Blog Tour: Review & Excerpt of Endless Southern Love by Heidi McLaughlin

Series: Magnolia Grove Series
Author: Heidi McLaughlin
Release: August 29, 2024
Genre/Tropes: Second Chance; Enemies-to-Lovers; Small Town; Single Dad

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Single dad, Wade Jenkins, Magnolia Grove’s landscaping hottie who likes to mow lawns without a shirt on is thrown for a loop when his spirited seven-year-old daughter Goldie comes to live with him. While Wade’s thrilled to have his daughter full-time, there’s one little issue . . .
 
The elementary school principal.
 
Lemon Walsh is a woman who doesn’t live life to the fullest, despite her best friend urging her to all the time. When someone from her past shows up front and center, she has no choice but to finally reconcile the decision she made in college.
 
Will one of her students be the catalyst for change?
 
My thoughts:

 Endless Summer Love is the 8th book in the Magnolia Grove series.  I have really enjoyed this series so far.  This one involves  Lemon and Wade.  I will admit that this one wasn't my favorite of the series.  The entire conflict between the couple hinged on whether they were on a break or not. I had flashbacks of Ross and Rachel  from Friends and their constant fight over that very thing. It really got old and I thought Lemon was a bit unreasonable.  So instead of talking it out with the man, she just chose to avoid him for years.  I wish that part was shorter in the book.  It dragged out too long and left little room for the couple to spend really talking things out and getting to know how they had changed over the years.  I did love Wade, however.  What an awesome dad he was to Goldie.   I did like the ending and I think it's worth reading.  I hope Ana gets her own HEA.  That woman deserves it.

Excerpt:

“Wade . . .” I say his name for the first time, to him, in years. It hurts, hearing my voice call out to him.
He stops and sets his shovel down. I didn’t expect him to walk toward me, but he does. Each step of his is deliberate and forceful, almost like he’s trying to leave his impression in the grass. He’s wearing his khaki cargo pants and from experience I know each pocket has something he’ll need today. A tool, twine, or trimmer line for the weed wacker. I’ve spent countless hours sitting on my parent’s front porch, watching him cut lawn with precision.

I’m out of breath when he comes face to face with me. He stands close. Close enough that we share the same air. Everything in my mind tells me to step back, to put a wall between us, but my heart sings at the closeness. I know I’ll never win the battle of hating him as long as we’re in the same town.
We stare at one another, taking each other in. His dark hair, brown eyes, and scruff all call to me, beg me to get lost in everything that is Wade Jenkins. I have loved this man for most of my life, and yet he’ll never be mine.
 
Available Now/Coming Soon in the Series:
>> Series Buy Link → https://mybook.to/MagnoliaGrove
 
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Blurb & PreOrder: https://mybook.to/EndlessSouthernLove
 
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Author Bio:
Heidi McLaughlin is a New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and USA Today Bestselling author of The Beaumont Series, The Boys of Summer, and The Archers.
In 2012, Heidi turned her passion for reading into a full-fledged literary career, writing over twenty novels, including the acclaimed Forever My Girl.
Heidi’s first novel, Forever My Girl, has been adapted into a motion picture with LD Entertainment and Roadside Attractions, starring Alex Roe and Jessica Rothe, and opened in theaters on January 19, 2018.
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