From NYT bestselling author Carrie Ann Ryan, continues a brand new series where second chances don’t come often, and overcoming an unexpected loss means breaking everything you knew.Harmony Wynham has been many things in her life: daughter, friend, student, lover, wife…and now, widow. Getting past those labels and finding who she could be without them was the hardest thing she’s ever done.Then … done.
Then she became friends with Brendon.
Every time she looks at him, she sees a past, she sees a present, and she’s afraid if she looks too hard, she’ll see a future.
Brendon Connolly has known Harmony since before she got married. Before she lost everything. He didn’t know that one day she wouldn’t be just his friend but the woman he wanted to spend the rest of his life with.
Only he don’t think that can happen.
Not when every time she looks at him, she sees what she lost, and he can only see what he can’t overcome.
He loves her, even though he shouldn’t. Somehow, they need to find a balance.
Because if they don’t, walking away will be the hardest thing she’s ever done—even if it’s the only thing he should do.
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Another great book by Carrie Ann! An emotional friends to lovers romance where a man falls for his best friend’s widow and a woman finds her inner strength through the darkness.
Shouldn’t Have You by Carrie Ann Ryan is an emotional friends to lovers romance where a man falls for his best friend’s widow and a woman finds her inner strength through the darkness.
Sign. Me. Up. I can’t wait to dive into this one!!!
A new emotional friends to lovers romance from Carrie Ann Ryan.
Wow! An emotional friends to lovers romance where a man falls for his best friend’s widow and a woman finds her inner strength through the darkness! You do not want to miss this book!
Carrie Ann Ryan gives readers another emotionally satisfying read. A feels-packed friends to lovers romance where a man falls for his best friend’s widow and a woman finds her inner strength through the darkness.
Love this couple so much! Carrie Ann did a great job with this story and I already miss them!
This book is such an emotional friends to lovers romance. The hero falls for his best friend’s widow (cue teary scenes) and a woman finds her inner strength through the darkness. You’re going to love it!
Emotionally packed… you won’t want to stop reading!
This book was rich with emotion. Full, deep, soul-touching emotions. There was no turning away from it, you didn’t want to, so you dove in, and it washed over you, through you, and took you over. And you felt it, all of it, with Harmony, with Brendon. Their pain, their confusion, their happiness, their despair, their hope. It wasn’t what you read, you felt it.
I thought I was emotionally prepared from this book, but I wasn’t. It gutted me, and it lifted me up. I loved every feeling, every teardrop, every chuckle. I want everyone to read this book, so they can feel, really feel, all of it as well. This book is a masterpiece of emotions, and an amazing story, of losing, finding, accepting, and just being true to yourself in the now. That there is no perfection, but there is a life worth living, if you let yourself
I love stories like this. Friends to lovers. So, so good.
Grab this emotional friends-to-lovers romance from Carrie Ann Ryan! I LOVE widow books, and this one features a best friend as the heroine finds her inner strength through the darkness. AKA my catnip!!!
To say this book is emotional is to put it mildly. Carrie Ann’s note preceding the first chapter had me tearing up and then the very first words, the very first words, in chapter one had those tears slipping down my cheek. I barely made it through two pages before I was reaching for kleenex to wipe more tears away. I hardly knew these characters and I was already an emotional wreck. So be prepared from the get go with lots of tissues because the tears kept flowing as I kept reading.
What I also enjoyed, and this same ebb and flow carried out through the entire book, that while I was immersed in pain (I know why would I enjoy that, but wait…) there was still humor. Through my tears I was laughing at these light hearted moments and frankly laughing through tears is a powerful emotion. Carrie Ann wrote this book from a very personal place and the depth of the her emotions leapt off the page.
Harmony Wynham is a young widow, for the first time after losing her husband, and she trying to move on with her life. It’s been a couple of years and she has finally decided to try dating again. The dating world isn’t quite as easy as she remembers, or perhaps the men she’s dating just aren’t for her. She didn’t remember it being this hard when she met her husband, but they had been friends first and things just progressed naturally. After several failed dates she wonders if she needs to focus on her friends instead, people like Brendon Connelly who have always been there for her. Nice and easy to talk to. A good friend.
Brendon Connelly grew up in the foster system until he was finally adopted into the Connelly family. His childhood hadn’t been easy, but he worked hard at turning his life around. His circle of friends and adoptive brothers are his new family and there isn’t much we wouldn’t do to keep them. When Harmony’s husband dies, Brendon actually lost one of his best friends. He never thought of Harmony as anything other than just a friend before Moyer’s passing, but as time passes those feelings began to change. It became harder to stay away and keep things platonic even though he knew he should.
Everyone grieves on their own timeline and everyone grieves differently. When Brendon and Harmony finally realize that it’s okay to open up and explore the feelings that have begun to grow beyond the friendship they have. To admit that they might have a future again, but to do so is by rectifying their past. Together.
Young widow tries dating, which turns into disasters until goodfriend comes clean with his feelings for her.
An interesting premise with compelling characters. I struggled a bit with the structure, I think.
This was a beautiful heart wrenching story about loving again after the loss of your spouse. Harmony lost her husband in a freak accident that happened inches away from his best friend, Brandon. This was a wonderful story that focused less on these two best friends falling in love and more on them working through the emotions of falling in love after the loss of Harmony’s husband.
I had a hard time staying interested. The storyline was slow moving.
Just wishing it had more surprises in the book rather than being predictable.
I could not get past Chapter 6. Nothing about those chapters kept my interest. I actually struggled to get that far.
great story loved it keep writing
This was a wonderful love story about friends to lovers. Too much F- word took away from the story. NOT everyone talks like that. There was a lot of explanation that at first you thought… really!! But later I appreciated so much cause there are some books that you really wish there had been more explanation. Your heart just broke for Harmony losing her husband but Brendon was an amazing friend. What Brendon had accomplished in his life after what he had gone through was quite an accomplishment!! What an amazing man!! A beautiful standalone with an HEA! Great book!!!!!