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Synopsis
Chris King never saw it coming…
In some ways, closing the book on my first love was the worst day of life. I was gutted, and yet I was completely at peace with my decision. I walked away knowing that I did what was best for her, unsure if I could ever recover.
Little did I know that one concert would change the entire course of my life.
There I stood, signing autographs and snapping pictures with fans when a familiar face in the crowd catapulted my mind back in time—Salem Honeycutt, once a balm to my pain and a calm in my storm. Yet again, her smiling face gave me hope.
Only one question remained: did she still see me as a wayward teenage boy who was completely off limits, or could she see the man I’d become…focused and driven, yearning for another chance at love?
For Salem Honeycutt, postpartum bliss seemed like a lie…
No one told me that I’d hate my baby when I brought her home from the hospital. No one told me that I’d want to put a pillow over my husband’s head and smother him in his sleep. No one told me that I’d want to slap every person who gave me the ever-so-cliché advice to ‘cherish every moment.’ No one told me that I’d despise my life the minute I became a mother, but I did.
Then I met Chris King, the kid who made me want to pull myself up from the dark recesses of my mind and face each day. This kid, whose passion for life and talent for music, touched my soul deeper than I could ever touch his. Chris gave me a reason to live.
I was once affectionately known as Mrs. H., Chris’s juvenile detention counselor.
This is our story.
Review
Then There Was You is the second book in the So Much it Hurts series. Since it was pretty clear that Chris played a pretty significant role in the first book I did a bit of digging through some reviews to get the back story. Even knowing Chris’s history a bit I still felt like this book stands well on its own. A large portion of this story takes place 14 years ago while Chris is serving time in a juvenile detention facility where Salem works as a counsellor. You get to see a really beautiful friendship build between the 17 year old Chris and 24 year old Salem. Both in very vulnerable places in their respective lives, they find hope in each other. Fast forward 14 years and Chris is now a successful rock star and Salem, a single mom of a 14 year old daughter. As their lives come together once again it is very clear that the connection between the two is still there but now it takes on a new dimension that neither of them saw coming! I really enjoyed this book, Then There was You was beautifully written, heartfelt and romantic and the slow build-up of sexual tension was so worth the wait! I also appreciated the fact that it is dual POV, I love getting into each characters head! I may have to go back and read the first book and I would love to see a HEA for the other members of Chris’s band 😉
Dana
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