Spill The Sweet Tea
By: Lyra Parish
Series: Valentine Texas
Book Number In Series: 2 of 2
Genre: Second Chance/Small Town Romance
Publisher: Indie
Publication Date: September 19th, 2023
My Rating: ✮✮✮✮
Format: Kindle
Blurb:
Some describe me as a quirky, free-spirited journalist who charges her crystals by moonlight.
They’re not wrong.
My instincts ensure I know everything that goes on in my small town. And not much surprises me. But when the man who destroyed my heart returns to care for his family’s business, I’m shaken to the core.
After our messy breakup, Hayden Shaw swore he’d never come back to Valentine, Texas.
Years later, I’m still trying to forget we ever existed.
Damn near impossible when he’s now everywhere.
A constant reminder of what could have been.
Rumors swirl about his true intentions, but a little gossip has never bothered me.
However, if winning over my heart is his end game, he can hang up his spurs because I won’t make the same mistake twice—or will I?
Spill the Sweet Tea is a second chance, hate-to-love you, grumpy/sunshine contemporary small-town southern romance with rom-com vibes and a happily ever after.
Each book in the Valentine Texas series is a stand-alone.
Warning: this romance book contains tons of southern sass, lots of woo-woo, and small-town gossip! Fade to black and cheating are not included.
Spill The Sweet Tea is the second book in Lyra Parish’s Valentine Texas series! If you’re craving a small town series with all of the second chance vibes, I highly recommend you run to your nearest book store and pick up a copy of Spill The Sweet Tea! Lyra Parish gets all the praise for her small town heartthrobs!
There was once a time in Kinsley Valentine’s life, when she thought love could conquer all. She was quick to realize love could not, in fact, conquer all when her boyfriend and the love of her life, Hayden Shaw, declared he was moving to Houston… and she could either come with him or they would end things. With her family and her new career in Valentine Texas. She stayed, ending her happily ever after on the spot.
Now, ten years later, an illness in Hayden’s family has him running back home to tend to his family’s bookstore. What he doesn’t anticipate, is running into his one that got away. Nor does he anticipate the feelings seeing her for the first time in ten years resurrects within his soul. There’s only one thing standing in his way of reuniting two hearts that are clearly meant to be together… that being his fiance in Houston… Oh, and the small fact that Kinsley Valenting hates Hayden’s existence! HELLO DRAMA!
My Thoughts:
I’m head over boots in love with the Valentine Texas series! I can’t get enough! Every book is another adventure!! Lyra Parish is doing the damn thing!!! If you’re new to the Valenting Texas Series, have no fear, each book can be read as a standalone! I’m all for second chance romances, and when I tell you I felt the love through these pages, I’m not exaggerating!
So let’s start with Kinsley Valentine. One thing I loved about this character was her FIRE! This woman is as stubborn as they come, but given her back story, I understand where the stubbornness comes from. It comes from a place she’s attempting to protect with every fiber of her being. I also loved the fact that she wasn’t afraid to put someone in her place when situations were warranted! This one is definitely a spit fire! I couldn’t get enough of her.
And then we have Hayden Shaw. Hayden had dreams of leaving the small town life for something bigger and more luxurious. But what he realized a few years into living in Houston, Texas… the grass is not always greener on the other side of the pastures. I do have to say, this man had every single attribute I look for in a book boyfriend. He was sweet, kind, and considerate. He blended in well with Kinsley’s family, and let’s not forget how sexy this man was in the bedroom. I loved his boy next door vibes! He was the calm to Kinsley’s storm. Mostly, I loved the fact that he laid all of his cards on the table, and during that climatic ending moment, he chased her down and explained himself. He chased her and fought for her and their happily ever after.
It just goes to show, if you love someone enough you have to set them free so they can live their dreams. If they come back to you, that just means it was meant to be. Kinsley and Hayden were written in the stars!
One more thing I loved about this novel was the strong bond and the interactions between Kinsley, Hayden, and their family and friends. I loved the interactions between Kinsley and her siblings! I couldn’t stop laughing. I wanted more! I can’t wait to see what Lyra Parish brings to the table next with the Valentine Texas Series! I’m falling hard for this small town series!
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Peace Love and Happy Reading,
