The Journey Home: A Small Town, Single Mom Romance

Lucinda Race

Jul 2015 · A McKenna Family Romance Book 2 · MC Two Press

About this ebook

Where do you go to heal a broken heart? Sometimes, you make the journey home…

Abby Stevens never imagined becoming a mother overnight. After her sister and brother-in-law are killed in a tragic car crash, Abby is left to care for her toddler nephew, Devin—the one bright light in her shattered world. Overwhelmed and grieving, she returns to her childhood home, hoping the quiet comfort of small-town life will help them both heal.

What Abby doesn’t expect is the warm embrace of old friends—or the steady presence of Shane McKenna.

Since losing his father, Shane has locked his heart behind careful distance. Watching his mother’s grief taught him one painful lesson: loving deeply means risking everything. Casual relationships are safe. Falling in love is not.

But when Abby and little Devin reenter his life, Shane finds himself drawn to them in ways he can’t ignore. The more time he spends with them, the more he begins to wonder if love might be worth the risk after all.

Can Abby rebuild her life and trust her heart again—and can Shane find the courage to embrace the family he never knew he needed?

Ratings and reviews

Abby, reeling from the death of her parents and now her sister and husband, finds herself guardian to their child Devin. Returning to her childhood home she encounters the McKenna clan, especially Shane, almost whom she has known from being a youngster. Heb is surprised and enamored by his sister's friend, now grown. A relationship develops until he gets cold feet about an immediate family, despite helping and supporting Abby through difficulties with the awful paternsl grand parents. Finally he comes to a decision and feelings which are going to change his and her life. I received a free copy of this book via Booksprout and am voluntarily leaving a review.

I've read a lot of books written by Lucinda Race; she is one of my favorite authors. I can’t wait to read more of her books. This is the second book in the McKenna Family Romance Series; it is a stand-alone book. The story is about Abby & Shane; she’s dealing with the loss of her sister, brother-in-law; her parents recently died too. She now has custody of her nephew; He’s afraid of relationships after watching his mother when his stepdad died. I received a free copy of this book via booksprou

This is a sweet small town romance that was a joy to read. It has wonderful characters, a beautiful setting and holds your attention from the first page until the last. I received a free copy of this book via Booksprout and am voluntarily leaving a review.

About the author

Award winning author Lucinda Race writes about family, love and happily ever afters. 

Award-winning author Lucinda Race is a lifelong fan of romantic fiction. As a young girl, she spent hours reading romance novels and getting lost in the hope they represent. While her friends dreamed of becoming doctors and engineers, her dreams were to become a writer—a romance novelist.

As life twisted and turned, she found herself writing nonfiction but longed to turn to her true passion. After developing the storyline for The Loudon Series, it was time to start living her dream. Her fingers practically fly over computer keys as she weaves stories about strong women and the men who love them. 

Lucinda lives with her husband and their two little dogs, a miniature long hair dachshund and a shitzu mix rescue, in the rolling hills of western Massachusetts. When she's not at her day job, she’s immersed in her fictional worlds. And if she’s not writing romance novels, she’s reading everything she can get her hands on. It’s too bad her husband doesn’t cook, but a very good thing he loves takeout. 

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