Review: "Regrets and if onlys sure bogged a man's heart down."
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 11 30, 2013
A quick, enjoyable story of love, hope, facing your fears and being who God made you to be. Throw in a Christmas season and some loving, understanding family and friends and you've got a great story by this incredibly talented author.Ryker and  Shelby were engaged to be married. Months before the wedding Ryker suddenly takes the cowards way out and says goodbye over the phone and doesn't even tell her why he can't marry her. It's taken eighteen months but Shelby is finally starting to return to normal life and thinking she'll survive when she is called on a search and rescue mission to find Ryker.She soon finds that she's not over him and amazingly he's still in love with her. Finally Ryker is able to tell her why he left, why he's back and ask for a second chance. This of courses causes more conflict.After a kiss that about blows their socks off, they both know they are still in love and want to be married, but Shelby has trust issues. She trusted Ryker once before and he broke her heart. What's to keep him from doing it again? She's afraid to go there.In addition to that, she fears that she just is not enough for anyone. Her best friend steps in and tells her to stop trying to be who she isn't and she finally realizes that if God wanted her to be someone or something else, He would have made her that person, not who she is.I received a free digital copy of this book in exchange for my honest review, but it's a story I would gladly pay for and I hope you'll enjoy it too.