Wednesday, August 30, 2023

Buried Hearts, Book 4, Laurel Ridge

 


After an archeologist, who reads the dead from what they leave behind, meets a psychic balloonist talks to the dead, the attraction is instant and intense. But can two vastly different people meet in the middle, shed their walled-up exteriors, and expose hidden longings and buried hearts?

About the Book:  When archeologist Clint Anderson meets balloonist Gabby King, he is immediately smitten. Unexpected emotions flare after the straight-laced, hyper-organized Clint finds Gabby’s footloose, fancy-free lifestyle . . . interesting.

          By circumstance, Gabby becomes involved with Clint’s current restoration project—a VW beetle that's been underwater for a decade and was recently fished out of a local lake. After she finds an expensive bracelet hidden under the floor mat, they uncover another part of a mystery behind the recovered Bug which leads to even more questions in the community and those directly involved with the car.

As the two get better acquainted, emotional walls crumble and once buried hearts are exposed. Can two eccentrics handle a discovery of unexpected love and allow those walls to finally fall?

Our Review: No one who’s followed the Laurel Ridge series would pass up a chance to spend more time with the unique folks who inhabit this small mountain town. And [we readily admit] along the way, discovering new clues to the mystery behind the classic VW bug that was hauled out of Whippoorwill Lake adds frosting to the delicious cake. Walls start coming down for the two seriously different Clint and Gabby, ranking up there with the conflicts that came before. Well written with snappy, realistic dialogue, the times may change but honest emotions stay the same. No one writes them better than Diana Stout.

 Based on a scale of 1-5, Buried Hearts deserves a 6.

 Kat Henry Doran, Wild Women Reviews

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