Begin Again

Home in You, Book 2

By: Crystal Walton

Narrated by: Stephanie Murphy

Length: 9 hrs and 57 mins

Publisher's summary

What happens when a free-spirited artist from big-city New York collides with an uptight business owner from small-town Ocracoke? Fireworks. The kind neither saw coming.

A single call is all it takes to drive artist Ti Russo into what she does best. Run. But hey, lying low in a beach town for a while isn’t so bad. Thanks to the distraction of playing consultant to a guy she’s determined to crack, she can almost forget about the past stalking her back home. But she never counted on the real danger being a picket-fenced life she has no business falling for.

Focus and self-preservation have gotten single dad Drew Anderson through the last nine years. With the threat of his shop’s foreclosure jeopardizing his daughter’s health care, the last thing he needs is a distracting hippie chick swooping in to shake up what he’s fought to protect. Including himself. The bank’s deadline adds enough pressure without re-risking feelings better left buried.

But as sparks flare and secrets escalate, the race against time propels Ti and Drew into a choice neither’s ready to make: Find the faith to surrender their past or forfeit their only chance to begin again.

Download Begin Again and escape into a sparks-flying, opposites-attract contemporary clean romance full of small-town charm, broken characters, and deep undertones of grace that’ll win your heart.

If you’re a Luke Danes and Lorelai Gilmore fan, you’ll love Drew and Ti’s sparring relationship, along with Begin Again's small-town setting, quirky characters, and family bonds.

Each book in the Home in You series is a standalone and can be enjoyed separately, but I recommend the books in order if you want to follow the overall timeline.

©2017 Crystal Walton (P)2018 Crystal Walton

Life after a Hurtful Past

Ti is running. Always running away but she can't outrun the pain of her past.
Drew is trying to live his late father's life. Be the man his father was and not the man he should be.
Ti is hiding on the island, Drew becomes her project, at least saving his shop does.
Both have to learn to let go in order to move forward.
I loved Grandma Jo and her words of wisdom sprinkled throughout the book in the perfect places.
I loved seeing Ti let her guard down with Drew.
The way the author deals with the tough subjects is very well done. Not overly played but enough for this reader to feel what the characters feel.

Hope from heartache

Complex, multifaceted characters shine through laughter and tears. Sweet Maddie stole my heart with her joy for life. Ti has survived an unfathomable upbringing but remains chained to her past. The many twists and turns in this story kept me guessing. The charm of Ocracoke Island swept me away.
*I received a copy from the author. All opinions are uniquely my own.

Okay story

The story itself was okay, it would have been so much better but the narrator was so boring she made the story boring. It took me a long time to listen to this audio book because the narrator took so long to narrate the book, I kept forcing myself to listen. I wanted to make sure I gave a truthful review so I listened to the whole story.