Review: Juniper Hill

Juniper Hill by Devney Perry
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Messy shows your passion and feeling

Juniper Hill is the second book in The Edens series set in small-town, Quincy, Montana. The first book was a great romantic suspense read. My Review of Indigo Ridge is in this blog if you want to catch up on the series.

Juniper Hill has some suspense elements but much less than Indigo Ridge. It is a single parent, small-town romance where our main characters learn to trust and open themselves up to possibilities again. I love the family element of these books as it forms part of the balance and emotional security in the story.

Memphis is a single mom that arrives in Quincy for a new start. Although it is clear she is running from something, dysfunctional family dynamics being the more obvious issue, there is still some mystery lingering about her past. She is barely coping and struggling with confidence in being a new mother with no support network. Knox Eden is her reluctant landlord and eschews any entanglement with the single mother due to his own past. But sizzling chemistry and a marshmallow soft centre for a crying Drake and struggling Memphis mean that the story has an emotional slow burn that ignites spectacularly.

Both our main characters needed to face their past, their perceived mistakes and weaknesses in order to commit to the other. Devney Perry writes this transformation with sympathy in clean and concise prose. Acceptance that life is messy and that it is in the mess we see the passion of living is greatly illustrated in Knox's chef activities. A well written romance I can greatly recommend.

ARC provided via Valentine PR. This is my honest review.