A broken man. A town on its last leg. A love that could warm the coldest of hearts…Everyone said I was crazy when I quit college during my last semester. But my dad was sick, and I had to take care of him. I couldn’t let him down, so I moved to Allen. Simple as that. The town had seen better days. My friends nicknamed Allen, “Nowhere, Ohio,” and they weren’t wrong. Drugs, economic collapse, … wrong. Drugs, economic collapse, and despair had taken over the community. It wasn’t a place for a woman like me.
Then I met Reid Powell.
He lived alone, isolated from everyone else, and most people wanted him to stay away. They blamed him for most of the community’s problems, and he accepted their anger. He hated himself almost as much as they hated him.
But I saw something different, something warm and kind inside of him. Could I make him see it, too? Or would he stay locked away forever?
Reid and Tarryn, they sound perfect together. But Reid is living in self exile in the town that he use to love and that loved him back. Tarryn is back to a town that she only visited from time to time when she would see her father. Tarryn is the perfect person to pull Reid out of his self-sorrow and bring him back to life.
There is a lot happening in this town and somehow it all falls on to the Powell family. The reason that the town is faltering and the reason that he stays away from town. Reid feels all that pressure and keeps it all deep inside of himself until Tarryn happens upon his property and awakens feelings that he thought we was well past having. The attraction is there but beyond that is the feeling that he deserves to be happy, that all the bad things that have happen are not his fault, and that he can help the town come back to the healthy, happy place it use to be. Nothing is easy but the determination helps make it all happen.
Tarryn, while there to help her father, sees that the town is in need of help. She does not know Reid but as she gets to know him and hears the stories, she realizes that he could be just what the town needs and quite possibly what she needs also. I love her gentle strength, her suggestive powers, and her love of family.
Reid’s Redemption was a fun story to read. The storyline was easy to follow and the characters easy to like. I recommend picking up your own copy
This is a well written book with strong characters and a heartfelt story line. The author does a great job bringing out the emotions,good and bad,and deals with rural small town working class , their struggles and triumphs. I enjoyed and would recommend this book. Well done!!
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This is a wonderfully woven story of tragedy and love in a small-town setting. The author has written some strong characters who have equally strong emotions as the towns occupants face everyday trials and tribulations of living. There is one constant though, the author always writes hope in as she tells this story of life.
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Reid’s Redemption is a moving romance and a touching story about forgiveness. Reid locked himself away from the world after tragedies involving his family but everything changes when a bright light named Tarryn comes into his life. This story really pulls at the heartstrings. It’s well-written and compelling. I liked it a lot.
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Reid is a broken man. He’s born the brunt of his family’s wrongs for years now, and he’ll continue to do so forever if need be. Until Tarryn comes back to town to care for her father, and brings Reid’s heart back to life. Can she heal him AND their slowly dying town?
Reid’s Redemption is a thoughtful, but melancholy tale. It’s well-written and realistic. But, I wanted better for Reid than what he got. I wanted him to stand up to his crap town and make them pay for bullying him, for making him shoulder the blame for things he wasn’t actually responsible for. But, I do like him, and Tarryn, and I like how she helped heal him. I just wish they had gotten resolution a lot sooner, and that he had left that shitty town in his rear window.
How someone can live with the weight and hatred of an entire community thrust wrongly upon him is unimaginable. This book shows how hate can become an infection and spread to others around you. A journey that brings your emotions to the extreme, before healing begins. This is my first book by this author and I love her writing style and ideas. I will definitely be reading more of her work.
Reid has done everything to save his bother Logan but in the end he couldn’t. Logan caused so much pain in community but Reid was the one paying for his brother’s sins. Tarryn was going to college until her father had health issues. She dropped everything and came home. She gets a job as a cashier and meets Reid one day. She knows town is against him but she sees something else. Can she get Reid to see it? Will town ever forget? Will Reid and Tarryn act on their attraction?
A town so broken, that it’s on it’s last leg. The town isn’t sure they want help from the one person who’s family destroyed them in the first place.
Tarryn who is kind of an outsider but isn’t, knows about the hardships of the town and tries to get people to talk about what happened. However no one talks about it, and in doing so their anger just builds and it’s all aimed at Reid.
Reid’s Redemption is a romance, come to truth kind of read. Secrets don’t do anything good by being kept secret. When the truth does come out about Reid’s father, he has this aha moment.
Drama, love, and tears is what you’ll see in Reid’s Redemption.
I don’t want to give to much away, but you’ll like this book.