Skye Copeland is on paid leave from her broadcasting job after accidentally drawing a pecker on the traffic map. Let that sink in. Like it's her fault the traffic pattern that day created a perfect schlong?

Skye isn't laughing. She needs this job. And that's the only reason she's agreed to chase down a story in her least favorite place - that hell on earth known as Vermont. A quick trip. In and out. Much like - never mind.

Skye can sneak into the town that once tried to break her, get the story and get back into the good graces of her producer. Easy peasy. Except things go sideways even as she sets foot over the county line.

Her step-sister is on the run from a violent drug dealer. And the cop on the case is none other than Benito Rossi, the man who broke her teenage heart. His dark brown eyes still tear her apart. And even as she steels herself to finally tell him off after 12 years, the old fireworks are still there.

Things are about to go boom.

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9 hours and 59 minutes
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Sarina Bowen
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Zachary Webber, see all
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Dec 18 2018
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English
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B07LCQX5BD
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Listening Length	9 hours and 59 minutes
Author	Sarina Bowen
Narrator	Zachary Webber, Susannah Jones
Audible.ca Release Date	December 18 2018
Publisher	Audible Studios
Program Type	Audiobook
Version	Unabridged
Language	English
ASIN	B07LCQX5BD
Best Sellers Rank	#41,816 in Audible Books & Originals (See Top 100 in Audible Books & Originals) #295 in Erotic Romance #1,441 in Romantic Erotica #2,462 in Contemporary Romance (Audible Books & Originals)

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surprisingly funny

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on May 13, 2023

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Ok, so there is so much here about teenage trauma and it’s surprisingly well balanced with a lot of humor as Skye learns to laugh at her mistakes and not be the serious person she grew up to be. It’s nice to see a hero who knows what he wants and lays it all up front.
I got a little annoyed on how the past was revisited in the script jumping for those into 3rd person for those chapters because the author kept referring to Skye as “our girl” and it would rehash info that we already knew in the text.

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Amy A.

Good addition to the series, but not my favourite

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on January 20, 2019

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Despite this not being my favourite Sarina Bowen book, I'll admit it was a page-turner. However, what kept me reading was everything except the romance. I liked Skye's strugglers in her career and the side plot involving her step-sister. I liked Benito's quest to stop the drug dealers. I liked seeing glimpses of the rest of the Rossis.

Where I struggled was with the romance itself. It turned sexual extremely fast, and I had a hard time believing that Skye, who doesn't like sex, would be so quick to jump into it. And while I liked Benito, his terms of endearment (used very frequently) started grating really fast.

I also struggled with some of Skye's characterizations. There's a point in the flashback scenes where she's described as sweet, but there wasn't anything in those scenes that led me to believe she was sweet.

This story is told in alternating styles and I had a hard time getting used to it. The scenes in the present are told in first POV present tense. But the flashback scenes were told from an omniscient POV, also present tense. It was a little jarring to go from one to the other, so I think I appreciated the last third book the most because there were little flashback scenes and less back and forth.

My review makes it sound like I didn't enjoy the book, but that isn't the case. I always enjoy Sarina Bowen's style of writing, and the plot was engaging enough that I could see past the above issues while reading. This is a good addition to the True North series, and even though it's not my favourite, I did like it better than the previous book, but not as much as Steadfast, which, frankly, was stellar. All in all, 3.5 stars rounded up to 4.

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DJH

Hot cop alert.......

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on November 26, 2018

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From beginning to end this story had me entruoanced. It was filled with so much angst I just kept flipping pages. I loved it all. Benito was a serious sexy beautifully protective alpha male. Right from the time they became friends in high school it was a relationship worth fighting for. This was so sexy but so damn heartwarming all at the same time. Sexual abuse is serious and such an emotional experience. I felt for Skylar Everytime she had described her past. Having to live in such fear and put up with such cruelty was so intense. Then to hear how Zara had to do something similar was terrible. I loved that Skylar finally gave her herself to Benito because he always had her heart. The way he was so kind and loving just showed how much he truly understood her more then any other person in her life. This book was absolutely everything I love in a story kindness, love, angst and seriously hot sexy times😍 I loved this addition to the series. I only hope for more!!!!! Highly recommend!!!!

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Jillian MacLean

A Series With Depth

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on March 17, 2019

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I have really enjoyed Sarina Bowen’s True North series. Her characters possess true depth of character, which has been showcased by great writing talent. While I wouldn’t necessarily consider these books light, laugh-out-loud diversions, I think they will appeal to the true romantic who likes a little more realism in their romance. Recommended, but maybe read the sample to see if it’s your style. :-)

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Sue Seguin

Excellent series

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on April 2, 2019

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Excellent. Well written (of course, it's SB!) with a mix of sentence structures, believable dialogue, an interesting plot that goes the distance, lovable/likeable characters with family & friends we know & love from earlier books -- all in one steamy, sexy package. Benito may be my favorite True North sexy hunk! This True North series is like my own little soap opera in my head & heart; I just love these friends, and I hope their stories continue

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Stephanie

Great series!

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on January 4, 2019

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One click author for me, just love everything she writes!

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Dar

Great romantic suspense!

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on October 22, 2021

This story was incredibly sweet, and sexy, and steamy, and spectacular! Skye and Benito, what is there to say? They were best friends with unrequited love as teenagers. Evil bad guy drove them apart, and neither fully knew the circumstances of the how and why. Chance has brought them back together, and it is so emotional without being angsty. It is so perfect while still having that cloud of gloom overhead. The evil bad guy is still around, but these two aren’t teenagers anymore. There are wrongs to be righted and mysteries to be solved. I loved them both so hard, and in the words of Zara, they really are totally ga-ga for each other <3

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Will a Second Chance triumph?

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on February 5, 2021

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This is a romantic story with a touch of mystery and suspense. It interestingly alternates between the present and twelve years previously. And It demonstrates vividly how poverty and the fears of childhood can reach unhindered into the future. It also shows graphically that mental abuse is just as damaging and influential as physical or sexual abuse.

The two main characters are Skye Copeland and Benito Rossi who were close friends for a year. She was sixteen and lived in a run-down trailer park. He was eighteen and her safe place. Yet, when unexpected circumstances brings them together again after a separating span of twelve years they realise that time and distance has not diminished their secret love and feelings for each other. But what caused the separation?

In the present, Sky is on a force vacation from her TV presenting job but has been lure back to Vermont, considered 'her hell on earth' on the promise of a big investigative story by her step-sister. And she finds out Benito is a state cop hunting drug traffickers. How does he react when he sees her? And what changes to bring them together?

Well, I suggest you book and find out the answers for yourself. There are some surprises.

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BananaTricky

Second-chance romance set in Vermont

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on November 21, 2018

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Three and a half stars.

Not my favourite Sarina Bowen novel.

Skye Copeland is a TV weather presenter until an honest mistake puts her on forced holiday for two weeks. When her scatty step-sister claims she has a scoop and asks her to drive a rental car from New York to Vermont she reluctantly agrees to visit the small town she left 12 years ago. But when she arrives her step-sister gives her the slip and steals the rental car, saying she is mixed up with some dangerous men and Skye should talk to Benito Rossi.

Benito is the man she left town to forget and now she's forced into close proximity. Then Benito lets slip that her sister might be involved in a group smuggling drugs that he is investigating and he seems to want to start up again exactly where they left off as if nothing has happened.

Stepping back and looking at the reasons why I didn't enjoy this book as much as Sarina's other books, I have to say that I found Benito's attitude a bit odd. He hasn't seen or heard from Skye for 12 years and yet he is calling her "honey" right from the start. Also, we see more of Skye's POV so we feel as though Benito has behaved badly(view spoiler). It is only at the end that Benito turned it around for me.

My favourite refrain, I liked it but I didn't love it.

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L Jones

Better each time.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on November 26, 2018

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This is the sixth standalone novel in the True North series and I’ve enjoyed each as much if not more than the last.

Skylar and Benito knew each other as teenagers. Ben was there for Sky during a really difficult year. A misunderstanding kept them apart.

I love that when when Skylar finds herself back in Vermont after 12 years and faced with Benito again she doesn’t automatically fall for his charms, on the outside anyway, and makes him work for her affections.

I loved the suspense element of this book. It felt like two story lines happening that of Skylar and Benito and the will they, won’t they and the case that Benito was working on as a cop. We got answers to some questions raised in previous True North books by the end of this one.

I’m excited for more in the future. More True North. More Sarina Bowen. Whatever I can get my hands on really.

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n young

What a read! Loved it!!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on November 18, 2018

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Sarina Bowen gives us yet another edition in the True North Series with Fireworks this time giving us the story of Benito and Skylar.
Benito is part of the Rossi family who we have met in previous books... He's a Detective after being in the army previously.
Skylar is now a journalist working on tv new with the weather/traffic department.
When these guys first met when they were both teenagers Benito was the best friend that Skylar could wish for.... loving protective and there for her every need supporting her while she had to endure living with her mum's latest partner who wasn't the nicest.. but after many misunderstandings Skylar leaves town without saying goodbye.
Jump 12 years and many life changes and something important bring Sklyar back to Vermont where she has to 're build her friendship with Benito again.
Will their second chance work out for them?
All I can say is Skylar eventually gets the fireworks she's been waiting all her life for!!
Fab writing and another hit read by Sarina!

Pol

Another Sarina "Cracker" !

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on November 28, 2018

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I have truly loved every book.of Sarina's that I have read....... still a few to go !
The True North series is wonderful, each story as individual as the last, yet with the common thread of Vermont, friends & acquaintances to truly illustrate the closeness of people living, loving & growing together.
I'm not one for reiterating the entire story verbatim in a review, suffice to say that alongside Wesmie & The Brooklyn Bruisers, this Truely excellent series is up there in my Top Favourites ! Thank you Sarina !!
Exceptional and Highly Recommended !! xx

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