Review: UPLIFTING, BEAUTIFUL LOVE STORY
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 06 24, 2013
Sean Murphy is 23 years old, his sister Sheridan and her closest friend Erin, are 18.When Erin's date lets her down for the home-coming dance, like the true hero he is, Sean steps in to escort her. It is after the dance finishes that the fireworks really begin. Erin, who has had a crush on Sean for years, and Sean who has always liked Erin but thought the difference in their age was too great, discover their mutual attraction and act on it.  At the same time, Sheridan's night ends in disaster when she is raped and beaten by her boyfriend.Erin is a gifted musician, and as she waits to see if she can win a place at the university of her choice, she and Sean continue to see each other.Handsome, loyal and hard working, Sean is true hero material, the kind of man I would like my daughter to meet (if I had a daughter). He decides that he cannot stand in Erin's way, that she must continue her music career, so he sacrifices his own happiness and disappears from her life. Oh foolish man, Erin wanted Sean more than she ever wanted a musical career.This is a really lovely story, tender, yet there are some spicy scenes in it, but never gratuitous. This is the second of Simone Beaudelaire's novels I have recently read, and it certainly won't be my last. She writes the most wonderful heroes, no woman could fail to fall in love with them.I normally read historical romance, and this is the first "coming of age," novel that I have ever read, but I am extremely glad that I did.