Owen Richards lives a quiet life in his small hometown of Haven’s Cove. He has a rewarding life consisting of three very supportive—not to mention feisty—women, and a successful bakery that he owns and absolutely loves. Yet, Owen can’t seem to shake this emptiness inside or the intense feeling that something is missing. A sudden encounter with a man from his past, one he despises, turns his … entire world upside down. When Owen finds himself attracted to that sexy man, he questions everything, including his sanity. After all, only an incredibly disturbed person would find that he can’t stop thinking about his high school bully.
Brody Walker never expected to return to Haven’s Cove. He’s made a life for himself in Boston, where he can truly be the person he was always meant to be. But an unexpected call has Brody facing all the demons he’d left behind so long ago. Now, he’s faced with not only a difficult goodbye, but one long overdue apology to a man who is no longer that lanky kid from high school. The challenge is to convince the guy he’s changed—and also prove he’s worth taking a chance on.
When passions ignite truths are exposed, changing the beliefs these men have held on to for years. Faced with the knowledge that things aren’t always what they seem, will they choose to hold on to the incredible thing they’ve found…or is it easier to give in to the fear and let go?
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After finishing this book I’m definitely going to start reading more MM books because if this is what I’ve been missing that I’m an idiot. This story is like the light at the end of a tunnel.
I think this book just might be one of my favorite love stories to date. It has some kind a pull that you don’t want to break it with the words THE END.
Owen has come a long way since his days when he was bullied in High school. He lives his life out in the open with the support of this family. Brody was one of the bullies that made his life hell as a young boy. He’s returned to his home town to make the final days of his mother’s life more bearable. He also wants to apologize to Owen the way he treated him and to explain why he was like that back then. But nobody said it’s going to be easy.
” That no matter how much you f$%ked up, you still always had the opportunity to start over with a clean slate. Of course, you always had to pay to start over again, but what victory comes without sacrifice?”
Brody is desperate to make Owen see that he is not the same as he was back in High School. Little by little Owen begins to see another side to the man that has returned into his life and is making him fall hard in love. Brody is still struggling with the years lost with his mother and his past which makes Owen do whatever it takes to help him heal.
”No one can make you feel small if you don’t let them!”
The best part off the book for me? When Owen stood up to Brody’s dad!!!I’m super excited for Gabe and Nate’s story. I have a feeling it will be even better than this one.
Since this is a debut book by Jaclyn Quinn all i can say is: WHAT A WAY TO START YOUR CAREER – PERFECTION!
***Review copy requested and reviewed on behalf of OMGReads
Independent reviewer for Archaeolibrarian, I was gifted my copy of this book.
Jumping straight in, cos this is gonna be hard to write, so bare with me, okay??
Freaking LOVED this book! And if THIS class of writing is what a first time author can produce, I so very much want to be on the end of the next book!
Because, let me tell ya, there I was, merrily plodding along, reading away, thinking 4 stars, balancing across between 4 and 5, back to 4. Great book, extremely well written from both Owen and Brody’s point of view.
Some sexy parts, some emotional parts, even a few funny ones, with Owen’s female family members. A good book, just not quite hitting THAT spot yet, you know??
And then it hits, FULL in the face, just why Brody is back in town. I mean, I READ why he was there, I KNEW why he was there, but for some reason it didn’t really sink in, you know?? Am I making sense?? Probably not, but I read the words, and then shit got real. And I was faced with a sledgehammer upside the head and I sobbed my bloody socks off. Because I’ve been there, where Brody was, that dark place, waiting, waiting. You know what’s coming, there ain’t nothing you can do to stop that freight train, but Lord you wish you could. Just one more day, one more hug. Just one MORE, you know? And its been 11 years, ELEVEN years since I had to sit through that and still, here I am, sobbing while writing this.
I’ve read two, very different, emotionally heavy books that connected to me on a very personal level. I had two very fluffy romance books before them, and stoopid me wrote the fluffy reviews before tackling these two heavier ones. So I’ve spent most of this afternoon in tears!
So, when you’ve read a book that you CANNOT fault, a book that grabs your heart, chews it up, and spits it out again, a book that does that to its characters too. A book that is FLAWLESS in its delivery, its flow. A book that lays out, very nicely, thank you very much, a view of the second book: a window into what’s to come, and please Lord let me get the chance to read it, because Gabe and Nate have a story to tell that I really wanna read.
A book such as that can only get…..
5 full stars! Outstanding debut novel from Ms Quinn!