he doomed to an isolated life?

©2021 Melanie A. Smith (P)2022 Melanie A. Smith

Great Read

I enjoyed this story. The characters wes good and well thought out. It was interesting and easy to listen to. I received it as a gift and this is my voluntaary review.

Great story

I absolutely loved that the dual narrators narrated not only their chapters, but that they voiced their characters in all the chapters. I really dislike hearing what I would normally consider a gruff, sexy male voice trying to sound like a female. Oftentimes, it’s downright distracting. But not with this audiobook!!!! The narration was perfect!
I also enjoyed the story itself. Grab was fabulous, and I really liked Nate. I was kept wondering until the very end as to what Nate was hiding from. Mia was more complicated. While I really liked her initially and it was so easy to sympathize with her about her parents, I cringed when she jumped to the wrong conclusion. And then ran away. And she did it again.
Overall, a great audiobook with fabulous narration and a very good story!

I received a complimentary copy of this audiobook and am voluntarily leaving a review.

awesome

Loved it !! this story. the narrator is so fantastic it's like your really there!! good overall

Great read

This is a really sweet story with great characters and some steamy love scenes. Great read. I received a free copy and left my honest review

Tough Love

This one didn't do anything for me not my cup of tea it wasn't a terrible story just not my thing.

The narration was fine