Title:  Always Remember
Series:  Rocky Mountain Romance #1
Author:  Sheila Seabrook
Genre:  Contemporary Romance
Published:  August 9, 2013
Publisher:
My Rating:  5 stars
Source:  Borrowed, Kindle Unlimited
Cover Description:

A midnight summons from rancher Nate Coltrane brings singer Jessie Adams back to the heart of the Rocky Mountains. Seventeen years ago, Jessie gave up Nate’s child for adoption and she hasn’t been home since. How can she sit by her mother’s side, surrounded by constant reminders of all she loved and lost? How can she face Nate without telling him the truth about the child he never knew existed?

Nate doesn’t think Jessie has the guts to return home and face him, but when she does, he’s afraid of losing everything he loves…for the second time in his life. But he’s made a promise. Bring Jessie home. Give her mother one last opportunity to heal the rift with her daughter. Nate will do anything for Jessie’s mother because if not for her, he might never have known the love of his child.

But sometimes the truth turns out to be a lie.

Read on for my thoughts on Always Remember.  No true spoilers, promise.

Everyone makes choices in life.  Some are everyday average, what to wear to work, where to have lunch, coffee or tea – those simple choices.  Then there are the tough choices – the ones that will forever change a life, or two or three.  Seventeen years ago Jessie made one of those tough choices, or maybe it’s more honest to say that she had that choice forced upon her in some ways by an outside influence.  But still, she made the final decision – and it was one that would haunt her for years.

Jessie had everything her mother ever wanted for her.  She was the queen of country music with the awards, the hits, the fans, the media and everything that went with that kind of fame.  What she didn’t have was the love of one man or the family she wanted with him and him alone.  Jessie had been railroaded into coming home, this was not her choice at all.  If she had her way she’d never set foot in this town again.  But her mother was dying and Nate had insisted that she return.

Nate.  The man of her dreams, the man she had lied to for years.  But she intended to fix that on this trip.  He deserved to know the truth.  And maybe it was time to forgive her mother for her part in all of this mess.

Jessie.  Sitting right here beside him in the cab of his truck, just as she had so many times, so many years ago.  He hadn’t wanted her to come back, but dammit her mom was dying and they needed to mend fences between them.  Just so long as she kept her distance from Sara, just as long as the lie he’d held on to for all these years didn’t blow up in his face.  And as long as he didn’t fall in love with her all over again.

Always Remember is a stunningly emotion trip with two people who never stopped loving each other – and the consequences of decisions, choices they both had made years ago.  Yes, it’s a second chance romance but it is also a heart wrenching novel that highlights the romance as well as the heartbreak a woman goes through when she makes one of the most difficult choices of her life.  And how sometimes we get back the past we lost.

One of the things I love most about books is that it matters not one bit when we read them – but that we do eventually take their story to heart.  This is my first time reading a novel by Ms. Seabrook and it certainly will not be the last.  Thank goodness for the digital age, when just about any novel from any year is available to us at the touch of a button for download.  I was able to “borrow” this with my Kindle Unlimited plan – and it just sent me shopping for the next book in this series.

I would easily recommend Always Remember for any reader who believes in second chances and enjoy a truly emotional, feel good story.  If you have a heart, then this one is for you.

Always Remember is available for the Kindle