Never Too Late (Along Came Love #3) by Susan L. Tuttle -- Review

About the Book

Once, her art brought her fame. This time will it bring her love?

Widowed homemaker Rachael Stark isn’t quite sure what comes after her only child leaves for college. To fill her suddenly quiet hours and scrawny bank account, she needs a job. But painful memories prevent her from resurrecting her former art career, and motherhood isn't much of a résumé. When her best friend needs help recovering from a gunshot wound that occurred in the line of duty, she is there. Finally, someone to take care of.

Evan Wayne won't let his injury keep him from being a police officer. His dedication to protect the innocent stems from the guilt he carries over having failed his childhood friend. What he needs now is to recover and get back on the streets. Instead, he's handed a myriad of light-duty tasks by his captain―one of which involves heading up the department's entry into the town's annual mural contest. He's not an artist, but he definitely knows one. And he'll take any excuse to spend more time with her.

When Rachael agrees to paint for Evan, she never expects to also be drawn into finding answers for the mother of a missing child. As the two friends work side by side on the mural and the case, their feelings move beyond friendship. But with Evan unwilling to leave his dangerous job, and Rachael unwilling to risk another loss of a loved one, their fears may paint over the promise of a beautiful future together.

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About the Author

Susan L. Tuttle lives in the Mitten State where she’s a homeschooling mom of three and happily married to her best friend. Between raising her teens and leading the women’s ministry at church, she finds time to write. She’s firmly convinced that letters were meant for words, not math, and loves stringing them together into stories that inspire and encourage. Romance, laughter, and cookies are three of her favorite things, though not always in that order.

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Review

A story of heartbreaking loss, but also filled with hope and second chances, Susan L. Tuttle has written a sweet best friends to lovers story that readers will enjoy.  This story focuses a lot on how hard life can be, but that there can also be hope and love after grief.  There is some fun banter between the two main characters and readers will come to love them.  The small town feel of the setting brings magic to the story as well.  This is a fun story that readers of sweet contemporary romance will want to check out.

Series: Along Came Love
Genre: contemporary, romance
Publisher: Stream Media
Publication date: November 2, 2021
Number of pages: 304

Other books in the series:
1- At First Glance
2- Then Again, Maybe

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