Title: Hidden Dreams
Series: River Town – Book 3
Author: Grant C. Holland
Rating: 4 stars out of 5

Blurb: Puck doesn’t think he can handle any more bad news. He’s a widower with a baby just eight weeks old. His wife Miranda died suddenly and unexpectedly just twelve hours after Addie’s birth. With the world turning dark, and the future looking grim, hope reappears when a handsome blonde, blue-eyed man brings a grocery store disaster to a halt with a ring of shiny keys.

Ross is restless in the small river town of Coldbrook Bend. He left his hometown to escape a bad relationship, but he’s been unable to find someone new. Despite enjoying the support of a rich set of new friends, he’s considering abandoning the small town life for the twin cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul. When he least expects it, a widower with an adorable baby appears to shake up all of his plans.

Puck has never kissed a man before, much less had a relationship with one. However, his desire to be with Ross is not as unprecedented as he originally thinks. After another chance meeting on a snowy winter night, they are soon enjoying a joyful domestic life together. Unfortunately, life has one more stroke of bad luck in store. Both Ross and Puck will need to call on all of their resources to make their once-hidden dreams come true

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Review: The grocery store?  Really?  Yeah that was my initial reaction to a line from the book, yet I know of at least two people who really did meet their true love at the grocery store.  One met his partner while checking out fresh vegetables.  The others met while standing in an extremely long line at the register.  They started talking about the long lines, how the store should put more cashiers on, and what they would be doing for the holiday.

In both cases their initial conversation led to lunch and then to a date.  As they say, the rest is history.  So when Ross helped the frazzled Puck while waiting at the check out, my mind recounted my two friends’ stories.  But how this story unfolded made it worth reading.  Holland did a good job developing the characters, their respective faults, and hidden fears.

Where it lacked, unfortunately, was the development of the story around the other characters in the book.  To me, Holland presumed the reader had already read the previous books in the series and was familiar with the characters.  I had, so the others were known entities, but a new reader picking up Hidden Dreams might not capture the special relationships the others share.

That aside, Hidden Dreams is a good quick read and I’d recommend it if you have a couple hours and want to read a love story.  This is a story that will have you saying ahh at the end.

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