After surviving an abusive relationship that landed her in prison, Gemma Peyton, just wants a fresh start once she is released. Her focus is to create a new life for herself and put men and relationships on the back burner so she can rebuild.Alex Chambers hasn’t felt anything for another woman since his wife died a few years ago. His life is his restaurant until the moment he meets his new … meets his new waitress. Something stirs within him that’s been dormant for a long time.
Despite the baggage each of them is carrying, neither of them can fight the attraction they feel for one another, even though they try to resist. As they fall harder and deeper in love a shocking incident from their past that they unknowingly share, threatens to tear their newfound love apart.
Once the truth is revealed, will their relationship be able to survive? Or will the revelation shatter the love that’s grown between them?
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Redemption of the Heart is an emotional journey. Author Moni Boyce does an amazing job of telling the tale of heartbreak, forgiveness, and love. I highly recommend this book.
Starting with page one, the author pulls you into the story. Gemma, the heroine, is drunk and causes an accident in which the other driver is killed. I immediately started to question how I was supposed to be rooting for Gemma to find love. How was the author going to change my views of this character? Let me tell you, Boyce does it so wonderfully, that I began to internally scold myself for being so judgemental. Gemma’s life leading up to the night of the accident is full of hardship. Upon her release, she meets Alex. Alex is the owner of the restaurant where Gemma will be working. This begins the start of Gemma’s next chapter in her life.
Alex is a wounded man. He is dealing with the loss of his wife and is not open to being vulnerable in a relationship. Alex has poured all of his effort and energy into making his restaurant a success. Until he meets Gemma. Gemma awakens something in Alex. He tries to avoid her but is continually drawn back to Gemma. Once he realizes that the attraction won’t go away, Alex begins to show Gemma love and help her find her confidence.
After Alex’s father shares information with Alex, regarding Gemma, things hit a sour note between the two. Both Gemma and Alex must reconcile their pasts before they can progress with their future. The emotions that each must experience before finding their happily ever after results in a beautiful tale for the reader.
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I think the book summary gives a solid expectation for the plot, so I won’t share any additional details but I will say I LOVED THIS BOOK! It was written in a way that makes you really care about the characters and want to know what’s going to happen and how they ended up where we find them in this story. A juicy, compelling story with developed characters that’s well written by a black author gets a SOLID 5 stars.
Redemption of the Heart has almost everything one can love in a romance novel. Its originality is one of the things that like about this story. There is angst, humour, tragedy, romance, forgiveness, but most of all love.
One scene in the story had me thinking…”I bet it’s going to turn out….!”, but it went a different way and I was glad that it did.
The tone of the book can be serious at times, but not over powering, there is a wittiness about some of the characters that makes the story engaging.
There were a few times whilst reading, I actually forgot it was fictional. The writer has given us a beautiful romantic masterpiece. Redemption of the Heart is definitely money well spent.
Such a good book!! I couldn’t put it down. The storyline draws you in. I found myself really connecting with the characters. I look forward to reading more from this author.