Counting
Stars – Donnelley Brothers Book One
Synopsis
“In every ending, no matter how painful or desolate, there is a new beginning. He was that new beginning for me.” – Reese James
Reese James was in love, married to her high school sweetheart, Derek, when her happy existence came shattering down around her. At only twenty-two, with so much life left ahead of her, she would lose the one person who was supposed to walk the path she’d paved in her mind of where her life would lead. At only twenty-two, Reese was a widow.
A year of mourning and nothing had changed. She still woke to the feeling of bricks on her heart – sorrow festering in her bloodstream. Unable to continue living in such despair, Reese makes a change. Stumbling across an internet ad for the Donnelley Wild Land Tours, Reese contacts Gracie. Before long, Reese has booked a private tour in the wilderness where she hopes to heal her broken heart and to find acceptance for the ending of her life with Derek.
The tour, in which she’d been hoping find acceptance for Derek’s death, becomes complicated when Gracie, her guide, breaks her ankle. Leaving Reese in Logan’s care, Gracie sends the two off into the wilderness. Tension strains between the two as Logan watches her with hot ebony eyes, challenging her to continue stepping forward, to live her life, to push for her wants and needs. Unknowingly, without trying, the man was healing her. What she’d first thought of as an inconvenience quickly became the lifeline that pulled her aching heart out from the deep abyss of her pain. She never would have thought, for even a moment, that love was what she needed – but in the deep primal wilderness of the mountains, love was what she found. With Logan. Slowly, patiently, Logan proves to Reese that even though one love is lost, it doesn’t mean another can’t bloom.
He was everything she didn’t know she needed and nothing like she ever thought she could want, but sometimes, the heart doesn’t allow for second thoughts or hesitation as it jumps, head first into something beautiful.
Review by Gia:
Counting Stars is an amazing read. It's a sweet story. There are parts that are definitely tissues worthy. Reese has lost her husband, Derek. They were high school sweethearts. She's young and it's crazy to think of her as a widow. Reese's character is so well written that you can't help but feel sad for her.
Around what would have been her anniversary, she sells the house her and Dereck bought and decides to go a month long tour in the wilderness. She plan on having Gracie form Donnelley Wild Land Tours to be her tour guide. Gracie is a sweet lady who has raise four grown sons. They all work for the tour company. Gracie and Reese hit it off with exchanges emails. It seems like Gracie will be a perfect a match to take Reese on tour.
But things never go as plan. Logan, Gracie's son, takes Reese on tour instead. Logan and Reese don't have a great first meeting. Logan comes off as a jerk at first. But what's not to like about Logan. He's caring, hot, and loves the outdoors, he's the perfect package.
Reese and Logan at off with a friendship that builds into a romantic relationship. I loved that Reese and Logan didn't immediately jump into a romantic relationship. Their relationship moved fast but they took time to get to know each other. I liked how their relationship seems very believable.
Counting Stars is a great read. I enjoyed taking a journey with Reese and Logan. It's book one in the Donnelley Brothers series. Don't let the fact that it's a book one scare you away, there is no cliffhanger.
5 Amazeballs Star!!
Counting Stars is an amazing read. It's a sweet story. There are parts that are definitely tissues worthy. Reese has lost her husband, Derek. They were high school sweethearts. She's young and it's crazy to think of her as a widow. Reese's character is so well written that you can't help but feel sad for her.
Around what would have been her anniversary, she sells the house her and Dereck bought and decides to go a month long tour in the wilderness. She plan on having Gracie form Donnelley Wild Land Tours to be her tour guide. Gracie is a sweet lady who has raise four grown sons. They all work for the tour company. Gracie and Reese hit it off with exchanges emails. It seems like Gracie will be a perfect a match to take Reese on tour.
But things never go as plan. Logan, Gracie's son, takes Reese on tour instead. Logan and Reese don't have a great first meeting. Logan comes off as a jerk at first. But what's not to like about Logan. He's caring, hot, and loves the outdoors, he's the perfect package.
Reese and Logan at off with a friendship that builds into a romantic relationship. I loved that Reese and Logan didn't immediately jump into a romantic relationship. Their relationship moved fast but they took time to get to know each other. I liked how their relationship seems very believable.
Counting Stars is a great read. I enjoyed taking a journey with Reese and Logan. It's book one in the Donnelley Brothers series. Don't let the fact that it's a book one scare you away, there is no cliffhanger.
5 Amazeballs Star!!
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I
live in Alberta, Canada, where the weather is forever changing
(without warning). I am engaged to be married in August 2015 to my
high school sweetheart and love of my life. There are no children in
my life as of right now, but we do have a handful of rambunctious
cats (four) and a testy, rescued Shepard/Husky, who take up a lot of
my time.
Ever
since I can remember, I’ve adored the written word. English was
always my favorite class and that may be biased because I can’t
count to save my life, so math was a horror! I remember the very
first novel I ever read, Shocking Pink by Erica Spindler. It was the
most interesting of the covers on my mom’s bookshelf (probably
because it was pink) and I was way too young to be reading that
novel. But I fell in love. From there, I read almost everything from
V.C. Andrews.
My
writing started out as poetry, which then evolved to songs, and later
into novels. I was never one for the short stories as I found it too
difficult to pack everything I imagined into something so small. I
now have fourteen novels published independently. I write both novels
for young adults and novels for adults – all romance.
Despite
my favorite younger reading material, I now adore writing and reading
all things romance.
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