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  Enter to Win a  $50.00 eGift Card to Choice Book Seller  (Amazon, B&N or iTunes) UNQUIET   Resilient Love #3 Melanie Hansen   Releasing on January 22, 2016. Dreamspinner Press     Loren Smith has been in love with Eliot Devlin almost his entire life. During their turbulent childhood and teen years, Loren didn’t always understand Eliot, and sometimes he could be a challenge, but Eliot was the only one to ever truly ease Loren’s deep loneliness and accept him. When Eliot’s increasingly erratic and self-destructive behavior culminates in a suicide attempt at seventeen, Loren is devastated.   Upon meeting again by chance nine years later, Loren is enjoying a successful career as a police officer while Eliot’s life has been a constant struggle for stability. In and out of mental hospitals, with a rap sheet a mile long, he continues to be buffeted by the twin storms of mania and depression. Loren...

This is book # 3 in the Resilient Love series .   This book can be read as a standalone novel.  It is better for reader understanding, and further enjoyment of the book if read in companion with the rest of the series.   Loren and Eliot knew each other from age 6.  They grew up next door from one another.  They did most everything together.  Once in high school, they realize the friendship has grown to something more. For Eliot, stability with his illness is key.  But getting him the correct diagnosis is hard.  Anyone around him finds him fun and silly.  Loren just loves him and wants to be with him.  When tragedy strikes, Loren is lost. This story has so much to it!  I was so pleased with how the mental illnesses are portrayed and told.  I loved the character development and the real feelings that were expressed.  This is a book I wish all could read.  I give this story a 4/5 Kitty's Paws UP! **...

This is book # 2 in the Resilient Love series . I found that it can be read as a standalone, but I always caution readers that it is more enjoyable if you read them in order. Jeremy has lost everything that has been important to him. His husband Brent dies only a month or so before the baby they were about to have is stillborn. He cannot stay and act like things are normal, so he moves and tries to start over completely. When he meets Kai, he is surprised by the hottest experience of his life. Then he feels guilty that he is forgetting about his late husband. He ends up hurting Kai and not sure how to solve what has happened when he has no way to contact him. Then fate intervenes the hard way. His home is attacked and partially destroyed by teenage vandals. Jeremy wants to be understanding, but he also wants them to have some kind of punishment. Kai is the teacher to many of them and soon they have to see one another on a weekly basis. Kai and Jeremy end up getting...

  Enter to Win a $50.00 Amazon eGift Card     SIGNS OF LIFE Resilient Love #2 Melanie Hansen Releasing Sept 28th, 2015 Dreamspinner Press     Successful lawyer Jeremy Speer has it all—a loving husband, a beautiful home, and a cherished dream that’s about to become reality. He’s learned not to take happiness for granted, meeting the challenges of life and love head-on with unwavering commitment and fierce devotion. A series of tragic events leave Jeremy shattered, adrift on a sea of unimaginable pain. He’s able to piece his life back together, but instead of embracing it, he merely exists, using isolation and punishing physical exertion to keep the world at bay. High school teacher Kai Daniels has a heart for at-risk kids—he was one himself, and a teenage brush with the law and some troubled years behind bars left him scarred inside and out. With courage, hard work, and the support of friends, he’s built a fulfi...