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Silver Springs, Book 4
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New York Times bestselling author Brenda Novak returns to Silver Springs with a moving story about rebuilding your life when you’ve got nothing left to lose
Savanna Gray needs a do-over. Her “perfect” life unraveled when, to her absolute shock, her husband was arrested for attacking three women. With her divorce settled, she takes her two children to Silver Springs to seek refuge between the walls of a farmhouse her late father had planned to renovate. It needs a little TLC, but she’s eager to take control of something.
Gavin Turner understands the struggle of starting over. Abandoned at a gas station when he was five, it wasn’t until he landed at New Horizons Boys Ranch as a teen that he finally found some peace. He steps up when Savanna needs help fixing things—even when those things go beyond the farmhouse.
Despite an escalating attraction to Gavin, Savanna resolves to keep her distance. She trusted her ex, who had a similarly tragic background, and is unwilling to repeat her past mistakes. But it’s hard to resist a man whose heart is as capable as his hands.
This is one of those series that definitely does not have to be read in order. I read the first two books in the series, but somehow managed to skip books 3 & 4, then read 5. I liked them all, and finally went and found the two books I somehow skipped over. And here we are.
The books all share a setting, the small town of Silver Springs, California, and a school for troubled boys, but the characters don’t seem to overlap much. Which means you don’t really have to read them in order, but if you want to, great – just bear in mind that the first four books were published in 2017 so even if you already read them, you may be as fuzzy as I was on the details when you get to book 5, which just came out a couple of months ago.
This story revolves around Gavin Turner, one of the boys who went to the New Horizons school for troubled boys, and is one of eight boys adopted by the school’s founder, Aiyana. She is a remarkable character and appears in some way or another in all the books. Gavin was a troubled teen, abandoned as a young child and on the path to very destructive behavior until he was saved by the school and his adoptive mother.
Gavin’s love interest is Savanna, and it is her backstory that really drives this romance. Savanna was married to a man who had been accused of abducting and raping three women. Stories like hers hit the news every now and then, and personally I never really thought about the family members of the accused. But apparently Novak has and brings it home here. This was a very emotional and fascinating look at such a family and the repercussions to those who were on the periphery of criminal acts; in this case, the wife and children.
Great characters make for a great story, and Novak has done an outstanding job here. I love this series and this may be my favorite book in it.
6/19 Stacy Alesi, AKA the BookBitch™
RIGHT WHERE WE BELONG by Brenda Novak. MIRA; Original edition (October 31, 2017). ISBN 978-0778330387. 400p.
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