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    My Life in Shambles
    My Life in Shambles
    My Life in Shambles
    Audiobook9 hours

    My Life in Shambles

    Written by Karina Halle

    Narrated by Richard Sawyer and Carly Robins

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    About this audiobook

    They say bad things happen in threes. After my boyfriend broke off our engagement, I lost my apartment, and was laid off from my job, I can definitely attest to that.

    They also say life is what happens when you say yes to new adventures. So when my two sisters invited me to ring in the new year in Ireland, I decided to throw all caution to the wind and go for it. I was going to let "saying yes" be my new resolution.

    Little did I know I'd spend New Year's Eve having a hot and dirty one-night stand with Padraig McCarthy, one hell of a sexy Irishman. I also didn't know that the brooding and intense sex god was one of Ireland's top rugby players. A rugby player with a proposition for me: come with him to his tiny hometown of Shambles and pretend to be his fiancee for a few days, just so that his ailing father can have some peace of mind.

    It sounded simple enough. It was anything but. Not when a town gets up in your business, not when the media hunts you down, not when your past comes back in the picture, not when there are real hearts and feelings at stake.

    They say life is what happens when you say yes to new adventures. This is my life in Shambles.

    Contains mature themes.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTantor Media, Inc
    Release dateOct 8, 2019
    ISBN9781630156046
    My Life in Shambles
    Author

    Karina Halle

    Karina Halle is the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and USA Today bestselling author of Disarm and Discretion in The Dumonts series as well as The Pact, The Offer, The Play, and more than fifty other wild and romantic reads. A former travel writer and music journalist, she currently lives in a rain forest on an island off the coast of British Columbia with her husband and their adopted pit bull. There they operate a bed-and-breakfast that’s perfect for writers’ retreats. In the winter, you can often find them in California or on their beloved island of Kauai, soaking up as much sun—and inspiration—as possible. Visit Karina online at www.authorkarinahalle.com.

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    • 5/5
      What a beautiful piece of work, full of love, pain, acceptance and Freaking FATE working at it's best.... one of the few times that i truly love fate for this story ^^
      the flow is amazing, there are moments when you would go "oh boy slow down" but you will just want more.. you will laugh, love and cry with the characters... honestly i have way too many emotions at the moment... so DO YOURSELF GOOD AND PICK THIS BOOK.

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      4.25 ⭐

      This book just broke me so beautifully.

      Valerie's life falls apart piece by piece. She breaks up with her fiancé, has to move out and then loses her job. Will all the free the in her schedule, she's roped into going on a trip to Ireland with her sisters. There, on New Year's Eve she meets Podrick, a rugby player on a break with a tormented look in his eyes.

      Two broken people that mend each other.

      I've consumed this book within 3 days. I knew that my heart will be broken as Podrick's dad is dying. I just didn't see all the other heartbreaks coming. It's a beautiful story of a random encounter turning your life upside down, of how you can find your place in the most unexpected of places.