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Harmony
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After the sudden death of his parents, Eli Hintz leaves a promising music career to come home and take over the family farm. Not long after, his wife abandons them, leaving him to carry on the best he can as a father, brother, and the dairy farmer he never expected to be. With so much on his plate, and a heart shattered in every way a man can ache, he refuses to be taken in by the gorgeous woman who crashed in front of his house and is now staying with his sister.
After changing her appearance and using a fake name to escape the limelight for a few weeks, burned-out Country music star Jordan Spencer finds herself stranded on a dairy farm in Wisconsin. Not the restful, private retreat she’d envisioned. But her soul has found something deeper than spa treatments - a beautiful man with a heart of gold who has sacrificed everything for his family. As Jordan’s commitments draw her back to Nashville, she searches for a way to keep Eli and his children in her life. She knows if he learns her true identity, he will never take a chance on a famous singer whose demanding schedule will pull her away from the farm her heart now calls home.
After the sudden death of his parents, Eli Hintz leaves a promising music career to come home and take over the family farm. Not long after, his wife abandons them, leaving him to carry on the best he can as a father, brother, and the dairy farmer he never expected to be. With so much on his plate, and a heart shattered in every way a man can ache, he refuses to be taken in by the gorgeous woman who crashed in front of his house and is now staying with his sister.
After changing her appearance and using a fake name to escape the limelight for a few weeks, burned-out Country music star Jordan Spencer finds herself stranded on a dairy farm in Wisconsin. Not the restful, private retreat she’d envisioned. But her soul has found something deeper than spa treatments - a beautiful man with a heart of gold who has sacrificed everything for his family. As Jordan’s commitments draw her back to Nashville, she searches for a way to keep Eli and his children in her life. She knows if he learns her true identity, he will never take a chance on a famous singer whose demanding schedule will pull her away from the farm her heart now calls home.
300 pages, Kindle Edition
First published March 6, 2019
10 people want to read
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Laurie Winter
22 books524 followersPublishers Weekly bestselling author Laurie Winter is a true warrior of the heart. Inspired by her dreams, she creates authentic characters who overcome the odds and find true love. She balances her life with regular yoga practice and binge-watching true-crime TV, Shadow. She's likely fueling up on wine, cheese curds, and Reese's Peanut Butter Cups when not pounding the keyboard.
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June 11, 2019
4.5 stars!
I’ve felt a bit bah-humbug about reading lately. For the first time in four years, I’m just “on track” for meeting my Goodreads Challenge goal instead of being 10 or 15 books ahead of schedule like I usually am at this point in the year. But so far this year, very few books have compelled me to read at every possible moment, or until the wee hours of the morning.
Then I discovered Laurie Winter had - unbeknownst to me - released a book almost three months ago. (If I ever felt scrolling through my daily Goodreads Updates email was a waste of my time, this discovery dispelled me of that notion!) Even though my ARC list is 20 titles long (with over half of them already released...yikes), and this book was on the upper end of my spend point (confession: I am SO SO SO cheap), I read the sample, then dove in.
I started after dinner, and didn’t stop reading until 3AM.
I’m kinda hating myself today. And I knew I would. But there was no putting this book down until the very last word was read.
Jordan Spencer is hanging on by a thread. Four long months on the road as a popular country singer has taken its toll, and she just needs a break. So after her final concert, she dons a disguise and sneaks out the back door to a waiting car. On her way to a house in a remote town of Wisconsin, she gets caught in a storm and ends up in a ditch. She wakes up some time later to Eli Hintz, and his sister Heidi, rescuing her.
As luck would have it, it takes a while for her car to get towed from the ditch, and it will be several days before repairs can be made. Realizing Jordan’s vacation plans have been waylaid, Heidi offers her home for lodging until she can get back to her plans. Eli, the responsible older brother, thinks his sister is nuts for letting a complete stranger stay at their diary farm.
When it appears neither Eli or Heidi recognize who she is, Jordan - who tells them her name is Ann - decides to hang around, helping at the farm and getting to know Heidi, Eli, and his two precocious children. While there, she gets the respite she needs from her crazy life, but also realizes what is important to her.
From the synopsis, you may think you’re getting Eli’s story - and you are - but Harmony really is about Jordan coming into herself and gaining the confidence to go after what she truly wants. I feel like the "incognito famous person hides out in the middle of nowhere" plot has been done before, but there was nothing stale or recycled in this book. It was fun and fresh, and I loved every page.
And with Harmony, Laurie Winter has earned a spot on my one-click, no preview list. Which is a short list. Like, less than 10 authors are on it. I became a fan with her very first book, Home Field, and have thoroughly enjoyed her Warriors of the Heart series. I love her characters. Her heroes are manly but don’t veer into ridiculous alpha-male antics, and her heroines are strong and relatable. I love her plots, which are realistic and don’t get ridiculous. I love how she doesn’t do the annoying cliched writing/storytelling ploys that are so prevalent in today’s contemporary romances, like going on and on about how hawt the hero is or how the heroine’s body parts are affected by the hero’s hawtness. Ms. Winter is immensely skilled in crafting heartwarming, heartfelt stories.
Furthermore, you know an author has done a tremendous job with a story when you want her to write books for ALL the characters. I'll be here for Heidi’s book. And Sam’s. And Cole’s. And Lacy’s. (I am especially here if Cole’s book IS Lacy’s book!) Please, please, please let there be more in this series!
I’ve felt a bit bah-humbug about reading lately. For the first time in four years, I’m just “on track” for meeting my Goodreads Challenge goal instead of being 10 or 15 books ahead of schedule like I usually am at this point in the year. But so far this year, very few books have compelled me to read at every possible moment, or until the wee hours of the morning.
Then I discovered Laurie Winter had - unbeknownst to me - released a book almost three months ago. (If I ever felt scrolling through my daily Goodreads Updates email was a waste of my time, this discovery dispelled me of that notion!) Even though my ARC list is 20 titles long (with over half of them already released...yikes), and this book was on the upper end of my spend point (confession: I am SO SO SO cheap), I read the sample, then dove in.
I started after dinner, and didn’t stop reading until 3AM.
I’m kinda hating myself today. And I knew I would. But there was no putting this book down until the very last word was read.
Jordan Spencer is hanging on by a thread. Four long months on the road as a popular country singer has taken its toll, and she just needs a break. So after her final concert, she dons a disguise and sneaks out the back door to a waiting car. On her way to a house in a remote town of Wisconsin, she gets caught in a storm and ends up in a ditch. She wakes up some time later to Eli Hintz, and his sister Heidi, rescuing her.
As luck would have it, it takes a while for her car to get towed from the ditch, and it will be several days before repairs can be made. Realizing Jordan’s vacation plans have been waylaid, Heidi offers her home for lodging until she can get back to her plans. Eli, the responsible older brother, thinks his sister is nuts for letting a complete stranger stay at their diary farm.
When it appears neither Eli or Heidi recognize who she is, Jordan - who tells them her name is Ann - decides to hang around, helping at the farm and getting to know Heidi, Eli, and his two precocious children. While there, she gets the respite she needs from her crazy life, but also realizes what is important to her.
From the synopsis, you may think you’re getting Eli’s story - and you are - but Harmony really is about Jordan coming into herself and gaining the confidence to go after what she truly wants. I feel like the "incognito famous person hides out in the middle of nowhere" plot has been done before, but there was nothing stale or recycled in this book. It was fun and fresh, and I loved every page.
And with Harmony, Laurie Winter has earned a spot on my one-click, no preview list. Which is a short list. Like, less than 10 authors are on it. I became a fan with her very first book, Home Field, and have thoroughly enjoyed her Warriors of the Heart series. I love her characters. Her heroes are manly but don’t veer into ridiculous alpha-male antics, and her heroines are strong and relatable. I love her plots, which are realistic and don’t get ridiculous. I love how she doesn’t do the annoying cliched writing/storytelling ploys that are so prevalent in today’s contemporary romances, like going on and on about how hawt the hero is or how the heroine’s body parts are affected by the hero’s hawtness. Ms. Winter is immensely skilled in crafting heartwarming, heartfelt stories.
Furthermore, you know an author has done a tremendous job with a story when you want her to write books for ALL the characters. I'll be here for Heidi’s book. And Sam’s. And Cole’s. And Lacy’s. (I am especially here if Cole’s book IS Lacy’s book!) Please, please, please let there be more in this series!
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