Then:
I was a wife.
Married to a man who was my world and the father of my child. Then, one day,
half of my heart was ripped out of my chest.
Now:
I’m a widow.
A single mom who has spent the last nine months trying like hell not to drown
in an ocean of grief.
I survive in the in-between, but surviving isn’t the same as living, and I’m
not sure what living looks like anymore.
That is, until Jase Turner, my older brother’s best friend and my former crush,
comes back into my life.
We’re two people tethered together by strands of similar sorrow.
My husband had my past.
Jase wants my future.
And maybe where forever ends is just a different beginning.
**My Review**
I am so excited to welcome you to my stop on the tour for K. Street’s first in her Maplewood Falls series, Where Forever Ends! Get your Kleenex handy for this one because you will shed sad tears, happy tears, and every other tear you can imagine while reading this.
Young mother and widow, Saylor, is still reeling from the unexpected loss of her husband. She is barely getting by raising her son Know because of her crippling grief. After a horrendous meltdown, she decides she can’t take another day in the home she shared with her husband, so she moves to Maplewood Falls to live with her brother and be close to her parents. This brings her back into contact with her older brother’s best friend, Jase, who Saylor once had an insane crush on. Also recovering from a loss similar to Saylor’s, Jase becomes Saylor’s friend, confidant, and then much more. But Saylor struggles to let go of the past and allow her heart to open up to a future with Jase.
My first experience reading K. Street came not too long ago when I read Everything I Never Wanted, and I absolutely loved it. Where Forever Ends has also completely stolen my heart! This one will envoke every emotion imaginable and will leave you with a crying hangover, but it is so good. Jase embodied everything good and right with the world in regards to book boyfriends. Sexy, smart, talented, funny, patient, devoted, and best of all – he was amazing with Saylor’s four-year-old son Knox. Prepare yourself to be rooting and cheering for these two the entire time.
Of course, I haven’t forgotten about Saylor, it’s just my love for Jase is like a shiny, blinking billboard in my brain right now! Saylor goes through it in this book. She loses her husband, to whom she was very happily married, she’s raising a little boy on her own, and grieving herself to death in the huge home they had bought and planned to fill with children. She goes through phases after moving home, varying from extreme sadness, joy, guilt, curiosity about her feelings for Jase, and then tends to circle through all the phases again. I’ll admit that there were times I felt like things could have moved along a little, but it didn’t affect my overall enjoyment of the book.
Can someone’s heart can ever truly heal after a loss so significant? Can you fall in love again when someone else still holds so much space in your heart? Where Forever Ends will have you asking yourself those questions over and over, all the while praying and hoping that Jase and Saylor find their own happy ending. Keep in mind, this is not a consistently light and happy read, however, it’s worth the sadness and angst to see Saylor’s life change so much. I loved, loved, loved this one and highly recommend it!
*Thank you to GMB and the author for providing this advanced copy in exchange for my honest review!
and daughter, as well as a tiny menagerie of pets; including a dog, a cat, and
a bearded dragon. K is a foodie with an affinity for coffee, peach Moscato, and
dark chocolate. When she isn’t plotting her next story K enjoys reading,
spending time with her family and cheering on her favorite hockey team, the
Chicago Blackhawks.
– One paperback proof copy of Where Forever Ends
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