Mackenzie Hall loves Carter Tillmann. Carter loves Mac. When she meets Hunter, she isn’t so sure anymore, who owns her heart. Her head wants stability and safety, but her heart might not be on board with that.
Hunter can’t live with the uncertainty and follows his own dreams, but those aren’t only life-changing for him. When he leaves, Mackenzie understands that her heart is stronger than her head. But now it’s too late, Hunter is gone. Will they find each other again?
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This box set includes
1.a fighting chance
2.a losing battle
3.a saving grace
The three of us avoid each other until Carter gets back. The boys go hang out with their friends or whatever—I don’t really know, because I work. And work. I’ve always been a bit of a workaholic since I can’t leave if there’s someone there who needs help. But these days, work’s turning into an obsession.
“Go home, Mac,” Shane says the day before Carter’s scheduled to come home.
I look at my watch. It’s almost eleven. “Oh, yeah. I lost track of time.” Slowly, I sort through the documents in front of me.
“What’s up?” Shane asks gently.
“What do you mean?” It’s always good to answer a question with another question, right? Sign of a quick wit, surely.
He smiles faintly and sits on the other side of my desk. Interlocking his fingers behind his head, he stretches out his legs. He looks laid-back, like he’s really comfortable. Here in my office. Here with me.
“Kid, I remember the day you walked in here for the first time. You were this timid little thing, but really angry! Incredibly angry. You stomped around here in your Chucks, not wanting anyone to tell you what to do.” He grins like he’s reveling in the memory. “You thought you started to heal when you found us. But you had this fire in you. You’ve always had it. Flames were shooting up ten feet in the air above your head. All we did was show you how to harness your power. You did all the rest yourself. Then and now.”
I sit back in my chair and stare at him.
“It was fun to watch you turn from an angry firecracker into the woman you are today. At least, the woman you were until about a week ago. Because the Mac I see today has lost her luster. It’s like you’re hiding it on purpose, like you’re standing in the shade because you’re afraid to step out into the sun.”
“I didn’t know you were such a poet, Shane,” I joke, because I don’t know what else to say. Obviously, he’s right.
He just grins. “Mock me all you want, kid. We both know something happened. You don’t have to tell me what it is. You don’t even have to acknowledge it yourself. But please make sure all your hard work was worth it.” He gets up and comes to my side of the desk to kiss me on the head. “Night, kiddo.”
I watch him go.
He’s right. I can’t let them control me like this. Not now, not ever again. I take a deep breath and hope my old strength, my old fire, will miraculously start burning again.
But when I get home, I’m happy the house is quiet. Because I’m still such a coward.
I'm a contemporary romance writer, who likes her men tattooed, her women independent and her coffee strong.
My stories are all about love, but some are of the romantic kind, some of the sad kind and others of the very steamy kind. So if you can stand drama, foul language and sex, you came to the right place.
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****** MY REVIEW ******
Free At Last Box Set by
Annie Stone contains all three books in this series. A Fighting Chance
by Annie Stone is the first book in a three book series tells the story of Mackenzie and
Hunter. Mac meets Carter Tilman and they have this crazy insta-chemistry.
He is this older , very successful businessman and they start a relationship.
Fast forward a year later and things are going very well between them. Then his
teenage kids move in with Carter and Mackenize. Hunter is 17 and he is the
older brother. He is the most unhappy and he takes his unhappiness out on Mac.
So the kids make Mac unhappy and it starts to cause dissent in her
relationship. But slowly, the relationship starts changing between Mac and
Hunter. There are many twists and turns in this story that end up happening
between Mac and Hunter and it ends on an epic cliffhanger. I couldn’t believe
what happened and everything will be picked up in “a losing battle” – The character
development is huge in this story and Hunter really grows in this story while
Mac is slowly dying on the inside. We get to see some serious heartbreak in
this story. This book picks up where A Fighting Chance left off. Seriously, the author does an awesome job with
writing the H/h POVs and have the reader rooting for them both and even the secondary characters are fantastic.
Now this book ends in a cliffhanger as well and all the answers will be
answered in the final book in this series “
a saving grace”. In A
Saving Grace, A perfect ending to a series that I totally hearted. Mac
came a long way from the first book in this series. She totally stayed true to
Hunter thru some pretty rough spots and finally when she got the call that no
one should get, she runs to him. Their love hits some really rough spots. ALL I
can say is this will answer all
questions. I do hope we get to see these characters again in a novella or a
follow up story. I loved the spunk, the heart and the sassiness of Mac, the
alpha, the dominating and the heart of Hunter. I even loved the secondary
characters of this series and hope there could be a spin off series for this
author really has an amazing way with words. This is one amazing series and I don’t
want to give any spoilers or hints as to how this series ends.. You need to
read to find out but trust me, it is phenomenal.
My Rating: 4.6 stars *****
“I received an advanced
copy of this book from the author at no cost to me."
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