Blog Tour Review: Three Brothers – Nicole Williams

I grew up with three brothers. They weren’t tied to me by blood, but our connection went beyond genetics or bearing the same last name. Our connection was forged the summer I turned thirteen, the summer my mom ended her life and left me in the custody of John Armstrong, a man I’d never met. Packing all I owned in a couple of boxes, I left the familiarity of the big city and headed west to Red Mountain Ranch, set in a lonely valley outside of Jackson Hole.

Nothing was as it seemed at Red Mountain—it didn’t take long for me to figure that out. John was kind to me but distant, as if he was afraid to let anyone get too close. His three teenage sons had their own devices for keeping love as far away as they could. The eldest distracted himself with cheap relationships that had a shelf-life of one night. The middle son threw himself into the rigor of running a ranch, and the third wielded cruelty and mind-games in his quest to keep people from getting close.

Time has gone by, and I’ve spent those years trying to forget the brother I’d fallen for—the biggest mistake of my life.

Finally, I’ve moved on. Finally, I’m back. But what I didn’t realize was that running away from the wrong brother meant I’d also run away from the right one. The one who’d been there for me all along, waiting in his brother’s shadow for the day I either would or could move on.

But a decade is a long time to wait. Has the brother I should have chosen all of those years ago moved on too? Am I about to discover that my biggest mistake wasn’t falling in love with the wrong brother, but failing to return the love of the right one sooner?

Does unrequited love have an expiration date?

I’m about to find out.

Author’s Note: This book is a “sweet” romance that isn’t overly sexy. Fans of Lost & Found will be interested in Three Brothers.

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Release Date: January 20th 2015
Publisher: Self Published
Source: AToMR
Reviewer: Shannon
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Reviewer’s Thoughts

Nicole Williams is an author who I will automatically pick up when she has a new release.  The author creates such vivid characters and storylines that you can’t help but find yourself immersed in the world.  THREE BROTHERS is such a story.

Scout is returning to Montana to say her goodbyes to the only father figure she’s ever known.  But coming home also means coming face to face with the reason she ran from the only home she really knew seven years earlier.  Scout discovers that the Armstrong men she thought of as family were just as broken as she was and, for the first time, it might be her that can help put them back together.

This was an incredible story.  Scout was a woman who had her share of emotional upheaval, caused by the death of her mother and the emotional games played by youngest Armstrong brother, Conn.  She’d closed herself out to the only family she knew in an effort to protect herself.  But as soon as she was back home at the ranch, the woman she should have been starts to emerge.  As an adult, she’s able to see the emotional games for what they were and finally let go.  When she does, she discovers that those feelings she had as a teenager were nothing compared to discover her soul mate was right under her nose.

The Armstrong men never made things easy for Scout, but in the end they showed her what love is and how opening herself up to made her life complete.

An absolute pleasure to read and a story I highly recommend to anyone…especially if you’ve never picked up a Nicole Williams book before.

I’m the New York Times and USA TODAY bestselling author of the CRASH series (HarperTeen, S&S UK), LOST & FOUND series, UP IN FLAMES (S&S UK), The EDEN TRILOGY, and a handful of others. I write stories about everyday kinds of people who find themselves in extraordinary kinds of situations. I tell love stories with happy endings because I believe in making the world a better place, and that’s one tiny way I can make it so. I’m one of those people who still believe in true love and soul mates, and would rather keep my head in the clouds any day over having my feet firmly on the ground.

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