Bonus Kisses

by Freya Barker

Overview

Free-spirited black sheep, Taz Boran, has worked tirelessly as a nurse bringing efficient medical care to Africa for the past eight years. But when her sister Nicky is told she doesn't have long to live, she immediately flies home to small-town Eminence, Missouri. 

 

Unfortunately, taking care of Nicky means being around her husband, Rafe; the one man Taz could never forget. Rafe is not only her brother-in-law but also took over the family veterinary clinic from her dad. 

 

As Taz becomes Nicky's home health care nurse—working closely with Rafe to make her sister comfortable—their latent attraction comes sizzling back to the surface. They won't betray Nicky, but if her dying wish is to see them get the happy ending they always deserved, can they really keep fighting what's meant to be?

Product Details

BN ID:	2940164501464
Publisher:	Freya Barker
Publication date:	12/07/2020
Sold by:	Draft2Digital
Format:	eBook
File size:	556 KB

About the Author

USA Today bestselling author Freya Barker loves writing about ordinary people with extraordinary stories. Driven to make her books about 'real' people; she creates characters who are perhaps less than perfect, each struggling to find their own slice of happy, but just as deserving of romance, thrills and chills in their lives. Recipient of the ReadFREE.ly 2019 Best Book We've Read All Year Award for "Covering Ollie, the 2015 RomCon "Reader's Choice" Award for Best First Book, "Slim To None", Finalist for the 2017 Kindle Book Award with "From Dust", and Finalist for the 2020 Kindle Book Award with "When Hope Ends", Freya continues to add to her rapidly growing collection of published novels as she spins story after story with an endless supply of bruised and dented characters, vying for attention!

Editorial Reviews

2021-02-03
A young woman cares for her dying sister and finds herself struggling with romantic feelings for her sibling’s husband in this novel.

When Natasha Boran, the free-spirited misfit of her family, receives word that her sister, Nicky, is dying, she heads immediately from her job in Africa to her hometown of Eminence, Missouri. Natasha, also known as Taz, has been in Congo, working for Doctors Without Borders and trying to forget the rift between herself and her family. Nine years earlier, she found herself falling in love with her sister’s fiance, and rather than destroy Nicky’s future, Taz high-tailed it out of town before the wedding. Although Taz feels she was misjudged and unfairly maligned by Nicky and their parents, when she learns her sister is dying, all sour feelings are instantly forgotten. When Taz gets to Missouri, she moves in with Nicky; her husband, Rafe; and their two young kids. As Taz and Rafe nurse Nicky through her final days, many of Taz’s old feelings for him come rushing back to her. She slowly begins to question whether Nicky might actually be trying to push Taz and Rafe closer to each other. Meanwhile, the sisters’ mother is constantly stopping by the house, berating Taz for her every choice and making emotionally trying circumstances all the more difficult. Told in alternating voices from Taz’s and Rafe’s perspectives, Barker’s story delves deep into the pain the protagonist feels at losing a sibling and her confusion over how to handle her feelings for Rafe. The chapters narrated by Rafe feel more topical, focusing mainly on his attraction to Taz and his struggle to resist his yearslong yearning for her. With angry parents and a terminally ill sibling, there are many intensely emotional moments throughout the tale as well as some surprisingly spicy sex scenes. Reading as both a family drama and a romance, this story tries to accomplish a lot. The result is a sometimes-disjointed narrative in which characters’ emotions flip on a dime. Even so, the relationship between Taz and Rafe feels sufficiently authentic and compelling that readers will keep turning the pages to see how the tale ends.

A tear-jerking romance well suited for fans of complicated family dynamics and unlikely affairs.

Kirkus Reviews