What can mend a marriage in trouble? Two meddling kids, one grandfather, and a mischievous puppy.
Nothing But It All by Adriana Locke is now live!
From USA Today bestselling author Adriana Locke comes a warm and romantic novel about a marriage in trouble, two conspiring kids, and the meaning of long-lasting love.
After twenty years, the cracks in Lauren Reed’s marriage are showing. She and her husband, Jack, feel more like roommates than a loving couple. What they have in common are two wonderful teenagers, Michael and Maddie, and the same wistful question: When did it all go wrong? Now that Lauren’s decided to get on with her life—alone—divorce is inevitable.
Not to the kids. They aren’t giving up so easily.
Michael and Maddie have conspired with their grandfather to bring everyone together for a vacation in the family’s favorite summer getaway, a rustic lakeside cabin in Story Brook, Ohio. Awkward? Yep. A little deceptive? Sure. But as far as traps go, Lauren and Jack agree—the meddlers couldn’t have set one that was more scenic or filled with so many bittersweet memories.
This trip is going to be life-changing for the whole family. Fourteen days of hope, heartbreak, and unexpected possibilities—like maybe falling in love all over again.
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Meet Adriana
USA Today and Amazon Charts Bestselling author, Adriana Locke, writes contemporary romances about the two things she knows best—big families and small towns. Her stories are about ordinary people finding extraordinary love with the perfect combination of heart, heat, and humor.
She loves connecting with readers, fall weather, football, reading alpha heroes, everything pumpkin, and pretending to garden.
Hailing from a tiny town in the Midwest, Adriana spends her free time with her high school sweetheart (who she married over twenty years ago) and their four sons (who truly are her best work). Her kitchen may be a perpetual disaster, and if all else fails, there is always pizza.
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Elizabeth's Review
My rating: 5 of 5 stars - One of the Best
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If you are looking for a “traditional” Adriana Locke book like the Landry or Gibson boys- this is not that story. Nothing But It All is an emotionally evocative book more along the lines of Sacrifice or Written In The Scars.
So many romance books focus on the beginning of a relationship and we typically don’t get to see what happens after the happy ending. Here we meet Lauren and Jack when they are roughly 20 years into their marriage and in the trenches in terms of relationship work.
I’m not going to recap the story- that’s what reading is for, but I will say that Ms Locke captures a situation a lot of people can relate to. The hard work of life, raising kids, and growing businesses has replaced the effort of maintaining a romantic partnership. One aspect of the story that I really appreciated was that while Lauren was the partner vocalizing the core issues from her perspective, she was also able to turn that introspection inward and see places where she contributed to the situation they were in.
Highlights are not really my thing while reading, but I will say that this book has multiple pearls of wisdom for anyone in a long term relationship. The cast here is small - Jack, Lauren, their kids, his dad, and just a few friends. The underlying core of love in all of these connections makes the premise of the story work.
The situation here (once the issue is identified) is a bit of an ideal and I’m not 100% real life would go as smoothly, but I also appreciated that Ms Locke did not present this as a “magic bullet” where everything was “fixed” by the end of the story.
This is a book I would highly recommend to anyone in the “trenches” of life as a good example of how to come back from the cliff edge that it is easy to find ourselves on.
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