Retrieve Kissing In The Dark (Grayson Brothers, #4) Edited By Wendy Lindstrom Expressed As File
was theth and final book in the Grayson Brothers Bundle,
Luke Grayson is the town's sheriff, He hears that a group of women andyoung children have moved into town and are all living together, Apparently the women grow herbs and make potions to sell, This sounds like a snake oil scam to him, He meets the young boy Adam first as he is stealing a hair brush, The sheriff decides to scare him and walks him to jail, They make an agreement that Adam won't have to stay
in jail if he tells his sister what he did, tells the store owner and agrees to work off the cost of the brush if the store owner will allow it.
When confronted by the Sheriff with Adam in tow and Adam fesses up, she is very upset, The store owner agrees that Adam can work part time, and the Sheriff tells Faith that Adam needs to be in school even if it is near the end of the school year.
Duke is up for reelection and several men want his job, Duke has an injured shoulder and wonders if he can even do the job any more, Faith offers him a cream to rub into his shoulder, They are definitely attracted to each other, Faith had introduced herself as a widow, Adam as her brother, the young girl as her daughter, and the otherwomen as her aunts, The truth is that Faith and Adam's mom was a madame for a brothel, and thewomen aunts worked for her, When her mom dies the women agree to run away together, The local judge wants the ownership of the brothel for a real estate deal he is trying to put together,
Luke knows something is off with this family, but he doesn't know what, It doesn't help matters when his mom and sistersinlaw make friends with the women and buy their products, Over time Duke becomes very involved with Faith and her family, The kids treat him as a father figure and he sees them as his children, When Judge Stone tracks them down, Faith has to tell Duke all, He's not sure he can forgive all the lies, But when the Judge grabs Faith's daughter and is threatening to take her away, Duke realizes how much he loves Faith and her family, Duke'sbrothers come when Adam gets away and goes and tells them what is happening, Can they defeat a powerful person like the Judge Can the "aunts" live a normal life in this small town Faith's father shows up, can they build a relationship after all this time Will Duke continue as sheriff or will he seek other employment.
Can Faith and Duke rebuild their budding relationship Historical American romance that is the last book in a series about the four Grayson brothers,
I'll be honest and admit that I had no idea about the series and I jumped in to this book and I have no regrets although I probably can't read the previous books because I've been totally spoiled because all the brothers have some significant cameos in this story.
The hero in this story is very black and white morality bound which makes for a rocky romance with Ms, Faith Wilkins and her very different modern! family, Faith is trying to survive, She is good at it and there are lots of twists but Faith tries to always be good and honest but Sheriff Duke Grayson would not be able to deal with all her baggage if she told him at once, it makes sense that it is dragged out through out this story in steps.
I could have done with less kidnapping/death threats but it was a very exciting story mixed with lots of romance for almost everyone in Faith's family.
The Adam/Rebecca story is sweet, also,
The editing is good as well as the world building because there is a huge cast of personalities in this story!
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So many characters, so many relationships, past and present, it was difficult at times not to mess all the names, lol.
I didn't like Duke as much as I liked Kyle, A sweet oldfashioned story
This is the first book of the Grayson saga that I've read, The story was very well written, I could feel the characters feelings as they traveled in life, I love that it's an HEA, I loved the secondary characters as well, All in all, an excellent read, My Heart's Desire is another delightful book in the Second Chance Brides series, Having previously read Kissing in the Dark, I was excited to see how the author would address some mature topics forming the foundation of the story in a "sweet edition", and I was not disappointed.
The author creates a wonderful story of a man's struggles between rightandwrong, blackandwhite, and loveandhonor and a woman's struggle to rebuild her life after trauma and loss and does so without including any "sensual" aspects of any of the relationships.
My Heart's Desire is just that a man and a woman fight to balance their personal struggles with their heart's desire for each other,
The author uses wonderful imagery throughout the story to create a picture of the characters, This book introduces more primary characters than other books in the series as Faith moves to town with two children and four "aunts" but the author creates a family unit that makes it easy for the reader to fall in love with all of them.
I really love how the names of Faith's aunts are flowers and creates a tiein to Faith's plants in the greenhouse, The names also create an image of the beauty and strength and delicacy of the aunts, At one point, Duke compares himself and his brothers to different types of trees, This additional tie in to nature creates an image of stature and strength in the Grayson men, The Grayson wives are also compared to the seasons of the year and around all of the imagery of nature is Nancy Grayson, the matriarch of the family, and the epitome of mother earth with her grounding influence.
This imagery of nature and its healing properties and its nurturing growth is a wonderfullypleasing way to create a mental picture of the key characters and their journeys in this story.
Throughout the story, Duke's strength is drawn from his blackandwhite view of right and wrong, Because of these strongly held views, he continues to find himself struggling to find a balance between his view of rightandwrong and situations in which he finds himself in a grey area influenced more by emotion than fact.
This struggle makes it difficult for Duke to accept what he finds to be unacceptable situations with Faith and her family, His sense of honor battles with his love for Faith and her family, His emotional turmoil over feeling the need to choose one or the other makes for a compelling story for our hero, Faith's secrets lie in her past but threaten her future in Fredonia and with Duke, Her childhood influences her view of rightandwrong and her "shades of gray" view of the world drives her actions and decisions as she strives to create a new life for her children and her aunts.
As a reader, you are drawn to Faith's strength, and her vulnerability, and her compassion, and her love for family, You mourn and celebrate with Faith and Duke as they navigate their way through trials and tribulations with the hope of finding love at the other end.
My Heart's Desire also dedicates a good portion of the story to getting to know Adam, Faith's teenage brother, and Rebecca, Radford's daughter we initially met her as a young child in Twice Loved.
Their budding friendship is sweet to see and also lays the foundation for what we know are future books that focus on their love story, While this story represents the last of the four Grayson brothers to find their happilyeverafter, there is so much more to look forward to from Wendy Lindstrom and Fredonia, New York.
Disclosure: I received a free copy of this book in exchange for an honest review
I enjoyed this book, I got it free or forcents as a bookbub daily special, For the price it was great, A few parts seemed a little bit forced, So I might have given it a lower rating if I had paid a regular paperback price for it, But it was good enough that I kinda wanted to go back and read the first three books now, So it was good enough to get me interested in the stories for the other characters as well as feeling satisfied that I read it, Still enjoying the series, this book about the last Grayson brother, However, I didn't so much enjoy the theme on this one not stated to avoid spoilers, I didn't think that some story details made sense, such as so many of the men in the town asking to "court" the aunts at first sight.
Especially, the gift of clothing from the H to h would have been considered highly inappropriate just a few years ago, let alone overyears ago.
Also, I noticed more editorial issues, especially missing punctuation at the end of quoted content, I loved Kissing in the Dark, For one, the setting was intriguing, Set in New York, it has a very western feel to it as though the characters live out in the midwest, I found the characters all fun, quirky, and full of depth, The dynamic between Faith and her "aunts" is quite fun and realistic in how she can be disapproving and embarrassed by them at times,
The romance between Duke and Faith started almost from their first meeting, mostly on Duke's side, but it was a slow burn and full of seduction.
I found Duke seriously swoon worthy, Loved this book!!! Sheriff Duke Grayson, a straightlaced, above board lawman falls for the daughter of a prostitute, Well, at least he doesnt know the beautiful, bewitching Faith is just that, All he knows is that shes blown into his town with a delightful child, a brother with a chip on his shoulder and four crazy “aunts” of colorful dimensions and starts a healing business with herbs.
He falls head over heals in love with Faith and her daughter, wants to help and encourage her brother and get along with the largerthanlife aunts.
But what happens when Faiths secrets come to light after the sheriff marries her His long held belief in truth and justice and black and white is tested to the limit.
How can he salvage his standards that right is right when Faiths lies to keep her family safe from a monster willing to kill and kidnap her daughternow HIS daughter, lands exactly on his doorstep Will he step up or abandon the family hes just started This is the sheriffs trial.
Will he be disgraced in the eyes of his community and his family because of the woman he married Like all the Grayson men before him, Duke discovers his strength of character in the determination of his brothers to stick together no matter what the circumstances.
Wendy is great at weaving intrigue, unexpected twists and turns, and revelations that stun and the kind of family love that makes us all weep with joy.
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