REVIEW: Ex with Regrets by Con Riley (Exes & Happy Endings #1)

EX WITH REGRETS

Exes & Happy Endings - Book One

by Con Riley

Release Date: March 26, 2026

Review

Con never ceases to write books that book at bruises while also healing. Her men are tender and always on a journey.

Charles Heppel has left a string of exes, and now they have a group chat and meet-ups. Vincent is one of them, but he’s always been on the periphery. Until Harry puts him charge and Charles asks him to look out for Dair.

Both men are in a bad place having been taken advantage of, and leaving them floundering. But together…they beautifully support each other, while also learning to let the others in.

Gah, they were both so lovely.

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Synopsis

Years after messaging his many hookups to tell them he’s officially off the market, Charles Heppel discovers his exes never left that group chat. In fact, all his past booty calls, one-night stands, and friends-with-benefits have become real-life besties.

Welcome to Exes & Happy Endings, a series of interlinked MM romance novels set in Great Britain where, with a little help from a happily married Heppel and his husband, one ex at a time earns his own HEA.

First up: Vincent Smith AKA Carpet Burns.

Ex With Regrets

It’s all Harry Lancaster’s fault.

He’s the reason I have to make a new rule for the Heppel Exes. I don’t know why he left me in charge of our meet-up group. Any of the other members would have made a better temporary leader. They’re all professionals used to giving orders. I’m just an East-End mudlark who clears houses for a living.

But no, Harry picked me to take over while he’s out of the country, and herding highly sexed cats would be easier. No word of a lie, Exes keep falling into bed together, then falling out with each other, and now the club named after our founder is at risk of imploding. Hence, my new rule until Harry is back in London.

No more sex between Exes.

Regret slams me straight in the chest when Dair Sinclair walks into my first meeting as leader.

He’s different from the last man I shared my life with. Sweet and caring instead of driven. A little fragile, like the antiques I secretly wish I could restore and treasure instead of selling. And when Dair tells me he has a month to clear out his own home before leaving the city for good, I’m faced with two options.

Keep that rule and miss my one chance to love him. Or break it and still lose him.

About Con Riley

CON RILEY lives on the wild and rugged Devonshire coast, with her head in the clouds and her feet in the Atlantic Ocean. Injury curtailed her enjoyment of outdoor pursuits, so writing fiction now fills her free time instead. Love, loss, and redemption shape her romance stories, and her characters are flawed in ways that make them live and breathe. When not people-watching or wrangling her own boy band of teen sons, she spends time staring at the sea from her kitchen window. If you see her, don’t disturb her—she’s probably thinking up new plots.

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