Love Unexpected
Navy Love #2
JC Santo
Genre: Military Romance
Publication Date: March 30, 2016

Sometimes the unexpected things in life turn out to be the most worthwhile.

Tegan Daniels is a twenty-one year old college student and a hopeless romantic. She knows her prince charming will eventually find her one day. Someone must be playing a warped joke on her when he comes into her life; Her perfect man with one huge character flaw—he despises love.

Charles Reed has never been a commitment type of man, except when it comes to his loyalty to the U.S. Navy. When a close friend’s sister moves to town he starts doubting his phobia of relationships. What he doesn’t expect is for her innocence to make him question everything in his life and from his past.

He never anticipated a girl like her would come into his life. She never thought she’d have to convince her dream man to give them a shot.

Sometimes the things we want most, require the most fighting for. Love is something unwanted by him and something desired by her; Neither expect to fall for the other.

Will this unexpected love end in their happily ever after?

JC Santo is an author you may not know, but one you most certainly need to. This woman can write a book that will hit you in all the right places. These stories and characters are relevant, emotional, passionate, and heartfelt. Love Unexpected is everything I wanted it to be. This is the second in JC’s Navy Love series and it takes the reader on an emotional story of love, hurt, and happiness.

One thing I am loving so far in this series is that fact that every single person we meet is so interconnected to everyone else. They are all a family, forged in moments of happiness and pain. These people are vital to each person you meet and seeing how they love the main couple in each story adds so much depth and character to these books. THIS is how you write secondary characters! The story would not be as great without them. They all matter to these main characters and Santo makes them matter to the reader too.

Reed and Tegan are so good in this book. These two are seemingly opposite characters but they click in such a way that you cannot deny their rightness for each other. Reed has always seemed like a man of mystery and finally understanding his past, which fuels his present hesitation, puts everything in a new and fresh light. Reed has a vulnerable brokenness to him and Tegan is the exact person who can help him walk from the pain and into a fresh life of healing and forgiveness. Tegan is wise beyond her years, a woman who sees something in others. Her heart was broken and she vowed to protect it from the pain she was living in. It is interesting how she is so drawn to Reed. On paper they are opposites, but there is something in the deepest parts of who they are that calls to one another. Their relationship is rocky in the best way. It is full of ups and downs, angst that makes you hurt and passion that sets the story on fire. Everything about Tegan and Reed starts to make so much sense and when they see it to, you cannot help but smile in victory.

I am so excited for more in the Navy Love series! I cannot wait to see what is next and get to see more of the happily-ever-afters in the series. This Indie author needs to be known! So take a chance and grab this book.