Counting Stars – Donnelley Brothers Book One

One of the things I love about blogging and being in a book group is the recommendations you get and the new books & ‘new to you’ authors you come across.

This week I read an ARC for a fab book called Counting Stars by Alannah Carbonneau.  Now, Alannah is far from a new author but I had never read anything of hers before – I’ll be amending that very soon (TBR list be damned!!)

COUNTING STARS is due to be released on 4th November but to give you a little taste of what you can expect, here a few teasers!!!

Enjoy!!!!

“Counting Stars is an emotionally charged romance about love and loss –
and learning to live after everything you’ve lived for has died.”

Synopsis

“In every ending, no matter how painful or desolate, there is a new beginning. He was that new beginning for me.” – Reese James

Reese James was in love, married to her high school sweetheart, Derek, when her happy existence came shattering down around her. At only twenty-two, with so much life left ahead of her, she would lose the one person who was supposed to walk the path she’d paved in her mind of where her life would lead. At only twenty-two, Reese was a widow.

A year of mourning and nothing had changed. She still woke to the feeling of bricks on her heart – sorrow festering in her bloodstream. Unable to continue living in such despair, Reese makes a change. Stumbling across an internet ad for the Donnelley Wild Land Tours, Reese contacts Gracie. Before long, Reese has booked a private tour in the wilderness where she hopes to heal her broken heart and to find acceptance for the ending of her life with Derek.

The tour, in which she’d been hoping find acceptance for Derek’s death, becomes complicated when Gracie, her guide, breaks her ankle. Leaving Reese in Logan’s care, Gracie sends the two off into the wilderness. Tension strains between the two as Logan watches her with hot ebony eyes, challenging her to continue stepping forward, to live her life, to push for her wants and needs. Unknowingly, without trying, the man was healing her. What she’d first thought of as an inconvenience quickly became the lifeline that pulled her aching heart out from the deep abyss of her pain. She never would have thought, for even a moment, that love was what she needed – but in the deep primal wilderness of the mountains, love was what she found. With Logan. Slowly, patiently, Logan proves to Reese that even though one love is lost, it doesn’t mean another can’t bloom.  

He was everything she didn’t know she needed and nothing like she ever thought she could want, but sometimes, the heart doesn’t allow for second thoughts or hesitation as it jumps, head first into something beautiful.

 LINKS to COUNTING STARS:

Amazon US ~ pre-order
Amazon UK ~ pre-order
 

About Alannah:

I live in Alberta, Canada, where the weather is forever changing (without warning). I am engaged to be married in August 2015 to my high school sweetheart and love of my life. There are no children in my life as of right now, but we do have a handful of rambunctious cats (four) and a testy, rescued Shepard/Husky, who take up a lot of my time.

Ever since I can remember, I’ve adored the written word. English was always my favorite class and that may be biased because I can’t count to save my life, so math was a horror! I remember the very first novel I ever read, Shocking Pink by Erica Spindler. It was the most interesting of the covers on my mom’s bookshelf (probably because it was pink) and I was way too young to be reading that novel. But I fell in love. From there, I read almost everything from V.C. Andrews.

My writing started out as poetry, which then evolved to songs, and later into novels. I was never one for the short stories as I found it too difficult to pack everything I imagined into something so small. I now have fourteen novels published independently. I write both novels for young adults and novels for adults – all romance.

Despite my favorite younger reading material, I now adore writing and reading all things romance.

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