Restore Me

New Haven, Book 1

Sloane: Dominic Alexander is my late husband's best friend and the last man that I should want. For the last ten years, he's taken a sick pleasure in making me feel paper thin, like my existence is of no consequence to him at all.

But now, things are different.

After a drunken night, and a surprisingly sexy act of heroism, he's started to be . . . nice. Treating me like something other than the embodiment of his annoyance, which would be nice if it didn't make me feel things I swore to never feel for another man after my husband died.

Dominic: Sloane Kent is going to be my undoing.

What's worse: I think I'm going to enjoy being unraveled by the gold flecks in her hazel eyes and the way she scrunches her nose when we're arguing, which we've done a lot of over the past decade. She thinks it's because I hate her, and I've let her think that because the alternative is . . . untenable.

But something is changing between us, and I don't know how to stop myself from breaking every promise I've ever made to myself regarding my best friend's wife. Promises that include never telling her that there's a long list of things I feel about her, but hate isn't one of them.

Contains mature themes.

©2021 Janil Seegars (P)2022 Tantor

Great story

Woo Chile. This was a great story but I thought I was gonna have to lose a credit because that female narrator was not great. I got through because I love Winston James. This would have been much better with with a better female voice.

Great Story, Not so Great Female Narrator

Loved Dom and Sloan’s unconventional love story. The female narrator sounded very robotic. The male narrator was perfect.

Dom & Sloane Are Everything

One of my favorite romances of all time. This book handles a forbidden second chance at love, finding love after loss, and premium spice. Also, the narrators are phenomenal!

JL Seegars is a masterful story teller!

The way this book captures your heart and mind from beginning to end is a masterclass in story telling and JL Seegars is one of my favorite authors. She is definitely top 5 for me.


I read this book on Kindle 4 times first and wanted to badly for the audiobook to draw me in the same way. The female narrator lacked all of the emotion and sounded like she was reading a manual for how to put together a bookcase or a weather forecast. This book needed the depth of a more emotional, connected narrator for the female parts since it is largely written from Sloane’s point of view. I wish she could make the voices of the characters sound different and not so flat. If I didn’t know the story well, I would have been confused about who was talking at times.

Winston James was great as always and was actually in my head as Dom while I was reading on kindle.

I really wish the parts that Dom had that were turning points in the story were narrated by Winston James.

What a foreshadow

Honest opinion, I almost believed that Winston was actually Dom. He truly captured the emotions of the character. Bianca's voice is soft and easy on the ears, but it felt like a simple narration.

Like most love stories(books & movies), the ending seemed rushed. There was so much emphasis on the sexual scenes that, although it was predictable, it ended in one chapter.

I did enjoy it, even though I found myself shouting, "Just tell them!" and "Just say it!" and "Just tell each other!" more times then I can count. 😄

I'll probably read the next one, but I need to take a break. I can just imagine Mallory's drama. SMH while I chuckle.