Reviewed by Danielle
TITLE: Heart and Home
SERIES: Heart, Home, Family #2
AUTHOR: Andrew Grey
PUBLISHER: Self Published
LENGTH: 123 Pages
RELEASE DATE: December 15, 2020
BLURB:
Professional marketer Alan Wright needs time to recover, both physically and mentally. After getting out of the hospital, his best friend Clay takes him to his farm, where it’s quiet to recuperate. Healing is going to take a lot more time and effort than Alan ever imagined and require professional help, which comes in the form of a strong man with a gentle touch.
Haley Martin, a nurse-therapist, has never fit in with his family, the town, or himself. When he’s hired to assist Alan with his recovery, he discovers a place with people like him who live their lives without shame or fear. As Alan begins his recovery, Haley starts to come into his own as well. He just has to have the courage to take it to heart.
As Alan and Haley both learn to overcome their challenges, Haley needs to figure out how to deal with his overbearing father and stand on his own two feet. Together, holding on to each other, they learn to be stronger together and start to build a possible future. But their old lives still have pull, and they both must decide what’s truly important.
REVIEW:
After reading book 1 I have to say I couldn’t wait to read this next book! I fell in love with Clay, Dell and of course Archie. The little family they created together including Harvey, Clay’s father.
So to have a glimpse again of this family was wonderful.
That being said this book ,despite that it is being told from the same place, Gray and Dell’s home, is definitely about Alan and Haley.
Like the blurb says we meet up with everybody when Alan is healing from a traumatic experience and Clay offers him a place where he can recover in peace at his farm.
Bringing in Haley, as an nurse therapist who is hired to help Alan recover.
For Haley the world opens up by stepping into the farm and his occupants. The openness and the love in the household brings something out in Haley that wants him to live in the biggest sense of the word.
During Alan’s healing, both men grow closer together and Haley finds the courage to go out and act like he always wanted to do.
Of course this doesn’t go without struggle and Haley’s father is especially seriously unbelievable in all the bad ways you can imagine.
I loved how Alan and Haley both struggled with their own things and still were in eventually drawn to each other no matter what.
For me the best part of this book is Archie. I mean I absolutely adore that sweet little boy and his interactions and familiarity with Alan is so wonderful.
Author Andrew Grey did a wonderful job creating a standalone book while still keeping the warm and sweet comfort from the farm and it’s inhabitants.
I will even say I would have loved even a bit more of that because for me the made the book. Despite Haley and Alan and their attraction and struggles I felt myself longing for Clay and Dell and Archie.
And the little surprise there at the end made me smile big time for Harvey.
If you are looking for a gentle contemporary story with low angst around family, friends , small town struggles and life issues this is one to pick up.
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