Beneath the Stars (Sugarlake, 1)

Beneath the Stars (Sugarlake, Book 1)

Author: Emily McIntire

Genre: Contemporary Romance / Second-Chance Romance

Book Rating: ⭐ 9/10

Spice Rating: 🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️ 4/5

Description

Alina Carson has loved Chase Adams since she was eleven years old.

From the moment the troubled boy with dimples moves in down the street, there's something about him she can't resist. But when Alina becomes best friends with Chase's younger sister, he becomes the one person she's never supposed to want.

That doesn't stop Chase from wanting her too.

Abandoned by the people who were supposed to love him, Chase has learned to leave before anyone can leave him. But Alina becomes his exception—the girl whose bedroom window he sneaks through and the person he trusts with his deepest secrets beneath the glow-in-the-dark stars on her ceiling.

As they grow older, friendship turns into something impossible to deny, and Chase finally decides he's willing to break the rules for her.

Then tragedy strikes.

Chase falls back into his old habits, destroys what they had, and disappears from Alina's life.

Years later, Alina has finally learned how to live without him.

Until Chase comes home.

Now grown and taking over his family's business, Chase finds himself working in the same building as the woman whose heart he broke. All the chemistry, hurt, and unfinished feelings between them come rushing back—but this time, Chase isn't planning to run.

He's determined to make things right. Starting with her.

Emotional, angsty, and steamy, Beneath the Stars is a second-chance romance about childhood love, abandonment, heartbreak, and a broken hero returning home determined to win back the woman he's never stopped loving.

Tropes / Mood

Second-Chance Romance • Childhood Friends to Lovers • Best Friend's Brother • He Comes Back • He Falls First • Years of Pining • Childhood Sweethearts • Broken/Tortured MMC • Emotional Healing • Forced Proximity • Workplace Proximity • Small-Town Romance • Family Trauma • Angst • Groveling • Found Family • High Spice