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Waiting for Forever: A Small Town Single Dad Romance (Hope Valley Book 8) Kindle Edition

by Jessica Prince (Author) Format: Kindle Edition

4.6 2,170 ratings

Book 8 of 12: Hope Valley

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After a bitter divorce had left him jaded and cynical, Leo Drake thought he was done. To him, love and happiness were myths. Then the shy, sweet, coffee shop owner looked up at him with those big gray eyes and beautiful smile, and he was done for.

Danika Parrish had been the nerdy girl growing up. The girl who sat in her window, watching the boy across the street, and secretly longing for the day when he might notice her. When that day finally came, she was convinced all her dreams had come true. But after giving her everything she’d ever hoped for, he’d ripped it all away with a handful of words.

Leo’s made a lot of mistakes in his life, but the one he regrets most is hurting Danika. For the first time in his life, he knows what it feels like to love someone, to truly be happy, and he’ll do whatever it takes to win her back. He’s determined to prove to her that he’s worth a second chance. That he’s the forever she’s been waiting all her life for.

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THIS AUTHOR writes the BEST small town romances. Her characters all have undeniable chemistry and the swoons you feel throughout the book are plentiful. - Elle's Book Blog

Jessica delivered another winner with Waiting for Forever! I loved everything about this story. - Love Affair With Fiction

Hope Valley is back on the map and I couldn't be more excited. This series is a top favorite of mine, and y'all, Leo and Dani were EVERYTHING in the VERY best ways. - Renee Entress's Blog

Jessica Prince never fail to pull me in. This series is my fav out of everything I've read from her so far and it just keeps on getting better. - BookSmacked

Jessica Prince; Goddess Divine, has gifted us with book eight in the Hope Valley Series, Waiting for Forever. I love the entirety of the Hope Valley series. - Goodreads Reviewer

I am a huge Jessica Prince fan and I love the Hope Valley series. Every single story in this series is fantastic but this story was the most romantic story of them all, maybe the most romantic one I have read this whole year. - Goodreads Reviewer

Jessica is the type of author where I always drop what I was previously reading and place her new release in my greedy hands. Nobody writes small town romances the way she does, and her Hope Valley series is one of my all time favorite series ever! - Goodreads Reviewer

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B08B5GG81J
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Jessica Prince Books LLC (July 6, 2020)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ July 6, 2020
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 2898 KB
Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
Print length ‏ : ‎ 300 pages

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Born and raised around Houston, Jessica is a self proclaimed caffeine addict, connoisseur of inexpensive wine, and the worst driver in the state of Texas. In addition to being all of these things, she’s first and foremost a wife and mom.

Growing up, she shared her mom and grandmother’s love of reading. But where they leaned toward murder mysteries, Jessica was obsessed with all things romance.

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Leo and Dannika

Reviewed in the United States on October 18, 2023

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Waiting for forever. Falling in love from across the street hoping to be seen for the nerdy shy girl she really is. Wow i loved this story. My nerdy heart beats with Dani's and I love that her happy ever after started watching from the boy out the window across the street . So sweet and such a special story of good winning. Always.

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😈BLynn😈

Absolutely wonderful!

Reviewed in the United States on November 26, 2023

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I wasn’t sure what to expect going into this book. The reviews were really mixed, & I honestly wasn’t sure I was going to like Leo. But I was pleasantly surprised & glad I read it because I really enjoyed it! I felt a mix of emotions f/sad, disgusted, disappointment, happy, & anger. I truly never disliked a character so much as I did Leo’s ex wife. Everything she did & put her kids through was horrible. And I seriously wanted to punch Leo for how he reacted & what he said to Dani. That woman was absolutely amazing, & she had an enormous heart. I loved how everyone in the town stood up for her & let Leo know what they thought- including his own dad, Jed. And I loved seeing the relationship between Jed & Dani. She was all around the best thing ever for not only Leo, but his two wonderful kids, who I loved watching Dani with. She was patient, loving, and just fantastic with both of them.

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Marsha Wright

Thank U, Jessica Prince!

Reviewed in the United States on May 4, 2024

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This was a good romance story. Sometimes we have to go thru a bad times, to learn what makes U happy. I really enjoyed the family and the baking.

Reviewed in the United States on July 18, 2020

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Prepare your heart to be broken and stomped on when our male lead destroys what he had with the sexy baker from Muffin Top. Danika has been secretly in love with Leo ever since she was a young girl. Shy, nerdy and not part of the popular crowd it was unrequited love.

Leo had no idea, a few years older than her he was a star athlete and thought more with his hormones. He’s divorce is behind him and he just wants the best for his kids. A nightmare of an ex wife who’s vicious and petty and just won’t go away. Whitney’s a nightmare and staying with her for as long as he did he deserves an award.

Leo though has moved on and trying to get the cute bakers attention is his goal. She’s adorable and her smile does him
In. She’s perfect for him and his kids. They want to take it slow see where it goes before they come out in the open. But when their secret threatens his relationship with his son he jumps to the wrong conclusion.

When Leo’s anger gets the better of him he lashes out at her. I doubt I’d have been as forgiving but Danika does take him back.

The ex is the issue a nasty vindictive person she won’t be happy until she destroys any happiness they have.

It’s predictable but it’s easy to read and it delivers a guaranteed happily ever.

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Camie Switzer

Crush love

Reviewed in the United States on January 21, 2024

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I could relate to Dani as I was the fat girl in high school. It was wonderful to see her bully get her due comeuppance!

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Jennifer

Was left wanting more

Reviewed in the United States on March 17, 2022

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I was curious to know Leo's story after reading the little bit about him in Tessa's story, and this one started out promising. I immediately liked Dani and her and Leo's story seemed like it would be sweet.
Then...it just seemed to move way too fast. I feel like we didn't really get to read about Dani and Leo falling in love. The author seemed to skip over a lot of their dating moments, starting chapters with something like "Leo and I've been dating for 2 weeks or 3 weeks now" and we get a short blurb about what happened in that time period. I wish we would have gotten more time in Leo's head those weeks he finally took notice of Dani and tried to get her attention. Even when they had their drama, it's like Leo just sat around for weeks before really doing anything to try and win Dani back.
I wish less time was spent on the ex-wife and that storyline and more on Dani and Leo.
The more we learned about Leo's ex-wife, and his history in high school, it made me think back to him hitting on Tessa, and it made Leo seem shallow. He seemed to only go after women who were super pretty. He didn't even take notice of Dani until Tessa said something. He seemed more about looks than personality, which made it hard to believe his connection with Dani. Why else would he stay with his ex-wife for almost 20 years? He claims she was awful and he wanted out, but having a kid is not a reason to stay. You can still be a good parent without getting married.
It also made the character of the ex-wife seem unbelievable. How did the kids have no problem with her before Dani showed up? If she was so awful, how did Leo stay with her so long? All his reasons seemed so shallow and immature. I am also starting to see a theme where the heroine comes in, and all of a sudden the mom or the dad is some awful person. They were fine for years and one of the main characters has all this history with them, but all of a sudden they become a psycho. It is like the author is making room for the new girlfriend or boyfriend to move in and she writes them like their perfect. At least in Nona and Trick's story, the ex wife learned her lesson and came around in the end. Showed she was human and cared about her kids.
I liked Jared, Leo's dad, and Dani's parents. I liked Dani overall, but i am sad Leo and the story overall didn't live up to how it started: great. On to the next one...
Giving it an overall 3 stars because of obvious editing errors, but the author can write an engaging story and it is always nice to re-visit some of the old characters in each book.

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Leo and Danika

Reviewed in the United States on March 27, 2024

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This book reminded me a little of the first book in this series, Out of my League, with the way Danika pinned after Leo. Her love for Leo was very reminiscent of Eden’s love for Lincoln. Danika fell for Leo at 7 but Leo never noticed her until he’d been divorced and returned to town.

I both loved and hated Leo. He allowed his ex to cause some serious harm to his kids and his relationship with Danika, but he did end up redeeming himself. He was a great protector and a great dad, it just took almost losing the love of his life to realize the error in his ways.

I loved Danika. She may have been shy and quiet, but she knew what she wanted and how she should be treated. I loved her budding relationship with Leo’s kids and her mama bear protectiveness of them. I loved that her love for his kids showed Leo what he had been missing with his ex.

This was not my favorite book in this series, but I still enjoyed it. There was a lot of OW drama with Leo’s ex, and that turned me off a little. The writing was still excellent and the town and its citizens were great, as I’ve come to expect from Jessica Prince. I’m interested to see where the unsolved murder takes this series next.

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Leyendo Forever

Danika Fan here!

Reviewed in Mexico on August 21, 2021

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🇲🇽Me gustó la historia, me gusta que él le echa muchas ganas para recuperarla, me encantan los hijos de Leo pero sin duda, mi favorita es la protagonista.

Me encanta cuando un libro tiene una protagonista que amo y que supera a todos los personajes. Es linda, tiene un corazón enorme, tiene una súper inteligencia emocional, no es un doormat. Ella mantiene su esencia y su enorme corazón aún cuando hay cosas que la lastiman. Me encantó.

Fui fan. Leo es mejor versión de sí mismo con ella, y su historia es linda. “Unrequited love” devuelto de la mejor manera.

🇺🇸 Loved the story. I like that he had to fight for her to accept him back. I love his kids, the grandparents and the in-laws but my favorite is Danika.

She’s a perfect heroine. She’s sweet but nice. She’s genuinely a good person and her emotional intelligence is gigantic. I admired her and loved that she was no doormat. The fact that even when life was not nice, she didn’t loose her essence was my favorite thing.

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Fishing Wife

Loved this book

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 31, 2021

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How often does happiness and hurt go hand in hand . This seemed to happen to Danika the lovely woman running the local bake house, and she had a crush on Leo the boy over the road since she was seven , unfortunately she was the nerdy girl who other girls bullied, the worse being Leo's girlfriend who was to become his wife. Danika had never forgotten Leo then he came back to town now divorced but with 2 children. Leo noticed Danika and had been told she had a crush on him, he was hoping that was true cos it wasn't one sided, however he didn't remember her from school. Throw in a bitter ex-wife and drama soon comes calling. When things go south with Leo and the hurtful things he said to her I was glad Damika held firm and let Leo know how she felt. This was a lovely read alongside Leo ,his father and his kids were great alongside Danika's band of women friends and her parents. Leo didn't know what happiness in a relationship looked like and when he found it , threw it away in a fit of temper. Great read need to read how the rest of the gang got together

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Waiting for Forever

Reviewed in Canada on July 12, 2020

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Loved the story of Dani and Leo especially loved the interaction between Dani, Macey and Hardin. Grabbed my attention right away and as usual when reading a Jessica Prince story, I couldn't put it down.

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Leo ❤❤

Reviewed in Australia on July 26, 2020

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I love the Hope Valley series. And in this book the author didn't disappoint. I couldn't put it down from the start . Dani is such a sweet woman and Leo is so hot and funny.
These two both deserve a HEA. Dani has been enamored with Leo since she was little but he was oblivious to her presence. He didn't really notice her till he tried hitting on Tessa the heroine from the previous book. After a disasterous marriage he was ready for some love and happiness. Dani is just the girl to give that to him but with a crazy ex wife that's sole mission to make his life miserable and teenage boy that's wrongly influenced by his mum their road to happiness won't be an easy one. God it was an emotional book you feel for Dani for being bullied as a teenager, you feel for young Leo and adult Leo for his sufferings and his kids for having such a mean mum. Read it you won't be disappointed

Zanybookworm

well….

Reviewed in Canada on August 4, 2022

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So not terrible but wasn’t a favourite. The sweetness and honey and baby nicknames was daunting. Like major overkill. I just didn’t connect with the characters. Something was missing but just not sure what.

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