I love Peggy! Have been waiting for her story since Too Hot To Handle and Too Wild To Tame. The heat between her and Elliot was sizzzzzzzzling!! True Tessa Bailey style, it delivered on emotion and laught out loud moments. Fantastic book. Can't wait for Belmont's story! Totally recommend this one!!

So a new little ditty I’m trying out…a review in short! I know we all are limited on time so rather than me blathering on and on, I figured a few sentences would be perfect! Here goes…
What’s not to love about a second chance romance, especially when written by Tessa Bailey? Elliott and Peggy have an intense past that ended way too soon, leaving more than a few things and plenty of feelings left hanging in the balance. Neither one of them are able to forget the other, and with flashbacks to some of their most heated moments, it’s no wonder why! Their road back to each other was a total doozy and the emotions ran high while I was reading. I simply loved these two and wanted them to get back together with a panicked desperation! Not to worry…it all ends out exactly as I had hoped *swoon*
Tessa shines once again when her dirty talking alpha male hero not only has to make up for his flawed past moments with Peggy, but also has to win her back and a place in her future. There were two incredible moments int his book that I can’t wait for you all to read….the nail polish and the speech at the end. Grab your tissues, ladies and gents, Elliott will have you crying happy tears!
Thank you, Tessa, for another sexy and kick ass read! I will never ever get enough of your dirty talking men and the gals (and guys) who love them! (oh yeah, and thanks for being my first review in short! xo)

Too Hard to Forget (Romancing the Clarksons Book #3)
Publication Date: April 25, 2017
Contemporary Romance
Forever

Reviewed by Kini

This time, she's calling the shots.

Peggy Clarkson is returning to her alma mater with one goal in mind: confront Elliott Brooks, the man who ruined her for all others, and remind him of what he's been missing. Even after three years, seeing him again is like a punch in the gut, but Peggy's determined to stick to her plan. Maybe then, once she has the upper hand, she'll finally be able to move on.

In the years since Peggy left Cincinnati, Elliott has kept his focus on football. No distractions and no complications. But when Peggy walks back onto his practice field and into his life, he knows she could unravel everything in his carefully controlled world. Because the girl who was hard to forget is now a woman impossible to resist.

Tessa Bailey writes top-level dirty talking heroes. Seriously, she is the queen of filthy talking alpha heroes. The characters in her books tend to be a little younger and verge on being New Adult, so I haven’t been making them top priority. I am so thankful for Mandi nudging me to read this for review. This book was really, really good.

Bailey excels at the sexy times- this book was no different and it had a surprising amount of emotional depth. Not that her other books don’t have emotions but Elliott, our hero, has suppressed his feelings and emotions for so long that when it finally surfaces it is just amazing. And heartbreaking. And wonderful. Elliott is the head coach of a college football team, he is also a widower, parent, and a devout Catholic who frequently prays after sex. Y’all- Elliott is kind of effed up. And I LOVED him. I have so many Elliott quotes. Here’s one to help you understand his internal struggle.

Therein lay the issue, didn’t it? Always had. When he looked at Peggy, he felt too damn much, making her a constant reminder of how little he’d felt for someone he’d sworn to serve. In the eyes of God. He would never forgive himself for that.

See, I told you. He’s tortured. You know I love a tortured hero.

Our heroine, Peggy, is returning to her alma mater, where Elliott coaches, for alumni weekend. She is considerably younger. They started their relationship when Peggy was still a student and this just adds to Elliott’s torture. Peggy is back because she wants to move on from Elliott. We get peeks into the past with flashbacks of their previous time together. They really enhanced the story and helped me to connect with Peggy and Elliott.

Peggy has issues of her own as she struggles with who she is and her place in the world. She is on a road trip with her siblings after having recently lost their mother. When Peggy left three years ago, she didn’t want to go. But being back, she is immediately drawn to him. Yet she also knows he’s probably not good for her. Here’s some of Peggy’s struggle.

But until now, she’d never actually wanted to get over Elliott, had she? No. No, getting over him would mean shutting off her center of gravity. Pretending she’d never felt the organ race out of control in her chest, just hearing another person’s name. Who would want to forget that kind of insanity?

So we now know that both of our main characters are not over each other. Of course they engage in dirty, hot sex. In one flashback scene he spanks her and then he uses a Sharpie to sign his name on her butt. And the epitome of Tessa Bailey smutty talk right here-

“I’ve done a lot of things backwards,” he said against her ear. “But licking your pussy isn’t one of them.”

“Whuuu?”

His lips traced the sensitive skin of Peggy’s neck and her damn legs actually started to shake. “It occurred to me earlier when you were kneeling on the bed in that skirt…” A long, growling suck of her flesh. “That I haven’t had my tongue in your cunt since you were a cheerleader.”

Elliott finally come to his senses on how amazing Peggy is and how he wants to make it work. When Elliott to go all in, he goes ALL IN to earn Peggy’s love. It was fantastic to read. I feel like this exchange summarizes their pain and need for each other.

“Tell me you missed me.”

Elliott’s head snapped up, his gaze homing in on her, disbelief crackling like a fireplace fire in his expression.

[...]

“Miss you?” He grated the incredulous question, dropping his mouth to her temple. “You left me without a soul. I can barely remember the days since you left. They passed without me feeling a single thing. Because you are feeling for me. You’re the only thing that keeps me from being numb. Twice in my life you’ve turned me back into a living, breathing man, and missing you… missing you, Peggy, doesn’t even begin to cover it. You revive me.”

This book is part of a series and stands alone well. I haven’t read the previous two books. Two of Peggy’s siblings come up in passing, but I didn’t feel like I was missing much. They are no longer on the road trip. However, she is still traveling with her brother Belmont. He is quite broody and mysterious and Bailey did a fantastic job of piquing my interest in his story.

The one quibble I have with this book is Elliott’s daughter Alice. For me, she bordered on being a plot moppet. Alice is 12 and deserved more attention than Elliott gave her. She came off as slightly lacking in dimension and true purpose. Overall this did not take away from the other goodness happening in the story.

I’ll go Peggy style and use a baseball metaphor and say that Bailey knocked this out of the park. Get the book for the sexy talk and stay for the emotional journey. I hope you will not be disappointed.

Grade: A-

Best of the series so far to me.
Bailey isn't afraid to dive into the deep end of...everything in this book. I got WAY more than I was expecting with this storyline. There was a depth to Peggy and Elliott that Bailey went into that I reveled in and it totally twisted me into little bits and pieces. I've read everything Ms. Bailey has written and I've said with other books that they were the best she's ever written and I can say with the utmost confidence that this is the best book she's written to date. No ifs ands or buts.

Don't even get me started on Sage and Belmont. ;)

The third book in the Romancing the Clarksons was very angsty with a side of hope and second chances. This was truly an intense book but it worked brilliantly for Peggy and Elliott’s story.

With each stop on this road trip we get another puzzle piece in the Clarksons siblings’ lives. Tessa wrote a beautifully turmoil story that makes you believe in second chances. The characters are raw with real emotion and heart.

Both Peggy and Elliott are dealing with fears and past demons but gradually see that they are good for each other.

I really am looking forward to Belmont and Sage’s story.

Unfortunately this one was a DNF for me. I really didn't like this one. It was just too different form the first two. The religious aspect really put me off of the story.

Too Hard to Forget by Tessa Bailey was amazing!!

Peggy and Elliott were incredible together! They had such a beautiful and dynamic connection to each other! I constantly found myself wanting to be in their shoes, so that I was the actual person in the story!

The fact that this story involved football as well as exes was another reason I was completely head over heels in love with the novel!

This phenomenal author has written another novel that I have fallen in love with!! I urge everyone to go and pick it up for themselves today!
5/5 Stars!

Show of hands; who likes a good grovel?
How about an EPIC grovel?
How about a grovel that lasts for almost the entire half of a book?
How about when that grovel is wrapped into one of the sexiest and most delicious second chance romance stories?
And what if ALL THAT is written by the queen of dirty talk, Tessa Bailey?
Confession time, this was possibly my least anticipated book in the series. *cringes*
Don't look at me like that! It just wasn't, ok? Something about Peggy never really struck out at me, but boy am I eating my words right now because not only did I love her but this ended up being one of my top favorite Tessa Bailey books. Ever. True story.

Three years ago Peggy Clarkson fell for a man that was completely off limits. She was the popular and bubbly cheerleader, he was the closed off and brooding football coach. Their relationship was forbidden, their love was unexpected, and their end inevitable. Three years have passed and both their lives haven't been the same. While Peggy has plowed her way through a string of failed engagements, Elliot has been married to his football coaching job. Now Peggy is back in town and she knows the one thing that may fix her broken self is to leave Elliot in her dust when she walks away from him this time around. But fate has other plans...

Man oh man did this book grab me from the very first. I love a good forbidden factor and Elliot and Peggy's beginnings were certainly that. Peggy was always quick to smile and sunny and drew everyone into her orbit. Elliot is a man that only had two constants in his life; football and religion. Now I have to say, I was a little nervous about the religious element of the book. Tessa managed to take that fear and make into one of the hottest things I've ever read. Holy moly that one scene in the beginning that involved a certain Our Father prayer? *fans ovaries*

Every single detail of this book had a deeper reason. I loved the way that the author tied in Elliot's self loathing, religion, and guilt into a particular kink that Peggy had developed. Both of these characters had such depth to them that you couldn't help but fall for both of them. You want to be mad at Elliot for the way he treated Peggy but you just can't. And then there's the angst. Sweet mother, the angst! The first half of I want you but I can't have you, I want you but I don't forgive you push and pull? DE-LE-CIOUS. I was rooting so hard for both of them and I loved getting peeks into their past. The flashbacks were done so flawlessly that they seamlessly flowed into the story.

And then there's the second half of the book that is one. long. delicious. grovel. Oh my god! It was so good. I don't even have words. I cried, I swooned, I couldn't stop reading.

This was easily one of my favorite Tessa Bailey books to date. It was EVERYTHING. EVERYTHING. It was swoony and ridiculously sexy. It was addicting and unputdownable. It was one of the most satisfying second chance romances I've read in a long while and I simply can't recommend it enough.

This is the third book in the series about the brothers and sisters driving from San Diego to the Atlantic Ocean to follow something they read out of their mother’s diary after she passed and the restaurant burned down. One sister stayed behind in New Mexico, a brother in Iowa and now Peggy is confronting her fear or I should say man in coach Elliot Brooks who when she was a senior in college and a cheerleader she went after him after his wife passed away. Now she feels that if she can get him to feel for her the way she felt for him three years ago and walk away maybe just maybe she can move on and finally get married to a man who asks her. She has backed out of four proposals. Coach Brooks figures that since that even though it is Alumni week the one person that he has always wondered about still won’t show up. Then he notices his players and coaches stopping to look across the field and while turning he hears the voice that knocks him back and is shocked when he is looking at Peggy who has actually gotten hotter since she left and nonchalantly says ‘’hi” coach and he is thrown for a loop. She is also but does not want him to know. There is a lot going on in this book between them, his daughter, and Peggy helping his daughter but also the two of them. You also get see her grow and you wonder what is it for the coach to make him wake up and smell anything. Once you get pass the steamy sex scenes you are with Peggy totally and are ready for her to leave Cincinnati. This is a fantastic book with many good characters to name and adding the daughter with her normal 12 year old problems to the mix just makes this even a better book. A great read.

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3.5 Stars.
This is the third book in a four-part series about the Clarksons, adult siblings who began a road trip from San Diego to NYC at the behest of their late mother. They were meant to bond with each other--because this is a rather dysfunctional family--and all jump into the ocean on January 1st. While you can read this one on its own, I know I enjoyed it more for having read the first and second books already. As the books progress, one of the Clarksons find his/her soulmate and stops traveling with the promise of reuniting for the Big Plunge.

This book is about the youngest Clarkson, Peggy, finding her true love. Peggy's twenty-five and broken four engagements at the altar. She came back from college a shattered person, despite her bubbly facade. Her mother suspected she'd had her heart broken, and it was true. Approaching Cincinnati, Peggy wants to stop in at her alma mater and shake loose the dust of the man who smashed her heart: head football coach of the Cincinnati Bearcats, Elliott Brooks.

Elliott Brooks is a superstitious man, but not a sentimental one. He knows football and church, and if he veers even a little the consequences could be devastating. Case in point, he barely knew his wife of fifteen years. When she injured herself and called for help, he didn't answer, because he'd veered. And, she languished int eh cold, eventually falling into a coma and later dying.

Peggy Clarkson is a distraction to Elliott's ordered world. She's the sun shining on his un-pious mind. He never should have taken up with her when she was a senior in college, no matter how lonely and dejected he felt for failing his wife--a good woman he believes wasted her life with him. And, Peggy surely shouldn't go near his thirteen year old daughter, who quite seriously dislikes him.

But, Peggy does all these things, in her very Peggy way. Rescuing Elliott's daughter from socially-lethal stage fright and breathing life into Elliott again. Their previous relationship was way-dysfunctional, and Peggy thinks she's only happy if Elliott is demeaning her--not realizing that Elliott's loathing was only for himself, and his perceived failings.

Truly, I didn't like Elliott much. I'm glad his a far different man at the end of the book, because I mighta left him in the desert with a bottle filled with salt, if he didn't get better, and treat the people in his life like a compassionate human. Peggy is a woman who gives her all to a situation, or a man, and I'm glad she and Elliott were able to reach out and fix their dynamic. No person should be subject to the mind games she suffered. This wasn't my fave book int he series, but it's definitely sexy and worth a try. The ending is good, with a solid HEA and our favorite mostly-mute couple, Belmont and Sage, on the road (alone) to NYC. This is the love story I've been WAITING to read. Looking forward to it! Review copy provided by NetGalley.

Received an ARC from NetGalley for an honest review.

Wow. This one packed a really brutal punch. As much as Peggy wanted to make Elliott fall for her, I don't think she was fully prepared to face him again. He inflicted a LOT of damage on her. I appreciated that he realized that though. That he realized that he pretty much broke her and he was the only one who could put her back together. And I mean...she was broken. 4 engagements called off? At the same time, Elliott was dealing with so much baggage that he allowed himself to get buried under it. Even his daughter was too scared to get close.

Bailey has created this world where these siblings aren't afraid to go after what they need. As hesitant as they were to start on this venture, they are each getting so much out of it.

I NEED SAGE AND BEL'S BOOK NOW.

I couldn't stop reading, even when I was beyond annoyed with Elliot (and to some degree, Peggy). She was so sweet to his daughter and tried so hard, and he treated her pretty lousy at times. I'm enjoying the series-long arc of the journey the siblings are on to figure out their family and themselves.

This book gives you all the feels and is definitely my favorite of the series so far. Peggy is the baby of the family. The strong and confidant woman is hiding a secret and it's been one that she hasn't been able to move on from over the past three years. She's decided that enough is enough. There is no way she can move forward in her life until she comes face to face with the one man who has ruined her.

Elliott has been trying to focus on his football career for the past 3 years. He never expected to see Peggy again. He did what he thought was best to drive her away from him, but the chemistry between these two is red hot. And once he sees her... all bets are off.

This book will make you laugh, cry, scream, cheer - such an emotional roller coaster! An incredible second chance romance that will keep you turning page after page. Love this series and really enjoyed Peggy and Elliott.

Peggy Clarkson has been engaged several times since having graduated from college, searching for something she left behind there - or someone. When her brothers and sister set out on a cross-country road trip to honor their deceased mother, Peggy decides to attend her college reunion, along the way, and confront the ghost of her past relationship with Elliott Brooks, the very grumpy and straightlaced football coach at her alma mater. Sparks fly immediately in this reunited-lovers romance by Tessa Bailey, setting the stage for a red-hot romance that in itself is Too Hard to Forget.
 
While in college, Peggy was a cheerleader who got involved in a torrid and taboo affair with Coach Brooks. Coach Brooks was a widower with a young daughter, and he ate, slept and breathed football. There was little room in his life for anything else, until Peggy teased and pushed her way into Elliott’s life. However, he knew the relationship was wrong and eventually ended it, leaving Peggy devastated and full of unresolved emotional issues. When she plans her trip to her reunion, she decides to get revenge on Elliott, hoping that she will finally be able to move on with her romantic life. Of course, things don’t go quite the way she expects them to.
 
Elliott is quite the character. He’s very closed off, especially emotionally. He doesn’t connect well with anyone, except for maybe his football players. He has had great success as a coach and is revered in the local community. Yet his relationship with his daughter is distant and he is rather lonely. He lives with serious guilt about many things, but especially his not-so-great marriage with his now deceased wife (she had passed away before his earlier affair with Peggy). He also has even more guilt about the fact that he was not able to resist Peggy when she was a student.
 
But when Peggy arrives back on campus, the two find that the chemistry between them runs hotter than it did previously. This is good for Peggy’s plans for revenge, but not good for her plans to stay emotionally removed from Elliott. It doesn’t take these two long to indulge their desires and give into their lust. Sex between them is hot, naughty and rough. Elliott has a bit of a dominant streak and often has an angry edge during sex, as if he is angry with himself for indulging his sexual desires. He is also very religious, and there is a religious thread in their sexual encounters (this may be an issue for some readers). He spends hours at mass and carries rosary beads which make appearances at odd times.
 
This romance is hot and dirty and held me in its grip hard. Elliott is such an fiercely contained hero who desperately needs Peggy’s inner light and impulsiveness. They are explosive together and spend lots of time getting down and dirty. At one point, the two have rather angry sex in his office (with the aforementioned rosary beads on his desk next to Peggy). Elliott ends up spanking Peggy and then after they have each achieved that special moment, he does the following:
 
His stomach constricting with the need to claim her, he snatched a Sharpie out of the pen holder on the desk and signed his name across her right ass cheek, before letting the marker drop to the ground.
 
A Sharpie! He signs his name on her red ass with a Sharpie! I can tell you that this scene made it onto my WTF Sex Moments spreadsheet.
 
As per usual, Tessa Bailey delivers the heat and the Sharpie in her latest release, Too Hard to Forget, the third book in her Romancing the Clarksons series. While this one can be read as a stand alone, there are some series’ threads that readers may not understand if they haven’t read the books in order. But Peggy and Elliott’s romance is fantastic and is filled with so many dirty moments and so many powerfully emotional ones as well. I highly recommend.

Yes, I have found my favourite book in this series. I was very curious about the woman with the four broken engagements. What type of guy would hold her back from committing.

Then you meet Elliott, and it all makes sense. While a forbidden romance, because she was a student back then, it has always been more. Though things were complicated.

Elliott is a complex man. A legend on campus, outside the stadium he sees himself as a failure. Intend on punishing himself, he shies away from happiness.

Peggy was heartbroken, and now she’s back for vengeance. Believing she has the upper hand this time, she wants closure. Though soon she’s back dragged by the enigmatic man. Old wounds are reopened, emotions come to the surface, and Peggy is more lost than before.

Elliott truly is a special man. I absolutely did not like the effect of his behaviour towards Peggy. Though I do like how he finally tries to redeem himself. He needs to find some inner peace, and let people back in.

Peggy needed that confrontation with Elliott. She too has been running from her emotions. Reconnecting with Elliott might be exactly what she needs to be happy again.

Too Hard Too Forget will take you on quite a roller coaster ride. Two complex, though fascinating characters, will drag you into their world, and not let go ’till the last page. I highly recommend this book for anyone who loves a second chance romance, women who fight for what they want, and men who don’t give up.

*I received a copy from the author in exchange for an honest review*

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TOO HARD TO FORGET is the third installment in Tessa Bailey’s contemporary adult ROMANCING THE CLARSONS erotic, romance series focusing on the Clarkson siblings. This is youngest sibling Peggy Clarkson, and college football coach Elliott Brooks’s story line. TOO HARD TO FORGET can be read as a stand alone without any difficulty although I recommend reading the series in order for backstory and cohesion.

SOME BACKGROUND: One year earlier Miriam Clarkson passed away but not before leaving her now four grown adult children (Rita, Aaron, Peggy and Belmont) a journal of her most intimate thoughts and dreams. Miriam’s final wishes were for her children to seek out what is important in their lives and thusly a cross country trek began wherein each sibling will find his or her own happily ever after as they venture their way from California to New York City ending with a New Year’s Eve celebration. Rita found the love of her life in book one –Too Hot To Handle/ Aaron found love in book two-Too Wild to Tame.

Told from dual third person points of view (Peggy and Elliott) using present day and memories from the past, TOO HARD TO FORGET is a second chance story line focusing on college football coach Elliott Brooks, and one time cheerleader Peggy Clarkson. Three years earlier Elliott and Peggy ended a torrid but forbidden affair between coach and student-an affair that ended when Elliott pushed Peggy out of his life. Fast forward to present day, Alumni Week is in full swing at the University of Cincinnati, and the Clarkson cross-country tour pulls Peggy into the vortex of her of alma mater. Prepared to give Elliott a piece of her mind Peggy comes face to face with the man that ruined her for everyone else, never expecting to pick up where everything went wrong. Enter Elliott Brooks, widowed father of one pre-tween daughter, and the man that broke our heroine’s heart and soul. What ensues is the rekindling romance between Elliott and Peggy, Elliott’s struggle to forgive himself for sins of the past, and the scramble to save one player’s home from bankruptcy and loss.

The relationship between Elliott and Peggy is one of second chances for two people destroyed by one man’s guilt. Elliott is a practicing Catholic who has difficulty forgiving himself for the loss of his wife (a woman he considered more of a friend than soul mate) and for falling in love with the forbidden fruit in the Garden of Eden. Peggy was a senior at University of Cincinnati but catching the eye of the school’s infamous football coach placed Peggy on the fast track to lust, love and a potential happily ever after until her world came crashing down when Elliott pushed her out of his life. The $ex scenes are erotic, intense and seductive. Elliott likes to talk dirty in the bedroom; Peggy likes it a little rough.

With two of the Clarkson siblings having found love on the cross country journey, that left Peggy and Belmont, along with Peggy’s best friend Sage to continue onward towards New York and a New Year’s Eve celebration. Belmont struggles with dark demons and his attraction to his sister’s best friend Sage; Sage’s past hints to an abusive and neglectful start.

The world building continues to focus on the Clarkson’s journey towards love and a happily ever after. Told through present day, as well as memories from the past, the reader goes along for the ride as each sibling finds their purpose and role in life. The story line advances the series but a few days.

TOO HARD TO FORGET is a story of heartbreak and sorrow; love and pain; emotional guilt and loss. The premise is realistic, emotional and energetic; the romance is passionate, palpable and compelling; the characters are colorful, intelligent and spirited. TOO HARD TO FORGET is a sultry story line of second chances for two people caught in a tidal wave of one man’s guilt.

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This is the third book in the Meet The Clarkson's series and their ongoing road trip across the country. Peggy wants to make a stop at her alma mater and finally get over her college fling. This book was surprising in its intensity in this book. Coach Brooks is a very intense guy and full of Catholic guilt about his life. Not gonna lie the intense Catholic guilt and the strong religious overtones in the book made me struggle a little more than I normally would with a Tessa Bailey book, but they weren't over the top and felt genuine for the character.
Peggy and Elliot have this insanely strong pull towards each other and it made for some super hot, super intense scenes. And the forbidden relationship aspect just added to the drama and intensity of this book. I really liked Peggy and her caring heart. At the beginning I wasn't sure of Elliot because of how he treated Peggy, but as he opened up and let go of some of his guilt I really started to enjoy him. This book was definitely a ride I was not prepared for but I am very happy I did. It seems that each book in this series is better than the last and I cannot wait to see how it ends.
I have really enjoyed seeing each of the Clarkson siblings journey in finding themselves and their missing piece so far, but I am dying to get Belmont's story. I wholeheartedly recommend this series and everything Tessa Bailey writes.

Another hit from the fabulously talented Tessa Bailey!! I swear she just knows how to give us what we need. A sexy as hell hero… check. A strong and sassy heroine… check. Some LOL moments… check. Some hot, dirty, naked time… check, check, and check again for good measure.

This is the third installment of the Clarkson family saga. Throughout the road trip we have lost some members and gained a whole lot more insight on this unique and loving family. This was Peggy’s story and it landed us in Cincinnati for the most part. There is a slight detour but that’s for you to read about.

Peggy returns to her college during alumni week for a few different reasons. But mainly to see the man who broke her heart and pushed her away. This is kind of a forbidden love story due to the fact that Elliot Brooks is the head football coach at her college. During her senior year Peggy and Elliot had a little naughty secret that couldn’t get out. They were doing the humpy bumpy dance together and if word got out it would of been a big no no. So they kept it hush hush but that didn’t stop Peggy from falling head over cheerleading heels for the sexy coach. She pulled, he pushed, she pulled some more and till he finally pushed her away for 3 long years. But Peggy is back and she is on a mission. Elliot Brooks will rue the day he ever let Peggy get away.

There is a lot that is explained in this book regarding Peggy and her love of engagements (4 of them) and then calling off said engagements (yes all 4). You also learn more regarding the mysterious Belmont and Sage story. I can’t wait to discover all the secrets of their story!! I recommend this book to anyone who’s ever wished for a HEA with the one that got away.