Release with Review:: Absinthe of the Heart (Sins of Yesterday #1) by Monica James

Wowser. Wow. Wow. This book started off with a bang. We meet the parents of our stars. We get the back story of the families and how the future was laid out for these teens. When we meet London and Holland in high school. They loathe each other. They don't know any better. It's been bread in them to not like each other. But what happens when they like each other? Chaos. The whole world tilts. Monica leaves us on our toes looking over the edge, waiting for the next shoe to drop. She had me wide eyed and heart racing through the entire book. These characters, I fell in love. I really hope we get more of them so that we can see how life treats them.




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Two households, unlike in dignity, in the City of Angels is where we lay our scene...

London Sinclair was the boy my mother warned me about for as long as I can remember. His name alone has brought my family nothing but shame and suffering, so it’s no surprise we’ve been sworn enemies since the first moment we met.

With his bedroom eyes and cocky smile, he has all the girls under his spell. I have one more year of school left, and then I’m home free because I’m guarding a secret, one I’m ashamed to keep.

The boy who is completely off-limits is the one who drives me, Holland Brooks, wild. I want London, and I think…he wants me, too.

Some may compare it to a Shakespearian tragedy, as our surnames have fated our future, but when a single night changes my life forever, I can’t leave the City of Angels fast enough.

Ten years later, I have atoned for my sins and return to Los Angeles a changed woman. I’ve come home to get married. But the moment London walks back into my life, one thing is clear. Ten years can’t undo that night—that single, sinful night when I gave into temptation—because I want to do it again.