The Homecoming
Maiden's Creek #3
Alison Stuart
Reviewed by Helen
I have loved my first two visits to Maiden’s Creek and when I heard there would be a third trip I was over the moon and I loved this book, I loved Danny and Charlie when meeting them as children and Alison Stuart has taken both of them back to the place that holds so many memories for them twenty years later and written a page turner of a story that you will not want to put down.
Charlie O’Reilly’s childhood growing up in Maiden’s Creek was not one that you would wish on anyone but twenty years later Charlie is returning a very different person she is now a nurse and is taking up the opportunity to be matron at the local hospital, she has her reasons for getting away but she never thinks that this stay in Maiden’s Creek will open up the emotions and bring with it danger but can it also bring love and happiness?
Danny Hunt is a criminal lawyer in Melbourne known as Saint Jude for his need to save people but Danny has a restless soul that he feels he needs to find some truths from the past and put them to rest and when Danny is threatened after a court case and a mate asks him to take a trip with him Danny jumps at the chance to return to the place he spent many of his childhood years maybe he will work through his past never realising what this visits holds.
As children they never met while living in Maiden’s Creek but both knew of each other and had met briefly in Melbourne one time that neither forgot but when danger arrives in the small town with murder and attempted murder they are thrown together to get to the bottom of it all, add to that a dreadful storm that sees the town almost totally washed away their time together sees their feelings grow for each other.
This is a beautifully written story, it is filled with adventure, mystery and so much more, I fell into it from the start and savoured every word meeting up with Amos and Netty who were so important to them both, the emotions flowing through the pages, everything came to life, Danny and Charlie I think were meant to be together, I loved them both, Charlie’s strength and caring nature and Danny what a hero, the best but there are secrets that Charlie holds and they must let go of the past to move forward.
I loved this one so very much, I loved the ending and I do highly recommend it make sure you have nothing planned when you pick it up, MS Stuart thank you for such a brilliant story.
My thanks to Harlequin AU for my copy to read and review and Netgalley.
Charlie O’Reilly’s childhood growing up in Maiden’s Creek was not one that you would wish on anyone but twenty years later Charlie is returning a very different person she is now a nurse and is taking up the opportunity to be matron at the local hospital, she has her reasons for getting away but she never thinks that this stay in Maiden’s Creek will open up the emotions and bring with it danger but can it also bring love and happiness?
Danny Hunt is a criminal lawyer in Melbourne known as Saint Jude for his need to save people but Danny has a restless soul that he feels he needs to find some truths from the past and put them to rest and when Danny is threatened after a court case and a mate asks him to take a trip with him Danny jumps at the chance to return to the place he spent many of his childhood years maybe he will work through his past never realising what this visits holds.
As children they never met while living in Maiden’s Creek but both knew of each other and had met briefly in Melbourne one time that neither forgot but when danger arrives in the small town with murder and attempted murder they are thrown together to get to the bottom of it all, add to that a dreadful storm that sees the town almost totally washed away their time together sees their feelings grow for each other.
This is a beautifully written story, it is filled with adventure, mystery and so much more, I fell into it from the start and savoured every word meeting up with Amos and Netty who were so important to them both, the emotions flowing through the pages, everything came to life, Danny and Charlie I think were meant to be together, I loved them both, Charlie’s strength and caring nature and Danny what a hero, the best but there are secrets that Charlie holds and they must let go of the past to move forward.
I loved this one so very much, I loved the ending and I do highly recommend it make sure you have nothing planned when you pick it up, MS Stuart thank you for such a brilliant story.
My thanks to Harlequin AU for my copy to read and review and Netgalley.
5 stars
January 4, 2023 by Harlequin Enterprises (Australia) Pty Ltd
