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    One Wish
    One Wish
    One Wish
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    One Wish

    Written by Linda Lael Miller

    Narrated by Madeleine Maby

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    New York Times bestselling author Linda Lael Miller gave readers "a gift to treasure" (Romantic Times) with her acclaimed Springwater Seasons novels. Now, once again capturing the spirit of early America, she delivers a marvelous tale of love, family loyalty, and passionate desire on the Western frontier -- where fairy tales sometimes do come true. She was the only child of a rich and powerful rancher. He was the son of a drunken ne'er-do-well. But when eleven-year-old Luke Shardlow rescued eight-year-old Charity Barnham from drowning, she promised him one wish...any wish his heart might desire. Fifteen years later, Charity and Luke meet once more, but the gulf between them seems as wide as ever. Charity is engaged to a neighboring rancher her father has chosen for her. Luke still seems to be a Shardlow to the core -- a drifter, maybe even an outlaw, on a road to nowhere. But things are not always what they appear, for Luke has a few secrets to hide. And as a sweet, sensual passion begins to grow between them, Luke and Charity discover that the only wish either of them long to fulfill is to spend a sweet eternity in each other's arms -- no matter the cost.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRecorded Books, Inc.
    Release dateJul 20, 2018
    ISBN9781501914911
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    Linda Lael Miller

    Linda LaelMiller is a #1 New YorkTimes and USA TODAY bestselling author of morethan one hundred novels. Long passionate about the Civil War buff, she has studied theera avidly and has made many visits to Gettysburg, where she has witnessedreenactments of the legendary clash between North and South. Linda exploresthat turbulent time in The Yankee Widow.

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    • 3/5
      Grace was a championship figure skater, until she escaped that world and became a flower shop owner, estranging herself from her stage mother. She meets HS teach Troy, who appoints himself her fun coach, since she never learned social skills on the competition circuit. But when her mother develops ALS, Grace, with Troy's help, reconciles with her and starts to work on a plan to move her to Thunder Bay.
    • 4/5
      One Wish by Robyn CarrThunder Point #73-1/2*Grace Dillon is a fairly recent transplant to Thunder Point. She bought the little flower shop which had been owned by her best friend, Iris', family. She has known local high school teacher, Troy Headly, just as long. He used to date Iris and is still nursing his broken heart after her recent marriage. As they were both close to Iris, who is now in the honeymoon phase, they hang out together more as friends.When their friendship started to turn into something more, I wasn't overly impressed with Troy. He was being a bit of a dog and pushing Grace for a physical relationship even though he kept mentioning that they were "just friends". I do give him credit, however, for being patient with her once he learned she was inexperienced and wanted to make sure she was ready to take the next step.It took her a while to be honest with him about her past. She was, in effect, trying to start a new life in Thunder Point, a quieter life. She grew up in the spotlight as a champion figure skater, one who had been followed by stalkers and even once been kidnapped by a delusional fan. After winning gold in the Vancouver Olympics, she abruptly left the skating scene, to the dismay of her fans, coach, and most importantly, her mother, who had herself been a figure skater and was living out her dreams through her successful daughter. The two of them had been estranged for close to five years when suddenly Winnie came back into her daughter's life, pushy as ever, but this time with some life-altering news. Now she and Troy have to make some difficult decisions about their relationship and where they go from here.Between Grace's challenges and a newcomer to town, Ginger, who is trying to survive day by day after losing her baby to crib death, there is a lot of angst in this one.
    • 5/5
      Excellent!! Another great addition to the Thunderpoint series. As a bonus we get to revisit with a couple of the Virgin River characters, Denny & Becca. In this story we get to know Grace Dillon really well as she and Troy (fresh off getting his heartbroken by Iris) begin a relationship. This is a good one, I recommend it for everyone.
    • 5/5
      Another really good trip to Thunder Point. Grace is the local flower shop owner with a past she doesn't talk about. She's happy with her new life, but she has to admit that there is something missing. When local teacher Troy Headly offers to help her add some fun to her life, she takes him up on it.I really liked both Grace and Troy. Grace was the daughter of a former skater and a skating coach. She had been a skater herself from the age of four, coached and pushed until she won it all. She loved the skating and the competing, but hated everything that went with it. When she reached the top, she walked away, determined to live the life she wanted out of the spotlight. This created a breach with her overbearing mother, who she has avoided ever since. Now that her business is doing well, she realizes that she's ready for more. She's been friends with Troy for awhile, and has liked him quite a lot, but he was stuck on her friend Iris. Now that Troy isn't so focused on Iris, he is seeing Grace in a new way. At first he's just looking at her as a friend, someone he can hang out with. But the more time he spends with her, the more she intrigues him.I liked the way that the relationship between Troy and Grace built. They started as friends, with Troy looking for someone to, as he put it "play with", and Grace looking to expand her horizons a little. I loved the way that Troy set out to help Grace have some fun. Their first trip out to look at the waves during a storm was really funny, with Troy inadvertently causing Grace to laugh hysterically. Later trips and just being together gave them a chance to really get to know each other. The attraction also built slowly, but burned hot once it was there. I loved Troy's sensitivity to Grace's concerns, and his patience was really sweet. Grace still had fears about confessing her past to Troy, worried about how he would react.When Grace's mother reappears in her life, wanting to repair their relationship, Grace is at first very wary. Once her mother's motivation is revealed, Grace knows she will do what she can, but she refuses to go back to her old ways. She now has the strength and self-confidence to stand up for herself, but she also wants Troy's support. Troy has some issues of his own to face with his relationship with Grace. He hadn't expected to fall in love with her, and with her background now exposed he's having trouble dealing with it. There's a great quote from him "Did you know that when men fall in love there's a kind of atrophy of the brain that causes them to do stupid things? Even when they know better?" Later she asks "And if you get it again?" and he replies "Try a club." I loved that. It was great to see him look past the unimportant things and see what they could have together.I also liked catching up with some of the other characters from previous books. Ray Anne is busy helping Grace find a home for her mother in Thunder Point. Iris makes several appearances as she helps both Grace and Troy work through their relationship issues. Grace's work as the florist for Peyton's wedding (The Promise) also introduces a new character. Ray Anne's niece has come to stay with her as she recovers from a loss, and takes a job as Grace's assistant in the florist shop. Various others pop up in the course of daily life in Thunder Point.
    • 5/5
      One Wish wasn't a absolutely perfect read for me, but IMHO, it was better than all three of the Thunder Point books that were released last year. A large part of my enjoyment of this story had to do with me actually feeling the connection between Troy and Grace more palpably than any of last year's couples. Even though their relationship begins as a friends with benefits arrangement, it was easy to sense that their feelings ran much deeper, even if they hadn't acknowledged them yet. I could simply tell that they were good for one another and they were both down-to-earth people who took pleasure in each other's company. For this reason, I have to give Robyn Carr a few extra points, because oftentimes, I don't care much for romances that begin as sex only agreements. I also related to the hero and heroine better than the previous three couples, which only added to my satisfaction with the story. With that being the case, One Wish became the only book of the series since the first two that has earned keeper status from me.Grace is a former champion figure skater, who won every major competition, including the Olympics, but then she walked away from it all at the height of her career. As a huge fan of figure skating, I loved this aspect of her character, but at the same time, I could totally understand her giving up the intensive training and constant competing in favor of living a more normal life. She's built a totally new life for herself in Thunder Point as the little town's only florist, but she's earned a reputation that brings in business from neighboring towns too. She loves her boutique and the little apartment above it, and she isn't afraid of hard work, even though she grew up in almost incomprehensible wealth. Grace's mother was the typical stage parent, who was trying to live out her dream through Grace. Grace certainly had the natural talent of her own to make it as far as she did, but her mother pushed her very hard, leading to a lot of friction between the two. Her father, who was also her first coach, died when she was only a teenager, and she's basically been estranged from her mother ever since she announced her retirement from figure skating. I really liked and related to Grace on a number of different levels, not just her former occupation. I felt like I had a lot in common with her. We're both essentially only children, with our only half-siblings being much older. There was a considerable age difference between our parents. We were both loners growing up, who felt like no one really knew or appreciated us for who we were inside. We both had contentious relationships with our mothers, although for somewhat different reasons, and we both had to deal with those mothers experiencing major terminal illnesses. Oddly enough though, I think the commonality that struck me the most was our shared love of romance novels and our plethora of book boyfriends.;-) Grace even reads some of the exact same books I do, and I loved the author's shout-out to the Black Dagger Brotherhood. Grace is just a sweet, lovable, innocent young woman, who is still a virgin at twenty-eight. I absolutely adored everything about her, which is something I'm not often able to say about Robyn Carr's heroines, not because I don't like them on some level, but because I don't usually relate to them as well as I did to Grace.Troy is a wonderful hero, who's pretty much Ms. Carr's go-to archetype for her male characters. Like so many of her heroes, he's a former Marine. I didn't realize until reading this book that he was first introduced in Bring Me Home for Christmas, one of her Virgin River novels. He was one of Denny's buddies who went to Virgin River to visit him over the holidays to do some hunting. With Troy and Becca both being teachers, he had a fairly extensive conversation with her in the truck while they were out duck-hunting, which make Denny rather jealous. He seemed like a pretty great guy then, and the fact that he had a little more prominent secondary role made me wonder if he might star in his own book someday… and he did. He just had to transplant to Thunder Point in order to get it.:-) We don't really see a whole lot of Troy in action as a teacher in this book, but with what little is there, along with his supporting role in the previous book, I can tell he's very good at his job and truly dedicated to it. The one thing about Troy that I didn't relate to very well was that he's essentially a dare-devil adrenaline junkie who loves extreme sports and taking risks. That being the case, there were times when he was a little too high energy for my taste, but he won me over with his sweetness and charm. I loved that he didn't push Grace to open up about her secretive past faster than she was willing. Even though his curiosity got the better of him and he went online to check her out, he didn't tell her that he'd done it until it was relevant to events that were taking place at the time. He just patiently waited for her to trust him enough to tell him. Troy was also a tender lover, taking his time with Grace in the bedroom and treating her like a precious jewel. I liked that he cared enough about Grace to try to smooth things over between her and her mom, when her mother suddenly reappeared in her life. He also stands by her side as she deals with her mother's manipulations and the revelation of her illness, and he treats her mom quite gently and chivalrously. The only thing that throws Troy for a loop is the realization of how extensive Grace's wealth actually is. He goes through some doubts about his ability to offer her anything special, when she already has so much, but I thought that was pretty understandable. Overall, Troy was perhaps a little too much like several of Robyn Carr's other heroes to truly stand out in my mind for the long haul, but he was a very sweet, lovable guy who I thought was perfect for Grace.As has been the case with most of Ms. Carr's more recent books, there aren't as many side plots and POVs, but there are still a few. In this book, we get a pretty good dose of local real estate agent, Ray Anne, and get to see how her relationship with Al is going, as well as a quick update on his three foster sons. We also get to see her interacting a bit with her gal pals, Carrie, Lou, and Gina (The Newcomer). Mainly though, the reader is introduced to Ray Anne's niece, Ginger, who has always been like the daughter she never had. Ginger is deeply in mourning for a failed marriage and the loss of her baby to crib death, but Ray Anne is determined to do whatever it takes to bring her out of her grief and depression. With a little help from Grace and her best friend, Iris (The Homecoming), she's already making significant headway in this endeavor by the end of the story, which is a good thing, because Ginger becomes the heroine of the next book, A New Hope. We also get to see just a little of Iris with Seth, and another little bit of Scott and Peyton (The Promise) as they prepare for their huge traditional Basque nuptials, along with updates on these relationships.As I mentioned earlier, One Wish wasn't a perfect read. As frequently seems to be the case in Robyn Carr's writing, the dialog can get a tad long-winded at times, and I really feel like she needs to intersperse a bit more narrative within her dialog, particularly that which shows what the characters are doing. A few more tender looks or touches in these moments definitely wouldn't have gone amiss. Also, as someone who has been watching figure skating since the 1980's, I couldn't help feeling that the figure skating terms the author uses are a little off. There were a number of them I'd never heard of and I even Googled some of them to be sure. Eg. I couldn't find a move called a leaning tower spiral. In fact, the top search results for that term were excerpts from this book. Also there's not really such a thing as a straddle split jump. It's known as a straddle jump in gymnastics, and merely a split jump in figure skating. Additionally, the author has Grace performing figure eights and axels as part of a warm-up routine. Figure eights are really more of a compulsory exercise, which was taken out of competition in 1990, and with axels being the most difficult jumps, a skater who hasn't been skating regularly for years, would probably be more likely to try something a little easier, like a toe loop, flip, or Salchow, before bringing out the big guns like axels. Overall though, these are relatively minor quibbles in an otherwise enjoyable story. I really liked the characters and the storylines, and best of all, I could actually feel the connection between Troy and Grace, which is an all-important must in any romance. Since I liked Ginger in this book, I'm now looking forward to reading A New Hope to see what's in store for her future. After the tragedies in her life, she really deserves an HEA.Note: I received a copy of this book from the author's publicist in exchange for an honest review.
    • 5/5
      I've been looking forward to this book since I finished the last Thunder Point novel! BlurbGrace Dillon was a champion figure skater until she moved to Thunder Point to escape the ruthless world of fame and competition. And though she's proud of the quiet, self-sufficient life she's created running a successful flower shop, she knows something is missing. Her life could use a little excitement. In a community where there are few eligible singles, high school teacher Troy Headly appoints himself Grace's fun coach. When he suggests a little companionship with no strings attached, Grace is eager to take him up on his offer, and the two enjoy…getting to know each other. But things get complicated when Grace's past catches up with her, and she knows that's not what Troy signed up for. Faced with losing her, Troy realizes Grace is more than just a friend with benefits. He's determined to help her fight for the life she always wished for but never believed she could have—and maybe they can find real love along the way.I loved this book! Every time I pick up a Thunder Point novel its like I'm coming home and I get to catch up with everyone! I love the cozy feel, like the Virgin River novels! Oh by the way! I loved seeing Denny in One Wish! I might have screamed a little bit when they had a short discussion about Virgin River!! Virgin River is one of my all time favorite series so to add a few characters into One Wish it was awesome!I loved the relationship between Grace & Troy.. I love the fact that she loved reading! Especially romances!!Theres a few laugh out moments in the book and they might be my favorite part! Of course the scene with the taser! I think my favorite funny moment is the scene with the wave! I couldn't stop smiling! It was just perfect! Robyn Carr paints a wonderful world! I want to live in Thunder Point! I think every book she writes I want to live there! I wish Virgin River & Thunder Point were real! Because if they were I'd move there in a heartbeat! Robyn Carr is one of only 3 authors who I will pick up her book and buy it without even reading the back of the book because I know it will be that good :)
    • 4/5
      4 STARS I like the community of Thunder Point. This is mainly Grace and Troy's story. But does catch up on a few other couples we have met in previous books. There is some suspense and drama. But mostly just good characters, relationships and good humor. I really laughed at a couple of scenes. Also a few love scenes. Grace owns the flower shop in Thunder Point. I had no idea about her past before. I like Grace how she is independent, hard worker, good friend and talented. Grace likes Troy but he liked her best friend Iris who just got married. Grace has a surprising past as a famous figure skater. No one in Thunder Point knows that because she is using only her middle name. Her past catches up to her though. Troy is a high school teacher, and works at Cooper's bar part time. He is into extreme sports. At first he seems just like a play boy. He wants to show Grace a good fun time playing. I had to finish reading One Wish till I was done. I enjoy reading Robyn Carr's books. She makes you like the whole community of characters. You never know when a different character would come into the story, The setting is a small Oregon beach town. I was given this ebook to read by Net Galley and Harlequin. In return I agreed to give a honest review of One Wish.