Review: The Way Home – Cindy Gerard

A heartwarming Christmas story from the New York Times bestselling “true master of romantic suspense” (Romantic Times). Four years ago Jess Albert got the news that her husband Jeff was killed in action in Afghanistan, and a painful void entered her life. The more time passed, the more acutely she felt that emptiness. But when Tyler Brown, former military hero and all-around alpha male, shows up a year after she’d last seen him, Jess gradually begins to realize there is one thing that can make her feel whole again—love.

As they’re planning their wedding and new life together, Jess receives shocking news: her husband is alive, under the care of a young Afghani woman hiding him from the Taliban. Even as he sees their happily-ever-after slip away, Ty arranges for the One Eyed Jacks and Black Ops, Inc. teams to make a daring and dangerous rescue mission to bring Jeff home. The hardest thing Ty or Jess has ever done is to let the other go.

When Jeff returns to Jess, broken physically and emotionally and with no memory of their history, they try to heal their marriage and each other. But as time brings them together more as friends than lovers, an unexpected development helps them see the true way home, to the people they love.

Series: One-Eyed Jacks #2
Release Date: October 29, 2013
Publisher: Gallery Books
Source: Provided by Publisher
Reviewer: Elizabeth
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This is my first Cindy Gerard read and while she is a good writer, I did not like the premise of the story at all. The story starts out with a woman named Jess. She has a husband who died overseas in the military over 3 years ago. She has been intimate with one man since her husband’s death, another military soldier, Ty. They had a fling 18 months ago and now he traipses back into her life and she is just lonely enough to give him a second chance. They date and things get hot and heavy physically as well as emotionally.

Meanwhile her husband, who she thought was dead, is in Afghanistan with an Afghani woman who hid and took care of him. His memory is gone and he can’t remember anything about being a solider, where his home is or why this woman is keeping him alive. The husband eventually falls in love with the Afghani woman but she won’t leave the country to go back home with him. The husband, Jeffery, or J.R. as he’s called by his family comes home and doesn’t remember he had a wife. Long story short, they can’t make it work, J.R. and Jess are both in love with someone else. And in the end, everyone is happy together as a family.

While some people would enjoy this kind of troupe, I did not. There was too much drama, too many feelings hurt and it literally made me sick to my stomach. This book may be a wonderful story to others, just not to me.