{Blog Tour Review & Giveaway} The Time in Between (Magdalene #3) by Kristen Ashley (@KristenAshley68)

"She was the one then and nothing changed in the time in between."  

​✮✮✮ A story of past decisions gone awry, secrets that change directions, and emotional second chances, this gripping love story is what happens when two paths again collide. The final standalone title in New York Times bestselling author Kristen Ashley’s Magdalene Series, THE TIME IN BETWEEN is a rich, heartfelt love story available now! ✮✮✮

About THE TIME IN BETWEEN
 (Magdalene Series #3):

After a painful loss, Cady Moreland is coming to Magdalene to start the next chapter of her life. A chapter that began eighteen years ago but had a heartbreaking ending. The time in between was full of family and friendship, but Cady could never get the man she fell in love with all those years ago out of her heart.

Coert Yeager has learned to live without the girl who entered his life right when she shouldn’t and exited delivering a crippling blow he never would have suspected. The time in between was full of failing to find what he was missing…and life-altering betrayal. 

But when that girl shows up in Magdalene and buys the town’s beloved lighthouse, even if Coert wants to avoid her, he can’t. A fire in town sparks a different kind of flame that won’t be ignored.

​ As Cady and Coert question the actions of the two young adults they once were thrown into earth-shattering circumstances, can they learn from what came in between and find each other again?

​Cady Moreland learned early on that you can only really rely on yourself.  She was abandoned by her family and left to take refuge in a dangerous friendship and a love for a man that wasn’t what he claimed to be. 
 
Eighteen years later, she has a promise to keep and a life to rebuild and her road to redemption starts with the purchase of Magdalene’s beloved lighthouse.
 
Restoring the property to its former glory is far easier than facing the one man who ever really owned her heart.  So when Coert makes it clear that she’s to stay away – how will her soul ever survive? 

“What you’re feelin’, on that sidewalk, what you showed me when you looked into my eyes with tears in yours, what do you think I feel?”

Oh God.

“I—”
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“Please, for the love of God, steer clear.”

Coert Yeager came to Magdalene to outrun the memory of a girl.  A girl that he has measured every female against ever since they were tragically torn apart all those years ago.  Now he has a job that he likes and a young daughter that he adores to try to fill the void that she left behind.
 
He thought he was over her for good. He thought he was immune. He was so very wrong.
 
The Cady of his dreams is standing before him asking for his forgiveness.  She has no idea that it’s him who is in need of absolution and only she can give it to him.

​She’d already burrowed into his heart. She’d done that before he gave her their first kiss. She’d started doing that in a hallway in a filthy house, telling him she had goals and didn’t wear red.

Now she was clawing into his soul.
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And when it all blew up, what then?

​The Time in Between is classic Kristen Ashley! The story itself is long and lush and it envelops you completely into its unforgettable landscape.
 
It has something for Kristen fans both new and longstanding with her trademark complex characters that shatter your heart and then renew your spirit. It’s a tiny microcosm of life just the way that it should be.  Perfect in its chaos and beautiful in its tenderness…

Exclusive Excerpt ~ 

Eighteen years earlier…

I saw him the minute he walked into the backyard.

He caught my eye because he was seriously good-looking.

But I kept watching, not only because of that, but because I liked the way he walked and I couldn’t say why.

He was tall, kinda big but not huge, though the way he moved was lumbering. Like he was at a crowded party or club or concert and he was shouldering through the bodies to make his way to where he was going, even though he wasn’t.

It was cool and it was strangely hot, like no one could get in his way no matter what way he was making.
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And it communicated he was going to get there and nothing was going to stop him.

But where he was going right then was to Maria’s boyfriend, my good friend, Lonnie.

Maria and Lonnie had been dating since high school and she and I had been best friends since grade school, so we’d been a pack for a long time.

Partners in crime, mostly.

We’d been pretty much inseparable since meeting, that was before Lonnie…and recently. And that attachment was because, for Maria, her mom and dad didn’t give a crap, they were so busy fighting each other, they had no time for her.

For me, it was because my parents gave too much of a crap and had a lot of time to tell me what they thought of me, even though what they thought wasn’t much.

I liked the idea that tall, dark-haired guy with his cool way of moving was a friend of Lonnie’s.

That meant I might get an introduction.

I watched from where I sat in my folding lawn chair as Lonnie greeted him with an arm slap from one hand, a shake with the other and a huge smile, indicating he was happy to see him.

That was good.

Lonnie liked him.

Lonnie liked and was liked by just about everyone. This was because he was a great guy, up for anything, there when you needed him.

But the arm slap, hand shake and smile said he liked this guy more than most.

So I watched, thinking it was kinda weird that the guy somewhat smiled in return, but in a way it wasn’t exactly a smile, and shook back.

But there was definitely something not right in that smile.

Lonnie was happy to see him.

This guy, however…

“Total drool-worthy,” Maria muttered as she threw herself in a lawn chair next to mine, spilling some of the beer in her not-quite-as-full-now plastic cup.

It wasn’t easy, but I pulled my gaze from the guy knowing exactly what she was talking about even before I saw her attention trained on her guy and that guy.

She’d never say it around Lonnie. Hell, around Lonnie she took pains not to give any indication she knew the other sex existed outside Lonnie (and she’d learned to do this in an extreme way), but around me, she’d look.

Not touch. Not talk, unless it was approved by Lonnie.
But look.

“Do you know him?” I asked.

“Yup,” she answered, moving her eyes from the guy, I knew just in case Lonnie looked over and caught her staring, even if it was in his direction too, he’d know.

And he wouldn’t like what he knew.

“Came over the other day. Name’s Tony. He’s buds with Lars,” she told me.

That sent a shiver trilling up my back.

Lonnie had introduced us to Lars a few months ago.

I didn’t like Lars.

Lars gave me the creeps.

I looked back at the guy with Lonnie thinking it was disappointing that he was buds with Lars.

“Girl, you need a refill,” Maria told me, and I looked away from him, not only thinking it was disappointing Tony was buds with Lars, but the fact this was more disappointing because I even liked the way he stood.

He was paying attention, and a lot of it, to whatever Lonnie was saying. His intensity, the alert way he carried himself was awesome.

Crazy awesome.

**5% of the proceeds from the first week of sales of THE TIME IN BETWEEN release will be given to HALO Animal Rescue in Phoenix, a no-kill shelter. HALO stands for “helping animals live on” and is a shelter started by a mother/daughter team of committed animal advocates who have done a huge duty for animals in this area, and continue to do so with unwavering love, support and energy. For more information on HALO or to donate to the work they do, go to www.halorescue.org.**

About  The Author ~ 

Kristen Ashley was born in Gary, Indiana, USA and nearly killed her mother and herself making it into the world, seeing as she had the umbilical cord wrapped around her neck (already attempting to accessorize and she hadn't taken her first breath!). Her mother said they took Kristen away, put her Mom back in her room, her mother looked out the window, and Gary was on fire (Dr. King had been assassinated four days before). Kristen's Mom remembered thinking it was the end of the world. Quite the dramatic beginning. 

Nothing's changed.

Kristen grew up in Brownsburg, Indiana and has lived in Denver, Colorado and the West Country of England. Thus, she's blessed to have friends and family around the globe. Her family was (is) loopy (to say the least) but loopy is good when you want to write. They all lived together on a very small farm in a small farm town in the heartland. She grew up with Glenn Miller, The Everly Brothers, REO Speedwagon and Whitesnake (and the wardrobes that matched).

Needless to say, growing up in a house full of music, clothes and love was a good way to grow up. 

And as she keeps growing, it keeps getting better.

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