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His on the Rebound
Sarah
Hell... I’m going to hell. I can hear the nuns now, condemning me, and I deserve it. How could I have let Maxwell Brandt kiss me? A man I found disgusting at the way he treated woman—as if they were disposable, to be used then thrown away. It didn’t matter who he was, or how much money he had. He was a horrible person. Who the hell am I kidding? I’m just as bad because I let him kiss me. Then I did the unthinkable and kissed him back, with a hunger I’ve never felt before. All of this while my fiancé was in the same house. It was a horrible mistake, one that can never happen again. I love Kevin. I want to make a life with him, not be used by a man who won’t remember my name a month from now. What Kevin and I have built is real and I’m not throwing it all away. It didn’t matter if no other man, including Kevin, had made me feel the way Max did, it was wrong. Despite the fact Max keeps coming back to entice me, I stand firm. I won’t cheat on Kevin. I won’t become that person, no matter how badly my body wants him. I don’t want to want him.
Until the moment he drops a bomb that destroys everything. Kevin has been cheating. His words destroy the illusion I’ve been hiding behind, because I know he’s telling the truth. Knew it in the way Kevin has gradually been pulling away... late nights out with the guys, his disinterest in me, and the way he’s twice pushed back the date of the wedding. I hadn’t wanted to believe, had been willfully blind to preserve the promise of a future with a man I believed I loved. All I want is to hide and lick my wounds, but Max won’t let me. With Kevin gone, he demands I fulfill the promise of that kiss. I don’t understand how a man like him wants a plus size woman like me, when my own fiancé refused to date me before I lost weight. Yet, he does, refuses to go away. In a rush of anger, pain, and hunger, I give in. The feeling of being wanted by a man like Max wiping away the humiliation of Kevin’s betrayal. Maybe a fling, a rebound affair, is exactly what I need. No promises, no expectations, and no broken heart. At least, that’s the way it started.
Max
Out of curiosity, to get a look at the fiancée who put up with a cheating weasel like Kevin Jarvis, I find myself looking into the bright green eyes of a woman who makes my body hard with longing. Then the weasel does the unimaginable and introduces green eyes as his fiancée. Even though she looks at my hand like it’s a grenade about to go off, she takes it and we both feel the attraction. We’re both in deep shit now, because I know she feels what I feel and I’m about to go after her, fiancé or not.
I don’t care if she stays with Kevin. I just want her body. Besides, it won’t last long, desire never does and I don’t want her clinging after it’s over. Only, the bitch keeps pushing me away, denying us both the satisfaction our bodies crave. Her sanctimonious refusal as she uses Kevin and her engagement ring as a shield pisses me off. I didn’t want to drop a bomb, but if it gets me what I want, her in my bed, then I’m not going to flinch from it. I need her to satisfy this craving that’s eating me from the inside out. I’ll make her pay for making us both wait. I’m not her ex, and I’m sick of paying for his stupidity. Her body makes my body ache and I want her exactly as she is. Only, inch by inch I’m consumed by my need. I warn myself to pull away, sure this won’t last, can’t last. But letting go isn’t an option, no matter how hard I try.
Hell... I’m going to hell. I can hear the nuns now, condemning me, and I deserve it. How could I have let Maxwell Brandt kiss me? A man I found disgusting at the way he treated woman—as if they were disposable, to be used then thrown away. It didn’t matter who he was, or how much money he had. He was a horrible person. Who the hell am I kidding? I’m just as bad because I let him kiss me. Then I did the unthinkable and kissed him back, with a hunger I’ve never felt before. All of this while my fiancé was in the same house. It was a horrible mistake, one that can never happen again. I love Kevin. I want to make a life with him, not be used by a man who won’t remember my name a month from now. What Kevin and I have built is real and I’m not throwing it all away. It didn’t matter if no other man, including Kevin, had made me feel the way Max did, it was wrong. Despite the fact Max keeps coming back to entice me, I stand firm. I won’t cheat on Kevin. I won’t become that person, no matter how badly my body wants him. I don’t want to want him.
Until the moment he drops a bomb that destroys everything. Kevin has been cheating. His words destroy the illusion I’ve been hiding behind, because I know he’s telling the truth. Knew it in the way Kevin has gradually been pulling away... late nights out with the guys, his disinterest in me, and the way he’s twice pushed back the date of the wedding. I hadn’t wanted to believe, had been willfully blind to preserve the promise of a future with a man I believed I loved. All I want is to hide and lick my wounds, but Max won’t let me. With Kevin gone, he demands I fulfill the promise of that kiss. I don’t understand how a man like him wants a plus size woman like me, when my own fiancé refused to date me before I lost weight. Yet, he does, refuses to go away. In a rush of anger, pain, and hunger, I give in. The feeling of being wanted by a man like Max wiping away the humiliation of Kevin’s betrayal. Maybe a fling, a rebound affair, is exactly what I need. No promises, no expectations, and no broken heart. At least, that’s the way it started.
Max
Out of curiosity, to get a look at the fiancée who put up with a cheating weasel like Kevin Jarvis, I find myself looking into the bright green eyes of a woman who makes my body hard with longing. Then the weasel does the unimaginable and introduces green eyes as his fiancée. Even though she looks at my hand like it’s a grenade about to go off, she takes it and we both feel the attraction. We’re both in deep shit now, because I know she feels what I feel and I’m about to go after her, fiancé or not.
I don’t care if she stays with Kevin. I just want her body. Besides, it won’t last long, desire never does and I don’t want her clinging after it’s over. Only, the bitch keeps pushing me away, denying us both the satisfaction our bodies crave. Her sanctimonious refusal as she uses Kevin and her engagement ring as a shield pisses me off. I didn’t want to drop a bomb, but if it gets me what I want, her in my bed, then I’m not going to flinch from it. I need her to satisfy this craving that’s eating me from the inside out. I’ll make her pay for making us both wait. I’m not her ex, and I’m sick of paying for his stupidity. Her body makes my body ache and I want her exactly as she is. Only, inch by inch I’m consumed by my need. I warn myself to pull away, sure this won’t last, can’t last. But letting go isn’t an option, no matter how hard I try.
195 pages, Kindle Edition
Published June 8, 2016
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About the author
Fiona Murphy
40 books551 followersDue to commitment issues I have lived in many different cities and my favorite is Chicago but I have managed to settle into Austin and perhaps my commitment issues are behind me.
I have enjoyed reading from a very young age and it wasn't long before the children books bored me and I read the books my mother enjoyed Stephen King and Dean Koontz and I didn't sleep without the light on until I was about ten.
I came across my first Harlequin by accident and it was love at first read, no one died and happy endings? It was a whole new world and I loved it.
I wrote my first story at eight and everyone died, of course. Since then I would like to think I've gotten better and now I'm writing the happily ever afters I first fell in love with, with some hot sex thrown in along the way.
As a plus size woman myself, I have started writing the stories I always wanted to see myself in but never did. And now I'm ecstatic to give BBWs the happily ever afters with hot Alphas they so rarely get.
I have enjoyed reading from a very young age and it wasn't long before the children books bored me and I read the books my mother enjoyed Stephen King and Dean Koontz and I didn't sleep without the light on until I was about ten.
I came across my first Harlequin by accident and it was love at first read, no one died and happy endings? It was a whole new world and I loved it.
I wrote my first story at eight and everyone died, of course. Since then I would like to think I've gotten better and now I'm writing the happily ever afters I first fell in love with, with some hot sex thrown in along the way.
As a plus size woman myself, I have started writing the stories I always wanted to see myself in but never did. And now I'm ecstatic to give BBWs the happily ever afters with hot Alphas they so rarely get.
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January 21, 2020
Read this on iPhone, yes an iPhone because it was free. I am a huge fan of Fiona’s heroines. They are all so related as I too am a plus size woman. You how you read the blurb about the book and you are like “what? How is that going to happen?” That was me. The development of their love was so many layers. When Max and Sarah finally get to their place of heaven, it was a great ride to be included on.
January 20, 2020
DNF. Made it to 6% and quit. It’s utter shit. The editing is really bad, the heroine is a doormat, and the hero is worse than a bag of dicks.
May 29, 2017
Review Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars.
An enjoyable first read!
I received an Advance Reader Copy for His On The Rebound written by Fiona Murphy and voluntarily reviewed this book. The signs were there, plain as day, but Sarah Willock didn't realize what they had meant, really. She was charmed by Kevin, her fiancé, into throwing together a very last-minute party to impress his new boss, Maxwell Brandt. Curiosity is the main reason Max shows up to Kevin's party, just so he could see for himself just what type of woman would be interested in the lying, cheating weasel of a sales guy, unbeknownst to her.
Having heard about Max's reputation from Kevin, she was unprepared for the near-full-on sensory assault when Max snuck into a room behind her and locked the door. She was shaken up, but bewildered from his singular attention. He continues in that vein to gain attention from her, but when he gets no response, he organizes a dinner that includes spouses and significant others and drops the reality bomb on her concerning her fiancé and his cheating history.
How is Sarah ever going to to fulfill her dream of falling in love, marrying, and starting a family, when she realizes that although two men want her, one is just hanging on just for her family money and the other, just for her body?
Neither man's character did anything for me, at least in the beginning. Max was too used to getting his way with women, so his intention was to just slake his lust on her and make her pay, even, for not falling into his arms even though she was engaged. When the truth about Kevin is confronted and proven, Sarah gives into his offer, if only to actually enjoy sex for once. But along the way, Max does so many things that show he actually cares, becoming highly possessive of her and wanting more of her and her time. Working through emotional demons in his past and putting loose ends in her life to rest, they slowly work their way towards the HEA that she has always wished for, and Sarah finds the confidence and support to be the person she was meant to be, freely giving Max in return the love and trust he has yearned for. I will definitely keep an eye on this author and her other stories ;-D
An enjoyable first read!
I received an Advance Reader Copy for His On The Rebound written by Fiona Murphy and voluntarily reviewed this book. The signs were there, plain as day, but Sarah Willock didn't realize what they had meant, really. She was charmed by Kevin, her fiancé, into throwing together a very last-minute party to impress his new boss, Maxwell Brandt. Curiosity is the main reason Max shows up to Kevin's party, just so he could see for himself just what type of woman would be interested in the lying, cheating weasel of a sales guy, unbeknownst to her.
Having heard about Max's reputation from Kevin, she was unprepared for the near-full-on sensory assault when Max snuck into a room behind her and locked the door. She was shaken up, but bewildered from his singular attention. He continues in that vein to gain attention from her, but when he gets no response, he organizes a dinner that includes spouses and significant others and drops the reality bomb on her concerning her fiancé and his cheating history.
How is Sarah ever going to to fulfill her dream of falling in love, marrying, and starting a family, when she realizes that although two men want her, one is just hanging on just for her family money and the other, just for her body?
Neither man's character did anything for me, at least in the beginning. Max was too used to getting his way with women, so his intention was to just slake his lust on her and make her pay, even, for not falling into his arms even though she was engaged. When the truth about Kevin is confronted and proven, Sarah gives into his offer, if only to actually enjoy sex for once. But along the way, Max does so many things that show he actually cares, becoming highly possessive of her and wanting more of her and her time. Working through emotional demons in his past and putting loose ends in her life to rest, they slowly work their way towards the HEA that she has always wished for, and Sarah finds the confidence and support to be the person she was meant to be, freely giving Max in return the love and trust he has yearned for. I will definitely keep an eye on this author and her other stories ;-D
June 10, 2017
Even though Sarah Willock had a challenging and lonely childhood and never felt loved, she turned out to be a sweet and caring nurse who makes cancer treatments for the children at the hospital more tolerable.
Feeling unworthy of anything better, she imprisons herself in a relationship with a loser, who is only interested in her money, cheats on her, and treats her bad.
Max Brandt is a smart and sexy billionaire who used to be a famous football player and has also worked as a model for commercials. Max is very popular with the ladies, but like Sarah, he had a difficult childhood, and he carries scars from a previous relationship.
When he meets Sarah, he doesn’t see the overweight person she thinks she is, but a sexy, funny and amazing woman he wants in his bed.
The chemistry between them is unbelievable, and even though they both have some issues to work out, I found myself rooting for them to be together.
His on the Rebound is an intriguing story overflowing with emotions and sizzling sexual tension.
Feeling unworthy of anything better, she imprisons herself in a relationship with a loser, who is only interested in her money, cheats on her, and treats her bad.
Max Brandt is a smart and sexy billionaire who used to be a famous football player and has also worked as a model for commercials. Max is very popular with the ladies, but like Sarah, he had a difficult childhood, and he carries scars from a previous relationship.
When he meets Sarah, he doesn’t see the overweight person she thinks she is, but a sexy, funny and amazing woman he wants in his bed.
The chemistry between them is unbelievable, and even though they both have some issues to work out, I found myself rooting for them to be together.
His on the Rebound is an intriguing story overflowing with emotions and sizzling sexual tension.
April 7, 2018
I really found myself enjoying this book! I have always been a sucker for BBW romances. When one my readers suggested I read a book by this author I was quick to buy a copy once I found out it was BBW. I found myself really enjoying these books. It's hard for authors to portray BBW characters and I feel Fiona Murphy did great job. I really enjoyed Sarah and Max's chemistry. And, I loved how strong Sarah was.
Great story. I am looking forward to reading more of her books.
Great story. I am looking forward to reading more of her books.
October 8, 2023
A slow burn story
Loved reading this story. Max and Sarah's story is a slow burn but ever so sexy alpha male and strong woman both learn to trust, talk to each other and finally admit their true feelings. I feel the story could have done with an epilogue just to show us a glimpse of the life ten years later.
Loved reading this story. Max and Sarah's story is a slow burn but ever so sexy alpha male and strong woman both learn to trust, talk to each other and finally admit their true feelings. I feel the story could have done with an epilogue just to show us a glimpse of the life ten years later.
November 14, 2023
this was good
I thought I had things all figured out but really I had no idea there was a ton of emotion without the book feeling too heavy. It wasn’t a light read but it didn’t drag on and on
I thought I had things all figured out but really I had no idea there was a ton of emotion without the book feeling too heavy. It wasn’t a light read but it didn’t drag on and on
March 20, 2019
Great read
Loved it. Very sweet book with a bit spice to make it interesting. Will be checking out her other books now as well. 🥰🥰🥰
Loved it. Very sweet book with a bit spice to make it interesting. Will be checking out her other books now as well. 🥰🥰🥰
January 16, 2020
Unexpectedly sweet. I loved that he was good for her self-esteem and she was good for his insecurities.
February 25, 2020
Wow. What a great story. I need a Max.
February 12, 2022
His on the Rebound
This book is about the road to discovery and the rewards that await you. Not who or what others decide for you.
This book is about the road to discovery and the rewards that await you. Not who or what others decide for you.
October 27, 2025
The first 5 or 6 Chapters makes you want to slap 😤the 🔥fire out of Max! Then you start 'understanding' his 🤯Foolishness....or I just Refused to give up on one of my favorite authors, 😆LOL....And plow through until the bitter end! I like Sarah, alot, especially when she comes out of her shell 🐚. I'll Reread this again, maybe, in 2 years or so. 😆🤣
June 21, 2016
So apparently I found a new reader, she's reviewed a few others and her reviews can be found on Apple iBooks.
Oh my GOODNESS! THIS BOOK IS HOT!
by fit2Btied1
My favorite by far. Love this author and her characters.
Oh my GOODNESS! THIS BOOK IS HOT!
by fit2Btied1
My favorite by far. Love this author and her characters.
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