Since You've Been Gone (Magnolia Sound Book 8)

Returning to Magnolia Sound feels like coming home. The Carolina coast is a special place, and stepping foot in this small town makes all those wonderful visits I’ve had to the coast come rushing back in vivid color.Emmeline Ryder and Garrett Coleman were best friends since they were eight years old. She helped him study when his grades were failing, and he made her feel less out of place, even when he became popular playing sports. But a boyfriend that led to a lousy marriage and veterinary school separated them by distance and time.Garrett has come back to Magnolia Sound for his brother’s groundbreaking on his new home. While Garrett would love to look up the girl who's always held a special place in his heart, it’s not fair to either of them when he's only in town for the weekend. But when their shopping carts run into each other at the grocery store, all efforts to stay away are washed out with the tide.Emma has her hands full between a full-time job, younger siblings to help out with, and her parents' animal rescue she dedicates a lot of time to. To make things even more hectic, the rescue’s vet is retiring and her step-father's upcoming back surgery will put him out of commission for six months.There's so much going on with this one and there's never a dull moment. Garrett's career choices, efforts to save the Happy Tails animal rescue, and financial challenges due to Emma's deadbeat ex-husband are just a few. I read this in one sitting, devouring the words as fast as possible and impatient to learn how things turned out. And don’t let this one fool you. Even with Chase's signature fade-to-black scenes, there's still plenty of steam and enticing chemistry to make your romantic heart happy.Family and community are strong, along with a little angst due to frustrations and disappointments. But love, support and second chances win out, making for the most exquisite manipulation of emotions. These perfectly flawed characters will easily make a place for themselves in your heart, so make sure you get your hands on this one as soon as possible!

Samantha Chase has done it again and has delivered another wonderful romance with Since You’ve Been Gone, the eighth book in her Magnolia Sound series. I love the Magnolia Sound series and each book in the series keeps getting better and better. I think that Since You’ve Been Gone is my favorite book in the series, who does not love a friends to lovers love story? Samantha Chase has once again provided her readers with amazing characters. I love all the characters in Since You’ve Been Gone, they feel like family! Who doesn't love hot sexy men, strong, passionate females, and big loving families, who always support one another? Samantha Chase continues to deliver all that and so much more. Reading Since You’ve Been Gone felt like catching up at a family reunion, and seeing how the lives of the other characters in the series have changed and all the babies! I so enjoyed the book and am looking forward to reading the remaining books in the series. Samantha Chase has once again shown that she is an amazing storyteller. Since You’ve Been Gone did not disappoint, I could not put it down and loved every page. I enjoy how Samantha Chase writes from the perspective of the two main characters. That way you get to know what is going on in each of their minds. Since You’ve Been Gone is a wonderful love story and is filled with heartbreaking and heartwarming moments. I love the lighter moments where I find myself smiling and laughing out loud and the bittersweet moments that pull at my heartstrings that cause me to sigh, as I read the heartbreaking moments eyes filling with tears. Since You’ve Been Gone is filled with such moments, and with so much more. It is filled with all those things that we have come to love and expect in a Samantha Chase love story, especially the poignant and bittersweet moments that filled this page turner. Since You’ve Been Gone is the story of Emmaline “Emma” Ryan, children’s reading specialist and her best friend Garrett Coleman, veterinarian and great-grandson of Ezekiel Coleman, founder of Coleman Construction and one of the founding fathers of Magnolia Sound. Emma and Garrett were childhood friends, and Garrett has been in love with Emmaline since he was eight years old. Not knowing, Garrett’s feeling for her, Emma married her high school sweetheart and divorces him. Garrett has returned home to Magnolia Sound for a long week end to be part of the ground breaking of Austin and Mia’s new home. Garrett is currently a social media star, because of his shirtless videos encouraging pet adoption. Emma finally gives in and watches Garrett’s videos and leaves him a message. Garrett is currently interviewing for permanent veterinarian positions, and is just passing through. Garrett and Emma begin spending time together and things quickly heat up between the two of them. s Garrett spends more at Happy Tails, Emma’s family pet rescue facility, he and Emma grow closer. As they spend more time together, they share secrets that they haven’t revealed to each other or with anyone before, and realize they may have something more than friendship. I love that both Garrett and Emma were both so vulnerable and that each of them changed because of their love for one another. Then a surprise plot twist that I did not see coming changes everything that they had built with one another. Things change when Emma decides to take matters into her own hands and ask others to assist her in building a future for her and Garrett. I loved the story and am so glad that both Emma and Garrett got their happily ever after that they waited so long for. I love all the surprises that Samantha Chase has included in Since You’ve Been Gone. My favorite part in the book is the epilogue and how it wraps up all the details of the happily ever after, and it did not disappoint, I loved Garrett’s proposal and how he works on making Emma’s dreams come true! Since You’ve Been Gone contains all the elements that I have love most in a Samantha Chase story, romance, great characters and setting, bittersweet moments and the plot twist that ties it all together. Amazing story. I could not put it down. Highly recommend this friends to lovers love story.