Heal My Heart @Elleywrites

Title: Heal My Heart (Kemmons Brothers #3)

Author: Elley Arden

Published:  March 10, 2014
Published by:  Crimson Romance
Genre: Contemporary

Book Synopsis:

Female professional football quarterback M.J. Rooney has her eye on the prize, a record-breaking, championship season-even if her parents are less-than supportive of her non-traditional, gender-bending career. Sure, it would be nice to have support from the people she loves, but she believes in herself, and she has her teammates. That’s all she needs to win a championship…until a scuffle at a baseball game sends her over the railing onto the field. The ensuing concussion threatens her season.

Dr. Tag Howard has something to prove-he’s worth way more than his biological father, Francis Kemmons, led him to believe. Maybe Tag wasn’t as talented as his brothers when it came to playing baseball, but that doesn’t mean he can’t contribute to the game. He’s poised to become Major League Baseball’s go-to sports medicine doctor if he can handle one thing: rehabilitating the Gold Glove Centerfielder who just so happens to be his estranged brother, Grey. It’s more than Tag can take…until an unorthodox angel crashes into his life with a concussion and a fresh perspective.

M.J. doesn’t need a man. She needs a championship ring. Getting messed up with a sexy doctor and his world of perfect image isn’t going to get her there. Tag doesn’t need to be led astray from his calculated path of achievements, and he doesn’t need reminders from his gritty, depressing past. Hanging out with a brazen woman who thinks the world is no holds barred could strip him of everything. But the attraction is undeniable, and there’s surprising freedom from expectations in each other’s arms…until the outside world presses in.

With Tag’s brothers pushing for a reunion that requires him to own up to his ugly past, and M.J.’s biggest season on the line amidst too many distractions, maybe life apart would be easier.

Part three in the Kemmons Brothers saga deals with Tag Howard and Mary Jane Rooney. Both dealing with childhood feelings of unworthiness and regret they battle their past to work on their future.

Heal My Heart is a great breakdown of the scars that can be left from a persons youth. Tag is an well sought after doctor with an impressive resume and loving parents. MJ is one of the best female professional quart backs with an impressive arm, but her judge father and ballerina step mother don't see or appreciate the person MJ is. Together they work on accepting who they are, flaws and all.

I enjoyed Heal My Heart, the back store was well written and developed. Tag and MJ had an instant chemistry that allowed their relationship to develop well and realistically. 

“Do you have Grey Goose?” She laughed. “We have vodka, and occasionally it’s a little gray, but I don’t think it has anything to do with geese.” “Okay, then I’ll take a gray vodka tonic without the goose, and a lime, please.”

Though they both deal with tough psychological issues they managed to bring a funny sense of humor to the table. The story is realistic, touching and inspiring. To often are others thoughts in our heads tainted your confidence. 

“I can’t seem to forget him,” he whispered. “Twenty-five years, and he’s stuck in my head.”

Heal My Heart was a great mix of strength, comedy, romance, real life situation and heart healing love.

I give Heal My Heart by Elley Arden 

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Author Bio:

Elley Arden is a born and bred Pennsylvanian who has lived as far west as Utah and as far north as Wisconsin. She drinks wine like it’s water (a slight exaggeration), prefers a night at the ballpark to a night on the town, and believes almond English toffee is the key to happiness.

Elley has been reading romance novels since she was a sixteen-year-old babysitter, sneaking Judith McNaught and Danielle Steele novels off the bookshelves of the women who employed her. She started her first manuscript when she was twenty-five, writing during babies’ naps. A total of three children and ten years later, the manuscript was complete. Little did she know, her journey to publication was only beginning..

Elley writes provocative contemporary romances for Crimson Romance.

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Battling The Best Man by @ElleyWrites

Title: Battling the Best Man (Harmony Falls #2)

Author: Elley Arden

Published: Jan. 17, 2014
Published by: Crimson Romance
Genre: Contemporary Romance

Book Synopsis:

On the cusp of a brilliant Chicago medical career, Dr. Kory Flemming rarely gets a vacation from her demanding brain injury fellowship, but she can’t say no to maid of honor duties in her best friend’s wedding. Hometown or not, being in Harmony Falls, Pennsylvania, isn’t easy, especially when the only man smart enough to trump Kory’s high school academic achievements turns out to be a sexy, accomplished adult up to his old, flirtatious tricks.

Will Mitchell has been destined for success since the day he was born. After spending his formative years racking up academic honors, it was only natural for him to be named the chief operating officer of his family’s thriving company. He has it all—more or less—so when the target of his high school infatuation turns up hot and haughty at his brother’s wedding, Will decides he wants her, too.

An innocent dance at the wedding reception leads Kory and Will to an illicit tryst in the coat checkroom, and the game they’ve been playing since high school changes into something more serious. The new attraction takes Will and Kory by surprise, until a failed merger and family tragedy threaten both their professional goals.

Now, Will’s struggling to preserve his reputation as “the successful one” and Kory’s stuck in Harmony Falls watching her illustrious medical career slip away. Worse yet, maybe the only way to get things back on track is to work together. Can they put aside their rocky past and ignore their titillating present in order to secure the future for the people they adore?

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Battling the Best Man is a refreshing story of Will and Kory. Childhood rivals that turn to each other, though part of their need for each other is selfish they find happiness along the way.

I didn't read book one of the series Crashing the Congressman's Wedding and was able to follow along so i will say Battling the Best Man could be a standalone.

Will and Kory were those two overachieving friends who though it was fun to do homework on the weekends. Getting together for Korys best friend and Wills brothers wedding throws them back into each others lives. Circumstances happen that keep Kory from returning back to her life (work and more work) and into an agreement with Will.

Kory's character is endearing, though there are many times i wanted to bang my head against a wall she could be frustrating. Seeing someone who seems to have there head on educationally but not worldly is always a train wreck waiting to happen. She lived in a bubble motivated by her need to be the best. I wanted to shake her and scream at her but most of all i wanted to watch her succeed and grow.

Some of my favorite dialogue was wills constant bickering with his mom, i speak sarcasm fluently so their battle of whits tickled me pink.

Overall great short read, cute, funny and would recommend

I also want to read book one now 

I give Battling the Best Man by Eley Arden

Author Bio:

Elley Arden is a born and bred Pennsylvanian who has lived as far west as Utah and as far north as Wisconsin. She drinks wine like it’s water (a slight exaggeration), prefers a night at the ballpark to a night on the town, and believes almond English toffee is the key to happiness.

Elley has been reading romance novels since she was a sixteen-year-old babysitter, sneaking Judith McNaught and Danielle Steele novels off the bookshelves of the women who employed her. She started her first manuscript when she was twenty-five, writing during babies’ naps. A total of three children and ten years later, the manuscript was complete. Little did she know, her journey to publication was only beginning..

Elley writes provocative contemporary romances for Crimson Romance.

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