For two single parents with
bruised hearts, it’ll take more than a little courage to get back on the horse
when it comes to love.
Kimberly Welch lost her husband
to a heart attack in the blink of an eye. But she’s losing her daughter slowly,
in the day-to-day tension. In three difficult years, Kimberly has gone from
Seattle socialite to Kings Meadow charity case, and her daughter is not
responding well to the changes. She’s becoming a sullen, cantankerous teen.
Chet Leonard lost his teenage
son in a car accident. Then his wife abandoned him and their two remaining
boys. He tries to keep his mind on the family ranch, but if the last two years
have taught him anything, it’s that sometimes you just have to let the memories
hurt. Let the memories hurt, and leave well enough alone.
But when Chet volunteers to help
tame Kimberly’s daughter’s horse, everyone gets more than they bargained
for…especially when eighty-four-year-old Anna McKenna shows up.
Nana Anna has reappeared in
Kings Meadow after decades away, bringing with her the magnetism and
transformative joy that come from a life well lived…just the kind of magic that
a couple of unlucky-in-love single parents need to conjure up a little courage
and raise a new family from the ashes of tragedy.
Love Without End is the
first book in Robin Lee Hatcher’s Kings
Meadow Romance series, and is the first book I’ve ever read by her. I’ve
been looking forward to finally having a chance to read one of her novels, and I’m
so glad I got to start off with this one. Love
Without End is such a sweet, captivating story that I really enjoyed, and I
am looking forward to reading more of Robin’s novels.
Kimberly
is such a relatable character! She was
burned in her past (haven’t we all) and it leaves her afraid to really live
life again. But I’ve got to give her praise for the way she fights to give her
daughter what she deserves. Even though she just wants to be back on safe
ground, Kimberly tries her hardest to provide for Tara, and that is one of the
things I admire about her. I also just really love the way she and Chet
interact. I wish I could tell you exactly what about their relationship I like,
but since I don’t want to spoil it, I’ll just say that the ending is my
favorite part. Because it’s wonderful. Did I mention that Chet is as well? A
sweet, still hurting but wonderful single father, Chet deserves so much praise
for all that he does for his family and how he fights to get over what his
ex-wife did to him. Both he and Kimberly really come back from some serious emotional
pain, and I really admire that quality in them.
I
cannot go on with this review without first mentioning Nana Anna for a little
bit. Anna is such a great character, the spry, grandmotherly woman she is, but
also the young, hurting woman she was. I love how Robin throws Anna’s past into
the mix by adding in various chapters that really gave me insight into who Anna
was and how that made her who she is. Her story added to the overall plot of
this book, and I am so glad that Robin wrote it in this way.
Overall,
I have to give this book all five bookshelves. It was such a sweet story that
really dealt with some serious issues, in a mostly lighthearted way, and I enjoyed
every bit of it, especially all the parts about the horses. I would highly
recommend this novel, and I can’t wait to finish reading the rest of the
series!
Happy
reading!
All credit for the italicized synopsis goes to Robin Lee
Hatcher and Thomas Nelson Publishing.
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