Inked Craving

Montgomery Ink: Fort Collins

By: Carrie Ann Ryan

Narrated by: Emma Wilder, Aaron Shedlock

The Montgomery Ink saga from NYT best-selling author Carrie Ann Ryan continues with a friends-to-lovers romance that breaks all of their own rules.

Instead of walking away with a marriage proposal, Paige Montgomery ended up brokenhearted and pregnant.

Now she has to figure out how to begin her life again alone.

She refuses to fall for another man, yet every time she sees Lee Grier, her traitorous heart aches for him. It doesn’t matter he’s her brother’s best friend and wants to be her rock in the storm. She knows she has to weather the oncoming pressures on her own.

When they can no longer fight the pull between them, they’ll have to remember that passion can only shelter them from reality for so long, and letting themselves fall will be the hardest step yet.

©2022 Carrie Ann Ryan (P)2022 Carrie Ann Ryan

Absolutely amazing

18% in and I cried this story gave me all kinds of feels. I think they may be my favorite couple of the Fort Collins Montgomery’s. I loved how all the guys and girls were ready to get on a plane and take care of Colton. Lee was pure perfection and hearing his back story I felt so much for him. Seeing Paige not have control or this written in her planner made it all the more endearing. I wanted to hug Paige and then the….—which will not be stated …I almost died. God I just loved them. The entire family always being there. Love hearing about them. I could not stop reading this story. Carrie Ann you know how to write a story and put us back together. The narrators brought this masterpiece to life. I felt everything even more listening to them. Thank you.

Loved Lee and Paige

This is the 4th book in the Montgomery Ink series. And I'm thoroughly enjoying Paige and Lee's story. A friends to lovers, amazing characters, beautifully written with an hea book that you do not want to miss. Each story keeps getting better and better Can you can't help but falling in love with the different characters.

Lee and Paige

An emotionally captivating, endearing, heartfelt and beautiful friends to lovers romance. Lee and Paige are perfection. It just melted my heart seeing Lee step right in an help Paige with anything and everything she needed. You could feel the love between these two. It honestly gave me a little bit of hope that some day I could find myself like Lee. Fantastic story!

Absolutely loved it!

I absolutely loved this book! I love a good family series and this one is top of the heap. It has well developed characters and is well written.

Sweet Story.

Another beautiful book in the series. Brother’s best friend and a family friend. Surprise pregnancy.
And amazing narrating duo!

Great story!

I absolutely loved this story! It was a great read and I loved the characters. It was awesome getting to see Lee and Paige come together and build something. They have each had a crush/thing for the other but no idea and with intention of ever going there due to the fact that Lee is best friends with Paige's brothers. Paige has broken up with her boyfriend that has moved away across the country for a job/career opportunity (and finding out that they were at completely different places in the relationship) and has now found out that she is pregnant. It was great watching Lee step in and make sure that Paige had someone and not letting her push him away but giving her the space she needed without feeling alone. I love watching these two overcome the hurdles they had. Due to what happened with Lee when he was a teenager, he never expected to have a family but he just couldn't avoid forming one with Paige. This story pulled me in from beginning to end and was adorable in a lot of places. I really enjoyed this and holy crap with the teaser at the end regarding Archer (Paige's brother). I can't wait to get his story and catch up with the rest of these Montgomery's again.
The narrators did a fantastic job with this story and bringing it to life. I really enjoyed listening to it.

Best Friends to Lovers

This friends to more book has all of the good feels. Paige is seriously let down and feeling low and Lee Grier becomes the best support system a person could ask for. I loved this story very much. The emotion ring so true. I listened on audio and the narration is perfect. Get this one you wont regret it

Paige +Lee = {{{SWOON}}}

I have been waiting for this one since Carrie Ann posted about it. And once again she did not disappoint.

Emma Wilder & Aaron Shedlock were everything I needed Paige & Lee to be. The emotions were felt deep in my heart. Thank you both for an amazing performance.

Love Lee and Paige!

Paige's dream is to get married and have a family like her siblings. She thinks she'll have that with her boyfriend Colton until he is offered his dream job in New York and leaves her behind. A couple months after he's gone, Paige discovers she's pregnant with his child. This has sent Paige's life in a different direction than she had planned and she's determined to do it alone.

Lee, her brother's best friend, has been attracted to Paige for some time and when she confides in him about the pregnancy, as her friend too, Lee convinces her to let him be her support system so she doesn't have to do it alone.

A friends to lovers story with a twist. One night together at the beginning of their arrangement has their feelings changing from friendship to something more but will Lee's past and Paige's insecurities keep them from becoming the family they both want and getting the HEA they both deserve.

Emma Wilder and Aaron Shedlock are great narrators!

Inked Craving

A sweet story about finding love where you least expect it. Paige thought she had it all but in one afternoon she lost it. Yet life is not done with her yet. Paige is determined to show everyone including herself that she is strong enough to do things on her own. Lee steps in and shows Paige what a good man he is. Little do the two know that love will find its way to them whether they want it to or not.

I enjoyed seeing Lee and Paige find their way. The two are good together and they find out that you cannot ignore what your heart wants. It was nice to see the personalities of these two more in depth. The development of their friendship to something deeper made for a nice read but the added drama towards the end was a bit over the top for me. Paige is much stronger than she thinks, and Lee is a good man with a heartbreaking past. I loved seeing the two find something worth fighting for. Their story moves along nicely, and narrators Emma Wilder and Aaron Shedlock bring the emotions of the characters out while keeping the listener engaged in the plot.