“There’s something about Moses Lake that changes people. It’s anybody’s guess as to why that is, but I think that’s what my mama was hoping for when we came here all those years ago…For folks who stay a little longer, the hills, and the draws, and the water, and the people piece together like an old quilt, wrapping around, comfortable and warm. Safe. There’s no mystery to it after a while. You just know you’re in the right place. You feel it deep in your soul.”
And so begins the last chapter of Larkspur Cove.
I wasn’t sure when I started this book that I would be able to get into the story because the chapters alternate between two characters. Andrea Henderson has come through a divorce that no one saw coming. She and her teenage son, Dustin, return to the summer home of her parents on Larkspur Cove in Moses Lake, Texas. All she wants is to rebuild her life, protect her son for whatever life brings his way and do her job as a Child Protective Service employee. The other character is game warden Mart McClendon. Mart has been trying to recover from the death of his brother and young nephew. He blames himself that they died in a boating accident. Return to an area where he lived as a youth, Mart is a local game warden who catches Dustin and other local youth diving off a dangerous rock in the lake.
After an explosive confrontational first meeting, Mart and Andrea find their lives intertwined as they deal with a local recluse and his granddaughter. As an attraction grows between them, each must come to terms with the reasons they returned to Moses Lake.
I enjoyed Larkspur Cove and recommend it to others. I received this book to review for free from Bethany House.
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