Embracing Her Heart

The Montgomerys, Book 1

By: Melissa Foster

Narrated by: Andi Arndt, Sebastian York

"Melissa Foster is synonymous with sexy, swoony, heartfelt romance!" (New York Times best seller Lauren Blakely)

Welcome to Oak Falls, Virginia, home to horse farms, midnight rodeos, bookstores, coffee shops, and quaint restaurants where you’re greeted like family and treated like treasured guests. Buckle up for a wild ride. Like any Southern girls worth their salt, the sweet-talking, sharp-tongued Montgomery sisters can take men to their knees with one seductive glance or a single sugarcoated sentence.

In Embracing Her Heart....
Leaving New York City and returning to her hometown to teach a screenplay writing class seems like just the break Grace Montgomery needs. Until her sisters wake her at 4:30 in the morning to watch the hottest guys in town train wild horses and she realizes that escaping her sisters’ drama-filled lives was a lot easier from hundreds of miles away. To make matters worse, she spots the one man she never wanted to see again - ruggedly handsome Reed Cross.

Reed was one of Michigan’s leading historical preservation experts, but on the heels of catching his girlfriend in bed with his business partner, his uncle suffers a heart attack. Reed cuts all ties and returns home to Oak Falls to run his uncle’s business. A chance encounter with Grace, his first love, brings back memories he’s spent years trying to escape.

Grace is bound and determined not to fall under Reed’s spell again - and Reed wants more than another taste of the woman he’s never forgotten. When a midnight party brings them together, passion ignites and old wounds are opened. Grace sets down the ground rules for the next three weeks. No touching, no kissing, and if she has it her way, no breathing, because every breath he takes steals her ability to think. But Reed has other ideas....

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Reed and Grace

I read and reviewed the book first, then had the chance to listen to the audio. The audio is SO good! Narrated by both Andi Arndt and Sebastian York, the audio storytelling just went up a notch! It was so nice having a male voice for Reed and a female voice for Grace! If you get the chance, you should definitely listen to this one.

This is my book review: Do you remember high school? The rivalries? Such an intense time, those teenage years. That’s when Reed and Grace first got together, and with their schools being such heated rivals, they kept their relationship secret (well, mostly). Now, years later, Grace is home for a three week visit, and Reed is home for good. Life took them in different directions, but now they are back, and better than ever. But can they make it last this time? Will long distance really work? Will life get in the way, again?!

Melissa Foster writes good characters and interesting families. There is heat, sibling shenanigans, secrets, and fun. I am looking forward to what comes next! In the mean time, Grace and Reed have a story to tell, so get to reading it!

Love This book

***Review Edit***
I read this book back in April. I just now listened to the audio version. I loved, loved, loved, the narration Andi Arndt & Sebastian York. Having a male and female do the narration is wonderful. I love audio books, they make driving back and forth to work tolerable.
Reed and Grace were sweethearts back in school. However, they kept their relationship secret due to rival schools. Grace leaves her small town to become something. Reed return to help out an ailing family. Who says you can't have a 2nd chance with your first love. This time around Reed will have no sneaking around. What a fantastic story. Melissa is great making me escape from my daily life.

Great Story

Embracing Her Heart was such an amazing story. The narrator's for this book were Andi Arndt and Sebastian York. They did a great job. This is the first time i heard 2 narrators in one book and i was not disappointed. We get to meet Grace Montgomery and Reed Cross. They have old history that goes back to their senior year in high school. Reed was a quarterback for a rival school and Grace was head cheerleader. They saw each other by sneaking around. They were each others first love, first everything. Then when Grace wanted to go away for college, she wanted Reed to go with her and he said he could never leave their hometown. Grace broke his heart and ended it with him. Fast forward now, the both have never found a love like they experienced with each other. Now their tensions are high and all their feelings are coming to a head. Grace is staying for 3 weeks and she intends to make the most of them with Reed. This audiobook had everything and more. It is a great listen.

Smoking HOT and so much fun!

GAHHHHH!!! I swear my kindle bout burst into flames! Reed and Grace light up the pages and it is MAGIC! I absolutely loved EMBRACING HER HEART, a sexy yet romantic second chance romance. The narrators were spot on, I was completely sucked into the story and what a story it is! Not heavy on the angst, but I laughed and I teared up and I fell in love. It was exactly what I needed! Highly recommended!

Hot and Exciting!

A great emotional story! Andi Arndt and Sebastian York narrate this and they are one hot team!
Grace Montgomery was a playwright and producer of off Broadway plays. She went back home for three weeks to teach a screenplay class. Grace went with the girls to secretly watch hot men break horses. The first to ride was Reed Cross her past lover. She ran back to the house as fast as she could. The next morning she walked out of the house and Reed was working on her parents house. They both remembered their love for each other while they were in high school. She had broke it off with him to pursue her dream of going to New York to study. Grace and Reed caused fireworks to explode when they kissed. Then things really get hot!