The Rumble and the Glory: Small Town, Enemies to Lovers, Second Chance (Sacred Trinity Book 1) by JA (5 STAR Rating from Me)

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• ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0CTHQW6TM
• Publisher ‏ : ‎ Science Future Press (June 27, 2024)
• Publication date ‏ : ‎ June 27, 2024

Collin built a kill team. Lowyn built an empire. Twelve years after breaking her heart, he’s back for a fresh start—and a second chance. But Lowyn isn’t the good girl he left behind. Old sins rise, secrets burn, and this small town’s revival is ready to blow. Love this dangerous always leaves a mark. Enemies-to-Lovers meets Touch-Her-and-Die.

Deep in the hills of West Virginia, three small towns have found a way to flourish in the face of extreme poverty. Disciple runs a side-show tent revival that brings in millions of dollars a year. Bishop flaunts traditional ways in the vein of Colonial Williamsburg, luring weary city people to the slow-living lifestyle. And Revenant offers them an experience of sin filled with tattooed bikers and live-music dive bars.

It’s a sacred trinity that worships the almighty dollar and everyone plays their role like a well-trained Broadway actor.

But these hills have secrets, and so do the people.

Twelve years ago, when he was just eighteen and dreaming of a future with his high school sweetheart, Collin Creed learned something about himself. Something so disturbing he left Disciple to join the Marines and didn’t once look back. But all that came to a screeching halt with the congressional hearings, forcing Collin to return home and rebuild his black-ops empire brick by brick.

Lowyn McBride’s heart broke when Collin shut her out and left town without an explanation just as they were getting ready to start their adult lives together. The death of her mother the following year was a make-or-break moment and Lowyn rose to the occasion, giving up her university education to parent her younger sister while building an empire of her own as a specialty antiques dealer.

Anger and desire, guilt and shame—the return of the enigmatic Collin Creed ignites the town and sparks an explosion of emotions inside Lowyn. But he’s not the only one with a secret in his past.

Lowyn has always played the good girl to Collin’s bad-boy reputation. But it turns out—she’s just like everyone else up in these hills—not as wholesome and pure as she looks.

The Rumble and the Glory is a cinematic and spicy small-town secret, second-chance romance wrapped up in a cloak of mystery and suspense. It honors the themes of found family, redemptive anti-hero, and is filled with bigger-than-life, morally-grey characters against a backdrop of deceit and deception.
INSIDE THE PAGES YOU WILL FIND:
Spicy Soulmate Connections
Touch Her and Die Scenarios
Small Towns with Big Secrets
Opposites Attracting
Second Chances
Childhood Sweethearts
Morally Grey Situations
A Bonded Found Family
Charming Alpha Heroes
Ambitious and Brave Leading Ladies
Wild and Wonderful Settings
The Perfect Level of Danger & Suspense
And a whole cast of characters that will immediately wriggle their way into your heart. 

   

MY REVIEW- 5 STARS- title:

The cover creeped me out but the title drew me back in !!! 

So glad I read it though! It was beyond wonderful. Now I want to read the next book in the series.. 

Lowyn and Collin, interesting, twisted secrets but such strong love still exists between them !!!

Speaking of twisted secrets, that loving, but kinda still creepy village has TONS of secrets !! 

Collin and Lowyn still have friends on both sides and I loved them as well. Collin's friends were drawn out clearly, with full personalities. Some fun but ALL dangerous in their own ways. That was made abundantly clear but not in a way that was bloody.  I appreciated that !

There was humor, betrayals of the highest order, secret military interventions and one manipulative male mayor of the village.  Oh, there is revenge coming too. I loved how Lowyn offered Revenge Sales,, beginning with herself when she got furious when Collin returns !!

 There were so many levels of surprises and I adored that and how things turned out in this book. There is going to be more challenges in their future, they know it and like Lowyn said they were going to face them like adults; their not kids anymore. Let the fun begin. In the next book which I am looking forward to  !