The Sweetest Slice
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4.5 • 2 Ratings
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- $4.99
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Publisher Description
Her father is dying and her brother is half the man he was...this is no time for romance.
Estelle Harrison has spent the last several years watching her friends find their significant others, including her two younger sisters. She's happy for them, she really is! But nothing seems to stop the ache in her heart for her own Knight in Shining Armor to come rescue her from her broken existence.
With her father's life slowly coming to a close and her brother home wounded from the military, her family is falling apart and she simply doesn't have the capacity to handle one more thing, even if it's exactly what she's dreamed of since she was a child.
Crew Turley is no hero. At least he's never aspired to be, but when he moves closer to family and discovers that Estelle Harrison is still single...all bets are off.
He wants nothing more than to fight her demons and protect her from the heartache she's battling at every turn, but Estelle isn't willing to accept his help. In fact, it feels like the thing she's fighting most is their attraction to each other.
With the clock ticking for her father and Estelle desperately holding her family together single-handedly, Crew knows if he doesn't do something, he'll lose much more than a potential father-in-law. He'll lose the love of his life as well.
If you enjoy heartwrenching, sweet romance with all the swoony Happy Ever Afters you could ever want, you'll ADORE this book full of angst, family drama and love that conquers all.
Customer Reviews
Read with tissues!
Pull out tissues for this one! Throughout the whole series we have been seeing Estelle’s father’s Parkinson's steal his health little by little. This book was extra sad because it’s showing the last stages of the disease. Oh how I cried through this. On top of Estelle is caring for her dad, helping her mom, working, she is also caring for a disabled & disgruntled mad at the world brother. Her load is heavy and she doesn’t know how to let others who have equal responsibility carry their share. Enter Crew, the one she liked that got away. He is back in town at one of the lowest times in her life and wants a chance at something more with her.
There is so much sadness in this story but at the same time hope. It really tugged at my heart. It ends well but there is a lot of grief to go through which may be a trigger for some.
I really loved how Crew was there to help in the caregiving. It really was so sweet to see him support Estelle like that. They still carved out moments of peace for themselves despite the situation around them. Very tenderhearted story.
Rating: PG, clean, wholesome, no language, triggers: deals with death and long term illness, amputation and depression, caregiving, final moments with lived ones.