#TNReads: Real Quick Reviews for Lazy Readers featuring K.A. Tucker

When Piper Calloway was 16 her mom made her trade in a summer of luxury spent on the family’s yacht for a job as a counselor at a rundown summer camp. When Kyle Miller was 17 he was a counselor at that same camp as a way to escape his criminal family and earn much-needed money for the rest of the year. Nothing about their lives outside of that lakeside campsite would make them seem right for each other but everything else about them is. It was love at first sight until something huge tore them apart.

In Say You Still Love Me, it has been ten years since that heartbreak when Piper sees Kyle working security at the office she’s poised to inherit. Is it possible that they still love each other after all these years?

Say you Still Love Me tells switches between the past and present as it tells the story of how Piper Calloway and Kyle Miller met, fell in love and then fell apart. I enjoyed every second of it.

Quiet accountant Isabel is consumed with planning the annual Scottish Festival for her tiny Georgia town. She’s swamped with work, and the last thing she needs is her besotted mother Rose arriving home from vacation with a bonafide Scottish highlander in tow. As if one Scot wasn’t enough, soon his younger, gorgeous nephew Alasdair shows up from London to make sure Rose isn’t after his Uncle’s money. But Rose has no idea that her new man is wealthy…or that he’s an Earl. Isabel just wants both inconvenient Scotsmen gone so she can plan the festival in peace.

Isabel and Alasdair don’t have the most auspicious of starts, but soon attraction sizzles between them. Unfortunately, there’s more than just that between them; there’s also hurtful secrets and different lives that are literal worlds apart. There’s a lot of obstacles for them to overcome, individually and as a couple, before they can have their happily ever after. It’s a cute, Scottish-y Southern romance that pairs well with spiked Sweet Tea.

Emma London has made a life for herself despite the circumstances of her upbringing. When her mom committed suicide, her absent father left her to be raised by his mother, the rich and rigid matriarch of the family, Genevieve London. But when Emma became pregnant as a teenager she was unceremoniously kicked out of her home to raise her daughter alone. So when Genevieve calls her home more than a decade later because she’s dying, all of Emma’s instincts scream to stay away. It’s only for her teenage daughter’s future that she acquiesces. Now she’s faced with the dark story of her past as she and the people who raised her question what really makes a family.

This is a story about grief, coping, healing, and forgiveness. I couldn’t put it down.