Let Me Be the One by Lori Foster

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Let Me Be the One by Lori Foster, book one in the Family Ties series, is a wonderful, emotional, heartwarming, opposites attract story about a dirt poor, abused guy from the wrong side of the tracks admiring from afar for the town’s princess, who came from a family of privilege, in the small town of Hoker, Kentucky. This story is about finding yourself as well as the families we create.

 

Addie took Tanner in as her son, after finding him wandering down the road; abused by his father. A few years later Kam came into their lives; with the boys raised as brothers. Callie moved away from the small town in Kentucky, along with her parents, after graduating high school. After catching her fiancé, Sutton, cheating she decided to escape to her former hometown where her uncle Reggie left her his house and land. What she didn’t realize was that the place was run down, there were animals, and a hot neighbor who doesn’t want her to stay; at least at first. Tanner, a tree farmer, spends his free time helping out the local teens, especially those who are down on their luck. He is concerned to find Callie next door: the gorgeous rich girl he crushed on in high school, who didn’t notice him, and doesn’t remember him. He wants her to leave, but he also can’t turn away a person in need of help, and Callie is clearly in over her head. As Callie works to build her independence and her life, the two grow closer. But Callie’s family and Sutton keep interfering: showing up unexpectedly and trying to get her to go back to Sutton, and return to her old life. The problem is Callie wasn’t sure her old life fits anymore.

 

This was such a fun, heartwarming story. Not everyone was being totally truthful and some things weren’t quite as they seemed. Callie’s cousin Glory, who was raised together after losing her parents in a tragic accident, accompanied Callie and helped her get settled. Then there were the neighbors, Dirk and Lang, who Tanner did not trust; they had always been in trouble and always spreading rumors about him. However, Dirk and Lang actually tried to help out when Sutton came around; causing trouble. The kids, Liam and Nell, who Tanner was helping, showed how Tanner was able to help kids turn around their lives and make them reliable, dependable, loving young adults. I can’t wait for the next story, hopefully Kam’s or Glory’s story.

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