Book Title: Hold on to Love
Author: Roberta Capizzi
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Release Date: June 23, 2014
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Three weeks. All Alyssa O’Riordan
needs is three weeks away from her wealthy life in New York City, to clear her
mind and decide what she wants from her life. A dude ranch in Wyoming seems
like the perfect place for a temporary escape from the cage her life has
become.
What she doesn’t expect is to
come face-to-face with a handsome cowboy, who’s just as grumpy and rough as he
is good-looking. All of a sudden, the promise of a relaxing, invigorating
holiday seems long gone.
Three weeks. For Sean Maclaine, three
weeks around the new guest feel like an eternity. After his first-hand
experience with the upper class, rich daddy’s girls have become his worst
nightmare, so when Alyssa O’Riordan shows up at his family’s ranch, he knows
the time won’t go by fast enough. All he has to do is stay away from her, and
count the hours until she finally goes back to New York.
Three weeks. Will three weeks be
long enough for them to get over their prejudices and start looking beyond the
surface?
An avid reader since her
childhood years and being an only child, Roberta always enjoyed the company of
her fictional friends from the children’s books she loved reading, while she
dreamed of writing her own stories one day.
It was when she discovered novels
by authors Rosamunde Pilcher and Maeve Binchy in her teenage years that she
realized it was time she put down in words the stories she had kept well hidden
in her mind until then.
What started as a hobby, soon
turned into a real passion and a way of life, until she could no longer keep
the stories to herself, and decided to get over her fears and share them with
the world.
Roberta lives in Italy, but her
dream is to move out of her country and live either in a thatched cottage in
the Irish countryside or in a country house with a swing on the back porch,
somewhere in the United States, where she would love to spend her days writing
novels as a full-time job, and maybe one day even get as far as writing a
screenplay for a movie.
Alyssa checked her
watch and her face fell: it was past one o’clock. She’d been away almost four
hours and she’d slept nearly the entire time–no wonder they were all so worried
about her disappearance. How had it happened? She hadn’t slept so soundly in ages,
she couldn’t believe she had been able to sleep so long without ever waking up
and noticing it was time to go back.
She felt terribly sorry for causing so
much trouble; she’d have to make sure to apologize profusely to Mrs. Maclaine
as soon as she got back to the ranch. “I’m sorry, I guess I fell asleep and
didn’t realize it was so late…”
“If you wanted to take a nap, you could have
done so in your room or in the backyard. You really didn’t need to come out
here and have us all worried about what might have happened to you,” he cut her
off, curtly. “But no, of course Miss City Girl had to have it her way, or she
wouldn’t be happy. Because that’s what you’re used to, isn’t it? Daddy always
gives you what you want, so you think that everyone else will do the same, no
matter what.”
Alyssa was close to tears, and didn’t know what else to say to
apologize; nevertheless, he was still yelling at her, and his tone was so harsh
she thought she was either going to start screaming or kick him hard in the
shins. What right did he have to say those things to her, when she’d made it
clear she was sorry? “What’s wrong with you?” she shouted, throwing her hands
in the air in exasperation. “I said I was sorry, I didn’t do it on purpose. Why
do you have to be so thick, now?”
“Just because I’m a country man doesn’t mean
I’m stupid!” he said in a loud and harsh tone. Alyssa stood up, and he followed
suit. She was furious and desperately wanted to tell him all she thought of
him, without worrying too much about the consequences. She’d had enough now. “I
never said that!” she barked, feeling insulted; not only had he been awful to
her all week, now he was also putting words in her mouth, making her look like
the bad witch.
“Your riches don’t necessarily make you better than me,” he
said, adjusting his hat on his head. His eyes were ice slits, staring at her
from underneath the brim of his cowboy hat.
“I never said I’m better than you.
Yes, I come from money, so what? It’s not my fault.”
“It is if you look down on
people who don’t belong to your happy little world, and treat everyone else as
if they should be at your service, satisfying all of your whims, just because
you can afford it.”
“I don’t!” she yelled, exasperated from all this nonsense.
“I’m not that kind of person at all. And what right do you have to say these
things anyway, when you barely even know me?”
4 1/2 stars
This was a really good read. I loved Alyssa's determination to figure out her life. I also wondered what the hell was wrong with her parents that they couldn't see that she was unhappy. Like, blind to it. When Alyssa escaped to Wyoming and the Maclain's ranch, she had no idea that it would bring her such happiness just to be there. Then she meets Sean. Fireworks from the start. Sean is so determined that Alyssa is like someone else who was once in his life, he doesn't give her a chance. That's something he'll come to regret. Alyssa and Sean eventually overcome their differences and fall for each other. Things aren't that easy, however. She has a life in one place, and he in another. Sean doesn't see that Alyssa is not happy with where she's at, even though she's told him. So not only do they fight distance, but they fight differing lifestyles. I loved how this all turned out in the end, but it was some work and determinations on both their parts. Roberta did a great job with the characters and the story line as well.
This was a really good read. I loved Alyssa's determination to figure out her life. I also wondered what the hell was wrong with her parents that they couldn't see that she was unhappy. Like, blind to it. When Alyssa escaped to Wyoming and the Maclain's ranch, she had no idea that it would bring her such happiness just to be there. Then she meets Sean. Fireworks from the start. Sean is so determined that Alyssa is like someone else who was once in his life, he doesn't give her a chance. That's something he'll come to regret. Alyssa and Sean eventually overcome their differences and fall for each other. Things aren't that easy, however. She has a life in one place, and he in another. Sean doesn't see that Alyssa is not happy with where she's at, even though she's told him. So not only do they fight distance, but they fight differing lifestyles. I loved how this all turned out in the end, but it was some work and determinations on both their parts. Roberta did a great job with the characters and the story line as well.
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