I have been wanting to read this series for a while and my sister gifted the first book for my birthday year. This first book was a struggle, and I had been enjoying the series so far, but this book was like the first book just a struggle and a lot was going on but at the same time nothing was going on. 

This book has two points of view. The first is Maisy and she is happily content with the life she’s built for herself and her young son in the small town of Prescott, Montana. Her child is thriving, her business is growing, and her family is as close as they’ve ever been. But when a handsome stranger walks into the lobby of her motel, her simple life is swept up in a wave of affection for his gentle heart. None of those feelings can be trusted, though. She made that mistake before with another man. The man she murdered. The second point of view is Hunter, and he was a different man when he saw Maisy Holt from afar. He took one look at her and ran in the opposite direction. But years later, he’s back in Montana and unable to keep his distance. He shouldn’t have tried to find her, but he never was good at rejecting temptation. The promise of the good she could bring into his life is too hard to resist. Maybe if he can disguise the lies and hide the deceit, he can keep her from learning the truth. Because his only chance at a future with her is by burying his past. 

I liked the small-town vibes and how the town always come together for each other. I liked seeing the updates from the characters we’ve come to know and love – Silas, Sabrina, Gigi, Beau, Felicity. I liked Maisy’s family and how they were all close and it was one of the most positive family dynamics I've ever read about. The only reason why this didn’t get two stars was because of the dual POV. I would have loved the extra POVs from Jess and Nell especially after Nell kidnapped Coby, I would have loved the POV from Nell or Coby. 

Hunter never grew on me; I didn’t trust him from chapter one. He was just lying and hiding and then miscommunicating and wondering why Maisy wasn’t as forgiving. Maisy was just as bad, for someone who had gone through something so traumatic, you think you would ask your best friend’s husband who is the sheriff to do background checks or just to ask if he knew him and if you could trust him. I understand wanting to keep it private, but I would rather my best friend knows and sees if the guy is decent. This would have saved about 100 pages of Maisy finding out things she didn’t know because Hunter was keeping it quiet – like he was a doctor and her dead ex’s stepbrother and that his stepmother is after the child. Maisy gave in way to easily. These two are the type that stayed together because they went through something traumatic, and Coby wanted to have sleepovers with Hunter and Hunter bought him a dog and other presents. This was one of those books as well where Hunter got attached to Coby before he fully fell in love with Maisy. This felt like a carbon copy of The Coppersmith Farmhouse. The ending felt rushed, after all the kidnapping and being found, we didn’t even get the reunion, it just jumped to two weeks later.  

I’ve seen that the next book is about Milo and Sara. I was sorting hoping it was about Michael and Aliana. But let’s hope this series ends on high because this was disappointing.