Brenda Novak. (2014). Come Home to Me. MIRA Books.

Brenda Novak. 2014. Come Home to Me. MIRA Books.

Brenda Novak, Come Home to Me. MIRA Books, 2014.

Brenda Novak. Come Home to Me. MIRA Books, 2014.

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     New York Times and USA Today Bestselling Author Brenda Novak has penned over 40 novels. A two-time Rita nominee, she's won The National Reader's Choice, The Bookseller's Best, The Bookbuyer's Best and many other awards. She runs an annual on-line auction for diabetes research every May at www.brendanovak.com. To date, she's raised over $1 million. Brenda considers herself lucky to be a mother of five and married to the love of her life.

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Home is where her heart is
When Presley Christensen returns to Whiskey Creek with her little boy after two years away, she has completely changed her life. She's made peace with her past and overcome the negative behavior that resulted from her difficult childhood. Now she's back in the small town that was the closest thing to "home" she ever knew—the town where she can be with the sister who's her only family.
There's just one catch. Aaron Amos still lives in Whiskey Creek, at least until he moves to Reno to open a branch of the Amos brothers' auto body shop. And no matter how hard she's tried, Presley hasn't been able to get over him. Seeing him again makes the longing so much worse. But she hopes she can get through the next few months, because she can't fall back into his arms...or his bed. She's come too far to backslide now. And there's a secret she's been guarding—a secret she'll do anything to protect.
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   • source: Linda Lael Miller, #1 New York Times bestselling author
   • content: "Whenever I see a new Brenda Novak book, I buy it and read it, pronto."
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   • source: RT Book Reviews on When Lightning Strikes
   • content: "Romantic gold by a superior novelist."
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   • source: Library Journal on When Lightning Strikes
   • content: "A hero in need of redemption, a heroine up to the challenge, and an idyllic California gold country setting brilliantly launch Novak's foray into the thriving 'small-town community' market."
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   • source: Publishers Weekly on When Lightning Strikes
   • content: "[The characters'] heartwarming romance develops slowly and sweetly. The sex is fantastic, but the best part is how Simon and Gail tease and laugh as they grow closer."
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   • source: USATODAY.com's Happy Ever After blog
   • content: "It's steamy, it's poignant, it's perfectly paced-it's When Lightning Stikes and you don't want to miss it!"
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   • source: RT Book Reviews on When Snow Falls (2012 Reviewers' Choice Winner and Nominee for Book of the Year)
   • content: "In this sensitive, passionate, and heartbreakingly poignant second installment of her Whiskey Creek series, Novak masterfully explores what happens when a woman whose entire life has been consumed by playing a variety of roles casts off her suffocating masks and, with the support of an unexpected lover, embraces who she was, is and can be."
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   • source: Fresh Fiction
   • content: "With a great supporting cast of characters Novak fans have come to know quite well, When Summer Comes is a magical addition to the already heartwarming Whiskey Creek series."
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   • source: Library Journal
   • content: "[Home to Whiskey Creek is an] engrossing, character-rich story that takes a hard look at responsibility, loyalty and the results of telling (or concealing) the truth."
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   • source: Library Journal on Take Me Home for Christmas (Starred Review)
   • content: "Affecting, painful, sometimes funny, but ultimately satisfying, this engrossing tale of love and forgiveness takes on real problems and gives its characters the strength and compassion to come through with flying colors. Real people-with all their virtues and vices-live in Whiskey Creek, and Ted and Sophia will be two more you'll be glad to have met."
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      April 15, 2014
      After abruptly leaving town two years before, Presley Christensen has revamped her life and come home to Whiskey Creek as a yoga instructor and massage therapist, determined to give her young son, Wyatt, a better childhood than she'd had. The draw is her sister; the danger is auto-body shop partner Aaron Amos, her old love--and Wyatt's father, a secret she intends to keep. It should be easy to do with Aaron planning to open a branch of the family business in Reno. Yet, considering that sparks still sizzle between them and they've both grown up a bit, maybe something more was meant to happen. Familiar characters reappear, fresh ones come on the scene, and new challenges arise, sowing tantalizing seeds for future books in the series. VERDICT Once again Novak's Whiskey Creek springs to life in all its realistic, gritty Gold Country glory as two determined, likable people come to terms with their pasts and give love a chance. This poignant, heartfelt romance puts a refreshing spin on the classic reunion/secret baby theme. Novak ("Take Me Home for Christmas") lives in California.

      Copyright 2014 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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