Even After This

 When you're ready to live again, love often has a way of finding you.

Four years after tragedy, Meredith Harper is tired of hiding in her corner of Texas and living life like a game of dodgeball. She packs up her grief, awkward social graces, and sizable life insurance in search of a vacation and investment property in Colorado Springs. A botched dinner reservation throws her into the path of a bona fide movie star, and Meredith pushes through her comical celebrity neurosis to discover he is charming but a terrible dancer.

A viral video of a daring rescue makes Harlan Holcombe's celebrity star stronger, with millions of his fans deeming him a real-life Hercules. But a minute of heroism doesn't absolve his past mistakes.

As Harlan and Meredith spend more time together, he helps her believe there might be more for her not just in life but in love. And she might be part of the solution to restore the legacy he fears is tarnished. But what happens when the path to redeem his mistakes collides with the path to redeem her loss?

Review: 

“Is it possible that there’s still something left for me in this life?” 

Meredith Harper has endured a tragic accident that no mother or wife should ever have to experience. After four years of grieving, she decides to take a giant step of faith get out from under the dark cloud that has been a part of her life and go to Colorado to see about purchasing property. Ms. Clack did a remarkable job of showing the process of going through grief and finding a new beginning. 

Harlan Holcombe should be a man to avoid since he is a movie star and Meredith becomes an awkward, babbling mess. But Harlan can see past all of that and recognize a woman who could really use a friend. He doesn’t tiptoe around Meredith’s grief, but instead helps her through it. He is there to defend her, to comfort her, and push her to do things she wouldn’t do otherwise. 


Things to love:

humor

Famous People Probation

dancing

he falls first

Skee-Ball tournament

childhood friends

mom stickers

Thanksgiving

Abba ringtones

skiing

overcoming fear

I highly recommend reading this book. You are sure to love the humor that is threaded throughout the story along with seeing love in action. This is the first book in the Shelter and Sky series, and I am looking forward to reading the rest of the books. 

Thank you to Haven Fiction and UpLit Reads for a gifted copy. I was under no obligation to write a positive review.