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A review by miaev
Christmas for the Deputy by Nicole Helm
5.0
Can a troubled teen overcome his past as a grown man and find love?
Growing up, Ethan Thompson never knew a safe home life. Not until he landed at the Martin family ranch in Last Stand, Texas, as a teenager. Susannah Martin found a way to save him and brought him to the family ranch. But the scars and trauma of his childhood still haunt him and shape his view of his present life and future life. Ethan has become a sheriff’s deputy which has allowed him to keep a safe emotional distance between him and everyone else in the community.
Pen Martin-Wakefield has moved back home to the family ranch with her three children after her husband’s line of duty death. She is still trying to deal with the stress of his death and rebuilding her life plus dealing with her girls who are all dealing with their father’s death in different ways. And of course with her girls being different ages, she is also dealing with a wide range of normal growing up issues. Throw in that she has moved back at the Christmas season, plus a long hidden attraction to Ethan, and the stresses build.
Can Pen learn to accept that she doesn’t have to be perfect and can just be herself? Can she learn to let her girls live in the moment and learn to handle their own battles with each other? Can Ethan learn that it is safe to love? Well, given this a Nicole Helm novel, yes. But like her all of her other novels I have read, the storyline moves along and the characters are well written. You can relate to the characters in this novel because we all have a little bit of each one in us.
I did receive a copy of this book in advance from the publisher in exchange for a fair and unbiased review.
Growing up, Ethan Thompson never knew a safe home life. Not until he landed at the Martin family ranch in Last Stand, Texas, as a teenager. Susannah Martin found a way to save him and brought him to the family ranch. But the scars and trauma of his childhood still haunt him and shape his view of his present life and future life. Ethan has become a sheriff’s deputy which has allowed him to keep a safe emotional distance between him and everyone else in the community.
Pen Martin-Wakefield has moved back home to the family ranch with her three children after her husband’s line of duty death. She is still trying to deal with the stress of his death and rebuilding her life plus dealing with her girls who are all dealing with their father’s death in different ways. And of course with her girls being different ages, she is also dealing with a wide range of normal growing up issues. Throw in that she has moved back at the Christmas season, plus a long hidden attraction to Ethan, and the stresses build.
Can Pen learn to accept that she doesn’t have to be perfect and can just be herself? Can she learn to let her girls live in the moment and learn to handle their own battles with each other? Can Ethan learn that it is safe to love? Well, given this a Nicole Helm novel, yes. But like her all of her other novels I have read, the storyline moves along and the characters are well written. You can relate to the characters in this novel because we all have a little bit of each one in us.
I did receive a copy of this book in advance from the publisher in exchange for a fair and unbiased review.