Book Tour: How the Heart Breaks by S. Marie

Title: How the Heart Breaks

Author: S. Marie

Genre: Contemporary Romance

Tropes: emotional, sexy, heartbreaking, forbidden love, and reverse age gap

He was her secret, her sin, the heart she couldn’t love.

Emery Robert’s life is everything she wanted. Married to the love of her life, with a good job, and plans for a family in the future. But when Emery’s husband dies tragically, she is the one who stops living.

Three years later, at the age of 30, she’s still struggling to move on. Friends are encouraging her to date again, while her in-laws want to keep her in the past, trapping Emery in the middle.

Deciding to move to a new town to start fresh with a new job and house, Emery’s 17-year-old niece, Addison, moves in with her for her final year of high school, where she instantly forms a crush on the popular and mysterious, Mason James.

At 19 years old, Mason has been through far more than most. A past full of tragedy and loss. Being held back a year in school, Mason is mentally years beyond his peers. Not feeling he belongs anywhere, until he meets Addison’s very sexy aunt.

Overwhelmingly drawn to her, he can’t seem to get this older woman out of his head. And no matter how much Emery denies it, he’s the first one who has sparked life in her, making her feel things she shouldn’t.

As much as she fights her forbidden desire, the sparks between them can’t be denied. When reality crashes down, it’s not just the taboo of their age difference that will rip out their hearts. It’s what fate has in store for them that will show them how the heart breaks.

This was a brand new author for us and we enjoyed our first read by them. The story was highly emotional and had a cast of great characters one that pulled you right in from the moment we started turning the pages. We found the characters to be loveable ones.

Emery has experienced so much pain and found herself in a state of limbo and decides to pack up and make a change little did she know her departure would have a plus one but, they too are struggling emotionally. I loved Emery she was a sweetheart of a woman who was full of fire and passion.

Mason James gives off those bad-boy vibes and is too looking for his own good he loves his grandparents to the moon and back and had a rough unkind life until he landed on their doorsteps but, Mason holds regrets and secrets and what we call an old soul wiser than his years.

The story had its ups and downs took a few twists and turns and one that was sexy, hot, filled with fire and passion, and the forbidden and one highly emotional for all characters involved but, for a widow moving on it even more so as she falls for a man so much younger for her it feels wrong and forbidden and one she can't help but, be drawn to the man that sets her afire and she hadn't felt like that in years.

We loved the story it had you balling your eyes out and at the end, Mason and Emery's chemistry was off the charts scorching hot even. That kind of passion and fire is hard to ignore. We have to say the twist we did not see coming but, boy it was a doozie of a one and one of those OmG! moments that we never saw coming it seemed either like a blessing or a curse but one that fate had a hand in. We loved it from cover to cover. 

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USA TODAY BESTSELLING AUTHOR S. Marie lives in the PNW with her dog Cooper, traveling and writing stories that are full of spice, angst, and emotional damage.

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