Julia Monroe has just turned forty and has high hopes for a
fresh start after the last decade of her life abruptly left her a young widow
and a single mom. With both her boys off to college, she can finally focus on
expanding her New Orleans-based cleaning business. Julia is ready for new
beginnings--but God has other plans. Samuel Reed, the ruggedly handsome Green
Beret who shattered her heart over twenty years ago, has returned to town and
is the kind of distraction she never saw coming.
After their first interaction in years leaves her mind spinning and her
emotions out of control, Julia knows she needs to avoid him if she wants any
chance of preventing history from repeating itself, but her meddling best
friend keeps throwing them together. And now it seems inevitable that the man
who was hard to forget might just be impossible to resist.
My Thoughts:
Wow! I have a new favorite author. This book was just what I was wanting to read, and I didn't know it. It pulled at my heartstrings, I may have shed a tear or two, and I laughed a plenty at Julia's wit and sassiness and maybe I swooned along with her over Samuel.
Julia is a widow who now is facing an empty nest at forty, as both of her boys are away at college. She has her best friend, Kate, her mother, who sometimes is more a force of evil, her church family, volunteer ministry, and her cleaning business. However, with all of that, Julia is still alone too much with her dog and her thoughts. Then, one Sunday Samuel Reed, her first love walks into her church. The next Sunday he is a member. She is trying to avoid him at all costs, but he is trying to pursue her at all costs.
Samuel is a new Christian, and he is not shy about how he feels about Julia, nor what he hopes is a future together. But their history is one of passion and a lot of heartbreak. More than Julia is willing to dwell on or even revisit. Samuel is not deterred, and he is going to show Julia that he is changed for the better and he will be true to her and make her happy.
It will be an uphill battle as battle scars are visible. Physically and emotionally. As in the past twenty years, somewhere Samuel has lost an eye. Now he wears a patch which only makes him more attractive to Julia. These two had my support, but boy did they need to work out some issues. I liked how they handled everything as adults. Be prepared to laugh, swoon, and keep those tissues handy. I look forward to more from this author's pen.
I was provided a copy of this novel from Bethany House Publishers through Interviews and Reviews. I was not required to post a positive review and all views and opinions are my own.
About the Author:
Rebekah Millet (rebekahmillet.com) is a Cascade Award and ACFW First Impressions Award-winning author of contemporary Christian romance novels. A New Orleans native, she grew up on beignets and café au lait, and she loves infusing her colorful culture into her stories. She exasperates her husband by rearranging their furniture and being a serial plant killer, while her two sons keep her laughing and share her love of strawberry Pop-Tarts. You can find Rebekah on all social media platforms.
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