Lost and Found Family

A Novel

By: Jennifer Ryan

Narrated by: Teri Schnaubelt

Length: 10 hrs and 14 mins

Publisher's summary

If you love Jill Shalvis, Lori Wilde, and Susan Mallery, then you won't want to miss New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Ryan’s riveting new novel about family, secrets, and a woman ready to embrace who she really is by facing down her past.

As Sarah Anderson drives up to the house in Carmel, she knows she’s on an impossible quest to make peace with the one person who truly hates her. For years, Sarah has hidden the truth about her late husband’s lies from their children and their grandmother. When her mother-in-law, Margaret, threatens her with legal action to see the boys, Sarah strikes a bargain: She’ll bring them for a six-week visit, hoping the boys, at least, will find connection and happiness with their extended family.

It doesn’t help that attorney and part-time rancher Luke Thompson lives right next door, and as an old friend of the family’s he’s agreed to investigate Sarah’s past. Luke doesn’t feel comfortable poking around in the very successful tech CEO’s private life. What he finds is a truth very different from the one he’s been led to believe. Far from being cold and unloving, Sarah is devoted to her boys and as at home on the ranch as she is in a boardroom.

All Sarah ever wanted was a family, and all Luke wants now is her love. The time has come to reveal the terrible secrets that have been kept for so long. In losing the past, a new love—and family - can be found.

©2021 Jennifer Ryan (P)2021 HarperCollins Publishers

All I can say is Awwwwww

I love the read, it had everything any girl would want and more. I loved all the characters and the family story line. The ending I had to think about but by the time I finished I understood and likely would have done the same thing. I love strong family in the storyline and found the read perfect for a relaxing, rainy day.

I just kept waiting for the usual setbacks

Some reviewers have said they found the two main characters to be too good to be true. As I was listening, I kept waiting for the usual setback of the main characters’ romance, i.e. “ the other shoe to drop,”but it never did. There were surprises and moments when you thought it could go either way, but it just didn’t follow the usual pattern of this kind of romance. I felt that the heroine was just so happy to finally find love and a family that she wasn’t going to let anyone mess that up. The problem with the heroine is that she was so “perfect “ no one wants to believe she could exist. I think there are people out there just like her, but between the way good gets lost and the desire to stay out of the limelight, we just don’t hear about most of these people. I will probably listen to this one again so it’s a five star.

Really Good but…

It was a really good story with a good ending but honestly way too good to be true I know it wasn’t a true story, but there were no protagonist. Everything turned out hunky-dory, which is nice to listen to something like that once in a while but way too good to be true.

Just perfect!

I bought the book because of the narrator… I loved the book because of the story. Well done author AND narrator 🤩

Review of Lost and Found Family

I loved this book it tells a story that many can relate to love Jennifer Ryan

I love family sagas and this did not disappoint!e how

I loved to see how important it is to be forgiving of family members who have hurt you and to just love each other.