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Celina: Connelly Cousins Book 1 Kindle Edition
She's everything he ever wanted. And nothing he deserves.
When Celina Connelly returns to Birch Falls several years after her parents’ deaths, she’s not sure she’s going to stay. Nothing has changed, and yet everything is different. Or maybe living at home with her overprotective brother and working in the town library just isn’t enough.
When Celina meets Jamie McCullough, she knows right away that he’s a nice guy. The problem is, Jamie wants more than just the friendship she's offering. Celina is saving herself for the all-inclusive, heart-pounding, breath-stealing kind of magic that comes with finding the right one.
The kind she feels when she meets Jamie’s brother, Kyle.
The dark, brooding biker is all wrong for someone like her, and yet from the moment they meet, Celina knows Kyle is the one she’d been waiting for.
Kyle McCullough is the ultimate bad boy. He likes his machines fast and his women faster. When his younger brother comes to him for advice on seduction, Kyle laughs it off, believing no woman can be as perfect as Jamie makes her out to be.
He’s wrong. Not only is Celina beautiful and sexy, she’s got the class of a lady and the soul of a biker. She's the only woman who's ever made him want more.
But it will never work. She’s far too good for him. And Kyle doesn’t do good girls.
- LanguageEnglish
- Publication dateOctober 1, 2015
- File size2105 KB
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From the Publisher
Stay in your lane, McCullough
Kyle McCullough is the ultimate bad boy. He likes his machines fast and his women faster. When his younger brother comes to him for advice on seduction, Kyle laughs it off, believing no woman can be as perfect as Jamie makes her out to be.
He’s wrong. Not only is Celina beautiful, she’s got the class of a lady and the soul of a biker. But it will never work. Lina is not only his brother’s girl, she’s also his best friend’s little sister.
Besides, she’s far too good for him. And Kyle doesn’t do good girls.
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From the Author
Many of you mightrecognize Celina from her occasional appearances in my popular Callaghan Brothersseries. That's because Celina and her brothers are cousins to the boys in PineRidge, and live just over the river in the small valley town of Birch Falls.
If you're keeping track,Celina's mother, Erin, and the Callaghan matriarch, Kathleen, are sisters.
In terms of timing,Celina's story takes place the summer prior to the first Callaghan book,Dangerous Secrets.
The Connelly Cousins series:
- Book 1.0: Celina
- Book 1.5: Jamie (novella)
- Book 2.0: Johnny
- Book 3.0: Michael
Product details
- ASIN : B015JSNYSC
- Publisher : (October 1, 2015)
- Publication date : October 1, 2015
- Language : English
- File size : 2105 KB
- Simultaneous device usage : Unlimited
- Text-to-Speech : Enabled
- Screen Reader : Supported
- Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
- X-Ray : Enabled
- Word Wise : Enabled
- Print length : 229 pages
- Best Sellers Rank: #71,581 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #321 in Romance Literary Fiction
- #3,968 in Contemporary Romance Fiction
- #10,764 in Contemporary Romance (Kindle Store)
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About the author
Abbie Zanders is a USA Today Bestselling Author with more than 65 published romance novels to date. Her stories range from contemporary to paranormal and everything in between. She promises her readers two things: happily ever afters, always, and no cliffhangers, ever.
Born and raised in the mountains of Northeastern Pennsylvania, where she sets most of her stories, she’s known for small town romance featuring golden-hearted alpha heroes and strong, relatable heroines. Besides being an avid reader and writer, she loves animals (especially big dogs), American muscle cars, and 80's hair bands.
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Customers enjoyed the story with its drama, humor, and misunderstandings. They loved the characters, especially the hero and heroine. The romance was described as cute, sweet, and enjoyable. Readers enjoyed the new series as well as the Callaghan brothers series.
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Customers enjoyed the story. They found it engaging, with drama, humor, and a love story with a twist. The book was described as fast-paced and page-turning, with an awesome start to the Connelly cousins storyline.
"...It was a great story and amazing writing." Read more
"...While the romance aspect was as sweet and hot as ever, I kind of missed a bit of the action and suspense side dish we usually find in Ms. Zanders’..." Read more
"...Celina and Kyle's story is loaded with drama, humor, sex and misunderstandings...." Read more
"The love story of Celina and Kyle. Celina has been in love with Kyle since the first time she saw him...." Read more
Customers enjoy the characters' development. They find the book engaging and emotional, with a relatable hero and heroine. The alpha males and women are also well-received.
"...She’s a good girl that is confident and mature. They had such a cute courtship...." Read more
"...It was a very good bad boy being won over by good girl ala 'Grease'. Spoilers ahead proceed with caution:)..." Read more
"...Celina is a well-written book packed with an outstanding cast of characters. Celina is dating Jamie, but there's no spark...." Read more
"...I love the alpha males along with the women who can bring them to their knees...." Read more
Customers enjoy the romance in the book. They find the characters warm, loving, and kind. The cute courtship makes them giddy and leaves them feeling warm.
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"...This had a little bit of everything. It was intriguing, angsty, sexy, and I loved the hero and heroine." Read more
"...when you read about a couple finding their soul mate....it just makes me giddy and leaves me with warm wonderful feeling. I'm going to read #2 now!..." Read more
Customers enjoy the series content. They mention it's a great new series that starts out fabulously.
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- Reviewed in the United States on September 16, 2022Celina: WOW! Great story! Celina was the type that needed excitement in her life with have to over protective brothers that raised her after their parents died. Jamie was a great guy but in her mined more of a friend then she met Kyle and she she just knew something was right about him even he didn't believe in the right one or marriage. It was something about Lina when he was around her. He enjoyed life not just always with the bikes he lived so much. It was a great story and amazing writing.
- Reviewed in the United States on March 7, 2016Abbie Zanders is one of my favorite insta-love romance authors. I’ve read a couple of her books and I always end up with a goofy smile on my face and a warm, fuzzy feeling. Her heroes are always hot, bossy, and unbelievably possessive but a bit in denial until they finally take their heads out of their butts and accept they have found their croie (their heart, the one meant for them).
Kyle was no different, he is a self appointed bad boy, a bit-on-the-rough-side, a custom builder of motorcycles, who doesn’t see himself as husband material. He just, you know… hooks up.
Celina is a sweet, caring and all around nice girl recently back in her home town. She has been kind of seeing Jamie for some time but although she finds him handsome, smart and well… great, she doesn’t feel the spark her mother had always told her she would feel when she met her one, and she’s been saving herself for that man.
Jamie is clearly infatuated with Lina, and starts to get frustrated with his lack of forward moving (he wants in her pants and is not getting anywhere near them) so he asks his panties-dropper-wizard big brother to meet her and give him some pointers in how to seduce Lina.
Big mistake boyo.
All it takes is one look for Lina to know she has found her croie, and Kyle is immediately regretting his decision to help out his brother as Lina makes his heart beat faster with just one look.
While the romance aspect was as sweet and hot as ever, I kind of missed a bit of the action and suspense side dish we usually find in Ms. Zanders’ stories.
I was also surprised by Kyle’s self-doubt and slight unworthy-of-her-itis which kept making him push Lina away –and the things he said? Wow, at one point I thought his foot was going to have to be surgically removed from his guts, he kept putting it in his mouth so hard.
It was clear from the start that Lina was not romantically involved with Jamie so this didn’t have a love-triangle feel to it, more of a unrequited-love-that-was-really-only-a-mild-infatuation type of thing.
Celina was a good read, it had me smiling, frowning and threatening bodily harm to Kyle more than once, keeping me well engaged and entertained as Abbie’s books always do.
- Reviewed in the United States on June 4, 2024This is a good romance book. I really like Kyle and how manly and strong he is. Such an alpha. I like that although Lina is innocent when it comes to dating, she is not timid. She’s a good girl that is confident and mature. They had such a cute courtship. I really enjoyed how they hung out and got to know each other as friends first, albeit their instant attraction to each other. We can really see how they love each other. Not sure if it was necessary to include in the plot that Kyle’s brother liked her first so there was a little bit of a love triangle. Luckily, it wasn’t prevalent in the book so I was able to ignore that factor. Especially when you can see how they are meant for each other and his brother hardly even knows the real Lina. It’s well written and I look forward to reading about her 2 older brothers.
- Reviewed in the United States on February 5, 2017I am not into brothers dating same woman but this book was done in a way that I did not feel betrayal. It was a very good bad boy being won over by good girl ala 'Grease'.
Spoilers ahead proceed with caution:)
It starts with us getting a clip of a future scene where the anti hero rejects our poor heroine. It's brutal and probably can be read in a sample provided by Amazon Kindle.
Then the story begins. Heroine dated hero's little brother but instantly their was something there between them. The good thing is they don't act on it until both are available. We will learn that her relationship with the little brother wasn't that special and how as bad as hero thought he was he really knew her better. Unfortunately our heroine has it bad and lays her heart out on her sleeve, but hero has so many issues he keeps running from something so perfect. But if anyone knows my reviews I can tell you I can take a lot of things from a bad boy as long as they are loyal and from when they finally start skirting around each other he was loyal.
So expect to be frustrated, angry, dejected and sad in this roller-coaster ride, but in the end they were perfect for each other. Safe read. Hero was heroine's one and only. Steamy parts. Not light read.
- Reviewed in the United States on August 15, 2019Celina is a fantastic contemporary romance by Abbie Zanders. Ms. Zanders has once again impressed me with her storytelling abilities. Celina is a well-written book packed with an outstanding cast of characters. Celina is dating Jamie, but there's no spark. Jamie is getting nowhere so he asks his brother to meet Celina so he can give Jamie some tips. Celina and Kyle's story is loaded with drama, humor, sex and misunderstandings. I enjoyed reading Celina and can't wait for my next book by Abbie Zanders. Celina is book 1 of the Connelly Cousins Series but can be read as a standalone. This is a complete book, not a cliff-hanger.
Top reviews from other countries
- RosieReviewed in the United Kingdom on July 2, 2023
5.0 out of 5 stars Can't go wrong with this one.
Love Abbie’s Connelly books. Read books two and three of the cousins before number one, but just knew like all Abbie’s stories it wouldn’t disappoint.
Celina was any mans’ dream girl. However, for the cynical bad boy Kyle she was just too good to be true. Like a moth to flame he keeps meeting with her. Till he burns his bridges and then realises he just lost himself the best thing to happen to him.
If someone’s your soul mate there’s no stopping the inevitable pairing with these Connellys, as Kyle has come to find out.
- KJFReviewed in Canada on April 7, 2019
5.0 out of 5 stars Liked this story alot
It's a great love story, even though it left me wondering if his extreme cynicism will be a problem when the inevitable conflicts arise, in their marriage. Since Abbie also likes to write about women with near insurmountable issues and does so with great success, I'd love to see how she has her characters deal with the rescue of gangrape victim. In addition to struggling with her ptsd, she is determined to keep the baby that resulted from her repeated rapes. I think Abbie would be ideal for writing a story with the necessary sensitivity and intelligence required for such a triumph over tragedy. What do you say Abbie?
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jurephiReviewed in Germany on October 9, 2015
5.0 out of 5 stars Do you believe in fairy tales?
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Celina -Lina für ihre Freunde- hat genau davon zu wenige... Freunde! Sie liebt ihren ältere Bruder, sie mag ihre Leben, sie kommt mit ihrem Job klar, sie hat einen Bekannten Jamie, für den sie nicht genug empfindet, um sich ganz auf ihn einzulassen und sie weiß, das etwas in ihrem Leben fehlt. Sie will, was ihre Eltern hatten bevor sie viel zu früh gestorben sind - sie will ihren Seelenverwandten, ihr Herz, den einen, der alles für sie ist und für den sie alles ist.
Kyle ist der typische Bad Boy, Biker, er liebt sein Leben, die Frauen, die Parties und seinen kleinen Bruder Jamie, wenn der nur nicht so verdammt spießig wäre... Und nun auch noch das, ausgerechnet sein kleiner Bruder will seinen Rat, weil er bei einer Frau nicht landen kann? Eher ungern lässt sich Kyle darauf ein, diese angeblich unschuldige, reine, wundervolle (bla bla bla... wo gibt es denn noch sowas mit 25??) Jungfrau kennenzulernen. Doch als er dann Celina trifft, trifft es ihn auch und zwar mitten ins Herz, von dem er nicht gewusst hat, dass es überhaupt zu solchen Gefühlen fähig ist....
Aber Lina ist die Frau seines kleinen Bruders, oder???
Fazit:
Hier trifft weibliche irische Sturheit auf "bad ass biker" und das mit all dem gewohnten und erwarteten Wortwitz.
Ich habe das Buch in einem Rutsch gelesen, konnte es nicht weglegen und habe jede Seite genossen :-)
Es ist ein kleines feiner Märchen, wie gewohnt mit "happily ever after" (etwas anderes kennt man von Abbie Zanders auch nicht) - zum Glück. Die Protas sind liebenswert, süß, machen Lust auf mehr und mehr werden wir bekommen, denn zum einen hat Lina 2 Brüder und (für alle die die Geschichten noch nicht kennen) Lina hat 7 Cousins, die ganz in der Nähe wohnen und ebenfalls auf der wahren Liebe sind, nach ihrer Seelenverwandten, nach ihrem "croie". (The Callaghan Brothers!)
- kerstin hoehnReviewed in Germany on February 1, 2020
5.0 out of 5 stars 2 hearts
I loved Lina und Kyle's story. Both had to overcome great loss and they balance each other. I read it more than once because it's a great story with great characters.
- Narelle DanielsReviewed in Australia on November 17, 2015
4.0 out of 5 stars Four Stars
Loved it can't wait for the next one