Finding Peace

by Lacey Furr

Sailor Childs craved freedom. Freedom from her past and from her overbearing parents. Freedom to set the rules for her own life. After three years as manager for a bed and breakfast, she thought she finally had the freedom she wanted. Then she met Ronan. Loving him risked everything she’d worked so hard for. Was she willing to risk her security for the true freedom of a life well-loved?Ronan Klaus was an icon. As the drummer for The Oath, his talent surpassed all others. He was pursued by industry insiders, other bands, and some of the most stunning women in the world.. But when he looked in a mirror, he only saw a monster staring back. Haunted by his past, he built a fortress around his heart to keep the monster at bay. Then he met Sailor. She upended every promise he’d made to himself. Could he trust himself to love her and not hurt her?Peace is when you walk through the storms and slay the monsters together.

Kindle Edition

Published March 15, 2023

About the author

Lacey Furr is an author of smart and heartfelt Contemporary Fiction books. She writes captivating, character driven stories full of wounded, flawed, lovable, and relatable characters. Her books will make you laugh, cry, and feel like you know the characters personally. Lacey believes that every story is a love story. She strives to deliver characters you can't get enough of in settings that you want to escape into.

Lacey lives in Chattanooga with her husband, daughter, and Golden Doodle. When she isn’t writing or reading, she enjoys playing on the lake and relaxing with friends.

Lacey also only posts her 4 and 5 star reads (unless an author requests a full review) not because she doesn't read books rated lower but because she understands not every book was written for every reader.

Reviews

[Doris · Rating 4 out of 5]

Ronan and Sailor

This book was sure an emotional rollercoaster ride for me and it was both heartbreaking and heartwarming. The childhoods that Ronan and Sailor endured was what made them into the people they were today. A guarded heart is always hard to break into. With Ronan being a rock star would that even add to the impossibility for these two to come together? This was a new to me author and I will definitely be checking out more of her work.

[Emily Pennington · Rating 4 out of 5]

Putting a Life Back Together . . .

Ronan Klaus, drummer for The Oath, is talented and draws everyone to him. But his past haunts him and keeps him isolated. Sailor Childs manages a B&B and has wanted independence from her over-smothering parents for a long time. Her teenage kidnap experience had damaged everyone back then. Both Ronan and Sailor are opposite personalities who somehow found a way to end up together. With issues, insecurity, and long-endured pain, can they help each other get free to trust again and recreate a family-based life together? They had thought love was a myth. But the things you selflessly do for someone else can build that love and can pull two people together. Will they be the two to find their HEA as they help each other to heal?

[Kimberly · Rating 4 out of 5]

Finding Peace by Lacey Furr is a good, and enjoyable sweet small town love at first site rock star romance read. The story has a good story line. The characters are good, and they have good chemistry.

I received a free copy of this book via Booksprout and am voluntarily leaving a review.

[Stox4story · Rating 4 out of 5]

Life Is for the Living …. but healing is a steep, curvy road

Sailor and Ronan both have a past to deal with, to overcome. Sailor turns to safety, not allowing her broken self to flourish, to live a normal life. She’s a pro at avoidance. She keeps her secret tied up within her inner being, letting fear control her. She missed out on a normal, happy teenage life when brutality kidnapped her.

Ronan’s past certainly is not pretty. His pain started in early childhood and continues to haunt him. Thankfully, he was ‘discovered’, in more ways than one. Loch became family, They may not have been biological brothers, but they were true brothers through thick and thin. They might now be popular rock stars but they are family above all else and family stands together. (If you haven’t read ‘Finding Love’ you’ve missed out. That is about Lock and Hailey, their story to tell… the good, bad and the ugly.)

Ronan and Sailor are opposites… but what’s that old saying about opposites attract? Both are insecure, both face their fears imprisoned deep within themselves, in different ways. Neither may not want to believe in love but when you help each other heal from horrid past traumas, it’s hard to stay aloof. They become drawn to each other. They learn how to live life realizing there is a difference between being alive and just plain breathing

🤔 LIKES & DISLIKES

✒︎ Ugh…. Wish the book had spared the kinky detail. Sexy angst is one thing, detailed open door kink is totally different.

✒︎ Alex helped and then he took. He messed up big time in the first book, ‘Finding Love’, and now he’s got to pay the price.

✒︎ Love the way these very popular band members are shown with everyday flaws and fears. Knowing their back stories is a big help.

❣️QUOTES I LOVED

“When you carried around a secret as big as the ones Ronan and I carried, it made your exterior harder to penetrate”

“Now, Theodore, you know bad language doesn’t make you sexier.”

“ Sailor was the light to Ronan’s dark. She was the innocence he lost at a young age. Ronan became Sailor’s path to the freedom she so daringly sought.”.

I received a free copy of this book via Booksprout and am voluntarily leaving a review.

[Anij · Rating 5 out of 5]

“I knew he was the one that’d love me forever or destroy me.”

So, confession time, I saw this was a rockstar romance with a drummer hero and signed up for the ARC without reading the blurb even though I was unfamiliar with the author. (I have weakness for drummers, so sue me.) Then when I got around to seeing what it was about I almost returned it. I mean, how cliche. A playboy rockstar for a hero, a heroine hiding from her past, who meet because she’s best friends with one of his band mates and neither is interested in having a relationship, etc, etc, etc. Instead of returning it I set it aside. When it was near the review date I finally pulled it out and figured if I just read a chapter or two each day I’d get through it so I could write the review, even though I really wasn’t looking forward to it.

Before I knew it, I had stayed up half the night reading it from cover to cover, because once I started it I couldn’t put it down! I was instantly captivated by both Sailor and Ronan. Sailor (what a unique name) was very complex and so full of secrets that we kept getting hints at. Ronan was more of a mystery. Here was a man who kept having to remind himself he didn’t want anything to do with relationships or emotions and yet was clearly and almost instantly captivated by a woman he knew he shouldn’t even be looking at as anything but a friend. Turns out, he had secrets of his own that, in many ways, were deeper and more damaging than Sailor’s. While my heart ached for Sailor, it literally broke for Ronan, especially when he was so determined to destroy every chance he had at happiness and love.

Bottom line, this book is fantastic. Don’t let the vague, generic blurb stop you from reading it. There’s no way to convey why you should without revealing all the things you don’t want to know in advance. Just take a leap of faith, you will be so very happy you did. Now I’m need to go back and read Loch and Hailey’s book, and look forward to Sebastian’s love story next and then after that, Theo’s, another man with lots of secrets. I mean, seriously, how can I resist?

[SpeedReader · Rating 4 out of 5]

Great story, but made me anxious!

• Story/Plot: 📖📖📖📖 /5
• Characters: 🫂🫂🫂
• Drama/Angst: 😰😰😰😰
• Steam: 🔥🔥
• POV: Dual
• HEA? ✔️
• Would I re-read? No, but I’d read the next one
• Epilogues? Yes

This was a good story centered around the trauma of two souls who were meant to live happier lives. I won’t lie, they caused me some serious anxiety as I read as I felt sure things weren’t going to work out. I admit, I cheated & read the last chapter early on so that it was a more enjoyable read for me 😉

I loved the character growth in the story and how they came together to help the other move past their past trauma. It really seemed like one of those two halves of a soul feeling where, cheesy as it sounds, together became whole.

If you’re like me, just know things have a way of working out & it’ll make it a less anxious read for you 😋

I received a free copy of this book and am voluntarily leaving a review.

[Wendy Livingstone · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is the second book in this incredible series, and this is Ronan and Sailor’s story. Ronan is the talented drummer for “The Oath,” and he is haunted by his past. Sailor craves freedom and independence, away from her past and overbearing parents, and she is the manager of a B & B. Can these two overcome their pasts and be able to move on together? This is a well written story which is an emotional roller coaster, which has heartbreak, challenges, opposites attract, trusts, healing, and love, which leads to an entertaining and heartwarming page turner.
I received a free copy of this book via Booksprout and am voluntarily leaving a review.

[Merry Jelks-Emmanuel · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is a wonderful small-town romance with likeable characters that drew me in and had me in their corner to finally get their chance for happiness. Ronan and Sailor have both lived difficult lives but found a way to thrive. In spite of their hardships. Meeting and connecting has drawn them together but do they have what it takes to open up their hearts to experience love and heal each other. This story had me in their corner from the beginning.

I received a free copy of this book via Booksprout and am voluntarily leaving a review.

[Tracy H · Rating 5 out of 5]

Finding Peace Book Two of The Oath Series
Book 2 of The Oath
Lacey Furr

The story and characters, Sailor and Ronan, were well written, emotional and fantastic. Great read.

I received a free copy of this book via Booksprout and am voluntarily leaving a review.