Reviewed by Tammy

TITLE: Love Comes Unheard

SERIES: Senses Series, #5

AUTHOR: Andrew Grey     

PUBLISHER: Dreamspinner Press              

LENGTH: 186 Pages

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Garrett Bowman is shocked that fate has brought him to a family who can sign. He’s spent much of his life on the outside looking in, even within his biological family, and to be accepted and employed is more than he could have hoped for. With Connor, who’s included him in his family, Garrett has found a true friend, but with the distant Brit Wilson Haskins, Garrett may have found something more. In no time, Garrett gets under Wilson’s skin and finds his way into Wilson’s heart, and over shared turbulent family histories, Wilson and Garrett form a strong bond.

Wilson’s especially impressed with the way Garrett’s so helpful to Janey, Connor and Dan’s daughter, who is also deaf. When Wilson’s past shows up in the form of his brother Reggie, bringing unscrupulous people to whom Reggie owes money, life begins to unravel. These thugs don’t care how they get their money, what they have to do, or who they might hurt. Without the strength of love and the bonds of family and friends, Garrett and Wilson could pay the ultimate price.

REVIEW:

Garrett Bowman has spent the last few years since his mother died, trying to find a place where he can feel accepted and for a person who has been deaf since birth, that’s not easy. Garrett is on his way back to his family when he runs out of fuel in the middle of nowhere, the only place he can see is ‘Christmas Tree Village’. When Garrett has a look around the ‘village’ to find someone to help him, he is startled by a hand on his shoulder, as he turns around he tries to say hello as clearly as possible but he’s absolutely shocked when the man starts signing to him!

The owner offers him a job helping him plant trees and as Garrett has no money left he accepts. When they go for lunch at the town’s diner he meets the rest of his boss’s family, Garrett can’t believe his luck when they all sign to him! It turns out that his employer’s adopted daughter is deaf as well so they’re all earning to sign, when they ask Garrett to help teach not only their daughter but the whole family the finer points of signing, well, Garrett can’t believe his luck. After all these years he has finally met a family that accepts him for who he is and honestly doesn’t care if he’s deaf. It’s like all Garrett’s dreams have come true when he meets his new employer’s butler Wilson Haskins, he’s handsome and he talks to Garrett like he’s a real person. There is something about Wilson that appeals to Garrett a great deal but because he can’t hear he’s just not sure if Wilson can possibly feel the anything for a deaf person.

Wilson Haskins can hardly believe his luck when he meets the new hire Garrett, he’s gorgeous but he thinks there’s no way someone who is so much younger could be interested in him. As they get to know each other they both learn that contrary to belief they have a lot of pre-conceived ideas about the other like the fact that Garrett is not that much younger than Wilson and the fact that Wilson’s older brother Reginald is in debt up to his eyeballs to a loan shark over in England.

Both Wilson and Garrett bond over their dysfunctional families, Garrett’s family has never been particularly close to him. His younger brother even went so far as to blame their mother’s death on Garrett saying that if it wasn’t for the fact that she spent so much time with Garrett she would have found the cancer sooner and been able to do something about it! Reginald wiped his hands of him when he learnt that Wilson was gay although it never stopped him trying to get Wilson to help him when it suited him! Now, he expects Wilson to come up with $500,000 to pay off his debts, the only thing is, Wilson has never had that kind of money. After Wilson tells his employers about his brother’s demands for money, considering the fact that Reginald has turned up in America, in their small town Wilson doesn’t feel he has a choice. When it becomes apparent that the loan shark’s thugs have followed him and they’re threatening the entire family including the children, the police are called in and the hunt is on!

Love Comes Unheard is yet another incredibly well written, emotional instalment for the Senses Series about people from all walks of life with their own particular set of difficulties in life and how with a bit of patience and a lot of love you can overcome or adapt to just about anything life sends your way! The emotions Andrew Grey can invoke with his stories is nothing short of amazing, you come away from his books with a completely different attitude and view of a wide variety of disabilities. The range of information is phenomenal, you truly get an in-depth understanding of what are today common health disorders.

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