She told me it was going to break my heart. I didn’t believe Renita when she told me, but she did warn me.

Belle Jones is maybe the fiercest woman I have ever met in a book; direct and honest and no-nonsense, she rules her home with forthrightness while running herd on her younger brother, TJ, and makes sure he is always on the straight and narrow. She is the mother he desperately needs and she has no time for the foolishness of any man, especially not a man in uniform.

But, then again, not every man in uniform is Bently Evans.

I can’t say anything about this book without giving too much away but I can say this; it has everything. It is romantic and real, and very relevant to the social climate we live in; I have never finished a book where I felt this way but it moved me and it changed me.

Beautiful and moving and tragic; I can see this being a book I reread over and over even when I know it’s going to shatter my heart into a thousand tiny little pieces.

5 FREAKING HUGE shining stars.