Three Rivers (A Gateway To Love Novel) (2014) - Plot & Excerpts
CARMIE'S REVIEW - Althea Taylor, Tea to her friends, finds herself alone again. Her husband working late again and their Christmas tree not decorated. She decides she’s had enough! She decorates the tree and calls her husband and tells him that tonight he needs to come clean about what’s bothering him. He agrees and says he’ll see here in a bit. Only he never makes it home.Devastated by Jack’s death, Althea can’t make herself get out of bed most days. Her friends Jenna and Aubrey come over every day, hoping every day that today will be different. Today is different – they make Althea take a pregnancy test wondering if her tiredness and vomiting are just more than the effects of grief.Flash forward to the night before Johnny’s fifth birthday party. Althea’s made it through five years of grief with the help from a few good friends. She finished law school and has raised an incredible little boy that loves punk rock. BUT she’s never gotten over Jack’s lose, she hasn’t moved on. “She’d belonged to no one but a ghost for years – simply living out her life sentence of grief without parole – subject to solitary confinement with nothing but memories to keep her warm in her cell.”Jenna and Aubrey convince Althea to have a girl’s night out with the sole goal of hooking Althea up with a one night stand. The ladies find one that is just right and he is definitely willing. Althea and Griffin have a wild night of passion after which she sneaks out. Griffin wakes up alone and sadly disappointed. He sets out to find her.Imagine their surprise when he shows up to Johnny’s birthday party with a close friend of Althea’s mother-in-law. Turns out Griffin, aka Nicky Tate, was Jack’s best friend through high school. Jack talked about Nicky often but they had never met; he never came to Jack’s funeral. Griffin is an award-winning best-seller author; he was knee deep in book edits when Jack emailed the week before he died – Jack wanted some help looking into something. Griffin feels guilty about not being there for Jack – for not being there for his widow and son – so guilty that he hasn’t been able to write a word since.You might be asking yourself why Griffin decided to show up now. Griffin is helping out his college mentor by stepping in to teach classes for two weeks while he recovers from surgery. Griffin doesn’t want to miss this chance to make amends. Among other things, he spends time with Johnny, helps him with football and tells him stories about his dad. He also volunteers to help Althea work off pent up tension as she prepares to entire the dating world. For Griffin, being in his hometown is bittersweet without Jack. In his trips down memory lane, he revisits their secret hiding place and finds a flash drive that Jack left him. He knows enough to know that something isn’t right. The more he digs the more it looks like Jack was into something over his head; he wonders if Jack’s death is what it appears. He wonders how he can tell Althea all this without jeopardizing their fledging romance.Can Althea and Griffin together finish unraveling the mystery around Jack’s death and put the demons of their past to bed? I received this for an honest review.. I have to say that I absolutely fell in love with this story.. This story just sucked me in. I would like to call this a bad mommy story, because once I picked it up I could not put it down. Althea/Tea was married to the love of her life and she lost him. Griffin has come back to a place he never wanted to. They are both connected by Tea's late husband Jack. Tea isn't looking for her forever she is looking for Mr. Right now for two weeks. Griffin finds Tea and finds his forever. This book is hot and sexy and absolutely a wonderful story.. This is one story that will hook you without you really knowing it!!!!
What do You think about Three Rivers (A Gateway To Love Novel) (2014)?
Stunning! Well written and exciting. Well done Chloe. I can't wait for Jenna's story.
—nur
I really enjoyed this book. I will absolutely stick around for book 2
—Dacil
fun, interesting series -- really enjoying C. Barlow.
—Miss_Azure
