
Rating: 3.75š
Love Me Again represents a new author and a new contemporary romance series for me, both Iām always on the lookout for.
It was the description that caught my attention. I love a second chance at love, lovers reunited romance! Plus this had the added attraction of one of the men with retrograde amnesia! So he didnāt even remember the one he loved and hurt!
Oh the anticipation.
Max Walker did a wonderful job creating the small town of Blue Creek, past home to returning detective Austin Romero, back to set up a branch of Stonewall Investigations there. Itās also home to his old secret high school boyfriend, Charlie Marsh. The one that broke Austinās heart and drove him away to find himself in NYC.
Now Blue Creek is about to become the stage for the homecoming drama when the men meet again after all these years.
Charlie is especially engaging as someone missing a huge chunk of his past. Walker makes us understand how frustrating this condition must be, how angry and hard it would be to continually be reminded that all around you are people who remember events and things about you that you cannot. This trait makes Charlie so vulnerable and easy to connect with.
Austin is someone whoās gone through so much after he left Blue Creek. He grew up and past the adolescence pain and heās put it behind him. That too rings true.
Thereās so much to really love here and invest in. Thatās the romance.
Thereās also a mystery and thatās an element where I have some issues.
Romance outstanding. Mystery? Hmmm. The villain is obvious. He might as well be twirling a mustache and wearing a shirt that says āI did the deedā. Austin is a seasoned investigator from NYC. Yet, here in Blue Creek, he doesnāt act like one. No backups, runs into danger, doesnāt check for the villain. Sigh.
So it takes a certain suspension of belief when it comes to the whole mystery element of the story. Thereās action, drama, and a happy ending!
This book also has a great pet store the Stonewall Investigations work above and a fantastic parrot character! I hope heās a permanent one!
Another detail?
I had no idea that the Stonewall Investigations series branches out to other cities with its series and couples. Good to know. As someone new to this universe, I would imagine the characters crossover between series. Iāll have to check out the others to see.
Iām definitely continuing onto the next in the series, Ride the Wreck. Thereās another couple and, of course, another investigation.
Iām recommending this for the love story. Itās an awwwww.
Stonewall Investigations: Blue Creek
⦠Love Me Again #1
⦠Ride the Wreck #2
Love Me Again by Max Walker – Stonewall Investigationshttps://www.goodreads.com āŗ book āŗ show
Description:
AUSTIN ROMERO:
No oneās fast enough to outrun grief.
Trust me, Iāve tried. I ran away from the city and took a job as the lead detective back in my old home town of Blue Creek, New Hampshire. I expected to bump into past ghosts, but I never expected those ghosts to reopen old wounds.
The biggest ghost of them all: Charlie Marsh. The man who pushed me out of this town in the first place.
He was also the man who had stolen my heart when we were teens, and who now couldnāt even remember a single day we had spent together.
Which makes it exceptionally awkward when he becomes my first client.
CHARLIE MARSH:
An accident stole seven years of my memories, robbing me of experiences, lessons, people.
It robbed me of my first love. I couldnāt remember who Austin even was, much less when and where we shared our first kiss. So when I bumped into the most jaw-droppingly handsome man Iād ever seen, I had no idea we already shared an entire galaxyās worth of history between us.
Second chances arenāt always easy, and this one only gets more complicated after finding out that my āaccidentā wasnāt an accident at all, and it seems like someone wants to finish the job.
Good thing Iāve got a hot detectiveās number on speed-dial.