Brianna has chosen to
live the last eight years of her life alone, hoping to prevent the
inevitable. When she finally realizes how little time she has left to
live a full and productive life, she stops off to visit her foster
family before permanently moving to California and the care she is going
to need. Spending one last month with the people she loves and values
in Fate Harbor Washington, she meets Sheriff Charlie Meade and the town
vet, Zac Carmichael. Both men are loving, caring and think the world of
her. Brianna is horrified to realize she has deceived them. She knows
the truth, she unworthy of their love.
Brianna decides to quickly
leave town. Despite adamant entreaties of her family, she’s determined
go before things unravel even more and she becomes a burden. Can Zac,
Charlie and the family make one last ditch effort to make Brianna
realize how much they want to cherish her no matter what the future
might hold?
I was
super excited to be reading another of Caitlyn O’Leary books, I
love her ménage series, they’re so delicious but what I wasn’t expecting was it
to relate to my real life in a rather strange way.
Brianna
is heading home, for her foster sister’s wedding, but the wedding, like much in
Brianna’s life, is a little out of the norm. Brianna; it seems has grown up in
a town which is filled with couples in polygamous relationships.
But
that is not what makes Brianna different. Brianna is an emotionally destroyed woman,
which has a good calm shell. You see, Brianna’s father suffered from Schizophrenia,
that was untreated and she lived through hell jumping back and forth into
foster care. Brianna is a master of shutting everyone out, but she doesn’t do
it to hurt them, no it’s to protect them, because she thinks one day she is
going to turn into her father. So after deciding to spend one last month in Fate
Harbor, saying goodbye to her foster family, before locking herself away for
good, she falls in love, with not just one man but two.
Sheriff
Charlie Meade and the town vet, Zac Carmichael both love Brianna and are
willing to work at a tri-ad relationship with Brianna, if only they can
convince her to stay.
Wow! What
a story! Cherishing Brianna is such a beautiful tale; I found it a joy to read
and very well researched. As a close family member of mine is Paranoid Schizophrenic,
and it is a daily struggle not only for him, but us family members. Reading
Caitlyn’s descriptions of attacks hit very close to home with me. So I thank
her for writing them in detail and with accuracy. I found the writing smooth,
unhurried and without plot holes.
I give
Cherishing Brianna 10 out of 10.
