I enjoyed this emotional story that is a roller-coaster of ups and downs in the lives of the two main characters, Connor Norris and Dani Winthrop. For each of them, life has dealt a nasty hand, and it is all about attitude and where they go in spite of everything.
Dani Winthrop is pregnant and alone. Abandoned as a child by her parents, raised in foster care, and on her own, but coping. She was involved with a man Marc, but when she discovers she is pregnant, he wants nothing to do with her or a baby. Leaving Denver, she will be hired at a temporary construction site as the secretary in Carson Creek, Colorado.
Connor Norris is a man who is existing and has run away from his past and the constant pain surrounding the death of his wife, Catherine, and their son, Sammy. He sold his home and hasn’t returned to his hometown of Fort Collins, not even to see his parents. He just travels from one construction site to the next.
The plot will have Connor’s older partner, Mick, hiring Dani as their new secretary and it comes with much animosity from Connor. He doesn’t want a woman on the construction site and does his best to run her off, but Dani is tough, she needs this job, and the pay before her baby is born. No matter how many obstacles he throws in her way, she proves to be an asset to their business, straightening up the mess the last person left, finding billing discrepancies, and making the office run smoothly.
There is so much angst between Connor and Dani, and no matter how much he tries to discourage her from staying, she proves to have just as much push to prove she can handle the work, and his nasty attitude. She isn’t flighty or flirty with the men; she whips the office in shape and minds her own business. The only problem is, she makes Connor feel alive again, and that can’t happen, or can it?
While Connor is trying to “hold on to every precious moment,” regarding his late wife and child, Dani only knows of a “childhood that was bleak and loveless.” “Yet, they’d both ended up in the same place, running from the blows that life had dealt.” “How would two such distrustful people ever find a common bond?” “Was he like her, too hurt and battered by life to venture forth again?”
In spite of what each of them had told themselves, to not trust someone or care for someone again, there is an attraction between them. It seems that for every step forward, they go back two steps.
“For a moment, just the tiniest moment, she wished something wonderful could develop. Wished they were two different people and could meet, fall in love and trust that the future would be perfect.”
“Neither of us can change the past, but we have to go on. There’s no avoiding life—fears, pain, loss and all. But there’s all that joy that also comes along with living. You bring me an abundant measure of that.”
Two people brought together at a construction work site, where neither one was looking for someone to love, yet, fate had a different plan for Connor and Dani. Over the time they are together working, a friendship is being forged and bitterness and pain of the past healed.
The story is a clean, contemporary second chance romance. There are times that words said in anger are so painful, you cringe, but in the end, healing and new beginnings are mending two broken lives for a happily ever after future. “Hold on to every precious moment.
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