Moments for You (The Wilder Brothers #7)
Carrie Ann Ryan
Blurb:
Two widows. One
wedding dress. And a promise of forever in the next installment of the Wilder
Brothers from NYT Bestselling Author Carrie Ann Ryan.
A wedding dress
is meant to be worn only once.
When a stranger
finds herself in need of a miracle at the last minute, I do the unthinkable: I
offer mine to her.
The same one I
wore down the aisle for my late husband.
Now I’m invited to the wedding and finding myself wondering why I shut myself away from the world for so long.
I’m only meant to be at the Wilder Retreat for a single day except I go home with not only a job offer, but the promise of something more.
Ridge Wilder is
hiding secrets of his own. And the undeniable chemistry between us burns before
we even contemplate taking that first step.
Only I’ve already
had my happy ever after. I never planned on finding another.
And Ridge is even
far more broken than I am—with a past that might come back to haunt us both.
Themes: Contemporary, Second Chance love
Rating: 4.5 stars
Heat Rating: 
Review:
Ok
wow, I have to say I did not see any of that coming! Carrie Ann Ryan always
manages to blow my mind and I am not sure why I was surprised that when she
added a new branch of the Wilder family, she’s done it again, but I kind of
was. This story I know was a difficult
one for her to write and probably hit close to home in a lot of ways, but at
the same time it seems like a story that was just begging to be told. Two people that have both lost someone so
important in the worst of ways finally get a second chance at love and find one
another at the perfect time for the both of them to move on with their lives together,
even if neither of them are ready to admit it.
Aurora is slowly digging herself out of the grief and pain of losing her
husband and the future they thought they would have, when she finds herself
pulled into the world of the Wilders in the most unlikely of ways. She knows that offering her help will offer a
semblance of healing, but she never imagined how much it would change her life,
and that it would shape her into a new person in the best of way. Ridge Wilder joined his cousins in their
crazy venture, pulling his brothers in, because he needed to escape the trauma
of losing his pregnant girlfriend in a tragedy that he felt responsible
for. He has kept the darkness inside, not
sharing with even his brothers and the grief has festered into a wound that doesn’t
seem to be healing. When he meets the
incomparable Aurora, they are instantly drawn to one another, though they both
resist at first, but son the chemistry and passion is too much for either of
them to deny. As they begin to get closer
and closer to one another, a darkness from the past comes to stalk them and
threatens any chance of them having a future if they can’t get over their fears
and find a way to embrace their second chance at love and their moment to be
together.
Moments
for You truly is a story of finding not only a chance
at love again, but finding yourself again after the grief has swamped you so
much you lose yourself in the dark. Aurora has been fighting her way back from
that darkness, backsliding some, but never giving up on living again, as she
tries to honor the love she shared with her man. Her bravery, strength, love, sweetness, and
backbone, certainly remind of her creator and I enjoyed getting to know her; I also
loved how she slipped right into the wilder family, finding her niche and finally
finding her happy place again bother personally and professionally. Ridge was a broken alpha male for sure,
enigmatic in his pain, hiding secrets from the very people he needed to share
with, until it finally was no longer something he could hide from. I was so terrified he would lose his chance
with Aurora but allowing his fears to rule him, but luckily with the help of
his family he found the way to be just what she needed and managed to used his strength,
love, and protectiveness to keep her safe, happy, and show she made the right choice
in loving him. The passion between these
two was obvious to us, even as they tried to hide from it, but the love that
slowly blossomed between them as they healed from their pasts was even more
beautiful. I am dying to see more of
them in future novels and cannot wait to see what comes next as the Wilder boys
deal with the pain and trauma that sent them to their cousins and will bring
them back together as a family. Carrie
Ann Ryan has a way about her, like a doctor lancing emotional wounds to allow
the infection to release so they can be healed, and there are so few authors out
there today who manage it with such skill.
As always, I’m humbled to have had the chance to read her latest installment
in the Wilder series.
*eARC provided by author for the
purpose of an honest and unbiased review.
No compensation was provided.
