Blog Tour Review & Giveaway: Never Doubt Me – S. R. Grey

Can a tattooed, former bad boy leave his past behind? Can he find lasting happiness with the love of his life?

Gorgeous and sexy Chase Gartner hopes to do just that with Kay Stanton. But when Chase’s troubled teen brother, Will, stays on in Harmony Creek, Ohio—-after an unexpected arrival-—Chase and Kay’s bonds of love and commitment are soon tested.

Chase finds himself caught up in secrets—-and revisiting a past he thought he’d left behind—-when Will makes a number of irresponsible decisions. Despite Chase’s attempts to keep his brother out of trouble, Will’s reckless behavior continues, affecting not only Chase and Kay, but other residents in town…one disastrously so.

But it’s the final, potentially deadly decision Will makes when his girlfriend runs into trouble back in Las Vegas that leads Chase to make a fateful decision of his own. A choice that threatens his relationship with Kay.

Never Doubt Me is a touching, poignant story of love, redemption, and coming to grips with the fact that escaping the past is never easy.

New Adult/Contemporary Romance genres. 2nd novel in the Judge Me Not series.

***warning: contains explicit sexual situations, drug use, some violence, and profanity***

Series: Judge Me Not #2
Release Date: April 27th 2014
Publisher: S.R. Grey Publications
Source: AToMR
Reviewer: Shannon
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3.5 Cocktails

As I started NEVER DOUBT ME, I kept hoping that maybe, just maybe, things for Chase and Kay were going to be a little bit easier this time.  But I should have known that it wasn’t.

The story picks up at the end of I STAND BEFORE YOU with Chase’s little brother, Will, and his girlfriend showing up on Chase’s doorstep.  Chase does what he thinks he needs to do in order to help his brother get his life back in the right direction, which at that moment would be heading back to Las Vegas.  But with Kay’s help, Chase finds it a time to reconnect with his brother and maybe help give him some guidance before he goes back home.  Chase puts in a noble effort, but it seems Will is as much a magnet for trouble as Chase was.

Chase has definitely grown up and is proving so by what he was trying to do with his brother.  But he takes his brotherly love a bit to the extreme…especially when he puts himself back in similar situations that lead to his downfall before.  But his effort has a noble cause and you can forgive him for endangering himself.  He loves his brother and he’d do just about anything to make sure he doesn’t do what he did.  Unfortunately, that love for his brother also gets in the way of Chase’s relationship with Kay.

Kay is good for Chase.  She grounds him, generally.  But she’s struggling with her own demons with her ex and her mother that she’s not always able to ground Chase.  Unfortunately, when he pushes her away, she lets him.  But I loved how far she’s come with her mother when she’s able to reach out for advice on what she should do with Chase.  Because in the end, Kay is going to have to prove to Chase that he (and his brother) are worth fighting for.

I can’t wait for the final book in the series to come out.  Vegas here we come.

S.R. Grey is an Amazon and Barnes & Noble Top 100 bestselling author. Harbour Falls, Willow Point, and Wickingham Way are novels in the completed Harbour Falls Mystery trilogy. She is also the author of New Adult novels I Stand Before You (Judge Me Not #1) and Never Doubt Me (Judge Me Not #2). Ms. Grey’s novels have appeared on Amazon and Barnes & Noble bestseller lists in multiple categories.

New novels slated for publication in 2014 are Inevitable Detour, a New Adult novel with a Romantic Suspense edge, as well as Just Let Me Love You (Judge Me Not #3).

Ms. Grey resides in western Pennsylvania. She has a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration degree, as well as an MBA. Her background may be in business, but her true passion lies in writing. When not writing, Ms. Grey can be found reading, traveling, running, or cheering for her hometown sports teams.

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