Somebody to Love by Sharon Sala

 SOMEBODY TO LOVE – Sharon Sala

A Blessings, Georgia Novel

Sourcebooks Casablanca

ISBN: 978-1-4926-9748-0

February 23, 2021

Contemporary Romance

 

Blessings, Georgia – Present Day

 

Fifteen years ago, Hunt Knox left Blessings after he learned that someone in his family had stolen all the money that he’d worked for to save to attend college. No one would admit to the crime and his father told him to just deal with it. Hunt ran as far as he could by joining the military and had a storied career there until injuries forced him out. Now working in Houston, he receives a letter from his mother, Marjorie, to come home as she is dying. He arrives just as she dies. She apparently waited for him. In the letter she had sent him, she asked him to be the executor of her will and to fix up the house before selling it and sharing the proceeds with his four siblings. Hunt plans to follow his mother’s wishes. This means he will remain in Blessings for a few weeks.

 

Nurse Ava Ridley had been friends with the Knox family as a child, and she returned to Blessings after several years away. At the hospital, she is on duty caring for Marjorie Knox and four of the children are at her bedside. Then, Hunt arrives and walks up to his mother’s bedside to let her know that he is there. She peacefully dies and the family grieves. Hunt’s siblings, Junior, Ray, Emma, and Birdie, are shocked to see him because they didn’t know what happened to him after he left. There is friction between them, but Ava steps in and welcomes Hunt.

 

Over the next few days as the funeral is planned and the reading of the will is held, Ava makes herself available to Hunt by bringing food and offering a friendly face. The two soon grow close—and a sexual attraction develops. Hunt will only be around a few weeks while he’s fixing the house and settling the estate, but can anything romantic happen between them? Slowly, the friction between the five siblings lessens, especially when they realize that Hunt is a good person who is only following their mother’s request. Will Hunt ever learn which of them stole his money? Once Hunt leaves Blessings, will Ava go with him?

 

In Sharon Sala’s latest Blessings, Georgia tale, SOMEBODY TO LOVE, we are introduced to the Knox family. Their father was a strict man who tormented his children. It was the mother, Marjorie, who raised them with a gentle hand. After the blowup over Hunt’s missing money, the family splintered apart. Of the five children, it ended up being Hunt who not only left town but made a good life for himself. After he proves to be a good man, his siblings begin to respect him. As the youngest, Birdie didn’t know about the missing money and it is Hunt that she sides with after she learns about it. The others—Junior, Ray, and Emma—are tightlipped about what happened—and who really took it.

 

SOMEBODY TO LOVE is told from numerous characters’ points of view. If you have read the prior books in the series (there are many) then you catch up with some of them, too many to list. This tale also veers off into other plots that in a few of them, circle back to the Knox family. But even if you haven’t read the prior books, you won’t have too much trouble following along. Mainly, SOMEBODY TO LOVE is about the Knox family, with much of the tale revolving around Hunt and Ava. After all, it is their romance that we are here for. You won’t be disappointed.

 

If you love a feelgood tale that will capture your attention and leave you all warm and fuzzy by the end, then don’t miss SOMEBODY TO LOVE.

 

Patti Fischer