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The Beach In Winter (Lyon Family Series Book 2) Kindle Edition
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From USA Today Bestselling Author Leslie Pike comes an emotional, raw, and heartwarming standalone romance
Broken and unable to bear the violent death of his child, Parrish Adams retreated to a private beach in Maine. Isolated and alone by choice, he’s since avoided connections at all costs. The cold Atlantic Ocean and a bottle of scotch are company enough.
Single and fiercly independent, Scarlett Lyon’s life has taken a heartbreaking and dramatic turn after her sister and brother-in-law lost their lives in a fatal accident. Now guardian to her teenage nephew Sam, she’s relocated from Montana to her sister’s home on Martin’s Beach.
Scarlett wasn’t expecting much from the stand-offish man living next door.
Parrish wasn’t planning to get involved at all.
Attraction strikes when they least expect it and against all odds, they form a connection.
But can two wounded people struggling to stay afloat on their own let down their walls enough to let love in? Or are they destined to be two ships passing in the night?
- LanguageEnglish
- Publication dateMarch 5, 2019
- File size2554 KB
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⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ The Beach In Winter is a phenomenal story of grief, mourning and healing.- Michelle Parkerton
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ I honestly could not get enough of this story and found myself thinking about these characters well after I finished reading. -Gemma, Amazon review
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ A stunningly moving story about loss, grief, tragedy and second chances. This is a must read! - Liz Thompson for Sultry Sirens Book Blog
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- ASIN : B07PDKQ9JJ
- Publication date : March 5, 2019
- Language : English
- File size : 2554 KB
- Text-to-Speech : Enabled
- Screen Reader : Supported
- Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
- X-Ray : Enabled
- Word Wise : Enabled
- Sticky notes : On Kindle Scribe
- Print length : 236 pages
- Best Sellers Rank: #252,469 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #2,703 in Saga Fiction
- #4,578 in Family Saga Fiction
- #27,953 in Romance (Kindle Store)
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About the author

USA TODAY bestselling author, Leslie Pike, has loved expressing herself through the written word since she was a child. The first romance “book” she wrote was at ten years old. The scene, a California Beach. The hero, a blonde surfer. The ending, happily forever after.
Leslie’s passion for film and screenwriting eventually led her to Texas for eight years, writing for a prime time CBS series. She’s traveled the world as part of film crews, from Africa to Israel, New York to San Francisco. Now she finds her favorite creative adventures taking place in her home, in Southern California, writing Contemporary Romance.
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Parish has become a recluse writer since he lost his little boy in the most horrible way. He dulls his pain with alcohol–a lot–and meaningless hookups. He even has distanced himself from his family. He’s only vaguely aware of his surroundings, until Scarlett and Sam come to live in the house next door. He’s the dark grief, the one that drowns you and never let you go.
Sam is Scarlett’s nephew, and she got custody of him after her sister and her husband died in a car accident. She has no idea of how to take care of a teenager, and that takes up so much of her mind that she doesn’t really have time to grieve. Until something reminds her that her sister is gone. She’s the grey grief, like a stormy sky before the rain.
Sam has not only lost his parents, but also lost himself. He tries various things to ease his pain, like trying to be someone else, older, or on the opposite clinging to his past routines. In the end, it is by building a new life with his aunt and their neighbor that he’s going to reinvent himself. He’s the white grief, a dense fog in which to lose oneself.
With grief in common, they connect, they butt heads, they help each other. As they don’t experience pain the same way, they don’t really understand each other unless they communicate. Which they try to do, not always successfully.
Especially during the big conflict. It felt contrived. The way Scarlett reacted seemed like she didn’t know Parish at all, when he was actually a hero. And she refused to talk it out. It was a bit out of character in my opinion.
The romance overall left me frustrated. There was a lot of lust for sure, and they probably become misery friends, sharing a similar pain and trying to ease it in each other, but I didn’t see love. Love doesn’t turn its back like Scarlett does during the big conflict.
The narration was excellent. Both narrators know how to make the listener feel all the feels. They’re also good at the sexy times. Good balance!
Parish Adams, a writer, who lost his young son tragically years ago is a damaged and broken soul who’s become a recluse on a private beach in Maine. He does not engage in conversations with locals, and he drinks himself into a stupor every night on the sandy, cold beach outside his home trying to forget and numb the all consuming pain he feels every second of every day of loosing his child. This all changes when he notices his neighbors. He recognizes the teen boy, but not the beautiful young woman. Turns out, it is the Sister of his neighbor who recently died along with her husband. Leaving their 13 year old son, Sam, in her charge. Scarlett Lyon never thought she would be a mother, has no idea on where to start with it. She’s trying to heal with the loss of her sister. Her family, her parents and her siblings are all very close.
The first few chapters where we get to know our characters, how they meet, interact with each other really broke my heart! Leslie is such a wonderfully detailed writer! I could feel all the grief, pain, conflict, desperation deep in my heart. She’s just magnificent in all the small details that create an amazing story I can visualize…
I loved the instant connection, the immediate sexual chemistry between Parish and Scarlett. She brought him out of his shell, a playful side to him. I also enjoyed laughs throughout this book too, which was much needed. It was so endearing to see the development of Parish’s and Sam’s friendship and ultimately bonding over each having such deep losses. It’s a bond they both need to help each other heal. Parish helps Scarlett navigate parenthood, and starts really falling for her. The love that they start feeling for each other is slow, organic. And WOW…. the sexy times were so steamy and deliciously intense! It was just so heartwarming to see how all 3 of them were there for each other and started to heal together and find love.
Narration duo, Maxine Mitchell and Joe Arden do what they do best to me…. Rip my damn heart out, stomp on it, then put it back again whole and full. They were both absolute PERFECTION in their performances! Maxine blew me away with her phenomenal performance of Scarlett. I could feel the deep, deep pain of her loosing her sister, having to deal with a teen boy (I can personally relate to that one), her conflicting emotions in her inner dialogue was so believable! She also brought great sass, stubborn, sarcastic to this well rounded character. Wow… the emotional rollercoaster of her relationship with Parish, I’m just so impressed! Gahhhh…. Joe really made my heart hurt with all his emotions he put into Parish’s character. With all the unbelievable grief and loss, had me reeling with heartache. As the story progressed, he really impressed me how he was always able to “bring me along” on Parish’s emotional journey. Arden…. this was next level! Fantastic.
What a phenomenal story of grief, mourning, and ultimately healing of 3 lost souls. They all found strength and love together, but it was quite a long journey for them to get there.
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After Scarlett Lyon’s life is turned upside down by the sudden accident of her sister, she now must take on a life she wasn’t prepared for. She finds herself relocating to Martin’s Beach and becoming the legal guardian for her nephew. There she meets writer Parish Adams, who is grieving his son and fighting his own inner demons, whilst hiding from the world.
Let me start by saying, I did not read the synopsis for this book. And so, I did not know what the book was going to be about going in. I was pleasantly surprised though. This book was so heart-breaking, yet beautiful.
I just loved the friendship between Parish and Scarlett’s nephew Sam. I was great to see all the characters interact with each other and slowly get closer to becoming a new-found family.
I did roll my eyes a little bit at how hot Parish is still supposed to be. I mean after 5 years of heavy drinking and smoking, and just generally not taking care of himself, it is not believable that he would still be in shape and still have muscles. I mean we didn’t even see him exercise until way after they met. A bit of a nit-picky thing, but it did throw me off a little bit. Also, I know therapy is not accessible to everyone. But there were times in the story where I kept thinking, why are these characters not even considering getting a little therapy. I think it would have greatly helped the story feel a bit more well-rounded. That also took me out of the story a little bit.
Regardless, overall, this book was great. Well written, and I loved reading about the journeys the characters went on. It felt real and believable how the story progressed.
Narrated by Joe Arden and Maxine Mitchell, they were fantastic with the narration. The story and characters feel real and were really brought the characters to life. Thoroughly enjoyed my listening experience!
I was provided a free audio copy of this book. However, all opinions shared are my honest thoughts about this book.



