Overall: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Readability: 📖📖📖📖
Feels: 🦋🦋🦋
Emotional Depth: 💔💔
Sexual Tension: ⚡⚡⚡
Romance: 💞💞💞
Sensuality: 💋💋💋💋
Sex Scene Length: 🍑🍑🍑
Steam Scale (Number of Sex Scenes): 🔥🔥
Humor: a touch
Perspective: first person from both hero and heroine
More character focused or plot focused? character
How did the speed of the story feel? fast
When mains are first on page together: very soon in
Cliffhanger: No, this ends with a happily ever after
Epilogue: Yes, one year later, plus a second epilogue that previews Winston’s story, which is book 5 in the series
Format: read an e-book version through kindle unlimited
Why I chose this book: I started this series awhile ago. I love Jemma Frost’s historicals and wanted to try her contemporaries (under this name). I was looking through my KU checkouts and decided to read the next in this series.
Mains: This is a M/F relationship
(Descriptions found at end of my review)

Should I read in order?
I don’t think it’s necessary! This one really is fine to dive into alone – but this series all happens in the same small town.

Basic plot:
Shannon feels something is off in her engagement, and it’s solidified when she gets heart sparks at her first meeting with Cole.

Give this a try if you want:
- contemporary romance
- small town setting (Suitor’s Crossing)
- fated mates vibes – this series features couples that get ‘heart sparks’ that mean they’re your soul mate
- shorter story
- bridal boutique owning heroine
- plus size heroine
- mountain main hero
- instalust/love
- dirty talking hero
- medium steam – 2 full scenes in a shot page count

Ages:
- didn’t catch them (would guess late 20s, early 30s?)

First line:
“Congratulations, you’re going to be a beautiful bride.”

My thoughts:
This is a short and steamy instalove story that was pretty fun! It starts with an uncertain engagement, and ends with a surprising HEA…

These are very short, so you don’t get a lot of character depth. I liked this one overall – loved the idea of finding your soul mate at the perfect time. I do find I don’t get much tension in this series though, because the heart sparks make everyone all in from that moment forward haha.

So, those wanting short and steamy and don’t mind some instalove will love this whole series – but especially this addition to it.

Few random reading stats for this author
# of books read: 4 by Bennett (10 if I include her Jemma Frost pen name)
Average rating: 4.5 (4.6 if I include her Jemma Frost pen name)
Favorite book: Protected by the Mountain Man (buuuut probably Earls Prize Curves if I include her Jemma Frost pen name)

Content warnings: These should be taken as a minimum of what to expect. It’s very possible I have missed some.

- possible feelings of infidelity – the heroine is engaged to someone else when she meets the hero and gets feeling
- heroine calls to break the engagement off and finds out her fiance was cheating on her

Locations of kisses/intimate scenes, safe sex aspects, consent, pregnancy/child in the story:

 
Safe sex: 

  no 

 
How’s the consent? 

  it’s good 

 
Pregnancy/children in story? 

  no children or pregnancy here! 

 
39% - fingering for her, sex against the wall with the risk of people coming over
82% - oral for her, missionary