[New Post] ARC Review: Residual Sugar by Kelly Kay


Title: Residual Sugar

Author: Kelly Kay

Page count: 365

Published: March 18th, 2023

Publisher: N/A

Genre: Contemporary Romance

Received: From the publisher in exchange for an honest review

Rating: 4/5


Rebecca Gelbert had no idea that opening her front door would open up her whole world. 

Brick Dunne walked through and changed everything. And now he wants the one thing he can’t have, his lawyer.

Gelbert Family Winery Standalone – Five Families Vineyard Series

Becca’s good at being alone. She’s stunning, brilliant, an excellent attorney, and a pretty good sister. She has her moments, but life is pretty even keel, and that’s exactly how she planned it when she was seven years old. A knock on the door and a flash of a tattooed hand through the peephole set her soul sparking as well as other ignored parts of her. There’s only one man she’s ever deemed too dangerous to want.

The moment was brief, but Becca remembers every second of their interaction. The way his fingers caressed her hand. The broad, muscular frame and piercing grey eyes lingered over her face and figure. The slow drawl of his deep south accent as he said her name. She keeps all of it tucked away for lonely nights.

But now this man is at her house, in the middle of the night, begging for her legal counsel. He’s in trouble, and only she can help him. She wants to refuse him, but she can’t. He has an unspoken power over her, and she can only hope he wields it for good. Because whether she wants to admit it or not, her heart is on the line, as well as their lives. 

A Five Families Vineyard Series Book
An interconnected standalone series about the lives and loves of 5 winery families in Sonoma, California.



I was completely invested from the first chapter. Becca and Brick met several years prior to their reconnecting. Becca is a pretty successful attorney and Brick knocked on her door in the middle of the night in an attire that is not one that you would like to see someone in at that time. Brick and Becca have the strength to get through some rough times, they have great chemistry that you know had been there for a while. I enjoyed the banter and family aspect of the story but the suspences is what got me wanting to know how it ended. Finding out that this is the seventh book in the series just means that I’ll have to go and buy the previous books. lol.



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