Letting Go: Full Hearts Series, #2.5

By MJ Summers and Melanie Summers

It's 1994, and Harper Young is a typical fifteen-year-old girl in love with two things: fashion and the boy next door, Evan Donovan.  

 

Counting down the days until summer vacation, she plans to spend the next three months laying out in her backyard in her bikini, just in case Evan happens to come outside. 

 

Little does she know that her mother is about to cause a shocking scandal that will rock the entire state of Colorado and change the course of Harper's life forever.

 

Now, instead of trying to get noticed, Harper needs to hide. 

 

Author's Note: Letting Go is the touching & hilarious prequel novella to Breaking Clear (Book 3 of the Full Hearts Series). It's best read after Breaking Love (Book 2). 

• Language: English
• Publisher: Gretz Corp
• Release date: Apr 11, 2016
• ISBN: 9780992142254

MJ Summers

MJ Summers made a name for herself with her debut novel, Break in Two. The highly acclaimed novel has received over 2300 reviews on Amazon.com maintaining a 4.4 Star rating. Released on Nov. 6, 2013, the novel quickly climbed to the number 2 position in the Top 100 Paid Kindle Store in Canada. It sat at number 1 in Western Romance on Amazon in Canada, the UK, and the USA for several weeks. She is now working with super-agent, Suzanne Brandreth, of the Cooke Agency, who has sold the English language rights for MJ's four-book Full Hearts Series to Piatkus Entice (a division of Hachette UK) for all territories outside North America, and to HarperCollins Canada. Her first two novels have been translated in Czech and Slovak by EuroMedia.  Her novella, Don't Let Go, released in July 2014, hit the Top 100 in Western Romance as well as the Top 100 in Kindle Short Reads within the first twelve hours of sales. Her highly anticipated follow-up novel, Breaking Love, was released in the fall of 2015. It reached #56 in Erotic Romance on Amazon.com. The book has a 4.6 star rating on Amazon and a 4.3 star rating on GoodReads.com. Her third in the series, Breaking Clear, came out July 30, 2015, making its way to #35 on Amazon.com under the Erotic Romance Category within two days. The book has a 4.6 star rating on Amazon.com and a 4.3 star rating on GoodReads.com. Breaking Clear was recently featured in the Toronto Star under “Hammock Reads”. All three of her novels have been chosen as staff picks at Chapters/Indigo, Canada's largest Book Retailer. MJ Summers currently resides in Edmonton, Canada, with her husband, three young children and their goofy dog. When she’s not writing romance novels, she loves reading (obviously), snuggling up on the couch with her family for movie night (which would not be complete without lots of popcorn and milkshakes), hiking, and yoga (to make up for the milkshakes), and camping (with lots of gooey s’mores and hard ciders). She also loves shutting down restaurants once a month with her girlfriends. Well, not literally shutting them down, like calling the health inspector or something. More like just staying until they shut the lights off. MJ is a proud member of the Romance Writers of America.

Book preview

Letting Go

LETTING GO

A Full Hearts Novella

MELANIE SUMMERS

Copyright © 2016 by Gretz Corp.

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Published by Gretz Corp.

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EPUB Edition: April 2016

Epub ISBN: 978-0-9921422-5-4

Contents

Books by Melanie Summers

Books with Whitney Dineen

Author’s Note

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

Chapter 8

Chapter 9

Chapter 10

Chapter 11

Sneak Preview of Breaking Clear

Now Available: Break in Two

Now Available: Breaking Love

Now Available: Breaking Hearts

Afterword

About the Author

Praise for Melanie Summers

I inhaled this book… Riveting sexual heat... A delicious and definite five star read.

~ Jennifer Sage, Author of the Guardian Archives Series

MJ Summers is slowly killing me. First she wrote a book about a sexy cowboy and now she’s written one about a sexy Frenchman. I loved Breaking Love and it was worth every one of the 5 stars that I gave it.

~ Karen, A Thousand Lives Book Blog

Breaking Love is perfect, it's addictive, provocative and all things naughty and nice. "

~ Chicks that Read Blog

A fun, often humorous, escapist tale that will have readers blushing, laughing and rooting for its characters.

~ KIRKUS Reviews

To the author: This book had me from page 1 and tugged at my heartstrings till the very last page. You had me on the edge of my seat not wanting to leave this book for one moment in fear that I might miss something in the book. The suspense alone in this read was amazing and the ending phenomenal. I hope your readers enjoy this book as much as I did.

~ Book Enthusiast Promotions Reviewer D. Carpintero

What other authors so often fail, MJ championed in this book: in many books this long process of will they/won’t they is just too long and after some time it loses the whole appeal, but here… it was not flat or boring for a second, it was all the time gripping and had you on the tips of your toes.

Altogether, the book has made a fascinating, steamy… quick read. Why quick? Well, because I couldn’t put it down, so engrossed was I in Megan and Luc’s lives. It is a brilliant love story written with a lot of feeling and understanding.... MJ Summers can really write a hot romance with great characters in it, full of misunderstandings, twist and turns, heartbreaks and hurt but still with a lot of joy and that is a great entertainment. I have really enjoyed this book and will be keeping my eye on MJ Summers in the future.

~ On My Book Shelf Review Blog

I absolutely loved MJ Summers story writing, she really manages to suck you in and I was actually quite surprised at how engrossing I found Luc and Megan's story…This was an incredibly enjoyable read. It's steamy, it's romantic, it's full of drama and passion. A seriously engrossing, unputdownable read.

~ Laura’s Little Book Blog

A wonderful story that twists and turns and never lets up for a second. Setting the bar high with her debut novel, MJ Summers has all of the skills necessary to cement her name at the top of the ladder.

~Alex Laybourne, Author of Trials & Tribulations

Books by Melanie Summers

SPICY ROMANCE

The Full Hearts Series

Break in Two (Full Hearts Book One)

Don’t Let Go (A Full Hearts Novella) – Prequel to Breaking Love – E-book only

Breaking Love (Full Hearts Book Two)

Letting Go (A Full Hearts Novella) – Prequel to Breaking Clear

Breaking Clear (Full Hearts Book Three)

Breaking Hearts (Full Hearts Book Four)

ROMANTIC COMEDIES

The Crown Jewels Series

The Royal Treatment

The Royal Wedding

The Royal Delivery

Paradise Bay Series

The Honeymooner

Whisked Away

The Suite Life

Resting Beach Face

Pride and Piña Coladas

Beach, Please

Crazy Royal Love Series

Royally Crushed

Royally Wild

Royally Tied

Stand-Alone Books

Even Better Than the Real Thing

A Hollywood Ending

WOMEN’S FICTION

The After Wife

I Used to Be Fun

Books with Whitney Dineen

The Accidentally in Love Series

Text Me on Tuesday

The Text God

Text Wars

Text in Show

Mistle Text

Text and Confused

A Gamble on Love Mom-Com Series

No Ordinary Hate

A Hate Like This

Hate, Rinse, Repeat

For my most amazing, beautiful friends: Nikki, Karlee, Kelly, and Kristyn.

You’ll recognize each of you in this story and I hope it makes you laugh.

I’m so incredibly grateful to have had you all in my life for over thirty-five years.

Here’s to another thirty-five years of friendship!

Author’s Note

Dear Reader,

Thank you so very much for downloading Letting Go! I am truly grateful for your leap of faith that I will provide you with something of value in exchange for your very precious time. As Jodi Picoult once wrote, The act of reading is a partnership. The author builds the house, but the reader makes it a home.

As a reader, I want to feel something. I want to disappear from my world into a new one. I want to fall in love with the characters (or love to hate them), I want them to succeed, and I want to weep with them when their hearts break. I want to relate to them while also witnessing the extraordinary.

As an author, I write because I want to create worlds and breathe life into new human beings. I give them each someone to