A Little Too Late

Madigan Mountain

By: Sarina Bowen

Narrated by: Andi Arndt, Sebastian York

New from 20-time USA Today best seller Sarina Bowen!

How to behave when the guy who broke your heart 2,000 miles away turns up in your office:

One: Don’t drop your lucky coffee cup in shock, even though it’s been 10 years.

Two: Don’t get defensive when he asks how you ended up working his family’s ski mountain…and why you kept it a secret.

Three: Give him the worst room in the resort. He deserves it for suddenly waltzing back in like he owns the place. (Which he kind of does.)

Four, five, six, seven, eight, and nine: Do not kiss him in the hot tub.

Ten: Try to keep your heart intact after you break all of your rules.

Because Reed is leaving again. Hate can't turn back into love. And it’s a little too late…

©2022 Sarina Bowen (P)2022 Tuxbury Publishing LLC

It’s a 5

I love second chance romance and the fact that the two characters immediately fell back in love. They figured their shit out and moved on to the next phase of their lives

Love the Storyline and Narration

Great narration job. The storyline is filled with humor, angst, banter, sorrow, anger, and love. I enjoyed this introduction into the series.

A wonderful second chance romance

I really enjoyed this book, the first in the new Madigan Mountain series by three different authors. Devney Perry and Rebecca Yarros write the other two books in the series about the Madigan brothers.

This is a sweet second chance romance for Ava and Reed, who had been college sweethearts. They experienced some trauma that triggered their break up, and their ten year separation. Reed returns to Madigan Mountain when he learns his father, Mark, has plans to sell, and he finds that Ava is manager of the ski resort.

Ava is very easy to like, works hard, is a very good manager. She has a great group of friends at the resort who help to support each other. She has a good relationship with her boss, Mark, and with the resort employees.

Reed is highly successful in his career, but has almost no contact with is family, and no real relationships with women. He does have a wonderful assistant, Sheila, who is also a close friend. When Reed arrives at the resort, he and Ava are initially wary of each other, but their attraction still sizzles.

A Little Too Late is all about second chances. Of course Ava and Reed's romance has a second chance. However, Reed and his father, Mark, also have a chance to repair their relationship, which was nearly severed after the death of Reed's mother and Mark's wife. Even the pending sale of Madigan Mountain could mean a second chance for their ski resort. Watching these second chances unfold, especially Reed and Ava's, is a fun and interesting read.

I listened to the audio for A Little Too Late. Wonderfully narrated by Sebastian York and Andi Arndt, the story really comes alive.

I can't wait to read the next two entries in the Madison Mountain series!

I received an Advance Listener Copy of the audiobook in exchange for an honest review.

Loved this! (Spoilers)

A heartwarming second-chance story with Yellowstone vibes (small town locals vs big city land developers). I also appreciated how SB used Kintsugi as an analogy for when broken things can turn into something even more beautiful and valuable.
I wish we would have known more details surrounding the miscarriage and the aftermath. It’s a topic that isn’t talked about enough for how common (1 in 4 pregnancies) and how devastating it is.
Looking forward to reading the next book and seeing a new author’s take on Madigan Mountain!
Well done Sarina Bowen!

Great start to the Madigan Mountain series, second chance romance!

A Little Too Late is the first book in the Madigan Mountain collab series! I loved the Hush Note rockstar romance series that Sarina Bowen, Devney Perry, and Rebecca Yarros collab’d on and was excited for this new series they were doing! There are 3 standalone books in the Madigan Mountain series, each by one of the authors, following the 3 Madigan brothers at their family’s ski resort.

This first book was a great intro to the series! The story starts with Reed Madigan headed back to Colorado, he received an email from his father the day before telling Reed and his 2 brothers (the heroes of the next 2 books) that he got remarried and is planning to sell the mountain property/ski resort, Madigan Mountain, that has been in their family for generations. After their beloved mother’s death years ago, the brothers all went their separate ways and fled. Reed hasn’t been home for 10 years and is surprised when he gets to the resort and finds his college ex, Ava, working for his father.

This was a sweet second chance romance between Ava and Reed. Reed comes back to Colorado and wants to ensure his father isn’t taken advantage of with the sale of the property, when he sees Ava there things get a bit more complicated. We have a few flashback chapters between Reed and Ava when they met in college in Vermont and what split them up (the change up of writing style/POV style in these chapters kind of threw me off).

Fun moments: lots of skiing at Madigan Mountain, we get an intro to the Madigan family and I can’t wait for Reed’s brothers books already, we meet Ava’s friends Raven and Callie (the heroines of the next 2 books).

CW: alcoholism (side character), miscarriage