Mend Your Heart (A New Zealand Small Town Sports Romance): Bounty Bay Book 4

Tracey Alvarez

Sep 2017 · Icon Publishing Limited

About this ebook

 An idiot’s guide to falling for your best friend’s widow…

Former rugby star Isaac Ngata was New Zealand’s golden boy until five years ago when a tragic accident took the life of his friend and team mate. Now he’s a pariah with a screwed up knee and a burden of guilt toward his friend’s wife and daughter. Best thing for him to do is sink into the anonymous safety of his hometown. An even better thing to do would be to stop picturing Natalie in his arms.

For someone who doesn’t know a dummy pass from a drop kick, Natalie Fisher just wants to keep her late husband’s passion for sport in the past. But their teenage daughter’s rugby team is in desperate need of a coach and the man she can’t stand to be around has volunteered. A long buried attraction flares to life between Natalie and Isaac, one they can’t run far or fast enough to avoid. Soon rugby fever isn’t the only thing heating up Bounty Bay. Crossing the line never had such high stakes…

MEND YOUR HEART is the fourth story in Tracey Alvarez’s Bounty Bay series, set against the stunning backdrop of Aotearoa, New Zealand. If you like heartwarming, sexy and sweet small town romances, you’ll love sharing the journey with these authentic men and women struggling to find their special someone. Welcome to Bounty Bay, where the reward of true love is a price only some are willing to pay.

Download your copy of Mend Your Heart today and uncover the secret lives and hidden passions simmering in New Zealand’s sultry, subtropical Far North.

Intended for mature 18+ aged readers who enjoy their feel good romance on the sensual side.

Praise for the Bounty Bay series!

"Reading a book by Tracey Alvarez is like taking a mini vacation to my imagined little happy place in New Zealand."~ Spellbound Book Reviews

"Tracey now is included among some of my fav authors from the Southern Hemisphere. Rosalind James and Natalie Gayle fans will love Tracey's books."~ Retailer review

"Tracey Alvarez has written a finely crafted, well written romance. Sexy and delightful and full of family values."~ The Book Date

"Her writing style will keep you hanging on to every word and feeling the characters’ heartbreak right along with them."~ Rach Lawrence Books

Don’t miss any of the Bounty Bay books!

Book 1: Hide Your Heart. Featuring Lauren and Nate.

Book 2: Know Your Heart. Featuring Savannah and Glen.

Book 3: Teach Your Heart. Featuring Gracie and Owen. 

Book 4: Mend Your Heart. Featuring Natalie and Isaac. 

Book 5: Break Your Heart. Featuring Vanessa and Sam. 

Book 6: Tame Your Heart. Featuring Tui and Kyle. 

Book 7: Trust Your Heart. Featuring Allison and Tanner. 

Keywords: small town romance, romance series, New Zealand romance, contemporary romance, sexy romance, opposites attract, rugby romance, beach romance, coastal romance, romance with kids, family saga, heart-warming, sensual, escape down under, family relationships, friendship, multicultural, Maori culture, friends with benefits, affair, heartwarming romance, sweet and sexy romance, exotic foreign romance, vacation romance, beach reads, summer reads

Ratings and reviews

This book was so enjoyable. It made me laugh, and smile. I love it when you read the last page of a book and it leaves you with a smile feeling warm and happy. At the beginning of this book, there was so much tension and anxiety between Isaac and Natalie. Tracey Alvarez was once again able to work her magic and weave a tale that would keep a reader engaged to the very last paragraph. This is a tale of love, loyalty, friendship and family. No worries, all of the steamy bits are also included. Read and enjoy yourself in Bounty Bay. I voluntarily read and reviewed this Advanced Reader Copy.

This fabulous book 4 in the Bounty Bay series features Nat Fisher and Isaac Ngata. It's been years since the accident and life has been hard for Isaac. Being in love with your deceased best friend's wife and keeping a HUGE secret to spare her any more grief is difficult. Isaac is a wonderful man AND he's an ex-All Black!  All these years she's held a grudge against him for the accident but spending time with him coaching her daughters rugby team helps her see him in a more forgiving light and...a more sexy light!  It's time for them both to come to terms with what really happened that night. I highly recommend the series as it is full of love, family, sexy, good looking and hard-working men. There's also a lot of sparks between those sexy men and the women they can't get enough of.  I can't wait for my next visit to Stewart Island.

Natalie Fisher and Isaac Nagta avoid each other at all cost, they can’t be in the same room together for more than five minutes. Back in time, they were friends but everything changed after her husband's tragic death. For five years, driven by grief and guilt they have hidden themselves both from each other and from life itself. Fortunately, life (with some help from Olivia - Natalie's adorable daughter) found its way to bring those two together and let them rediscover not only their friendship but also something more. "Mend Your Heart" is a touching book with lots of twists and turns. I think that with this one, in particular, Tracey Alvarez showed her more serious and emotional side, which, in fact, I really appreciated. She took up a very difficult subject - love of someone's life - and somehow succeeded to give it completely new and refreshed meaning. I highly recommend this book, I hope that you will give it a try. I requested a free ARC copy of this book and I’m writing an HONEST review of it. I was not compensated for my review, and I was not required to write a positive review. The opinion expressed here is my own.

About the author

 Tracey Alvarez is a USA Today Bestselling Author living in the Coolest Little Capital in the World (a.k.a Wellington, New Zealand). Married to a wonderfully supportive IT guy, she has two teens who would love to be surgically linked to their electronic devices.

Fuelled by copious amounts of coffee, she’s the author of contemporary romantic fiction set predominantly in New Zealand. Small-towns, close communities, and families are a big part of the heart-warming stories she writes. Oh, and hot, down-to-earth heroes—Kiwi men, in other words.

When she’s not writing, thinking about writing, or procrastinating about writing, Tracey can be found with her nose in her e-reader, nibbling on smuggled chocolate bars, or bribing her kids to take over the housework.

Follow Tracey on Twitter as @TraceyAlvrezNZ or Facebook as http://www.facebook.com/TraceyAlvarezAuthor 

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