Title: Scavenge
Author: Tiffany Aleman
Series: Smoldering 1.5
Release Date: December 23, 2014
Christmas is a time for family and friends. A time to be with those we love and cherish, the ones who make our heart beat. But when the love of your life is half way around the world, how do you let the spirit of the holidays lift you up and bring you cheer?
Kelsey and Riley spent more time apart than together early on in their relationship, but now he's away for a different reason. Riley’s absence while deployed is taking a toll on Kelsey. She finds herself crying more often than not and distancing herself from the people who are there for her the most.
Riley employs the help of some friends to make Kelsey's Christmas without him a special one. A series of notes and gifts remind her of the good times they have shared so far and the ones to come.
Is Kelsey strong enough to handle one of the happiest holidays separated from the man who completes her in every way?
Will Kelsey scavenge for the strength she needs to embrace the role of a military girlfriend or will she crack under the pressure from the distance?
Only she knows how much she can take….
*****
Tiffany
Aleman is back with a followup to the Best Seller Smoldering. While we got the
end result of Riley & Kelsey's relationship, a little piece was missing.
How did she survive her first deployment? Scavenge answers that question. Riley
takes us on their journey on how he strategically involves her best friends in
helping her survive what will be the loneliest time of her life.
Tiffany
Aleman does a military relationship justice. Maybe it's because of her own
personal life, but she has the knowledge, skill, and story telling ability to
pull her readers into the scene, and make you feel as though you are watching
it in real time. You feel Kelsey's pain, her loneliness, her happiness, her
joy.
Amazing
job Tiffany. You work is spot on, and undoubtedly will have another best
seller. I can't wait to get more of Riley and Kelsey. I wasn't ready for this
one to end. <3
*****
SMOLDERING REVIEW
I
finally breathed. I felt it hard to breathe through so much of this book. Not
many books do that to me, but this one did. My kindle is lucky I didn’t throw
it across the room and against the wall. It wouldn’t have survived.
Kelsey’s
family and her fiancé: I wanted to throat-punch all-three. OMG! She gets away
from them with the type of best friend we all dream of having. For two years
she is finding who she really is, then in walks the man of her dreams and they
make such a connection…I can breathe. They are so happy. Then someone from her past comes back in to
cause problems and what happens next…holding my breath again.
Riley is
the man of all of our dreams. He has the family we all dream of having. But, he
is just a man; he can only handle so much. He and Kelsey both make some wrong
choices and cause each other pain. Getting this relationship right will be some
work.
Tiffany
made this book so true-to-life: with Riley being in the military and Kelsey
having to deal with that life-style, with past hurts from each other and other
people, with how to forgive and move on, with how other’s (friends and foe)
cause problems and help get them from point A to point B.
My
emotions were all over the place. When a book does that to you, you know it is
good. It was also a hot book as well. She knows how to write that, but it wasn’t
over-wrought with those scenes. However, when you get to one, you know it! ;)
Well,
done, Tiffany! 5 stars!
SCAVENGE REVIEW
Scavenge
takes place during the end of the book Smoldering only told in more detail. It
is while Riley is on deployment during the Christmas holiday and Kelsey finds
herself questioning how strong she is and how she will be able to make it
worrying herself over Riley and his safety and being away from him during such
an important time in their relationship.
Riley is
one smart man. He uses some close friends to keep things going on the home front
while he is away to make the holidays special and always making Kelsey feel
loved and adored. Kelsey, though, must also realize she must do a few things
too make Riley feel loved, special and adored and realize she has to make a few
sacrifices on his behalf.
Tiffany
must know the heartache of the military life in some way to nail the emotions
of this book so well. It kept my interests and made me think of all of the
couples I know that are going through or have gone through this and how strong
they are/have been. What a beautiful, beautiful book. We should all read this
to get insight into what military families go through and sacrifice for our
country.
5 BIG
GOLDEN STARS!
*****
I've been writing ever since I was kid but I decided to put my passion to use in May of 2013. Smoldering is my solo debut. It's a book that took up residence in my mind and wouldn't leave me alone until I finally decided to write it.
When I'm not writing I can be found on the beach with my family and friends or out in the woods getting dirty in some Georgia clay on a four-wheeler.
*****
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