My thoughts
Each book this author writes becomes my favorite. This one is the best yet. It's such a good story. A family drama with lots of misunderstandings. So much hurt but so much love too. A story to make you stop and think.
Told from two timelines. By two women. One a grandmother to the other. A child left basically to her own devices. Bess didn't have the love of her parents. They were too busy. Busy destroying their own lives. Bess's grandmother Valerie thought she was the best part of life. Bess also thought her grandmother was the best.
After losing her parents Bess has the responsibility of taking care of her teen twins. Casey is angry. Caleb has a traumatic brain injury from a boating accident that involved Bess three years earlier. She blames herself.
I adored these characters. Luke is the love of Bess's life. Caleb and Casey are her twin teen siblings. Valerie her late grandmother.
Valerie left her estate to Bess. Her mother, Shayla could not be trusted with that much money. Bess did a great thing with it.
This story will keep you turning the pages. You get to know each character. Also a few more characters come to light. It's just one that will hold your heart hostage until the very end.
Thank you Lake Union and Brilliance Audio for the arcs. Both the book and the audio are perfect. The narrators did a great job of making you feel emotion. Of keeping each character separate. They are to be commended for their wonderful job.
About
Returning to her fractured past, a woman is determined to end a cycle of heartbreaks in a moving novel about family, sacrifice, and redemption by the bestselling author of The Secret Library of Hanna Reeves.
When Bess Rollins’s parents die in a tragic accident, she is forced to abandon her dream job overseas. After three years away, she returns to her family’s estate in the Finger Lakes, a veritable monument to her brilliant late grandmother, and a reminder of the wreckage Bess left behind.
There’s the guilt over leaving her younger twin siblings, Casey and Caleb, and she struggles to rebuild a bond that may be irrevocably broken. Amid the grief, resentment still looms toward her reckless and self-indulgent mother and father. And then there’s Luke Monticelli, the devoted man Bess walked out on but never stopped loving.
Haunted by her regrets at every turn, Bess soon realizes that the past is far more complicated than she ever knew. With each secret that she uncovers about her family, Bess comes closer to healing their wounds, seizing a second chance at love, and fulfilling dreams that can lift them all—right here at home, where she belongs.
When Bess Rollins’s parents die in a tragic accident, she is forced to abandon her dream job overseas. After three years away, she returns to her family’s estate in the Finger Lakes, a veritable monument to her brilliant late grandmother, and a reminder of the wreckage Bess left behind.
There’s the guilt over leaving her younger twin siblings, Casey and Caleb, and she struggles to rebuild a bond that may be irrevocably broken. Amid the grief, resentment still looms toward her reckless and self-indulgent mother and father. And then there’s Luke Monticelli, the devoted man Bess walked out on but never stopped loving.
Haunted by her regrets at every turn, Bess soon realizes that the past is far more complicated than she ever knew. With each secret that she uncovers about her family, Bess comes closer to healing their wounds, seizing a second chance at love, and fulfilling dreams that can lift them all—right here at home, where she belongs.
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