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Sun River #2

ALC provided by Must Love Audio

Author: L.M. Halloran

Narrators: Samantha Brentmoor and Seam Masters, with Oscar Reyes as Jeremy

Celeste and Lucas were two peas in a pod ever since she saw him seeking refuge in her backyard from the volatile situation at home. And then came Jeremy and they were three. They spent wonderful times at Wild Lake Camp. Everything was fun and happy until they hit their teens. Feelings change and loyalties are put to test. Lucas steps away, leaves town, Celeste and Jeremy get married and Jeremy dies while deployed. 

12 years pass and now Lucas is back in town at first to tear down Wild Lake Camp and then to rebuild it – and he wants Celeste to help him do it. 

But they have to navigate through years of muddled and complicated feelings, profound grief and healing to move. The past is the past, but they can build a future together?

I was touched by Celeste and Lucas’s story from page one. I love an “it’s always been you” story and Celeste had to deal with two loves of her life. It’s written in a beautiful and believable way and you have to feel her pain. Who also doesn’t love a friend who will love so deeply that will put the people he loves first, even it means he will never be happy?

Beautifully narrated dual style by Samantha Brentmoor and Sean Masters (with the touching special appearance of Oscar Reyes as Jeremy) in a paring I hadn’t heard before and I loved it! Samantha shines as always as the widow and mom whose heart is torn between her late husband, her first love, while putting her son first. Sean is amazing as Lucas. His deep but soothing voice carries all the feelings Lucas has been trying to suppress for more than a decade. Oscar’s small but very touching appearance brings all the feels. (I loved how they go duet when it’s a flashback or a memory!)

A beautiful story of love, friendship and healing. Loved it. 

Thanks to the author and Must Love Audio for the advanced listen. 

Content notes: death of a spouse (historical), grief, domestic abuse, alcoholism, physical abuse, toxic relationship with parents