Book Review

Sunny Shelly’s Review: Secret Haven by Catherine Cowles

๐’๐ž๐œ๐ซ๐ž๐ญ ๐‡๐š๐ฏ๐ž๐ง, ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐Ÿ๐ข๐ง๐š๐ฅ ๐›๐จ๐จ๐ค ๐ข๐ง ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐’๐ฉ๐š๐ซ๐ซ๐จ๐ฐ ๐…๐š๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ฌ ๐ฌ๐ž๐ซ๐ข๐ž๐ฌ ๐Ÿ๐ซ๐จ๐ฆ ๐”๐’๐€ ๐“๐จ๐๐š๐ฒ ๐๐ž๐ฌ๐ญ๐ฌ๐ž๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ข๐ง๐  ๐€๐ฎ๐ญ๐ก๐จ๐ซ ๐‚๐š๐ญ๐ก๐ž๐ซ๐ข๐ง๐ž ๐‚๐จ๐ฐ๐ฅ๐ž๐ฌ, ๐ข๐ฌ ๐ง๐จ๐ฐ ๐š๐ฏ๐š๐ข๐ฅ๐š๐›๐ฅ๐ž!

The first time I met Kyler Blackwood, he was a bruised and battered boy with fire in his eyes and nowhere safe to land.

Since the first time he kissed me, he was my best-kept secret, my quiet rebellion, my haven in the storm.

But fate forced us apart, making us pretend to be strangers because it hurt too much to be anything else.

Years later, time hasnโ€™t dulled what we felt, has never erased the way we fit. And when Kyeโ€™s past collides with my present, everything shifts.

Itโ€™s a choice neither of us expected.

A bond that never really broke.

A line we were never meant to cross.

We tell ourselves itโ€™s only temporary, that the arrangement is just a means to an end. But with each passing day, the lie feels more like the truth. And with each stolen touch, Kye feels more like mine. Because some things were never meant to be pretend.

And some dangers are closer than we ever imaginedโ€ฆ

๐—ฒ๐—•๐—ผ๐—ผ๐—ธ โž https://geni.us/ScrtHvnAmzn

๐—”๐˜‚๐—ฑ๐—ถ๐—ผ๐—ฏ๐—ผ๐—ผ๐—ธ โž https://geni.us/ScrtHvnAudio

๐——๐—ฒ๐—น๐˜‚๐˜…๐—ฒ ๐—˜๐—ฑ๐—ถ๐˜๐—ถ๐—ผ๐—ป โž https://geni.us/ScrtHvnPaperback

Sunny Shelly’s Review: 5 Stars

Secret Haven is the final book in Catherine Cowles’ Sparrow Falls series, and it was absolutely EVERYTHING I was hoping for from the moment I figured out that Fallon and Kyler were going to be a couple. She definitely saved the best for last, and this book was full of so much longing, pain, and devotion in a simmering slow-burn, second-chance, always-been-you marriage of convenience, romantic suspense story that was spectacular. Five stars, no notes.

There are so many little things and so many big things that made Fallon and Kye. Readers of this series have known about their unique bond all along, and now that we have their full story and see how much deeper their relationship went, beyond being foster siblings… I just don’t even have the words to describe it. This story was the most it’s-always-been-you of always-been-you stories.

For years, Fallon and Kyler have been each other’s safe haven, even beyond the bond that their larger family knew that they had. Once they become husband and wife, to help him get custody of his three younger sisters, their bond just intensifies, and all the boundaries they had in place come crashing down. Stella Hunter and Connor Crais narrated this audiobook, and they perfectly capture the range of emotions these two characters experience during their journey.

CC brilliantly tied Kye’s past into the present, gave us three new girls to fall in love with, and lots of special moments with the Colson family. I am sad to say goodbye to this series, but I am really looking forward to her next series with Dex!

I received an advanced copy and voluntarily left a review.

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