The Story of Us by Molly O’Keefe is the story of Samantha Riggins, who runs a women’s shelter, Serenity House, out of her home in the small town of Northwoods, North Carolina. For ten years Samantha and J. D. Kronos, a private investigator she uses on occasion, have convinced themselves they have the perfect relationship. No strings, no commitment, just business and sex when they want. All that changes when the son Sam gave up for adoption walks into her shelter. The son J.D. did not know about. The presence of their child breaks all the rules they've chosen to live by. When a young, pregnant girl shows up at the shelter, running from something or someone, fears that J.D. has been sent to find her, Sam realizes that she knows next to nothing about him and everything Sam thought she knew about J.D. turns out to be wrong. How do they move forward especially now when the biggest secret is yet to be revealed?
The Story of Us was previously published as a Harlequin Romance book, The Son Between Them. And it reads like a bad romance novel. From the beginning, things were off about the characters and the situation. Sam has two residents living at the shelter and yet she and J.D. have sex while her residents are essentially sleeping down the hall!!!! The sex scenes were very unnecessarily explicit and just uncomfortable to read. The story of the young girl and why she’s running is essentially revealed super early and when I learned who she is running from, my response was “Well, that makes sense. I would run too.” There was no build up to an exciting reveal. And J.D.’s secret as to why he doesn’t want commitment is very disappointing as well. I do not recommend The Story of Us.
The Story of Us
is available in eBook and audiobook
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