5 of 5 Stars
Have the box of tissues ready… Harper Blessings is broken in so many ways. Some of the cracks, like the loss of her parents, came early on. (Her mom died; her dad ran away.) Some others, like the loss of her best friend are more recent. In the here and now, her brother keeps flirting with danger and her aunt has days where her memory falls apart. And to top it all off, she’s an unmarried Christian woman who’s pregnant. That, indeed, has its own baggage. When Dalton Kingston intrudes upon the fragile balance she’s trying to maintain, Harper tries to insist (both to herself and others) that everything’s good, everything’s fine. Her food truck business had a good summer. The catering gigs, when she has them, please all her clients. Her brother, Nicky, is mostly okay. And Aunt Clara, the woman who raised them, remembers most of the important things. Right? But Dalton has his own baggage. He’s been running from his “real life” for a year now. Working at the carnival was just the latest in a string of jobs to distract him from the pain. While he’s attracted to Harper, he doesn’t want a relationship either. Not when he lost the last woman he loved… God, however, is the King of Hearts. He knows what both of these children of his need, even if they refuse to admit it to themselves or each other. He will use pain, coincidence, busybodies, and even the weather to drive these two towards each other. And towards the healing of their hearts.