Tough call on this one. You read the blurb, this is mine. It's a great story. Second chance books are one of my fav's.
Shane returns to his small hometown, brought in to assess the impact of a resort project that is going in and in part restoration of a historic landmark. It's also home to his first love Sinclair. Someone he beat town right after high school without so much as a word and joined the Marine Corp. There's a reason for that. But he went silent on Sinclair for over a year. When he did write, his letters were returned. They haven't had contact for 10 years. Shane is the last person Sinclair expects or wants to see. She's still angry about their past. With good reason.
Shane works for a large company that does emergency assessment and evacuation. His knowledge and expertise is broad and vast and he's done really well for himself, considering the sins of his youth and how he and Sinclair had hidden their relationship while they were together. He arrives in town right in time for her sister's wedding. Sinclair is beyond livid. I loved her when she got angry. Damn she was good. It took me over half the book to take a shine to Shane. I just didn't like him. Didn't trust him and his words meant not thing one. For me, that's the sign of a great story, when the author sucks me right into the story I have a death grip on my kindle pretending it's the MC's throat.
Yup. I didn't trust him as far as I could throw him. He ropes Sinclair into several dates which he calls tours... he takes her back to their "spots" he's trying to rekindle something in her... I'm thinking why?
Are you staying in town? Or just busting her chops. Because they both have history in the town, they both manage to tick off one of their high school still spoiled rich kid town council members who goes behind her back and undermines the ownership of her home. Sinclair lives in an old barn that's she's slowly restoring and since she's a jewelry designer, has everything she needs. Her home sits in close proximity to this new resort. Murphy's law kicks in and all the things that could go wrong do.
Leaving Sinclair and her home at dire risk.
So what happens? Does Shane who's not in town (predictably so) come through? Do they get their happy ending? Does she forgive him for what he did to her?
This book had so many little twists... and wow I didn't see those coming. I really liked Sinclair, the woman had brass nuts and wasn't afraid to speak her mind. Shane manages to go from toddler pulls up to big boy underpants finally. This was just a great story.
Great writing Samanthe!! I loved it.

**arc from NetGalley and Entangled in exchange for a fair review**

Quick Summary: This was one of the hottest second chance love stories I've ever read. I loved the energy that existed between the protagonists. What a great romance!
Rating: 4/5
Recommend: Yes
Audience: Adult
Status: Contemporary
Chemistry/Intensity: Yes
Conflict/Drama: Yes
Family Dysfunction: Yes
Humor/Wit: Yes
Busybodies & Fiends: Yes
HEA: Yes

I liked the sincerity of Sinclair and Shane's characters. Their history, their unfinished feelings and their steamy reunion. A read that was full of emotional elements and fireworks with some surprise turns that entertained. Another good read in author Samanthe Beck's Love Emergency series.
Review copy received from Entangled Publishing

Rated 4.5 Stars

Emergency Attraction is a second chance romance. It's not a suspense nor is it a mystery but there's a secret that drives a bit of the plot and I really loved how that element was woven into the story it kept me anticipating and flipping pages even though I pretty much knew what it was from the start but it had me riveted nonetheless.

That's not the only thing that kept me flipping pages and emotionally invested in these characters and their story. Samanthe Beck has a knack for writing stories that keep me highly entertained (this one had me chuckling every so often) emotionally satisfied and hot and bothered from the Hot sex scenes.

I absolutely adored it. Everyone needs to meet the arrogance that is Shane and the feistiness that is Sinclair and the explosion that is them together. The sexual tension between these two was off the chains and when they came together oh boy combustible doesn't do justice to what happens between them when they ignite. If that's your cup of tea so to speak don't hesitate to pick this book up, I can't recommend it enough.

A ten-year separation - due to circumstances that were truly out of their control - isn't that difficult to get over the moment a dance during a wedding reminds both Sinclair and Shane of the spark that had never died between them.

For Sinclair, apart from her memories of him, Shane isn't the bad boy in town who had no future to his name any longer; he's now a respected emergency manager with so much experience in doing what he does. And as impressive as it is to see what he had made of his life, it's how impulsively and wholly they loved each other back then that has her evaluating their relationship. Tragedy, however, has made her wary of every good thing that might come her way and Shane, from the onset, is determined to convinced her that fate will not outrun them this time.

There was a lot to savour about this book - the moment I got past my wariness about second-chances romance - not least of all, it's really about Samanthe Beck's fluid writing and her beautifully detailed descriptions of Sinclair's and Shane's personal battles to become the people they are today. Tangled up in their burgeoning relationship is also a zoning matter that threatens Sinclair's home and tests her trust in Shane, but there isn't mistaking the heat that can and still exist between them despite this difficulty. I also liked Shane's fast and furious all-in stance (a far cry from too many male protagonists in books these days) and how he'd never let up in his efforts to win her back, though it truly wasn't quite his fault when he left and never came back. In short, Beck not only makes the 10-year separation acceptable, but their coming back together a believable one. Once I breathed a sigh of relief at that, the story was all a-go for me.

The epilogue wraps up this series quite perfectly: men in a domesticated scene (and struggling with it), getting into trouble only just as the women return home to witness it. But Beck injects so many feels and so much poignant emotion into it that you can quite believe that these couples are truly living their HEA.