*4.5 stars*

Keating's latest story is about strength and coping.  Both Peyton and Luke survived horrible abuses as children but did their best to find a way to move forward.  It wasn't necessarily the best but it worked at the time.  Now a chance meeting has them re-examining their lives and what they want out in their future. 

As much as he loves his family and as good as his life got after he and his brothers were taken in by the McGinnis family, Luke didn't feel like he could talk to anyone about what his past did to him.  He tried to live a normal life but found that he had trouble with relationships, so he did the best he could to get by, making only impersonal connections with people outside his family.  Then he sees Peyton's haunting eyes on the cover of a magazine and later in real life ... and everything changes.  

I think Peyton may have dealt with her past a bit better but it still hampered her life.  She'd struggled with giving herself to a relationship, using her career and celebrity as the excuse to keeping things shallow.  But her attraction to Luke proves too big to ignore and there is a special connection between them.  When she finds out why and what it meant for him, though, will she be able to accept it?    

You have to be OK with descriptions of some truly awful things done to children, but if you make it thru you'll find a journey to a HEA that will make it all worth while.  Both have their struggles, especially Luke about whether he's good enough for someone like Peyton, but it's heartening the way they manage to work through their issues to finally find that special someone. 

**Review given honestly and freely after receipt of a reader copy. This opinion is completely my own and was not influenced in any way.**