5* An amazing tale that'll break you heart and then fix it and leave it feeling all warm and fuzzy. 

This tale can be read as a standalone, but it's vaguely connected to AMA's The Restoration Series, and characters from the latter make brief-ish appearances, so maybe it's best to read them in order. It's book 3 in the All Saints series, again, with previous characters popping up - loved seeing the guys from books 1 and 2 living their HEAs. 

This is perhaps the saddest yet of the series, with two very young leads, one of whom's still a teen as the tale starts, but it's told with AMA's warmth and empathy and it ends beautifully. I loved how AMA made both guys so vulnerable and yet determined to try to be brave for each other. She doesn't shy away from their pasts, their traumas, their facing up to the harsh realities of life, and she also doesn't shy away from the reality that is counselling and how it can work, how you can take 2 steps forward before taking one back, and how you have to be committed to it and to wanting to make changes. 

These guys have gone through more in their short lives than most of us can even contemplate, so to see them throw themselves into their relationship, to try to build something, was heartwarming. I liked that the tale was realistic, with real baddies who got their just desserts, and with one baddie who had his heart in the right place, but who still needed to pay the price for his past sins. I loved Will's birthday wish and had no trouble at all seeing it and believing that it could and would happen.

ARC courtesy of Carina Press for my reading pleasure.

This is Taz & Will’s story.  These two are so broken, Will due to physical & sexual abuse when he was younger and Taz who was attacked due to being with another man and physically scarred.  Will is living in a group home as he basically can’t live on his own and is unable to work.  Taz is basically a hermit living in an apartment that his dad, who he has only known for a couple of years, found for him.  Both are suffering from severe forms of different types of PTSD.  This story is a journey of getting to know each other and slowly bringing themselves out of their shells and living the lives they both deserve to live.  There is a secret that neither of the boys know about that could have destroyed the fragile relationship but in the end, it does make them both stronger.  I loved that we got to see all of the guys from the previous stories and everyone grow to be friends.  I look forward for additional for additional stories in this series.