Review: Heartfelt Love story!
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 05 6, 2014
Loving Ellie by Lindsey Brookes is a well-written book about love, loss and trust. It’s a very moving story about coffee shop owner Ellie Sanders and Lucas Tanner who is a successful rancher. They are brought together due to the tragic death of Ellie’s fiancée and Lucas’s brother.Ellie is pregnant and alone after Jarrett, her fiancée dies in an automobile accident and she feels lost without him and all alone. She is left to run her coffee shop along with Jarrett’s ranch all on her own. Until “HE” shows up and threatens to call the cops because she is trespassing on his brothers property, only to find out that she was his brothers fiancée.Lucas left home three-years-ago after the death of this wife and baby, because he blames himself for their deaths. He is still grieving their deaths when he finds out his brother, Jarrett, has died in a car accident. Lucas returns home to settle his brothers estate, only to find his dead brothers pregnant fiancée which he didn’t know about.Due to Ellie’s life growing up, she is convinced she won’t be a good mother and is going to give her baby up for adoption, so that he can have the live that he deserves. Lucas and Ellie are both struggling with issues from their past, dealing with the thoughts of Ellie giving up her baby for adoption, and fighting the attraction that is growing between them. I think the hardest scene for me was when the will was read at the lawyer’s office and Jarrett’s letters to both Ellie and Lucas were read. They begin to depend on each other for emotional support and friendship and Lucas’ need to protect Ellie. Overtime they fall in love and only after a few emotional demons and barriers have been brought up and tore do they give into their feelings.