Forever Never

Forever Never

Lucy Score Founding author
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You don’t fall for your brother’s high school sweetheart, your boss’s daughter, or your ex-wife’s best friend.
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You don’t fall for your brother’s high school sweetheart, your boss’s daughter, or your ex-wife’s best friend. Especially when they’re all the same woman.

Under Brick Callan’s mile-wide chest beats a loyal heart with a few cracks in it. He’s the steadfast, overprotective type. Especially when it comes to the one woman he can never have. It’s a long, complicated history punctuated by fights, friendship, family, and an attraction that strains his iron willpower.

 

When Remi Ford returns to Mackinac Island in the dead of winter with a secret, Brick makes it his mission to find out what put the shadows in those green eyes. Even if it means breaking down the walls he’s built between them. Even if it means falling for the one girl he’ll never get over.

 

The free-spirited artist just needs to lay low for a few weeks so she can figure a way out of this nightmare. She’s definitely not staying. Not when the man who broke her teenage heart into splinters keeps showing up at her parents’ dinner table. Remi doesn’t need broody, bearded Brick riding to her rescue…again. Not when it will put them both in danger, costing them much more than their hearts.

Release date: March 4, 2021

Publisher: That's What She Said Publishing, Inc.

Print pages: 598

Reader says this book is...: action-packed (4) emotionally riveting (7) entertaining story (6) happily ever after (8) high heat (6) sex scenes (5) suspenseful (5) swoon-worthy (6) year's top 10 (2) heart touching (3) satisfying ending (6) strong chemistry (7) tearjerker (1) terrific writing (5) unputdownable (3) strong heroine (4) heartwarming (2) rich setting(s) (2) escapist/easy read (2) realistic characters (1)

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Wow! Lucy Score has done it again!!

Forever Never is funny, heartbreaking and down right steamy (with a capitol S)! Brick and Remi go through SO much to their well deserved happily-ever-after and we go through it right along with them.

Everything form the setting, (a little island that I seriously need to visit) to the suspense (there are bad guys!) to the romance (did I mention it's steamy?!?), Forever Never is definitely a must read!
 on 3/20/21
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Forever Never was a totally unexpected story- a enemies to lovers second chance story with more suspense and thrilling mystery than I anticipated. But, with all the same Lucy Score charm I’ve come to expect- the emotional tug, the sweet, and the sexy.

Remi and Brick had the perfect enemies with a history vibe- a palpable tension between them that we can tell is rooted in a complicated history, unexpressed emotions, and the festering longing of a love that will never die. Sparring and tension stemming from deeply buried affection that manifests as a passionate hostility makes...
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Forever Never was a totally unexpected story- a enemies to lovers second chance story with more suspense and thrilling mystery than I anticipated. But, with all the same Lucy Score charm I’ve come to expect- the emotional tug, the sweet, and the sexy.

Remi and Brick had the perfect enemies with a history vibe- a palpable tension between them that we can tell is rooted in a complicated history, unexpressed emotions, and the festering longing of a love that will never die. Sparring and tension stemming from deeply buried affection that manifests as a passionate hostility makes for that angsty, magical push-pull. And, given that our story cleverly unfolds over different time frames, we get to experience different phases of their connection, which adds so much complexity to their current chemistry and gives us all the anxiety as we try to figure out just what has happened between them.

Remi is a unique heroine- free spirited, creative, but so caring. Though I wanted her to push on Brick’s squirreliness more, I also can appreciate who she is - because underneath her big heart and artistic bravado, she’s got layers of insecurities. And Brick, well he has some insecurities, too- deeply nestled under his dependable, protective, broody persona. When we uncover the why of some of their past, I wanted to bang my head on his, it makes for such intensity and drama as they work through it in the present. These two have so much buried and unsaid- and our story captivates us as we try to find out just what needs to be said- and who is going to say it. All that dynamic romantic tension!

We get a nice slow burn, and then all of a sudden, this couple is on fire. I think this is definitely the steamiest Lucy Score book I’ve read. After all these two have been through to find their way to each other- heartache and pain and the loss of each other-, it’s a sweet and sexy reward. And to round out our story, we have a strong cast of secondary characters that add all the small town flair and help add even more dimension to our leading characters.

This is on the longer side- but there is so much story to tell- about this place and these people. Remi and Brick have to not only get over their feelings towards each other in the now, but they have to break down the walls they have by also confronting the baggage they have from the past. Honest, communication, and trust- the basics, and lessons Remi and Break have to learn. It’s an emotional journey- one with ample heartache and frustrations, but one with a sweet sincerity and passionate connection. This book felt more meta than Lucy books before- truly exposing the hearts and minds of these two intricate characters, and I really appreciated the approach. This made these two characters so richly realized- and so emotionally resonant. Add in the mystery and suspense and a hearty helping of steam, and you’ve got a total page turner. Lucy Score never fails to delight- and Forever Never is a new favorite!
 on 3/13/21
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It's taken me a few days to be able to write this, that to me is always a great sign of a fantastic book! Sometimes I need to marinade in the story after I read it, figure out why it affected me so. Well Remi and Brick are one of my new favorite couples for many reasons. I love that synesthesia was used, one thing I've learned as an avid reader is learning new things. Synesthesia is fascinating to me so thanks for that. Remi is a strong female, which all of Lucy's women are, but she has that added layer, that vulnerability when she realizes she needs Brick. The setting of Mack...
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It's taken me a few days to be able to write this, that to me is always a great sign of a fantastic book! Sometimes I need to marinade in the story after I read it, figure out why it affected me so. Well Remi and Brick are one of my new favorite couples for many reasons. I love that synesthesia was used, one thing I've learned as an avid reader is learning new things. Synesthesia is fascinating to me so thanks for that. Remi is a strong female, which all of Lucy's women are, but she has that added layer, that vulnerability when she realizes she needs Brick. The setting of Mackinac Island was amazing, I love a good small town book. I love Brick, I just wish he wasn't quite so ashamed of his kink, Although I think maybe he wasn't really ashamed of it, just scared to scare off Remi! Lucy does something that very few Authors can do, each book of hers gets better, but when you go back to reread her previous work, you don't feel like you are reading something less than the book you just read. It's an amazing gift, and I'm so grateful she shares it with us!
 on 3/13/21
action-packed emotionally riveting entertaining story escapist/easy read happily ever after heart touching high heat realistic characters rich setting(s) satisfying ending sex scenes strong chemistry strong heroine suspenseful swoon-worthy terrific writing unputdownable year's top 10
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Watch out! The weather may be cold on Mackinac Island, but Brick and Remi have a slow burn that will heat you up like a hot carolina reaper pepper. 🔥 🌶

Their's is a story the spans over fourteen years.

Sargeant Brick Callan, is an overprotective, big hearted mountain of a man, who enjoys being a bachelor and having the same quite routine on Mackinac Island in the winter.
Things are quiet with only a few hundred people who brave the winter on the island and that is just fine with him.
He never really knew what it was like to have a family growing up as a child.
Then...
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Watch out! The weather may be cold on Mackinac Island, but Brick and Remi have a slow burn that will heat you up like a hot carolina reaper pepper. 🔥 🌶

Their's is a story the spans over fourteen years.

Sargeant Brick Callan, is an overprotective, big hearted mountain of a man, who enjoys being a bachelor and having the same quite routine on Mackinac Island in the winter.
Things are quiet with only a few hundred people who brave the winter on the island and that is just fine with him.
He never really knew what it was like to have a family growing up as a child.
Then one day she shows up and his world is turned upside down.

Remington Honeysuckle Ford, is a wild child who has the ability to associate colors to music. She is an artist who left the island only to return without any warning to her family and is hiding a secret from everyone who cares about her.

This is a slow slow burn that will have you so frustrated that you will want to scream one minute and then smiling the next.
This book has so many feels that I was worn out emotionally, like an addict that wasn't able to put the book down, like it was crack, because I just needed more.
Lucy Score, did such a great job with this story.
It was just another win, in her column, for me. ❤
 on 3/5/21
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Just when you think you might pigeon-hole Lucy Score's writing, she will come along and sweep that away with a flick of her hand. Forever Never was unlike anything I had read by her before, and, honestly, I believe her writing has moved to a different level. Most of her work has involved comedy, and it's what makes her books so enjoyable. I didn't read that comedic trait in this book, and I did not miss it. This book is big, meaty, and filled with so much STORY that you are just too busy absorbing the STORY to fret over what's there or not there.

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Just when you think you might pigeon-hole Lucy Score's writing, she will come along and sweep that away with a flick of her hand. Forever Never was unlike anything I had read by her before, and, honestly, I believe her writing has moved to a different level. Most of her work has involved comedy, and it's what makes her books so enjoyable. I didn't read that comedic trait in this book, and I did not miss it. This book is big, meaty, and filled with so much STORY that you are just too busy absorbing the STORY to fret over what's there or not there.

I chuckled several times over Remi; she was one of the best characters I have read in a while. The things she would say that would begin with Holy and usually followed by a name was smile-worthy every time it popped up. I kept scrambling to find pictures like what she would paint because the descriptions were so vibrant I just wanted to see one with my own eyes. Every flashback to the younger Remi was a story of just the vibrancy of her. It's easy to see why Brick loved her for so long.

At the same time, it's easy to see why Remi loved Brick for so long. He is the personification of the man-mountain: stalwart, protective, caring, and all man. Two opposites that completed each other to make a beautiful whole. Thankfully Lucy Score decided to let us see this clearly destined pair finally get it right. It did involve a mystery, a really, really bad guy, and a crew of year-rounders on Mackinac Island that made me want to live there and ride snowmobiles (maybe do a time trial).

Their story and the mystery that re-unites them is a page-turning love story that requires a lot of each character. And they make it with a lot of steamy stuff to move the process along. But I think what struck me most is how Brick would grab her by her shirt, coat, or sweatshirt to keep her from running off. Or he would just throw her over his shoulder. It was his way of keeping her safe and taking care of her, and it was just something I picked up on that every time it happened, I smiled. Forever Never left me sighing with the HEA, loving Brick and Remi, and knowing this book will be going on my favorite books of 2021.
 on 3/3/21
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