Archives for April 15, 2022

I voluntarily read an early copy of this book.

It’s not every day that you see a dead body at the beach. Or the woman of your dreams sitting next to that dead body.

Price Crow first saw Sabrina Proctor in the middle of a hurricane.

She’d been sitting next to her dead best friend, who’d passed away on the beach, with no way to get her back home, thanks to the world’s worst luck, and one hell of a storm.

So Price does what any decent person would do: he carries Sabrina’s dead best friend to their beach house and doesn’t leave her side until he’s forced to.

He had every intention of bridging that gap, of checking up on her and making sure she was okay, but life is funny and has a way of making a mockery of the best-laid plans.

Despite one hell of a connection, under the worst of circumstances, they go their separate ways. At least, he tries to. But he can’t stop thinking about her, and it becomes apparent, very fast, that he has a decision to make.

Choose Sabrina, or live out the rest of his life making everyone else around him happy except for himself.

Such emotional depth! Lani Lynn Vale has a way with tearing your heart out and putting it slowly back together again when she writes about loss in her books. Tears are often near, but just as quickly she can have you smiling through the sad at some of the adorable antics her characters get into for love. The story almost always could shine a little more with some further development, but sometimes the way the emotion can reach you means EVERYTHING.

Price is loving, loyal and fierce and I loved every minute of him.

Sabrina is strong and resolute as life’s unfairness touches her way too often. I love the way she can move forward through the weight of the world.

I highly recommend this book as well as the entire series to anyone that enjoys a close knit family that isn’t afraid to get their hands dirty when it comes to protecting their loved ones, righting wrongs and finding their forever love.