In a small town in Idaho’s idyllic wine country where the past looms large, can two people realize their individual dreams for the future . . . together? Abandoned once too often, Brooklyn Meyers never intended to return to Thunder Creek, Idaho. Her hometown holds too many memories of heartache and rejection. But when her estranged husband Chad Hallston dies and leaves his family home and acreage … and acreage to her and their ten-year-old daughter Alycia, it’s an opportunity to change their lives for the better–a chance Brooklyn can’t pass up, for Alycia’s sake if not her own.
Derek Johnson, Chad’s best friend since boyhood, isn’t keen on the return of Brooklyn Meyers to Thunder Creek. He still blames her for leading his friend astray. And now she has ruined his chance to buy the neighboring ten acres that would have allowed him to expand his organic farm. To add insult to injury, Chad’s dying request was that Derek become the father to Alycia that Chad never was. How can he keep that promise without also spending time with the girl’s mother?
Brought together by unexpected circumstances, Derek and Brooklyn must both confront challenges to their dreams and expectations. He must overcome long held misconceptions about Brooklyn, while she must learn to trust someone other than herself. And if they can do it, they just might discover that God has something better in mind than either of them ever imagined.
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This is a wonderful book about a divorced woman who struggles to do the right thing while raising her daughter. Rejected by her father and abandoned by her husband, she learns to trust in God. When she inherits a house in the town she ran away from, she must confront her neighbor who never liked her when they were in high school together. He had thought he would own the house she inherits so the friction runs deeper, but God’s plan is a surprise for both of them.
I love Robin Lee Hatcher. This is as sweet as you can get for a romance. I love the main hero and heroine and the small town the story takes place in. Great story!
Another great book written by this author. The story was how hard it is to trust when you had no one in your life that you can. Brooklyn Myers Mother had left her as a child and her Father never showed her any love growing up. He mistreated her all of her childhood. She runs away and marries Chad Hallston who left her a few months after they married when he found out she was pregnant with his child. Brooklyn raises her daughter Alycia by herself. She has one true friend Esther how is dying. She gets a letter from a lawyer that her husband Chad has died and left her and their daughter his parents old homestead. Derek Johnson had a agreement to buy this house and ground when he come up with the money. Derek also gets a letter from Chad telling him that he left the home to his wife and daughter and wanted Chad to be a Father figure for his daughter. The story is how Brooklyn became able to trust again and open her hard to love. It is a story of Chad being able to forget about his dream and opening up his heart as well.
Loved this inspirational story. Robin Lee Hatcher makes you feel as if you are actually there as you are reading this. I loved this book!!!!
You’ll Think of Me by Robin Lee Hatcher was a sweet, engaging story filled with picturesque small town scenes and events that made me feel like I was there. I loved the community that Ms. Hatcher developed in this book. It had a very realistic small-town feel, from thoughtful scenes where members of the community came together to support their own to the not as pleasant characteristic of small towns where rumors can spread like wildfire. The mostly pleasant aspects of the community and the way they stepped in to help and encourage each other was a wonderful part of the book that I loved. Ruth (Derek’s grandmother), in particular, was one of the characters that made me feel welcomed into the story as I read. Through her character and a few others, the book delivered some powerful moments of wisdom. The flow of the book itself feels as though it has that laid-back small-town pace, only adding to the pleasantness of the story.
When we enter into Brooklyn’s story, she’s already been through a lot of change in her life, including finding her Savior, gaining courage, and maturing a great deal. I would have loved to have seen that change as it happened, but those changes can still be appreciated even though the reader is not present for them. Like any of us, though Brooklyn has changed much from her youth, especially after being introduced to the Lord, she is still undergoing change. Her faith is still being challenged and she’s growing more fully into it throughout the book, especially as she has to come face to face with her past. Through the work of the Lord, she learns more of how to overcome her past and not let it overcome her.
Facing the past is most often not an easy thing, but it’s important to our healing, and though Brooklyn did not have plans to go back to the hometown she came from, God knew what was best for her and made a way for her to find what He knew she needed. I loved that aspect of this book. Both Brooklyn and Derek have other plans in mind for themselves, but God sends them on a detour from those plans that turns out to be infinitely better than they could have imagined for themselves. The book concludes with a sweet ending that just might make you tear up (in a good way :)) and just might speak to your own heart about who you are in the Father’s eyes and remind you of just how much He loves you and that He has the best in mind for you.
**I was provided a copy of the book by the publisher through NetGalley. All opinions are my own.
Enjoyed this story. Both Brooklyn and Derek have memories of how the other acted as a teen. But as they get to know each other as adults they both find out the other is not how they remembered them.
An unexpected twist of fate bring an unlikely pair together. A great story and easy read book about hope and finding love through faith. Loved the story and the prospect of hope for great things when you trust in God.