Can two broken people help each other learn to love again and find their way home?
For Samantha Cole, love and relationships have never come easy. Pain and heartbreak have forced her to build a wall around herself. Hoping to start over, Sam leaves Boston behind and moves to Napa with her best friend. Trying to make better choices in love, Sam establishes rules to keep her heart safe. Little does she know that one man will challenge her and change her mind. He has the potential to break down her walls and bring her heart back home.
Ben Foster has been dealing with heartache and guilt for the past two years, believing he lost his only chance at love. Pounding guys on the Rugby field and running the family winery get him through the pain. When Sam arrives the fog over his life slowly lifts. He wonders if she is the one who can help his heart find a new way home.
Letting go of the past and moving forward is not always easy. Their connection is strong, but their pasts keep getting in the way. Will Sam and Ben's journey tear them apart or help them find a place to call home?
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Looking up into her moist eyes I
pull her close to me. Our arms hug each other with a fierceness that’s getting
rid of every loose fragment of damage. We’re expelling each and every bad
memory and all the shit that’s fucked us up. “I don’t want to let you go. Can
we stay like this for a little while longer?” Her head nods on my shoulder as
she sinks deeper into our embrace.
“You feel incredible in my arms. I
never thought much about guardian angels, but I think you’ve been sent just for
me. Your arms wrapping around me make everything go away.”
Sam’s arms grip me with even more
vigor. I feel her breath and lips tickle my ear as she turns her head into the
crook of my neck. Feather light kisses touch my neck and earlobe as she
whispers; “You’re wrong Ben; you’re my angel. You make me believe that love can
exist.” Her head pulls back but her arms stay firmly in place. “Your voice
brought light into my life when all I could see was darkness. When I’m all
alone, it’s your voice that I hear when I drift off to sleep at night.”
I turn and press my lips onto hers
tenderly and hold them there for several seconds before breaking away. We stay
holding each other well into the night. Finally, her breaths change and I
realize she’s fallen asleep on my shoulder. I gently shift her body close and
place one arm underneath her legs to pick her up. She stirs slightly and turns
her head into the curve of my neck and inhales deeply. “Mmm, you smell so
good.”
I hold her against me as I chuckle,
“Oh yeah? It’s a combination of sweat, wine, and you.”
Sighing she lifts her head with her eyes still closed. “How
is it you know to say the exact thing a woman likes to hear?”
“I don’t know about that. I guess
you bring it out of me.”
We get into the truck, and I buckle
her up. I fight off the images of the accident and instead focus on Sam. I listen to her steady breaths and watch her
sleep. She hypnotizes me. I’m captivated
by her heart, beauty and soul. Her capacity to let me in is remarkable and
humbling especially when I don’t think I deserve it. Home has to feel a lot
like this because I can’t imagine living anywhere else.
My Review
This book for me was a real eye opener and a journey between
two people with a story line I’d not really read before. This was a book about
loss, heartache, misunderstandings, but more importantly it was the rebuilding
of two people, two souls who each suffered different kinds of heartache in
their life. How can they help each other and move on when they’re both so
broken? How can they afford to love another, when they’ve both been burned and
broken in the past?
“Love is a beautiful thing. It fills you up unlike anything you’ve ever known or experienced. It can be effortless and challenging all at the same time. But what it really comes down to, I believe, is letting someone else in. Letting them see all of you.”
This is a story that entwines your emotions and thoughts
together with the book so well that you become connected with the characters. I
couldn’t put the book down. Here we have both Samantha and Ben, desperate for
love and the attention of another. Yet when it comes down to it, non are
willing to lower the walls to let someone in and take a chance. Ben’s turmoil
and grief from losing the love of his life has left him a shell of his former
self. He’s riddled with guilt and pain from what happened that he’s been a
shell of his former self. Why him? Why did he have to lose out? He doesn’t want
to go through all that pain again and so keeps everyone out. No-one has been able
to get past these barriers, but can Samantha?
“We have both been broken, and piece-by-piece were rebuilding each other.”
Samantha past relationships have revolved around cheating ex’s
and a build-up of insecurities so bad that she’s resolved to let no man into
her life. Not now, not ever. When she finally comes face-to-face with her best friend’s
brother Ben, she can’t explain these feelings inside that no one has managed to
stir for a while. Could she finally have found the right man to let in? But
what if it goes wrong again?
“It’s all you. It started with our first talk. Our first touch. Our first kiss. Our first time making love. Our first everything. Because you are my everything Sam. I want more firsts with you.”
Watching the relationship between these two grow was
beautiful. We saw each begin to lower their defences and somewhat take a chance
on one another. They want to be loved but still struggle to let each other in.
Ben starts to realise that maybe he can love again and Sam finally see’s that
not all men are the same. This book was sweet and captures your attention and
heart. There are some plot twists in the book that will have you on the edge of
your seat, but the final result is so bittersweet that their story will remain with
you long after. An absolutely beautiful tale of learning to love again, one
that I would recommend over and over. It was perfect. Can’t wait for Jack and
Jenny’s story.
“Hopefully you follow me, and, when you do, I’ll be there are the end. Standing. Waiting. Reaching out for you. Finally finding us. Finding love. Finding home.”
My Rating
❤❤❤❤❤
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Aine Kelley Fun Facts
1. I have a potty mouth. It doesn’t come out all the time but when it does it tends to shock people.
2. I am a sucker for anything chocolate. It is a true addiction.
3. I love wine. Like really love wine. Red or white, I’m not biased.
4. I attend boot camp twice a week for personal torture. That’s when you may hear my potty mouth.
5. My original title for Finding Home was Say Anything, but legally I didn’t think I could do it.
6. My Kindle currently has 40+ books waiting to be read and yet I keep one-clicking. It’s yet another addiction.
7. I am a sucker for the Love Songs channel on Sirius XM. I’ve been known to wipe away tears as I’m driving and listening to a mushy and gushy one.
8. Some of the best friendships I have formed started on Facebook. Being in the indie author world I get to talk to the most amazing women I have had the pleasure of knowing.
9. I started writing Finding Home on my summer vacation before going back to work. I worked on it every night after my kids went to bed. It is a true labor of love and I have a new appreciation for people that work multiple jobs and juggle being a wife and mother.
10. Like Sam in my book, I am a true 80’s geek and love all things movie and music from that time period.
11. I’m an only child.
12. I love the Peanuts. I have to watch the holiday specials every time they come on with my daughters.
13. I go to the beach pretty much every day in the summer.
14. I’m a big sports fan. My favorites are football and baseball. Go Patriots and Red Sox!
15. I was editing my book when the Red Sox won the World Series. I was so excited that my lap top fell off my lap and crashed on the floor. I then happy danced around the house.
thank u for posting <3
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