Come Back to Me by Finley Daniels

Name: Come Back to Me by Finley Daniels
Rating: 3.8 (5 reviews)
Author: Finley Daniels

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*Previously published as Come Back to Us by Finley Daniels. The title has changed but the story remains the same.

I moved to this small town to start over. Not to fall for another man who can break my heart and turn my life upside down… again.

Hot, heroic firefighter, Jack Donley, didn’t get the memo.

Our chemistry is sizzling, and my heart is definitely paying attention.

But my brain reminds me we’re not doing that again anytime soon.

So, I do what any reasonable woman in my situation would do. I offer him a friends with benefits situation.

He declines. Because he wants more than just the physical. So, just friends it is.

The kind of friends who hang out a lot. Who share the stories of our pasts. Who kiss in case my ex is watching.

I fall. Hard. He’s right there with me.

But just when I think we’ve found a once in a lifetime kind of love, my soulmate, it all comes crashing down around us.

Unspeakable tragedy leaves Jack grieving. Broken. Changed.

Our relationship—and my trust in him—are destroyed.

So, when he finally pulls himself up from the ashes, there’s nothing left of us to come back to.

No matter how much he begs.

Because even though my soul longs for him, my body craves him, and my heart wants to give him a second chance, it’s not worth risking that kind of pain again. Right?

Come Back to Me is the first full-length novel in the Elladine Fire steamy romance series. If you love found family, small town feels, firefighters, and steamy/open door romance, this series is for you!

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File Name:come-back-to-me-by-finley-daniels.epub
Original Title:Come Back to Me: Elladine Fire Series
Creator:Finley Daniels
Language:en
Identifier:uuid:11d37461-7fef-4422-9b8e-c3d3a6361de8
Publisher:Elladine Publishing
Date:2024-01-10T00:00:00+00:00
File Size:1.843 MB

Table of Content

1. Title Page
2. Dedication
3. Contents
4. A Note from Finley
5. Content Note
6. Prologue
7. Chapter 1
8. Chapter 2
9. Chapter 3
10. Chapter 4
11. Chapter 5
12. Chapter 6
13. Chapter 7
14. Chapter 8
15. Chapter 9
16. Chapter 10
17. Chapter 11
18. Chapter 12
19. Chapter 13
20. Chapter 14
21. Chapter 15
22. Chapter 16
23. Chapter 17
24. Chapter 18
25. Chapter 19
26. Chapter 20
27. Chapter 21
28. Chapter 22
29. Chapter 23
30. Chapter 24
31. Chapter 25
32. Chapter 26
33. Chapter 27
34. Chapter 28
35. Chapter 29
36. Chapter 30
37. Chapter 31
38. Chapter 32
39. Chapter 33
40. Chapter 34
41. Chapter 35
42. Chapter 36
43. Chapter 37
44. Epilogue
45. Also by Finley Daniels
46. Acknowledgements
47. Copyright

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Kiley O：

Come Back to Me (previously titled Come Back to Us), Book 1 of the Elladine Fire series, was about 30-year-old Jack Donley, a lieutenant soon to be promoted to captain at the local fire department, and 27-year-old Annie Brooks, an ER nurse.

After catching her (now ex) fiancé doing the nasty with another woman, Annie called off the wedding and moved two hours away from home, much to her mother's dismay. (Mom believed she was making a mistake, not only in the move but also for not giving her ex another chance.)

This story was a very slow burn. Annie had been working at the new hospital for over two months before she first saw Jack at a local bar. It was another two weeks before they were formally introduced in the ER after he brought a patient into the hospital. Then more weeks passed before they spoke again. A doctor who worked in the ER with Annie (and took an interest in her that wasn't returned) made it his business to "warn" her away from Jack by telling her it wasn't a good person to get involved with. Annie soon became friends with many of Jack's mutual friends and family members, including Teddy and Emily, who were married not long after Annie moved to town.

After several weeks had passed, Jack and Annie went from friends to friends with benefits to being in a relationship. Although Annie was hesitant to trust anyone with her heart again, she told Jack that she was willing to give him a chance. He just had to promise to never hurt her like her ex had done. Not long later, some things came to light that ended in tragedy. This led to Jack pulling away from Annie. He believed what happened was his fault and that it was because he had been spending so much time being too preoccupied with Annie and their relationship. The guilt he felt had him turning to drink to deal with the issues plaguing him. When Annie got a call one night from Jack's brother Ben, it was to inform her that the local bartender at the "watering hole" they frequented had informed him that Jack required her assistance to get home. When she arrived, he was very drunk indeed, but she managed to get him home. This soon became a regular ritual between them that put a strain on their relationship. Jack slowly began ghosting her and pushing her away. He refused to spend any more nights at her place or invite her to do the same at his. He even stopped making visits to the hospital, and he no longer sent her text messages.

When Annie received a text from Joel, one of the doctors she worked with, saying that Jack was at the bar, drunk again, she went to see if she could help. However, this time, he ended up doing the one thing he promised her he wouldn't do...he hurt her. Crushed by what appeared to be his betrayal, Annie walked away, after asking Joel to "get me out of here". Unfortunately, Jack saw her and tried to explain to her that nothing had happened, but he saw Joel waiting for her in his car. He begged her not to go with him, but she told him they were done.

There was a lot of angst and drama in this book, along with the usual emotional rollercoaster filled with twists and turns. The plot twists were interesting and, at times, tear-jerking, so have a box of tissues handy. The push/pull was more of a push than anything, as the MMC struggled with the loss of his friend and then the other things that happened.

Both of the main characters were fully developed and, for the most part, mature. Both had issues that needed dealt with (some were unresolved), but they both had plenty of time to do the necessary growing.

I gave this a three-star rating only because it had more than enough grammatical errors, unresolved issues, and the length was longer than it had to be to cause it to lose two stars. It was interesting enough to cultivate a healthy curiosity, in this reader at least, to find out how the other books in the series each turn out.

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