A heartwarming story about second chances! I enjoyed this story, although at times I disliked things the characters did. Dane really did redeem himself and was a great father to Mia. Neely was a great character who had some soul searching to do to decide what she really wanted and what would make her happiest. Sometimes what we think we want or need is not as important as what we are giving up. Another great book by Adriana Locke.

Tumble is part small town romance and part second chance love story. At first, I was super curious about why Dane and Neely split. However, the most info was revealed, the more I was sure I was gonna be super pissed at Dane. Yeah, not happy with the decisions he made. Do I understand why a teenage boy would make the choices he did? Yes. Do I think it's okay? Hell no. What an idiot.

Neely is a female sports writer who just quit her job after being screwed over by a coworker. I could understand why she quit and how devastating it would have been for her. However, impulsively quitting your job is a bit immature for a woman her age (late 20's). But, she runs home to lick her wounds and finds out there were lots of things about Dogwood Lane she liked. She was a former champion gymnast and she got back into working at her old gym. I liked the small town aspect of the story-everyone is all in everyone else's business.

Dane's daughter, Mia, also adds a fun layer to the story. She is sweet and endearing and I loved that she and Neely had a sort of instant connection before either knew who the other was. Dane made mistakes in his past, but he has grown up in the years Neely has been gone and it was easier to forgive him. Neely fought forgiving him for a long time, and I understood why-they didn't talk after their explosive break up because Neely went off to college and then stayed gone. So, while we find out what happened to them and there is a lot of hurt and anger, they also have both matured and are different people now.

Tumble was a good start to this new series and I liked the supporting characters! I can't wait for their stories!

This was so good I read in one sitting! Elizabeth @ Carolina Chic’s Read

Dane is the Hottest Single Daddy Ever! Elizabeth @Carolina Chic’s Read

From the moment I started to read this book, I knew the other shoe would drop. I actually didn’t read the blurb and went in blind. I felt like Dane did something big to hurt our girl Neely, and he did! But, I felt protective of Dane... not sure why. He definitely came off as a dominant, caring, and loyal man. So being a single daddy was not something I prepared for... and I loved it!

Not only did this man go all in with Neely but he protects his fantastic daughter as well. It’s like he was born to love them both. Talk about swooning! Ahhhhh!

Neely just has to learn to trust the man who has always held her heart!

5 Fantastic Stars!

I really enjoyed this. The characters the sub characters, all of it. This author always manages to get me to fall in love with the entire character cast for the most part and dying for more. I loved Neely and felt for her for what she had been thru because every girl knows heartbreak. Dane i loved but i also was mad at what had happened in the past. But in the end i loved this story and loved the little girl, Mia. She was such a sweetheart. Im absolutely ecstatic for Tangle! I need so much more from these characters.

Dane and Neely's second-chance romance in Tumble has heart-felt tension, light-hearted humor, and some sweet and swoony moments.

"I've wanted this my entire life, Dane. How am I supposed to not take a chance of a lifetime?"

"This is was I've wanted my entire life. This was my chance of a lifetime [Neely]."

Torn apart by mistakes and heartbreak circumstances have Neely coming home after ten long years. Sometimes you can't forgive the past, sometimes you can't risk your heart to being broken again, and sometimes coming home is exactly where you need to be to find forgiveness and take a chance at love again.

"Every good love story has a moment that makes you swoon."

While I enjoyed Tumble, I just felt like the whole story needed some more oomph to really make it pop, to really capture the emotions, and make readers feel connected. Locke captured the swoony second-chance feeling, but missed for me on the buildup, back story, angst and tension, redemption and forgiveness, and struggle of the heart that makes for a really great second-chance romance.

A good introduction to a fun new series with a great cast of characters that I'm looking forward to reading.

I absolutely LOVED this book! Tumble is a small town second chance single father romance. <--- tics all my boxes.

Swoon worthy single dad Check
Small town Check
Amazing cast of characters Check
Adorable little kids Check
Combustable chemistry Absofreakinglutely Check

There is not a scene in this book where sparks did not go off between the Neely and Dane. You could feel the steam through the pages. I could not put this book down. This story has its ups and downs, made me laugh and cry but the best books do.

Loved it!

It's been ten years since Neely Kimber has been back to her hometown in Tennessee, but she finally returns to lick her wounds after her dream job in NYC falls through. Fortunately for us readers, that means she is forced to face the friends, family, and ex that she left behind. Dane Madden is the man she left behind, but never forgot and who can blame her?

This book has everything you need in a swoon-worthy contemporary romance novel: A strong female lead with flaws, a cute hometown complete with an abandoned horse barn, and a hot single dad to do dirty things to her in that abandoned horse barn. You'll like this one.

Dogwood Lane may be a small time town but it has more heart than NYC has streets. Adriana Locke always makes me want to move. I fall in love with her towns, her characters, and her love stories. Tumble isn't any different.

Dogwood Lane is home for Neely though it's been ten years since she took off. Running from heartache and to a future, she never looked back. Now it comes crashing in on her drive back into town. The one that used to be everything. The mom she left behind. He friends she hasn't spoken to but feels like she just left. Everything is different and yet so much the same.

I love that this is a second chance with The One. I am not gonna lie I was devastated before learning why and even more heartbroken after but love...love makes this hard and I'm some cases...It makes them easy.

Tumble is just the beginning of the story. I look forward to more news from Dogwood Lane and it's cast of loveable characters. Even the ones you want to shake to wake up!

Reviewed for Sweet Spot Sisterhood

Just a moment, let me wipe the ugly tears and snot, give me a moment and I'll pull myself together and finish this review.....

Ok, I really only need one word for to review this, though I will be using a lot more.

But that word?

That word is

'PERFECT'.

This story, this couple, this town, these people, the second chance....OMG I felt every word, every emotion. I want to move Dogwood Lane and be friends with Neely, Dane, Penn, Matt and Claire. I want to watch Mia in the Summer Show and stand on the bluff watching the sunset over Dogwood Lake.

I read some early reviews of this, and saw the criticism of how it was always the woman giving up stuff to be with the guy. How she had to give up her dream job. Only I'm here to tell you that this wasn't a story about giving up anything important it was a story about gaining everything you every really wanted and needed.

I loved that there were no secrets or lies that had caused Neely and Dane to split up, it was all out there. I loved that even though Dane had been really, really stupid when he was younger, there weren't sides to take. I loved Neely, Dane and Mia full stop.

This book ...... this author ..... this emotion ..... it formed the perfect trifecta. I've been left a sobbing, emotional wreck with a big stupid grin on my face as well as tears. I just simply can not do this book justice. I'm struggling to find the words to say how bloody much I loved it. Every. Single. Word.

Thank you to the author for writing and sharing this story with us readers. This is contemporary romance at it's very, very best. Don't miss out by not reading this book.

A second chance romance, Tumble is the first book in the Dogwood Lane series. I am stuck in my review of this book, I enjoyed the authors writing style and the surrounding character were good but I struggled with the premise between the two main characters and found parts of their story hard to reason with.

Neely goes back to her hometown after a disappointment at work makes her suddenly quit. Back home, she encounters her teenage love, Dane. I enjoyed the dialogues in this book, they flowed well and each character's voice came though with ease. There was also a well-developed sense of place: the supporting characters were interesting and varied and the town itself was an interesting character. The story fell a bit flat for me when it came to the two main characters. I couldn't connect or relate to them. What Dane did was huge, and while I don't mind a story where the hero does something that seems unforgivable, I do think it has to be made up in a big way and he just didn't seem contrite enough for me to understand why Neely would want him back. Being an okay guy and a good Dad was not enough. That brings me to Neely; I couldn't understand her psyche. Her decisions seemed to revolve around Dane, she didn't seem to have a solid sense of self. She seems to not really like New York, but reinvents herself as a city girl simply to stay away from Dane. Then, without any real groveling on his part, she's not so much a New Yorker anymore, she's a small-town girl. I wasn't convinced.

Thank you to NetGalley for providing an ARC in exchange for an honest review.

5 Star review of Tumble (Dogwood Lane #1) by Adriana Locke
Adriana Locke is a new author to me and I have absolutely no idea why that is.
I love small town romances and when you throw in a single dad I just couldn’t resist. Adriana Locke had me from chapter one as I was anxious to see how the story panned out.
When Neely returns to her hometown of Dogwood Lane she has no idea that the man who shattered her heart will be one of the first people she sees. Not only that but Dane has an adorable little girl named Mia.
I loved how swoon worth Dane was and the fact that Neely was strong, feisty and determined. Mia was just too adorable for words and almost steals the book away from Dane and Neely. The secondary characters were just as interesting and I look forward to reading more from Dogwood Lane.
Tumble was well written and full of love, romance, laughter and the opportunity for a second chance at love. I appreciated that although Dane and Neely had history which had shaped their present, they did not fall instantly back into a relationship. In fact if I am being totally honest, I am not too sure I would have given Dane another chance.
Can Dane convince Neely to take another chance on them or are these two destined to lives their lives apart?
I received a copy from the publisher through Netgalley.

Tumble by Adriana Locke was a great read!! It pulls at your heart strings and makes you feel what the characters are going through. Neely and Dane are great but let me tell you the secondary characters make this book!!! Can't wait to read more from the Dogwood Lane group!

TUMBLE
Adriana Locke
I have been a faithful reader of Adriana Locke books for years but when I started to read Tumble, I was disappointed. It was so slow. Neely Kimber, having been passed over for her dream job in New York, quits and returns to Tennessee to visit her mother. She has not been home since she left for college and many things have changed but a lot has not. Her attraction to Dane Madden, her high school sweetheart being one of things that has not changed.
And, let me tell you, how wrong I was about the book being slow! Now, I could not put it down. Neely is beginning to realize that her life-long dream of success in New York is not what she thought it was. Maybe what she really wants is right here in her hometown of Dogwood Lane with a single dad and his wonderful little girl who loves gymnastics as much as Neely did and who desperately wants someone to take her to Manicure Day like the other girls get to do.
This is a wonderful second chance at life book – not just a second chance at love book. I wholeheartedly recommend it to anyone. Adriana Locke does not disappoint! So glad that this is a series and the supporting characters will get their own books too!

I fell hard for this charming small town, second chance love story! Dane & Neely were high school sweethearts who ended their teenage romance with a devastating breakup. Ten years later, she returns home after losing her job in the city to find she still has feelings for sexy single dad Dane. Watching them rekindle their romance was sweet & hot, their chemistry combustible and Danes devotion to his daughter downright swoon worthy. All the secondary characters were written with loving detail as well. From the adorably precious Mia & loving brother Matt, to mischievous womanizer Penn and hopeless romantic Haley, their friendly banter & commitment to each other made me want to read more about each & every one of them. This heartwarming love story gave me all the feels and I hope there will be many more books in the series.

I've been reading some fantastic 5 star reads lately but when I started reading Tumble I realized I needed this book. It really got under my skin in such a good way.

I've skimmed some other reviews and some readers do not like this one at all because of something the Hero, Dane does and I completely get it, I do. But imagine if in real life people never got a second chance. What if you did something, something you'll regret and have hanging over your head until the day you die. Now imagine never getting the chance to explain yourself, never getting the chance to ask for forgiveness because the person you wronged won't let you close again.

Well I'm glad Neely decided to open herself up to Dane, to be vulnerable and even chance heartache and heartbreak all over again. Because at the end of your life do you want to look back and think, What if? Not me, I want to look back and think I did it, and I don't regret a thing.

This book was wrought with so many emotions but at the end it all comes full circle and the story that started with heartbreak has a new beginning filled with so many possibilities.

Looking forward to the next installation in the Dogwood Lane series. It can't come quick enough!!

**Received ARC through NetGalley. Voluntarily reviewed**

"A part of me will never forgive him for what he did. I may have found the pieces of my broken heart, but they'll never fit together the way they did before that Saturday morning when he destroyed it."

Wow, don't I feel stupid for not having read this author's work before now. Tumble is amazing and I'll most definitely be checking out the author's backlist now that I've had a taste of her word wizardry. And I'll be first in line for the next book in the Dogwood Lane series. I met so many colorful support characters that there's no telling who will get their own story, but I'll be excited to read any of them.

Neely left town with her heart broken and returned the same way. She'd managed to avoid facing her ex for years, but when the rug got pulled out from under her, home was where she wanted to be. The unconditional love and support her mother always offered was just what she needed while she reevaluated her future career plans.

Neely thought she was over him, but tell that to her heart. Just like before, her body could sense when he was near. The electricity still sparked between them. As a teenager, she thought he was her forever. When he broke her heart she couldn't bear to be near him. Now, years later, being near him was just as addictive as before. Too bad her life was in New York, and his life was in Tennessee.

Dane knows he doesn't deserve a second chance with Neely, but that doesn't mean he doesn't want one. He can't undo the past and he wouldn't even if he could. Not if it meant he wouldn't have his beautiful daughter who is his world. As the distance between them disappears so does the hard feelings. They are both adults now and it's easier to make sense of past choices that affected their futures. They are still drawn to each other, but the issue of her life in New York stands between them. Will he be able to convince her that home is where the heart is? Or will her career win... again?

***4 Stars***

You had me at Blue.

I know that sounds strange, but trust me, when you get there it’ll make perfect sense because that was when I knew this was my kind of book and I was right. It was sweet, frustrating, funny and ovary exploding and filled with characters I want to spend a lot more time with.

I loved Neely and Dane. Neely is determined, motivated and yet...lost. She knows what she wants, knows that in her heart it is something worthy, but she also knows that something is missing and is determined to find it. She’s sassy, has a good heart and does a really good job at verbal vomit at the most inopportune (or not...it’s all about the POV) times. Dane is a good man. (Note: I said man, not boy). He works hard, loves his family and has that good ‘ole southern boy charm that makes it easy to like him. He loves his daughter and isn’t afraid to show it in every way possible.

Dane and Neely’s second chance journey was a fun one, a little surprising at times, but I enjoyed watching as they kept colliding and the emotions those collisions stirred up in each other. I’ll admit that there were times when I wished things had gotten a little more...angsty, considering what happened and all that, but in the same breath, I loved that they acted like adults...for the most part and I liked how they finally came to terms with their past. Of course, there are a few more bumps in the road and when the one I was expecting dropped I was torn. I understood both sides of the issue and their reactions were valid, but I did love how everything turned out for them.

This was my first full length novel read by the author, I had read a novella not too long ago, and I really enjoyed it. I was hooked from the start and found myself not only invested in Neely and Dane’s, but the inhabitants of Dogwood Lane as a whole. Mia, is of course, absolutely adorable and I loved what she brought to the story. Penn, Matt, Haley and Grace were a lot of fun and I loved what they all brought to the story and cannot wait to get to know them better and see what the future holds for them all!

3 stars

I liked it, didn't love it. There was certain issues I had. The writing was good. The story was cute. The cheating I had a problem with. Even if was in the way past!

This is a brand new story and series from Adriana Locke. I love her books and previous series' so was hugely excited to immerse myself in this new one and meet the new characters from Dogwood Lane.

Well Neely and Dane's story did not disappoint me. Immediately I was drawn to the characters and their personalities.

Dane is a swoon-worthy single Dad... LOVE!!! Yet I did have a few issues with him too... I think he redeemed himself throughout the story, but I do have a few minor issues with hoe Neely and Dane's relationship came to an end all those years ago... I won't got into details as I don't want to spoil anything... but...!

Neely's independent ways give her a lot of strength, and I loved her character. Finding herself back in the childhood town of Dogwood Lane following a bad run at work and quitting her job, he's using it as a short stop-gap until she finds herself a new job and goes back to the city where she belongs.

Dane and Neely have a lot of chemistry again as soon as they see each other, yet can Neely really forgive and forget what he put her through. Can they get through the bad times of the past and move forward?

With plenty of angst, a sprinkling of humour, ups, downs and superb secondary characters, this story was a great start to this new series. I loved Mia, she was a little star. And after being introduced to a number of new characters, I especially look forward to the other stories that we will have in this series.

4 Stars