Mary's Reviews > Barreled Over

I received a free copy of this book to read and review for Wicked Reads.

I enjoyed this book as it takes the mystery of celebrity and shows the person underneath it all to just as human as the rest of us. The same heartache and heartbreak and the same hopes and dreams. Wanting the "more", not success, the "more" of love and family.

Sparks fly between Ava Grace and Jonah from the first time they met and now, they are off the charts. However, Jonah is reluctant to get involved with Ava Grace because of the media circus that follows her everywhere. He's not had a good relationship with the press in the past, and he doesn't want to take chances with the future of his bourbon company now.

Ava Grace has learned to live with the media, of knowing when to make nice and smile for the camera. Its just all in a day's work for her, part of the package of being a country music star. She doesn't enjoy all of the invasions of her privacy, but its a small price to pay to be able to sing the music that has made her a millionaire many times over.

Never has it been more of a problem than now: She wants a relationship with Jonah, but understands how the past still colors his future. Wanting to do everything she can to minimize his exposure to her world, she does just that. She stays with him in his world, and life has never been sweeter.

What does cause problems is issues with her father, when he becomes violent due to his advanced Alzheimer's and people believe that Jonah is the cause. Knowing the hurt that has been done to him the past, she doesn't blame him for leaving her and breaking her heart.

Even knowing that limelight is far from where he wants to be, Jonah knows that in order to be happy he has to give Ava Grace the keys to his heart.

~~Wicked Reads Review Team~~