SiftedA Recipe for Love #2
Lane Martin
Release Date: October 4, 2016
Sifted is book #2 in the A Recipe for Love series, and is the conclusion of Emily and Declan’s story. It is told from Declan’s point of view.
I asked her to have hope, faith, and trust in us, and then I did the unthinkable: I left.Now, it’s time for me to return and to sift through the pieces that I left behind. I guess my nickname of the Irish Car Bomb is fitting because I went off and left bits of shrapnel behind. I just hope it’s not too late to clean up the mess I made.
We only regret the chances we don’t take, and honestly, my leaving had nothing to do with Emily—my lovely Lemon Drop.
When I left, I thought I no longer knew who I was. What I know now is that I’m nothing without her by my side. She is the biggest piece of me.
She loved me when I was unlovable. No, she never said the words out loud, either, but her love for me is something I’ve never doubted. I felt it, I know I did. I promised to be worthy of that love when I returned to her. I’m still not sure that I am, but I need it, and if she’ll have me, I’ll have her until death do us part.
I meant every word when I told her that my heart would always bring me back to her. She is my home. She is my everything. My yesterday, my today, and my tomorrow.
You can grab your copy of Sifted today from the retailers listed below! Make sure you have read Floured first. These two need to be read in order!
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After the way Floured ended, I was shocked and ready for so much more from Lane Martin and her Recipes for Love series. Declan and Emily were such a fantastic couple and I was devastated yet hopeful with the end of the first book. This story starts right where the first ended and takes the reader on an emotional roller coaster, told in Declan’s POV.
The story was a bit hard for me to get into at first. It had been a while since I read the first book so I was searching my memory bank trying to remember all the secondary characters. There are quite a few extras in the story and their roles in Declan and Emily’s lives are very important. Once I got my head on straight and started to remember who was who, things smoothed out a bit. The beginning seemed a bit rushed. Declan is attempting to find himself after the shocking ending and the door is wide open in Sifted; literally anything can happen. In the blink of an eye, we fast forward seven months and he is trying to find his way home. This book deals with many different issues. There are two hurt people trying to find their way back to each other, along with a multitude or secondary storylines that intersect and involve the primary characters. It is messy and complicated but there is assurance in the fact that these two have a forever kind of love. Once they forgive and learn from past mistakes, things are brighter.
I loved that there is so much we learn about Declan and Emily’s families. Secrets are revealed and new players are brought into the story. There are lies uncovered and truths outed. The story took on a whole new whirlwind I was not ready for. Reading it all in Declan’s POV makes the story different. It definitely makes the dialogue and thought patterns a bit more sexual (*sigh* men) but it allows the reader to understand why he reacted the way he did and where he is headed.
Sifted is the best conclusion for Floured. It ties up all the loose ends and gives the reader a beautiful story of love, forgiveness, and second chances. Lane Martin writes her heart out and brings the reader a story that will touch your heart and make you smile.
Floured (Recipe for Love#1) – Released November 12, 2015
Emily Barnes likes things measured and timed, just like any baker. When she loses the apartment that she needs to run her home-based muffin business, she’s faced with a choice; couch surfing, separated by very thin walls, and her very loud best friends, or house sitting an otherwise empty Upper East Side luxury apartment overlooking Central Park. Obviously it’s a no brainer for this smart cookie.
Declan Hayes is used to people asking things of him and saying no, but for Maggie, his parent’s cook and housekeeper, he would do just about anything, including going over to his parent’s apartment to check on her pseudo niece who is staying there. His plan was to get in and get out, but the second he saw her, something changed. Something about her sparked the normally cold and dismal place to life; she made it warm and inviting. He finally understood the phrase “there’s no place like home”.
Can Emily and Declan trust the timing of their lives or adjust the angle of the lens from which they see their lives?
Will hope, faith, trust and …? Love?
Will these things be enough for Emily and Declan to get the one thing they both never thought they needed in life?
It’s a good thing they are “Floured” because life is about to get sticky.
I never thought that I would write a novel, although my English teacher my freshman year in college told me that he would hunt me down if I wasn’t published by the time I was thirty. Thirty came and went. I was busy being a wife and working mother of two and nobody came looking for me.
