Maggie O'Malley and her husband Nash were drunk. They were returning home after an uncomfortable night out celebrating St. Paddy's Day with her sister and her newest love interest. Laughing as she tried to get the key in the lock trying to dodge her husband's hands and mouth until getting inside. Teasing that it would be easier if he had changed the porch light. As they pulled their clothes off to devour each other they promised they would be each others forever.
On her knees, she spoke telling the news of the previous day as she sipped coffee in the freezing March snow. Her fingers traced the name of her beloved Nash's headstone. A patch of ice...car totaled with his mangled body inside...and a box of light bulbs on the passenger seat. St. Paddy's Day two years ago was the last day she saw him alive.
Her sister was waiting for her as her bike pulls up to her house. She hasn't been able to drive since that horrible day and hated even being in a vehicle as a passenger. She grimaced as she approached. She was tired of everyone trying to tell her it was time to get back to living and get back out there. They knew she went to the cemetery every morning and didn't know what to do to snap her out of her grief.
Her sister hands her a card for a therapist. Urging her to talk to someone. As she places the card on the front of the fridge she notices that the house next door had sold. No sooner had she noticed the sign than a truck pulled up loaded with furniture.
Ryan Clooney and his cousin were checking out the unfinished basement of his new home. Luke was suggesting it would make an awesome man cave. Ryan didn't know who he would entertain besides his family. The sole reason he bought this house...on the other side of town. To get a breath away from all his family members. His massively huge family of cousins. He was practically related to everyone in their small town.
As they're moving his furniture into the house he wonders about his neighbor. Besides a bike moving locations from day to day he had yet to see any sign of life. Just a property showing signs of neglect.
Although this isn't the first Lydia Michaels book for me, it is the first audiobook and I was not disappointed. Like her other books, the storyline gripped me from the first word and I hated when the last was spoken. The characters are fully developed and totally relatable.
This is the first time I have listened to a book narrated by Ashley Trumpler and she might be the best narrator I have heard. She isn't just reading the story, she is living it. If they are eating she speaks like she has food in her mouth. She doesn't speak the emotions...she laughs, snorts, chokes.... You literally feel like she is before you having a conversation and not reading you a book.
Lydia Michaels has written another book that grabs you in your heart. Oh, the tears I shed for Maggie as she fought her grief of losing her husband. But with the tears, there was a ton of laughter. This is a slow-burn second chance romance, but that doesn't mean it isn't smoking hot.
I enjoyed this audio so much that I'm going to continue this series in audiobook form. And even though I have already read and reviewed book five My Funny Valentine, I can't wait to hear the audio. Lydia Michaels is on my one-click list and I look forward to hearing more books narrated by Ashley Trumpler!
WAKE MY HEART is book one of the JASPER FALLS Series
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