After The Climb

Kristen Ashley

Sep 2020 · Rock Chick LLC

About this ebook

They were the Three Amigos: Duncan Holloway, Imogen Swan and Corey Szabo. Two young boys with difficult lives at home banding together with a cool girl who didn’t mind mucking through the mud on their hikes.

They grew up to be Duncan Holloway, activist, CEO and face of the popular River Rain outdoor stores, Imogen Swan, award-winning actress and America’s sweetheart, and Corey Szabo, ruthless tech billionaire.

Rich and very famous, they would learn the devastating knowledge of how the selfish acts of one would affect all their lives.

And the lives of those they loved.

Start the River Rain series with After the Climb, the story of Duncan and Imogen navigating their way back to each other, decades after a fierce betrayal.

And introduce yourself to their families, who will have their stories told when River Rain continues.

Ratings and reviews

I enjoyed reading this book and the fact the H/h are over 50. This is a pure romance with no shootings, kidnappings, etc. usual to KA. The plot had a good premise but the H/h seemed to get back together too quickly.

Then, now, and why??? Weird way to start a review but this story packed a lot, showing us the now and how things are and working through how things were. But we also get glimpses and moments of the then, a couple of thens, but when you have a story that spans 40+ years, there some pretty significant thens. This starts the River Rain series, and it starts with the two people who make up the family that you can see the River Rain will be, Bowie and Genny. They, along with their third friend, Corey, have lived a lot of life, with ups and downs, and break-ups and make-ups, and are finally to a place where they can think about being together, again, forever. And as with any second chance, or third chance, or finally chance, the one scene that caused me the only heartbreak through the whole book was the ‘what if’ and while our characters recognize the here and now is what they have, they can’t help but wonder. The here and now is pretty awesome really, with 4 sons and 2 daughters between them, plus her friendly ex, and his, not so much, and that shadow and lingering of Corey, that still leaves the questions of why? Anyway, needless to say I am hooked and ready for daughter #1 to get her story!

About the author

Kristen Ashley grew up in Indiana, has lived in Colorado and the West Country of England but now she calls the Valley of the Sun home. Thus she has been blessed to have friends and family around the globe. Her posse is loopy (to say the least), but loopy is good when you want to write. Kristen has published over seventy romance novels, her work has been translated into fourteen different languages, she’s sold over three million books and has won or been nominated for numerous awards. She’s started the Rock Chick Nation as a way to give back to her readers. RCN has a variety of programs to promote a strong female community and has given over $146,000 to women’s charities.