Review: Very good love story
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 05 15, 2014
This is the first book I have read from the writing team of Campbell Reinhart nor have I read either of their novels they had written by themselves and I was pleasantly surprised.  Golden Hour was overall a well written romance that I was able to get through rather quickly.  I feel in love with the characters and I wanted them to find their way through the dark and find the light they are both searching for.Elise Dupuis has just lost the love of her life.  He was a police officer and he was killed in the line of duty.  She goes through the motion each day as a nurse just moving in a fog.  He was her everything and now he is gone, she uses work to occupy her time.  Caleb Warren is fresh out of the Army now an EMT. He has also suffered loss when his best friend was killed in front of him. He feels like he should have been the one to die as he had no family to rely on. His best friend left a wife and son and now he is left with booze and women to ease the pain.  Their paths cross one night when Caleb brings in a patient to the hospital Elise works at.  They eventually go out for drinks and discover they are both barely living. They both have to go through the motions of life when someone they have loved has died.“And the loss of memories is leaving me empty. I don’t care if it’s callous, I don’t care I its greedy and heartless and shi**y… I don’t want to live empty.  I don’t want this shallow, porous existence.  I have to fill myself up somehow, and this-this- is something I can get lost in. I can get lost in Caleb for now.”When Elise’s brother who is a police office does some digging into Caleb’s background he doesn’t like what he sees.  Caleb has come clean to Elise about his past but that doesn’t stop her over bearing brother from getting in the middle of their relationship.  He blackmails Caleb to take another position leaving Elise alone again.  After a couple of weeks of being separated fate brings them back together and they are determined to now let circumstances get in the way of their happiness.“But I woke up because of you. I’m alive because of you.  Now I’m gonna fight like hell for the life we could have.”It’s a beautiful love story that will have you falling in love all over again.  They have both been through the darkest hours and the heartbreak that goes with it.  This story will have you believe in falling in love and finding that special someone when you thought it was impossible.  That you destined to be lonely and life not worthy of love.  This story is told in a dual POV and is the first installment in the Crescent City series but is a complete story.  4 stars.