The Best Promise

The tumultuous conclusion of this epic love story between an American cowboy and a British world champion figure skater.

Sophia’s gone on tour; Aaron’s stuck in Cumbria, helping winterize his Great Aunt Ida’s place on his grandfather’s dime. He won’t go home till near Thanksgiving, now …if then.

When Sophia takes a fall while skating in Beijing, though, Aaron’s there for her. Then she kicks him to the curb. He’s just too stubbornly ‘country’—a complete ‘stick in the mud’—and she’s determined that, ice career over, she’s going to live ‘life to the full’. And does. For awhile.

When the man responsible for shattering her dream of fame on ice disparages her on the tele-, Sophia vows to get even and make a comeback. To do it, she needs Aaron’s Ice Queen plan, and she sets out to get it.

Much to Aaron’s displeasure, Sophia drops back into his life like a bad penny, stirring resentment and lots of old feelings. Yes, he loves her. Why can’t she leave him alone? But she won’t and doesn’t. Sophia is a winner, and she’ll win at any cost, but, this time, Aaron refuses to succumb. As far as he’s concerned, their relationship is over. Little does he know just how far Sophia will go to reclaim what’s hers, especially when she finally realizes that, yes, she loves him ‘just for him, as he is, for who he is’, and then some.

CLEAN, SAFE READING

This book contains no profanity, no graphic sex, nothing to make you want to hide your eyes. This novel is just pure entertainment in good taste. There’s tenderness and intimacy, there’s a domestic battle, and a woman-on-man indiscretion, but nothing cringe-worthy, and, yes, there’s situational humor (‘humour’ to you Brits), but it’s all General Audience.

NOTE TO READERS: This book is written using two languages, U.K. English in Sophia’s point-of-view and U.S. English in Aaron’s, so word definitions, syntax and phrasing, as well as spellings change accordingly. You are advised. :) —D. L. Keur and Carole Hill.

NO AI CONTENT, GUARANTEED. This is all original work by D. L. Keur and Carole Hill.

EDITORIAL REVIEWS

Men are fools. We are. I can say that because I’m a guy. Yeah, we’re total fools. But good fools ...and least in Aaron’s case. Me? I bailed. Now I’ve got it safe ...with a dog. This is a WOW of a story, a WOW of a finale to what has been both a joy and a very traumatically, realistic adventure into two lives. Bravo, D. L. Keur and Carole Hill. You pulled it off and then some! It is EPIC! —L. L. Alexander, freelance editor

I gulped when I got this with only two weeks to beta read it. Then I started the story and kept turning pages, needing to know if it was all going to work out. This book will keep you up all night. I think this story will live with me a long, long time. I highly recommend the whole series. Read them in order, 1, 2, 3. —Katy Wilson, romance reader

The title of the first chapter says it all—She’s Gone. And what did Sophia get herself into? And why? Will Sophia ever learn to read what she’s signing? Seems not. And, of course, there’s her dad and Aaron to the rescue. At that point, you just want to pound some sense into her head. She should know better. But then Sophia has never suffered consequences for her actions until it’s dire, has she? I keep remembering the first book of this love epic. Her now ex-, Ian, showed his spots and Sophia almost paid with her life. Onto book 3, The Best Promise. Honestly, I almost threw my tablet across the room so many times during this very emotional, up-and-down clamber and plunge of a story that I’m ashamed. And it all winds up turning out okay, but how it gets there put this reader through an emotional ride I don’t think I will soon forget. In the end, it made me cry with gratitude that I’d gotten to experience Sophia’s and Aaron’s story. So good! —Josie Prentice Boone, Avid Reader