In Your Dreams, Holden Rhodes

The Queen's Cove Series, Book 3

By: Stephanie Archer

Narrated by: Stephen Dexter, Vanessa Edwin

Length: 11 hrs and 9 mins

Publisher's summary

The deal is simple: the grumpy guy will pay off my debt if I find him a wife.

Holden Rhodes is grouchy, unfairly hot, and has hated me for years. He's the last person I'd choose to inherit an inn with. As we renovate the inn and practice his dating skills, I see a different side of him.

Was I all wrong about Holden?

When we add ‘friends with benefits’ to the deal, our chemistry is so hot the sparks could burn down the inn. Holden’s a secret romantic, and I’m secretly falling for him.

I’m terrible at bartending, a video of a bear stealing my toy went viral, and everyone in this small town knows my business, but Holden Rhodes is so much more than I expected.

I don't want him to find love with anyone but me.

A spicy grumpy-sunshine friends-with-benefits small town romantic comedy with an HEA. This is book 3 in the Queen's Cove series, but can be read as a stand-alone.

©2022 Stephanie Archer (P)2023 Stephanie Archer

Amazing!

I loved this audiobook!! I have loved Stephen Dexter as a narrator since I listened to him as Ryke in the Addicted/Calloway Sisters series. Loved his voice then and I absolutely adored him as Holden Rhodes. I don't think Holden could have been cast better. Vanessa Edwin is also absolutely phenomenal as Sadie. Together, their duet performance of In Your Dreams, Holden Rhodes was a top listen of 2023.

Narration aside, the story was really cute. Stephanie Archer is an incredible romance writer! She brings the butteflies to flight in my stomach. I think I say it in all of her reviews, but her first kiss scenes are some of my favorite. Yes, the book covers are cute but the spice is always top tier.

Thank you Stephanie for hooking me up with a code to listen to this audiobook. Fans of romance and audio should listen to this one asap. It's so good!

Great performances and story!

I love that the narrators kept the dialogue for their characters throughout! Awesome performances!

And I thought I couldn’t love it any more…

It’s rare that an audio performance can make me enjoy a story even more, but this one did!

I read the Kindle version of In Your Dreams when it first came out, but still wanted to listen to it since it had been a while… and I’m so glad I did! The performers were able to draw you into the story and make you feel as though you were in the room with them. The dual POV was perfect and hearing them have conversations together just made it even more realistic.

And then there’s the story itself. I’m convinced Archer can do no wrong when it comes to romance. I love the grumpy/sunshine trope and this was such a unique take on it.

This was a 10/10, even for those that have already read the book.

Perfect

I throughly enjoyed this audio book. The MC’s were both amazing and the voice of Stephen Dexter is what 💦 dreams are made from. Good Lord that man’s voice 🤤. The story is an enemies to lovers, small town grumpy sunshine. Holden needs to be bottle up and kept safe this mans 💜 is gold. Sadie smart mouth is everything, her and Holden’s back and forth made the story. The 🌶 scenes in audio took it to another level. Amazing read definitely a book to add to the physical copy stack.

Stephen Dexter is THE Holden!!

I loved listening to my favorite misunderstood Grump come to life😭💜
Holden is my favorite Rhodes brother and this audio does the book and characters so much justice. They sounded how I imagined they would. Throughout the series he tugged at my heart strings and now after listening to this book it made me love him even more!!

All he’s ever wanted was somebody to love and for them to love HIM BACK 🥺🥺 He goes above and beyond to try and get Sadie to stay and convince her to give him a chance. All the things he did for her to build her up and support her had me feral. HOLDEN SUPREMACY 4EVR

Stephanie’s books never fail to envelop you completely into Queens Cove and this audio makes you wish you were actually there and these characters weren’t fictional 😭

A 5⭐️ listen!! And I recommend listening to all her other audiobooks as well. I’ve listened to all of them and can say without a doubt that you will not regret it!!

Dreams Do Come True 

𝐑𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️💫 (4.5/5)
𝐒𝐩𝐢𝐜𝐞: 🌶️🌶️🌶️ (3/5) 

𝐓𝐫𝐨𝐩𝐞𝐬:
Small Town Romance  
Grumpy x Sunshine 
Friends with Benefits 
It’s Always Been You 
 
𝐕𝐢𝐛𝐞𝐬: 
Stephanie Archer is now an auto-read author for me - if she writes it, I’ll read it with gusto! I loved being back in Queen’s Cove with all the quirky townsfolk. And also, what a performance! Both narrators sounded exactly as I would expect our characters to sound! The magnetism between Holden and Sadie was the best! They were perfect for each other even when they pretended to hate each other. Stephanie delivered emotion, laughs, swoon worthy dialog, and panty melting spicy scenes. My only wish was for no 3rd act breakup - my romantic heart can’t take it. I cannot wait to get the next audiobook for Finn’s story! 
 
𝐑𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐬𝐦𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐭𝐨𝐰𝐧 𝐫𝐨𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐰𝐡𝐨 𝐰𝐚𝐧𝐭 𝐭𝐨 𝐬𝐞𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐞𝐧𝐬𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐬𝐢𝐝𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐚 𝐠𝐫𝐮𝐦𝐩. 
 
Thank you @stephaniearcherauthor for this gifted audiobook! I adore you and your books!  
 
𝐒𝐮𝐦𝐦𝐚𝐫𝐲: 
Holden Rhodes a secret softy! This growly grumpy workaholic is going to find what he’s always wanted - someone to choose him. When he’s forced into co-owning the local inn with his childhood crush, he finds the best way to hold her attention-help him find a wife. When proxitimy and open conversation lead to true feelings, he takes the risk to make her his. Will Holden’s dreams come true? 
 
Sadie Waters has always chosen poorly in her love life. When she inherits her aunt’s Queen’s Cove inn, she takes the opportunity to fix all her money, life, and romance problems. Enter - Holden Rhodes - the grumpy knight in a black rain parka. Finding him a wife shouldn’t be difficult, the man is gorgeous and surprisingly kind. She can make his dreams come true… who cares if deep down she’s always had a secret crush? 

Best of the series!

My favorite of the series! Sexy, flirty, hilarious and sweet! Holden is by far the dreamiest book boyfriend in Queen's Cove...and the chemistry is fantastic! Obsessed with this adorable story!

The audio performances were top notch. Emotive, thoughtful, beautifully performed.

Laugh out loud love!

I love Stephanie archer, if she writes it I’ll read it. I love the running jokes throughout the story and the incorporation of the characters from the previous books in the series, and this was dual narration and it was perfect! 10/10

Sweet and saucy romance

This was a cute story about a stubborn guy and a bubbly girl going through some life stuff. It was very sweet and the spicy scenes were pretty good with one or two that made me blush and save a bookmark to share with my friends later 👀 #thenbetheboss

The performance of the narrators was quite good, and I really enjoyed the duo aspect to it. The voice of Holden was firm and sexy, but sweet when he needed to be. As a listener from Canada, the one irritation I had was that both of the voice actors kept saying Toronto as “Tor-ohn-Tow” when a real Canadian would know that it is “churr-ohn-oh”, and with the city being repeated quite a lot, it took me out of it a bit 😂

these voice actors brought such fun!

okay so I loved this book! All of the Queens Cove books are so good at mixing spice and full on comedy. I was a little worried that the some of the jokes wouldn't be as funny said out loud. I WAS WRONG! Everything about the Aliens landed. LOL this book has comedy, spice, second chances, grumpy sunshine, and the perfect pacing to leave you wanting to read more.