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Review: When You Were Mine by Erika Kelly

Planning a wedding for the ex-husband who left her in Vegas was not on her To-Do list.

Jessica Elsworth isn’t the small town girl she used to be. She built her resort empire from pieces of a broken heart. Now, she’s on her way to snowy Iceland to take on a last-minute consulting job where she’ll renovate a hotel for a wedding.

Four days and two hundred thousand dollars. It should be easy.
Until she meets the groom. It’s him. Trevor Montgomery. The only man she’s ever loved. And her ex-husband.

Trevor Montgomery might be one of the world’s most famous faces, but he’ll always be the boy from Wyoming with stars in his eyes.

Recently retired, he’s heading to Iceland to marry his best friend’s little sister. She’s proposed a marriage of convenience—business and friendship together in one union. Why not?

Everything’s going well…until he meets the wedding planner. It’s Jessica. The woman who still owns his heart.

Now that fate’s brought them together, nothing will stop him from winning her back.

Not even his own wedding.


Jess and Trevor loved one another their whole lives so they expected to be together forever. But hours after they eloped to make things official, Trevor left her side and never returned. They were young and dumb, so they didn’t handle it well. They’ve spent the past three decades telling themselves to get over it already, but neither has ever truly moved on, not even when they get engaged. This is a fun and steamy story about soulmates who got in their own way but the bittersweet history between them makes the present that much more satisfying.

The way life tore these two apart was cruel but even after thirty years and living on different continents, they find their way back to one another in the most unlikely place, convincing Trevor this is fate. That they’re meant to be. That this is his reward after so many years of regret. Except, Jess isn’t on board. She barely survived the first time he broke her heart, so she certainly isn’t going to give him a chance to do it again. At least they’ll have closure and forgiveness, she tells him, but Trevor isn’t willing to take no for an answer, at least not until she hears him out.

This is an emotional second chance romance with loveable characters that pulled me in from the first pages. I couldn’t put this one down. I’d like to thank the author for providing an ARC in exchange for an honest review.

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