Only Love Can Hurt Like This
-
-
3.9 • 12 Ratings
-
-
- $13.99
Publisher Description
AN EARTH SHATTERING SECRET. A LIFE-CHANGING LOVE STORY.
“Nobody writes angst and joy and hope like Paige Toon.”—CHRISTINA LAUREN, author of LOVE AND OTHER WORDS
For fans of Colleen Hoover, an unforgettable and heartbreaking love story with an earth-shattering secret at its core that asks the question: Is love worth risking everything for?
When Wren realizes her fiancé is in love with someone else, she thinks her heart will never recover.
On the other side of the world, Anders lost his wife four years ago and is still struggling to move on.
Wren hopes that spending the summer with her dad and step-family on their farm in Indiana will help her to heal. There, amid the cornfields and fireflies, she and Anders cross paths and their worlds are turned upside-down again.
But Wren doesn't know that Anders is harboring a secret, and if he acts on any feelings he has for Wren it will have serious fall-out for everyone. Walking away would hurt Wren more than she can imagine. But, knowing the truth, how can she possibly stay?
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
At the start of this middling romance from Toon (Someone I Used to Know), architect Wren decides she needs a break from quaint Bury St. Edmunds, England, and sets out to spend the summer with her father on his new pick-it-yourself farm in rural Indiana. She's nervous about the trip, as she's spent very little time with her father and his new family since her parents divorced when she was six. Luckily, her half sister is more than ready to introduce her to the town's limited entertainments, which puts her in the path of two handsome but brooding brothers, Anders and Jonas. At first, IndyCar engineer Anders's taciturn and combative personality puts Wren off, but she warms to him when she learns his prickliness is driven by his concern for Jonas's poor mental health. Anders has a heavy secret of his own, however, and it could halt his relationship with Wren before it can fully take off. It strains credulity that the small community wouldn't already know Anders's secret, making the reveal both unbelievable and jarring. Toon smooths out that rough plot twist with highly readable, emotional prose and a focus on how familial relationships evolve over time. It's not particularly memorable, but it does what it sets out to do.
