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Garrett Bowman is shocked that fate has brought him to a family who can sign. He's spent much of his life on the outside looking in, even within his biological family, and to be accepted and employed is more than he could have hoped for. With Connor, who’s included him in his family, Garrett has found a true friend, but with the distant Brit Wilson Haskins, Garrett may have found something more. In no time, Garrett gets under Wilson’s skin and finds his way into Wilson’s heart, and over shared turbulent family histories, Wilson and Garrett form a strong bond.

Wilson’s especially impressed with the way Garrett’s so helpful to Janey, Connor and Dan’s daughter, who is also deaf. When Wilson’s past shows up in the form of his brother Reggie, bringing unscrupulous people to whom Reggie owes money, life begins to unravel. These thugs don’t care how they get their money, what they have to do, or who they might hurt. Without the strength of love and the bonds of family and friends, Garrett and Wilson could pay the ultimate price.

 

Book Review

This latest book in the fantastic ‘Senses’ series is as amazing, engaging, and wonderful as the other four. It tells Wilson’s story, and since I was hoping he’d get his own book after I “met” him in the previous volume, that alone made me very happy. There is more about Connor, Dan, and their three adopted children as well, so even better.  But the best part was the addition of Garrett, a deaf man who has been rejected by most of his family and feels utterly isolated. To see him meet and fall in love with Wilson, deal with all the obstacles and nasty people thrown in their path, and try to figure out how to make a life together was not only an adventure, it was an emotionally very rewarding journey for me.

Garrett is down to his last twenty dollars, almost out of gas, and hasn’t eaten for a whole day when he runs into Wilson. He was determined to make it on is own and become independent, but it hasn’t been easy. Not being able to hear not only excludes him from many aspects of social life among people who cannot sign, it also isolates him from jobs and work situations in a way that makes it tough to stay employed. But he is taken in by Dan and Connor, the men Wilson works for, and meet their family – all of whom can sign – Garrett begins to experience what it is like to have a family, and to be loved.

Wilson has been lonely for a long time, and with one particularly bad experience with a lover and a family that basically kicked him out, he is in no real rush to open up and trust someone again. But who could resist Garrett? Not Wilson, that is for sure! So when his brother Reggie, who has been anything but awful to Wilson all their lives, turns up asking for help, Wilson is shocked. Since he cannot help, not even if he wanted to, he sends Reggie away – with all kinds of horrible consequences. Wilson’s beginning love for Garrett is severely tested and it takes all of Wilson’s determination and strength to deal with the events that follow.
 
With two men who are both reluctant to open up, this is not an easy love story. Add all the external turbulence, and you end up with an action-packed emotional roller coaster that had me turning the pages in record time just so I could find out what was next.

If you’re interested to see what happens when two closed-off men meet and feel attracted to each other, if you liked the themes and tone of the other books in this series, and if you’re looking for a deeply emotional read with lots of tension-filled moments, then you will probably like this novel. I loved it a lot and, as always, hope there will be many more stories to come in this increasingly amazing series.

 

 

 

 

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Additional Information

Format	ebook, print and audio
Length	Novel, 200 pages/63495 words
Heat Level
Publication Date	14-September-2015
Price	$6.99 ebook, $14.99 paperback, $14.99 bundle, $19.95 audiobook
Buy Link	https://www.dreamspinnerpress.com/books/love-comes-unheard-by-andrew-grey-760-b