Full Moon Over Freedom

by Angelina M. Lopez

Overview

"Angelina Lopez is the new queen of small-town romance—and of our hearts!" —SIERRA SIMONE, USA TODAY bestselling author of A Merry Little Meet Cute

Gillian Armstead-Bancroft—Pride of the East Side and once-perfect bruja, wife, and mother—is going to spend her summer getting good at being bad.

The first time she left Freedom, Kansas, behind, she did it by doing everything right.

This time, she’ll hide from the large Mexican American family welcoming her home and work in secret to break the curse that’s erased her magical life. Only by doing it all wrong can Gillian get herself and her two children away from the ghosts of her hometown by summer’s end.

Nicky Mendoza is an answer to her prayers. He was the practical solution to the problem of her virginity when they were younger, and now, as a gorgeous artist in town for only a weekend, he’s the ideal man to launch her down the path of ruination.

But Gillian isn’t the only one who’s cursed.

Nicky has been plagued by his furtive, enduring love for her as long as he’s been haunted by his cadejo, the phantom black dog that stalks his psyche. He’ll stick around to be whatever Gillian needs him to be this summer—but he won't touch her. Touching her, then watching her leave again, would ruin him for good.

Milagro Street

Book 1: After Hours on Milagro Street
Book 2: Full Moon Over Freedom

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780369719164
Publisher:	Harlequin
Publication date:	09/05/2023
Series:	Milagro Street , #2
Sold by:	HARLEQUIN
Format:	eBook
Pages:	336
Sales rank:	595,019
File size:	950 KB

About the Author

Angelina M. Lopez writes sexy, contemporary stories about strong women and the confident men lucky to fall in love with them. She has been writing professionally her whole life: first as a journalist for an acclaimed city newspaper, then as a freelance magazine writer and a content marketer for small businesses, and now as a romance author. She lives with her family outside of Washington, D.C. You can find more about her at her website, AngelinaMLopez.com.

Editorial Reviews

07/03/2023

It’s a summer of second-chances in Lopez’s sparkling standalone second Milagro Street romance (after After Hours on Milagro Street). After Gillian, a bruja and the eldest Armstead sister, divorces her rich East Coast husband of 10 tumultuous years, she finds herself broke, unemployed, and unable to access her magic, and returns to her family home in Freedom, Kans., for the summer with her two children in tow. Gillian hopes to lie low, but she’s almost immediately roped into a part time job with the Freedom Historical Society—where she’s forced to share her workspace with the gorgeous Nicky Mendoza, her childhood friend and ex-lover, now a famous artist planning a mural in town. The longer the pair works together, the harder it is to deny their rekindling attraction, and Nicky’s support may be just the spark Gillian needs to regain both her magic and the life she wants. Gillian and Nicky’s slow-burning relationship is sprinkled with sporadic yet steamy love scenes, and the injection of some supernatural elements into the series adds fun. Gillian reclaiming her brujeria forms the empowering heart of this tale, but there’s unfortunately little room to develop Nicky as thoroughly, leaving him feeling comparatively two-dimensional. Still, there’s plenty here to draw in small-town romance fans. Agent: Sara Megibow, KT Literary. (Sept.)

Publishers Weekly

"Full Moon Over Freedom is a layered, complex look at love and identity and the complications of starting over when you're haunted by both the near and distant past. Gillian is a fully realized heroine—fierce, flawed, wounded, and so determined—and readers won't soon forget her and the magic she brings to the page.” –Kate Clayborn, author of Georgie, All Along


“A masterfully crafted second chance love story that aches as deliciously as it burns. With its deft blend of history, inspired social commentary, phenomenal character development, and scorching chemistry, this book reads like Laura Esquivel’s and Susan Elizabeth Philips’s perfectly sexy love child... The kind of book that reminds me why this genre owns my heart. –Adriana Herrera, USA TODAY bestselling author of A Caribbean Heiress in Paris


"Small town childhood friends to lovers, with a dash of second chance and a generous helping of heat? Yes, please! Full Moon Over Freedom is luscious and magical and unapologetically grown-up. Lopez is remaking the romance genre one gorgeously sexy book at a time." —Sierra Simone, USA Today bestselling author of Priest

“It’s a summer of second-chances in Lopez’s sparkling standalone second Milagro Street romance. [...] There’s plenty here to draw in small-town romance fans.” —Publishers Weekly

"This book is everything you want in a contemporary romance —the sexiest cinnamon roll of a hero, a heroine willing to take a good hard look at herself, and a little bit of magic." - Elizabeth Everett, author of A Lady’s Formula for Love


"Both spellbinding and sexy, this romance is an adventurous tale of the cursed and the blessed, and the community that raised them." —Library Journal

“This is the work of a writer who knows and celebrates her community and her culture. It’s also a love story that embraces the unusual, celebrates the unsung and makes you believe the words of another famous Kansan: There’s no place like home.”—BookPage

From the Publisher

An author worth returning to again and again.”

Entertainment Weekly

Angelina Lopez is the new queen of small-town romance—and of our hearts!”

USA Today bestselling author Sierra Simone

★ 08/01/2023

Magical Gillian Armstead-Bancroft returns to her Mexican American family broken, unemployed, and ashamed. The husband who she flaunted turned out to be abusive and a cheater, and her stake in the family bar is now part of the divorce blackmail that also includes a nasty battle for custody of their two children. Returning to her large and boisterous clan in Freedom, KS, also means returning to her childhood flame Nicky Mendoza and the knowledge that her magic is gone and she is the curse ruining everything around her. Gillian will have to try to calm the ghosts, who seem to block her magic and good sense, and see if she can find her place with her family—and Nicky. Both spellbinding and sexy, this romance is an adventurous tale of the cursed and the blessed, and the community that raised them. VERDICT In this second installment of the "Milagro Street" series, Lopez (After Hours on Milagro Street) interweaves history, Hispanic culture, magic, and passion in a modern-day love story.—Judy Garner

Library Journal

Stacy Gonzalez's fierce narration of Lopez's second-chance romance is a stormy yet satisfying listen. Fleeing an emotionally abusive ex, Gillian Armstead-Bancroft returns to her hometown of Freedom, Kansas, where she has an awkward reunion with her first lover, Nicky Mendoza. They then spend the summer working together on a downtown mural project. Gonzalez flexes her narrative power as the story moves from soft, revelatory passages to scenes of their shared past and the visceral punch of trauma and loss. She teases out Gillian's connection to Latin American folk magic in a gentle, compelling fashion. Gonzalez tracks the rising tension with Gillian's Mexican American family and impeccably delivers the dialogue between the couple. Gonzalez's boundless sensitivity to the longings of the heart completely transforms the story through her audio performance. C.A. Winner of AudioFile Earphones Award © AudioFile 2023, Portland, Maine

OCTOBER 2023 - AudioFile