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BLURB My Winter at Home A Novel by Rachel Radley
After a whirlwind year following her summer with the Winter family, journalist Piper Page enjoys the luxury of success. With two best selling books under her belt and a thriving lifestyle brand, Piper is on her way to being a thought leader in her generation - that is, until she gets a letter from her summer fling, Nero Winter.

Having swore she'd never return to the Winter family farm, Piper plants herself firmly in the bustling metropolis of London where she meets Earl Burleson, a prominent radio personality. As she and Earl begin their torrid affair, Piper learns something about Earl that shakes the foundation of her new life.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Rachel Radley is a novelist and journalist. After the success of her novel My Summer Abroad, she started a lifestyle brand (seasonsabroad.us) that focuses on wellness and honesty. Rachel is an independent author, enjoying total creative control over her work.
EXCERPTS CHAPTER 2 — coffee, tea, or me? The first time I saw Earl Burleson was at the Caffè Nero in Covent Garden near my work. Even though I know it's practically self-flaggelation to get my coffee at a place that shares a name with my ex, I can't seem to help myself.

Neither could Early.

He paid for my coffee along with his tea and wrote his number on the side of the cup. CHAPTER 5 — the early bird Earl was maddeningly good at hiding his thoughts. He could tell a joke without even a twitch of a smile, all dry and absolutely daring me to laugh. There was something so familiar about it. It was just that I never expected the familiarity to be that he was my ex's half-brother. But as I stared into his shock widened eyes, all I could think was one thing:

When can I see you again? CHAPTER 8 — never have i ever "I can't believe his brother took everyone to Paris for his birthday and he didn't stop in London to see you."

"I know."

"And I can't believe Earl had the audacity to go!"

"I know, Payton!" I snapped. Then sighed, taking a sip of my rosé. "I can't blame him. I know what it feels like when you're in with them."

"Yeah, and you know what it feels like when you're not."
GOODREADS
judy on Television rated it ★★★★★
Shelves: female-lead, romance, kissing-books the less we say about 2020 the better, but i think we all can agree that my summer abroad was the saving grace of that garbage fire. my winter at home is EASILY the same for 2021! piper page's whirlwind affair with earl burleson is so steamy, and i love that in the end she chose her faith and belief in herself over a family that excluded her and prioritized their connections and reputation over everything else. i hope there's two more books, i hope the next one is called my fallen angel, i hope these get optioned for movies, i want more more more!
Stacey Green rated it ★★★★★
Shelves: a-disappointing-sequel, not-worth-it this book is, in a word, delusional. i could stop my review there but i can't stress how profoundly inane it was. it lacks the charm and vivid world building of the first book. it reads like the author is grasping at the straws that made her first book interesting: celebrity gossip. but if you take two minutes to google, you can tell that everything she put in this book is either second or third hand or completely stale. i don't blame her for wanting to remain relevant but any author worth their salt should have realized that the same trick wouldn't work twice. especially if you clearly already burned your bridges.
Berry Reads rated it ★★★★★
Shelves: a-waste-of-time, female-lead i'm one of the people that lost sleep to finish reading My Summer Abroad the first night it came out because i heard it was brimming with dirt on celebs. i only managed to get two or three chapters into this one before it became clear that she just has an ax to grind. earl burleson is obviously radio dj eddie benny, and it's so weird to me that she decided to drag him into this with a fabricated affair. the one thing i will say for this book is that it has some great descriptions of london, she definitely loves her city. i'd love to see her write a travel blog because once you get past the trashy hook, it's pretty obvious where her strengths lie.
Book Wormz rated it ★★★★★
Shelves: trash-i-crave, good-sexual-tension, steamy-love-stuff honestly, i'm torn. on the one hand, it's interesting to see the spin on the sommer family's dirt after rachel got ousted. on the other hand, i love reading salacious, steamy sex scenes and the ones with earl burleson are WAY hotter than the weird, pastoral ones with nero winters from the first book. is it trashy and dumb? sure. but i don't read kindle romance novels to feel like i'm experiencing high brow literature.
Anna Summers rated it ★★★★★
Shelves: this-could-be-better rachel radley is first and foremost a music journalist. she's a researcher, a conversationalist, and a transcriber. she's also clearly one of those people that thinks it's hot and shocking to call their boyfriend daddy. it sort of makes me sad that she clearly thinks the most interesting thing about her is other people when i would absolutely attend a zoom talk with her about her process. this book is tired, i'm tired, we're all tired, and i'll still be spending the next 3 days scouring twitter to find out if she exposed any original dirt this time.
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