A novel about a shattered family, broken hearts, and healing love by Rachel Van Dyken, the number one New York Times bestselling author of Stealing Her.Coming out of a coma was one hell of a wake-up call. While I was in the dark, my estranged twin brother, Bridge, had replaced me in the company I owned and swept up my fiancée in the takeover. With my ruthless reputation, can I blame them for … reputation, can I blame them for falling in love? I have to look long and hard at where I’ve been and where I’m headed. Alone time? The universe has other plans.
Our family’s secluded Vermont cabin comes with a gorgeous—if at first, unwelcoming—surprise. She’s renter Keaton Westbrook, a social media superstar struggling with her own private grief. As a winter storm bears down, we’ve found something to keep us warm—an intimacy neither of us expected and both of us need.
After we say goodbye, what happens then? Keaton and I are longing to reconcile with our painful pasts. I can’t bear to do it without her. Is it too much to ask of fate to give us a second chance at life and love?
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I loved this book more than book one and I didn’t think I would. I disliked Julian in book one but fell in love with him in book two. I loved Keaton and Julian together. This book had a lot of crying moments for me, have tissues ready. Thank you Rachel Van Dyken for all the feels.
Finding Him
Book 2 Covet duet
Rachel Van Dyken
Marvelous! Very good story line that kept me engaged throughout! Didn’t want the story to end! Love the characters, their banter, and their chemistry. This story is so full of emotions- betrayal, love, death, and heartache.
“It felt a lot like coming home. Like finding forever. Finding my family again.”
Terrific story! What a beautiful duet written by Rachel! I highly recommend!
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A novel about a shattered family, broken hearts, and healing love by Rachel Van Dyken, the number-one New York Times bestselling author of Stealing Her.
This was one of the best books I have read in a very long time. This is the second book and final book in the series. Julian is still dealing with the events that occurred while he was in a coma and then losing his mom. His brother “encourages” him to take a vacation up to their old cabin. Keaton is grieving after her boyfriend lost his fight with cancer. She is supposed to be writing a book about their love story, which she can’t get started… so she rents out a cabin— Julian’s family’s cabin. This is a fantastic, emotional, touching love story about two people who are broken and trying to rebuild their lives. Although this is a stand alone book, I think reading Stealing Her first is helpful to understand Julian a bit more.
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Stealing Her, a novel about a shattered family, broken hearts, and healing love by Rachel Van Dyken, the number-one New York Times bestselling author.
A Heartbreakingly Beautiful Read!
Jillian Tennyson, needs to get away he has had to many changes and just lost his mom. When he is told to take a vacation he ends up at the family’s cabin that he has not been at in years.
Keaton Westbrook just lost the love of her life, Noah. Now she needs to get away to reflect and to write a book telling their love story. So she decides to rent the cabin that Noah had wanted to visit, so she could write and hopefully find some peace.
Little did either Jillian or Keaton know what was in store at their cabins or how it would change them.
This book starts out with kind of a sad tone. Dealing with loss, grief and trying to work through it all. However even though there is a sadness throughout Finding Him there is also so much love. At one point it did have me crying, you just can not help but feel for Jillian and Keaton, and to fall in love with them. There are so many beautiful words in this story. It did have good and happy times as weIl, it was not all sad. Finding Him truly is a Heartbreakingly Beautiful read! I absolutely love everything about it, and I highly recommend Finding Him!
I said in my review of Stealing Her that it was RVD’s best book ever. Bridge and Izzy’s story is amazing but Finding Him is now RVD’s best book ever!!!
There are times reading this story that I cried so hard, I couldn’t see my kindle. There are parts that are so sad I actually felt like my heart was breaking *but* it was also filled with so much happiness and hope. I didn’t think I would like Julian much after reading Stealing Her but I loved him. Julian and Keaton have lost so much and that loss led them to each other. Their story is beautiful and I couldn’t get enough. I would have finished this book in one sitting if I didn’t have to keep walking away to get it together. That epilogue is what magic and rainbows are made of.
I loved these characters so much. RVD has killed it again!!
Finding Him is the continuation of Stealing Her and boy do we finally get to know about Keaton Westbrook. Many people see him as the coma victim but to Bridge he is his twin brother and only family left. I loved that Rachel Van Dyken shows us how different they are yet the love they had as brothers is still there. It is somewhat sad that Keaton had everything imaginable and it takes one accident to make him have a well George Bailey epiphany. He starts wondering about his life and where it is going after really losing the only person that really loved him, his mom. Not only do we have Keaton but we have the city’s most loved woman going through her own grief. Two people not looking for anything but feeling a bond that cannot be explained only their hearts know. Seeing these two brothers that Rachel Van Dyken to be opposite from each other yet are actually closer than they think. Loved it.
“I received an eBook copy from the publisher for the purpose of an honest review. I was not compensated for this review: all conclusions are my own.”
Finding Him is a poignant romance about healing and finding love. Rachel Van Dyken has made me fall in love with another one of her stories and I adore her writing.
This story follows the story of Keaton and Julian. These two are broken and don’t know how to move on. They seek peace in a cabin. One place provides so much more than peace. Although they didn’t get off on the right foot, they start to form a connection that is unexplainable yet apparent.
Keaton and Julian heal so much throughout the story by opening up, tackling their own demons, and embracing each other for who they are.
This story is beautiful in so many ways. I just love this series so much and I am so happy that Rachel wrote this book.
I give Finding Him 5 stars. It’s romantic and raw. Emotions are felt and those once open wounds heal with each page.
It’s hard to find words to describe this book. Just like the first in this duet, Stealing Her (standalone!), Finding Him is heartwrenchingly beautiful. It’s an experience. One that takes you on a wild, angsty ride that you never want to get off of.
Julian took my by surprise. He’s funny but very, very broken after he wakes up from a coma and even before that. I honestly wasn’t sure how I’d feel about him at first, but he definitely gripped my heart and won me over. As did Keaton! They complete each other in their own special way, and it’s truly romantic.
Highly recommend!
Julian was a man on the surface who had everything but when he suffered a horrible loss, his whole world seems to fall apart. Keaton thought she had forever until it was ripped away from her but now she needs to try to find a new normal. What will happen when they are stuck in the same place together?
Overall Grade: 1/2
“‘My point is this: you fight for love because the minute you have a taste of it, you realize why wars are fought in honor of it. It’s the most precious thing in the world, and it’s worth waiting for…and fighting for.’”
After reading Stealing Her, the first book of Rachel Van Dyken’s Covet series, I found myself in this strange position. For much of that book, Julian, the brother of the hero of that book, seemed the villain. It isn’t until the latter part of that book that you realize there is no “good” or “bad, “hero” or “villain.” That the truth is everyone is a victim to someone’s choices, save Bridge and Julian’s father who is the instigator of the problem. Sympathetic for Julian’s situation at the end of Stealing Her, I needed, nay I wanted, Julian’s story. And Rachel Van Dyken did not disappoint with Finding Him, the second book of this duet. This story is a tale of two people so broken by the circumstances of their lives that they find completion in matching their broken parts together. Julian and Keaton Westbrook find their puzzle completed in each other, and that is the beauty and truth of Van Dyken’s romance.
The story begins with Keaton Westbrook looking for solace in a solo getaway to rural Vermont. There, she intends to write the memoir of her relationship with her now-deceased boyfriend. As a social media celebrity influencer, the world has acted as an active audience to their relationship. In a promise to him and a homage created for her fans, Keaton is struggling to find the words as they will bring completion to his death and their relationship, and she doesn’t feel ready for it. However, she has a deadline to meet, so this seclusion is meant to push her to finish the manuscript. Enter Julian Tennyson. Still angry and struggling with the “betrayal” by his brother and ex-fiancee and the death of his mother, the board of directors of his corporation, along with his brother, strongarm him into taking a vacation as a way to help him find some peace. His brother, Bridge, suggests he go to the family vacation home, a secluded cabin in Vermont. A bit reticent, he agrees so that he can return to a place where he felt the love of his mother. It is here that Keaton and Julian collide into each other. Initially, these two are unimpressed with the other. However, as they spend time together, learning each other, they become attracted to each other. As the story progresses, they find themselves attached, but life threatens their ability to be together. It is here where the depth of this story pulls at your heartstrings. Is it possible for Keaton and Julian to find their happy ending?
I think the reason why I loved this story lies in its tenderness. This isn’t a word that you would use to describe a hero such as Julian Tennyson. Going into the story, he is anything but tender. He’s hardened and angry and hates his world. He’s been devastated in a variety of ways and it spurs him towards being mean-spirited. He’s been changed by his father, but that change is girded through the pain of his life. This is the Julian at the beginning of the story. As he encounters Keaton and finds himself overwhelmed by her story and her pain, it touches at the emotional depths of Julian’s soul. As she tells the story of her relationship to her dead boyfriend, Noah, she tenderizes his heart and soul. In their latter moments together, Van Dyken does what I love with Type A alpha-type characters, she brings him to his knees. She creates a hero who you can’t help but fall in love with. At the end of Finding Him, Julian is nothing like the man of Stealing Her, and you recognize the brilliant depths of Van Dyken’s storytelling. She makes you empathize for him; she breaks your heart for him. Had you told me I would feel so deeply for Julian in Finding Him, I would have laughed. Yet, this is the true story of this Covet duet. It illustrates the power of love to change a person, to bring him to his knees, and return him to his natural condition. Julian is supposed to be softer, more emotional. Hardened under his father’s tutelage, Julian has lost a part of himself. In Finding Him, Van Dyken returns him back to himself, and by extension, his brother, Bridge.
“And then I realized…that was why Julian was special. Because when he wanted something, he went after it full force, with all his soul – and all his heart.”
Through Keaton, I found myself considering death. There are so many truths about death revealed in this story, namely that we often idealize the deceased instead of considering the reality of it. While Noah seems the love of Keaton’s life, it becomes clear that he teaches her to love, but he cannot be her endgame. For much of the story, Keaton struggles against her idealism of Noah with the reality of their relationship. As she falls for Julian, she begins to understand love, but she must learn to let go in order to feel the depth of it. This is where death is complicated because, in letting go, we have to change our memories. The profundity of this truth is the depth of Van Dyken’s story. Even more, we see very clearly how Van Dyken crafts Keaton and Julian to be two sides of the same coin: both in love with the past, reticent to move forward, but drawn to the gravity of their attraction. Besides Julian’s evolution, Keaton’s journey is my second favorite part of Finding Him. The acceptance of her future is any one of us fighting our own.
There is so much quiet and beauty in the moments of Finding Him. Each turn of the page offered healing, a reminder to the reader that moving past loss is necessary to truly “live.” As Julian and Keaton fall in love, the brilliance of Van Dyken’s seamless storytelling is highlighted. She has this uncanny way of creating stories that evoke a tenderness of spirit along with a truth about human nature. Julian and Keaton’s romance is perfect, and the ending of Finding Him will remind you why romance teaches us everything we need to know about living a full life.
This is the second book in the Covet series, however, whilst I would personally recommend reading Stealing Her first as it provides a lot of background to this story, I would also say that this book can be read on a stand alone basis.
I have to say I was pretty hesitant going into this book as I didn’t particularly warm to Julian in the first book but boy oh boy, I’m so glad I read this as I thoroughly enjoyed it. This was actually a really emotional read and I hadn’t been expecting that, in fact at one point, I actually sobbed and I have to say I haven’t been as moved my a book as I was by this one in a really long time. I loved Julian and Keaton and thought they were great together. I’m generally not a fan of fast paced romances but in this book, their journey just seemed right.
This was an addictive, emotional read that I devoured; a definite recommendation from me!
This book was so unique and overall amazing. You’ll fall in love with the characters quickly. This story is beautiful filled with laughter, heartache, surprises, and the experience of grief. Let this book heal you. Definitely recommend.
Julian and Keaton are not what I expected at all! Keaton, who is coming off of a tragic loss and Julian, who in his own right just suffered a devastating loss are both tempted by fate when a blizzard strands the two in a cabin. The two of them working through their grief is a beautiful thing when they do it together.
I really enjoyed the story, it just felt so intimate to me. The moments of grief, of love and the ones of closure, just brought Julian and Keaton so much closer together and I just could not put it down!
As usual, Rachel Van Dyken does NOT disappoint! I LOVED this book, but it took a while for Finding Him to be released after Stealing Her that I forgot who some of the characters were and what happened in Stealing Her. Finding Him picks up where Stealing Her left off and while both books are standalones, I still recommend reading the books in order.
It was heartwarming to watch two people -who were grieving and needed closure- annoy one other at first, then heal and grow together, all the while bantering with each other.
The story is fast-paced but not rushed, and I really loved that there were no plot twists or surprises.
Finding Him is a contemporary billionaire romance written in dual first-person POV. It’s an angsty standalone that ends with a HEA. No cliffhanger, no cheating.
I received this book at my request and have voluntarily left this unbiased review.
OMG! All the feels with this book! Find Him is book 2 and Julian and Keaton’s story is heartbreaking and beautiful. I didn’t think I could like this book more than Bridge and Izzy but it is so good! I loved how they met and what Julian does to help Keaton move on. Must read!
Emotionally charged, heart-wrenching read. Strong-willed, complex characters dealing with their personal loss in the public eye. Rachel Van Dyken brings the heartache and we, as the readers, need to bring the tissues – and the whiskey.
The story arc for Finding Him moves at a steady pace and watching the story unfold before our eyes just draws the reader into the narrative that much more. Both Julian and Keaton have issues, and flaws, but together they are explosive.
This is the story I was hoping Julian would get at the end of the first book. He deserves his happily ever after and was strong enough to fight for it.
Another fantastic read from RVD. Even if it made me cry.
Hold on to your tissue boxes and breath deep. Finding Him is heart breakingly beautiful. This has become one of my top favorite Rachel Van Dyken books. The story line has so much depth and pulls at the emotions (all emotions).
Julian Tennyson was still angry about all he had lost about the betrayal of his brother and ex fiance, yet he told them of his forgiveness. He is forced on a three week sabbatical and that is where he meets Keaton Westbrook.
Keaton needed a month to write the book of her great love story with Noah, but she encountered Julian and decided he was ass of the first order.
In this book you will read how they help one another…again tissues please!