Making It Last

Making It Last 

By Ruthie Knox

A hotel bar. A sexy stranger. A night of passion. There’s a part of Amber Mazzara that wants those things, wants to have a moment — just one — where life isn’t a complicated tangle of house and husband and kids and careers. Then, after a long, exhausting “vacation” with her family, her husband surprises her with a gift: a few days on the beach . . . alone.

Only she won’t be alone long, because a handsome man just bought her a drink. He’s cool, he’s confident, and he wants to take Amber to bed and keep her there for days. Lucky for them both, he’s her husband. He’s only got a few days in Jamaica to make her wildest desires come true, but if he can pull it off, there’s reason to believe that this fantasy can last a lifetime.

Ruthie Knox is by far one of my favorite contemporary romance writers, so the moment she has a new book out I inhale it. Making It Last the newest novella in her Camelot series was no different. I was SO excited that we got more about Amber and Tony who star in the first of series How to Misbehave. I adore these characters and was thrilled to see where life had taken them 13 years later.

What I loved most about this book was it’s honesty. There is a truth told about how hard marriage and creating a life with someone is. In this we also see how rewarding life can be when you do put the work and love into it and have a partner to share it with.

“Turn around.” She did, and he dried her back. 

He thought of how happy Jacob would be when she walked in the door. How he would put his face right up against her stomach and breathe in the smell of his mother. 

How Ant used to wind his fist around and around her hair when he nursed. 

How for Clark, it had been her pinky fingers, and then her hands and her wrists. 

They needed her in a way they had never needed him. Her body. Her being. 

He needed her, too. Her breasts and her pussy and her smell and her mouth and her arms. Her eyes. Her hips. Pregnant or not, thirty pounds heavier or skinny as a rail, short hair or long.

I love how intertwined we are with the characters in this series but yet anyone could pick this book up as a stand alone. The material is poignant and there are some intensely sexual moments which left me breathless. Don’t miss out on this story of love, marriage and healing.