Starting Over (Hart's Ridge #8) by Kay Bratt

 

My thoughts

Number eight in this Hart's Ridge Series is so good. It was a heartbreaking story. It was also a story of hope and enlightenment. Two stories as all of these books are. One that ends pretty much in a happy way and one that is based on real events. 

In this story Taylor is on the case of a woman, Lydia, who disappeared from the Walmart parking lot. Lydia is married to a cop that Taylor works with.  Taylor is determined to find this woman. Also her boss has asked her to help him out with his niece, Sutton. Seems Sutton was in trouble for taking money from an elderly woman that she had been caring for. Sheriff wants Taylor to maybe let his niece care for her mother while she awaits her trial date. Taylor's mom was recovering from a gunshot she almost died from. 

Taylor has a lot on her plate in this installment of the Hart's Ridge series. She's spending so many hours on the Lydia Grimes case and getting very little sleep. She's putting everything she has into finding this woman. Bringing her home to her husband and daughters. Meanwhile Cate is getting use to having a caregiver and finding out what is going on with her. 

This book is more about Taylor and Cate than the rest of the family, but they are there also. Cate is trying to help Sutton and finding out what happened to her and with the trouble she's in. Taylor is spending all her time working on her case and not getting to spend much time with Sam.

This series is so good and will not end with number eight as previously thought. It will have at least one more and I can't wait to read it. Kay Bratt is doing such a good job with this series. It's edge of your seat and holding your breath chills in many places and a few chuckles in others. Hope is always a part of the Hart's Ridge series. A part of this story made me so sad and also so mad but I kind of expected it too. It broke my heart that this family, the Grimes's, went through this. But it made the story what it was also. 

I read an ARC of this for Kay Bratt and this is my honest opinion of this book.

It's another FIVE stars from me. I loved it. 

About:

Starting Over, the eighth book in the Hart's Ridge small-town mystery series by Kay Bratt, showcases the Gray family's unwavering strength as they face a crisis that threatens to tear them apart. When tragedy is on their doorstep and threatening to barge inside, they must come together to find the courage and hope to start anew.

Readers will be moved by the Gray family's resilience in the face of adversity, and heartened by the support they receive from the close-knit community of Hart's Ridge. But as they delve deeper into the story, they will realize that even the strongest bonds can be tested by secrets that have been kept hidden for far too long.

With Bratt's familiar emotional storytelling, Starting Over is a gripping tale of family and forgiveness that reminds us that tragedy can be a source of strength, and that hope is the key to overcoming even the darkest of times.

Starting Over is book eight of the new Hart's Ridge small-town mystery series, written by Kay Bratt, million-copy best-selling author of Wish Me Home and True to Me.