Blog Tour: Worth the Wait by Karla Sorensen; A Love at First Sight Novel

Worth the Wait, an all-new second chance small town romance from Karla Sorensen, is available now in Kindle Unlimited!

You know what I don’t have time for? The brooding, dark-eyed former love of my life showing up when my life is finally settling down.

I don’t have time for Hunter Buchanan and that intense look in his eyes. The way he loved me so perfectly all those years ago.

I’m the one who asked him to leave back then, my attempt at saving him from the chaos of my screwed up family.

I didn’t expect him back in Green Valley, looking better than before and with an empty ring finger. And I definitely didn’t expect him to still be in love with me.

I don’t have time for the things I feel around him, or how amazing it is when he touches me.

Most of all, for the broken heart I’ll have if I have to say goodbye again. I survived him leaving once before, but I don’t think I can do it again.

So there’s only one thing I can make time for… staying away from Hunter Buchanan.

‘Worth the Wait’ is a full-length contemporary romance, can be read as a standalone, and is book #4 in the Love At First Sight series, Green Valley World, Penny Reid Book Universe.

RATING/REVIEW: ☕☕☕☕☕ ( 5 cups for this fantastic finale about the curse of finding your first love and holding it forever!)

I first fell in love with the Buchanan family when I read Karla Sorensen’s Baking Me Crazy. This is now the first book in the Love at First Sight Novels but it was first introduced as book four in the Donner Bakery Series. This was set in Green Valley World in the Penny Reid Universe.

And because of the charm of the Buchanan family it has earned its own series title and had two more novels afterwards.

Now the fourth and final book is here, aptly entitled Worth the Wait.

All of the books centers around the Buchanan family curse where they find their forever first love. All the books mentions the cautionary tale of the eldest Buchanan brother who found his first love but lost it and is now drifting through life (in their eyes of course) always missing her. Now fans of the series will finally find out what really happened to Hunter and Iris and will they ever be together again.

Hunter Buchanan found his first love at 17 and lost her when he walked away. Now after 12 years he finally meets her again. This time he is older, wiser, more experienced, a little broken but no less in love with her since the first time he saw her. Will this second chance with her give him the ending they both deserved? Iris Black let the love of her life walk away from her when she asked him to, thinking that her own personal baggage was to big for the love he offered. Now in her thirties with more responsibilities but with a promise of a future she meets him again. Will her love for him finally overcome the fears she’s had to carry for so long?

This book brought me out of a reading slump making me read thru the night with no struggle. The writing was exceptional. It pulls you in to the story without feeling overtly sentimental or dramatic which most second chance romances tend to do sometimes.

Hunter and Iris will baffle you with the choices they each had to make that ended up with them not together for twelve years. But the chapters with alternating viewpoints makes you discover the whys and why not the relationship failed during the first try and what makes it more mature in the second part. You are taken through the hardship of Iris' life and how difficult it was to want something just for yourself when for so long a lot has been taken from you.

Why Hunter feared the very thing he sought above all things, his love for Iris and why he made choices that probably doesn't fit most forever love trope in romances.

The secondary characters and the Green Valley setting helped build that sense of family, of being seen and loved and having the support of community. This made the romance between Hunter and Iris all the more poignant with and ending so happy it just makes you smile and laugh.

Worth the Wait is wonderful and heartbreaking, bittersweet and just marvelous. I will miss the Buchanan family and hope to be able to revisit them someday soon.

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Excerpt from Worth the Wait

"I'm not your teacher," I said. "Right now, I'm just the guy who's supposed to make sure you don't have to go back to fourth grade. And that means honesty from both of us. And trust." I stood from the bench and held out my hand again. "You can trust me, Theo. But only make a deal with me right now if I can trust you the same way."

It never occurred to me, as a teacher and then later as an administrator, to talk to kids like they didn't have the same struggles as adults. They understood stress and fear and anxiety, albeit on a different scale, with different language behind it.

That scale changed as you grew up. Your responsibilities took on a different face, and you knew how to label those struggles. But to them—at their age—the responsibilities still felt like the whole world was pressing down on their shoulders. It didn't help if the adults in their life pretended otherwise.

So I knew I'd won something big when Theo Rossman stuck his skinny arm out toward me.

He gave me a firm handshake, his cheeks turning pink when I returned it.

"You sound like Iris," he said quietly.

My heart skipped unsteadily in my chest at his use of that name.

"Who's Iris?" I asked calmly. So very, very calmly. I'd only met one person in Green Valley with that name. And as far as I knew, she'd never come back. Not that anyone had told me, at least.

"My sister. I live with her." He tucked his hand back in his pocket, his face softening as he answered. His love for her, even if it wasn't my Iris, was immediately clear.

Behind my ribs, I felt a hot squeeze of pressure while my mind absolutely fucking raced.

"I knew an Iris once." I watched his face as I said it. "She'd probably be about thirty-two now."

His eyes narrowed, mental calculations evident in his face. "I think that's how old my sister is."

My breathing was choppy, my lungs struggling to pull in enough oxygen. "The Iris I knew ... her last name wasn't Rossman."

He kicked at a stick, so blissfully unaware that all my insides were jolting with unchecked pulses of electricity at the mere thought of it being her.

"Yeah, she's my half-sister. She had a different dad, so she has a different last name."

"What's your sister's last name?" I asked, fighting the urge to grab him by the shoulders and shake the truth from his mouth.

At the sound of a car, Theo's attention was pulled to the parking lot. In an instant, he transformed. Wide smile and happy, bright eyes as he waved at the driver of a beat-up-looking SUV. "That's her. Iris Black."

I swiped a hand over my face and tried to check my breathing.

Check my pulse.

My ability to stay fucking conscious.

This was it. All the sleepless nights I'd wondered if I'd ever see her again. Wondered how I'd ever walked away from her, why I believed her when she said she didn't have room for us in her life. If respecting her choice would damn me to a life that would always feel a little empty. Where every day held a slight edge of grief, something that might have worn down over the years but could still damage me if I caught it in the right way.

The last time I saw Iris Black, she wept as she told me to leave. That she couldn't—wouldn't—make room in her life for some great big destined romance. That she couldn't—wouldn't—believe that it was true.

The last time I saw her, I told her I'd love her for the rest of my life, whether she was in it or not. And I walked away all the same.

And there it was.

A gentle snap, a whisper-soft snick of something sliding back into place underneath my ribs. The shift of something that had been out of place since the last time I saw her. The realization came as quick as a thunderbolt and just as powerful. As I slowly turned toward the parking lot and she stepped out of the car, I knew this was the reason I'd come back to Green Valley.

It was her.

The one I'd loved since the moment I saw her.

Who I hadn't seen in twelve years.

The one staring at me like she'd just seen a ghost.

About Karla Sorensen

Karla Sorensen has been an avid reader her entire life, preferring stories with a happily-ever-after over just about any other kind. And considering she has an entire line item in her budget for books, she realized it might just be cheaper to write her own stories. It doesn’t take much to keep her happy…a book, a really big glass of wine, and at least thirty minutes of complete silence every day. She still keeps her toes in the world of health care marketing, where she made her living pre-babies. Now she stays home, writing and mommy-ing full time (this translates to almost every day being a ‘pajama day’ at the Sorensen household…don’t judge). She lives in West Michigan with her husband, two exceptionally adorable sons and big, shaggy rescue dog.