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Finding Him

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I really enjoyed this book!


I think I fell more for Julian in this book because if everything he’s been through.

After being separated from his mother and his twin brother Julian had to live a life that he really didn’t care for and because of that he lost everything and the accident didn’t help much either.


Being forced to take a much needed rest and some time to get his head on straight Julian’s world is about to take a turn and for him it may be the best thing ever!

Keaton’s life, well let’s just say this girl fell in love only for her to lose the love. Now she is on a mission to fulfill a loved one’s wish but Keaton’s heart cant seem to move on, until she goes to the cabin for some much needed alone time.

When she sees him and he sees her “oh boy”. The connection between these two and how they both need each other is simply amazing! These two bring out the best in each other and it’s exactly what they need.

I loved it from the moment she fought the elk. Lol

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4.5 emotionally heart-wrenching stars

After reading Stealing Her the first book in this series I was quite intrigued by Julian and to me RVD honestly outdid herself with his story. Once I started this one I was completely hooked. It was so raw and emotional, honestly I read the most of the book through tears. The emotions she portrayed into this one was immense, heart and soul.

Our opinion of Julian changed throughout the first book as we got to know him, despite him being in a coma. In this one he's a broken man. He has woken to find his whole world tipped upside down and his fiancée is now with his estranged twin brother. He is struggling to deal with everything, he feels broken and is throwing himself into his work until his brother and the board force him to take a vacation.

Heading to his family cabin in the middle of nowhere he never expected to find someone else there in the shape of the hot and broken Keaton. She's grieving the loss of her boyfriend from Cancer and has promised to write his story.

Keaton is the complete opposite of Julian. Whereas he's the town playboy with a bad reputation thanks to his dads smear campaign, Keaton is the nations sweetheart and everyone loved her romance.

Stuck in the isolated cabin together Julian offers to help her write her story. This lead to them developing a connection between them that was raw, emotional and so much more then either ever thought it would be.

My heart honestly broke for both of them. Julian is desperate for someone to chose him, see the real him, love HIM whereas Keaton is struggling with the guilt over her feelings for Julian.

Can they both find their Forever Love the second time around.

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Julian Tennyson has been through so much in the last few months, being in a coma, losing his fiancé to his twin brother and the loss of his mother. Now after being forced to take a leave of absence from his work, some rest and relaxation at his family secluded cabin is where he will find it...or will he? Keaton Westbrook, has mad a promise to her dead fiancé that she would write their story, and what better place to do it then in the cabin they always wanted to rent; the one thing that isn’t in Keaton’s plan is the unexpected visitor in for form of Julian Tennyson. Throw in a massive snow storm, and some electrifying chemistry and you the perfect recipe for Finding Him. This book was beautifully written, it has everything you want, it was funny, emotional (yes you will need Kleenex) and of course off the charts romance! An excellent read!

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3 reviews
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4 stars
I have been waiting to get my hands on Julian's story... and we finally get to see him as a "real" person not the man being impersonated. I really enjoyed this story and would give it a 4 stars.

Keaton is trying to get away to write her book about the tragedy she has suffered and Julian is trying to come to terms with his new life. A snow storm causes a whirlwind of emotions as they are stuck together but what will happen when they have to go back to the real world?

Get to one clicking to see what happens!
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4.5 stars

After reading Stealing Her, I knew I needed Julian's story. Once I started it, I couldn't put it down. You feel the whole gamut of emotions: loss, heartache, hope, love... This was a emotional read.

In Stealing Her, Julian's twin, Bridge, impersonates him, while Julian is in a coma. When Julian wakes up he realizes he lost his fiance. Now he is suffering heartache and just angry. Bridge makes Julian take a sabbatical to there place in Vermont.

The house is simultaneously rented out to Keaton Westbrook, who is also suffering her own loss.

Stuck due to a snow storm, Julian and Keaton become close. While they would like to move forward outside forces are at play. Not to mention they both have issues with trust and people using them.

So what happens? You'll definitely want to one-click for Julian's story. You won't be disappointed.
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4 stars

Keaton, needing some time away to write a book about the death of her boyfriend, rents a cabin. Unbeknownst to her, Julian, the owner of the cabin, has decided to retreat there after his brother stole his fiance and his place in the family business. After the initial shock and near accident, Julian begins to help Keaton write her book, even after they make it back to the city and their lives.

Watching Julian fall for Keaton and struggle with her conflicted feelings tears the reader apart. Can Keaton get over the public image she is afraid of?

Even though I hadn't read the first one, this book stood alone as a sweet romance. I wanted to shake the characters a couple of times, but was satisfied in the end with how it turned out.

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Finding Him has easily made its way into my top 5 favorite RVD books and I feel like this was one of the best books RVD has ever written.

When we first met Julian he was a jerk. There was no nice way to put what he was. I definitely thought there was no way he was going to redeem himself. Man was I wrong! I absolutely fell in love with him in this story and I can say he is my favorite twin.

I felt like Keaton was the perfect character to pair Julian with. Both dealing with difficult situations but leaning on each other to help with the difficult times.

I loved the banter with these two, the back and forth with will they or won't they and I just loved how Rachel wrote their story. It was truly perfect!

I promise this one will not disappoint you. It was well worth the wait for it!

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I went into this book without reading the first book, finding I really enjoy it! Julian was a great hero to our heroine Keaton. Although these two have their own issues, it was great watching them come together. They end up stuck in a cabin together snowed in! Julian was a former playboy & Keaton is dealing with a loss. I think they were well written and a perfectly imperfect pair! This book was a cute read good read! Give it a chance!

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Julian felt like he lost everything that was important in his life when he was in a coma. After his twin brother Bridge ends up in love with Julian’s former fiancé, Julian realized that his life needs to undergo a complete reevaluation. It is so hard to not show the bitterness that is lying in wake, and Julian knows that he must find a way to overcome the pain that accompanied the events that have unfolded.

Keaton Westbrook is longing to escape the public eye. After a relationship that played out in detail on social media is no more, Keaton struggles to find the lights that clearly has been extinguished. With a book deal that demands attention waiting on Keaton, the pressure to bring the past into the future is barreling down on the socialite with the weight of the world. Seeking solace in a Vermont cabin, the last thing Keaton expects is to come face to face with anyone.

With a winter storm brewing on the horizon, Keaton and Julian will quickly discover that a secluded cabin might bring them closer than either could have imagined. For once – the two find solace in another without the media hanging on their every whim. What transpires when an epic storm cripples the area will set the stage for a future that neither could have predicted.

Finding Him is the latest installment in the Covet series by Rachel Van Dyken. This novel follows Julian after his world is turned upside down. During the first book in the series, readers found that Julian wasn’t an honorable man. The actions that led Julian and Bridge to this place in life have left the once successful businessman longing for another life. Keaton enters Julian’s life in the most unexpected way, and I couldn’t have been more entranced by the couple. Julian stole the show in this book, but you shouldn’t take my word for it. Dive head first into the Covet series and experience this unique turn of events for two brothers connected in more ways than one!

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Finding Him (Covet, #2) by Rachel Van Dyken is a nice contemporary romantic read. Julian is the perfect anti-hero. We saw his flaws in Stealing Her and his redemption in Finding Him.This is a hard book for me to rate. I felt that most of the first 25%-30% of the book wasn’t ultimately essential to the story. It seemed rushed and unoriginal and didn’t endear me to Keaton. I actually ended up skimming a few pages to get to the meat of the story. And when I did, that’s where the beauty of the written word takes place. Keaton’s story about Noah is good, but what makes this story so much better is Julian’s written notes. That is what I really enjoyed. And still not a fan of Keaton at this point. I mean come on! Can you not see how hard the dude is trying? At any rate, it’s a good story, although falling a little short from the first book for me. I’d still recommend this book and any of the Eagle Elite Series by this author.

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Julian was a man on the surface who had everything but when he suffered a horrible loss, his whole world seems to fall apart. Keaton thought she had forever until it was ripped away from her but now she needs to try to find a new normal. What will happen when they are stuck in the same place together?

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This book was everything.
If I could give 10 stars, I would.
I just can’t ever get over RVDs writing.
Especially in this one! It’s this perfect mix of all the emotions. The emotional descriptions of love and death and life are so on point and written so accurately! Its like the lyrics in a song with a perfectly timed chorus. It gets you in ALL THE FEELS!

That’s how I felt about this book. It was perfectly written. I am in love with Julians story.

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Ever since I finished Stealing Her I’ve been wanting Julian’s story. This did not disappoint.

Waking up from a coma, and finding out the world kept on spinning without you, has a way of changing a person. Julian thought his life would have more of an impact but sadly it didn’t. And then to lose his mom in the way he did, he feels left out and alone now.

Keaton was trying to move on from the death of her true love and somehow found herself in the path of Julian. Definitely not what she was expecting from a quiet week in the mountains.

The chemistry between these two was so very hot. It’s like something clicked and, no matter what they did, their hearts wouldn’t let go. They were each other’s missing piece.

I loved seeing the progression Julian made with Bridge and Isobel also. Waking up the way he did had to have hurt but he grew to realize the mistakes he made and hurt he caused. I am so happy with how these books ended. I’m typing with a big smile on my face.

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I loved this book, When I saw Rachel was writing this I couldn't wait to get my hands on this, and she didn't disappoint, This was everything I was hoping for and more, I really felt for Julian and what he was going through and then we meet Keaton and see what she's going through and I just knew these 2 would be amazing together. Such a great story.

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This invoked so many emotions!! Oh man where there tears. I wasn’t expecting to love this book as much as I did considering I just liked the first one. But in this one Julian is looking for some type of redemption or just peace from the asshole he was before the coma. He wants to be better to be the man that his mother raised but he doesn’t know how to do it without her. Keaton lost the love of her life and because she is “America’s Sweetheart” everyone knows about it. Now she has a promise to keep to him by writing their story only she doesn’t know how to do it. When a chance encounter with Julian allows her to feel something other than sadness for the first time in over a year she grabs on to it. He offers to help her write her book but is he really helping her with the beginning of their story?
You definitely don’t want to miss this book. The way it dealt with loss was real and as someone who has experienced a lot of it it was written in a way to make you feel it. Don’t miss out on this book.

*I received an ARC for an honest review*

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I'm about to beg RVD to take over my dating apps and help me find a man because this woman writes the most amazing men. Julian may be her best book boyfriend (outside of the mafia guys). The perfect combo of a**hole, sweet, charming, witty and all around decent man. Keaton is the perfect match for Julian. She is so strong, independent and takes none of his crap. She may be the first person to ever actually challenge him. Their chemistry all but leaps off the page at you.

This book will take you through a full spectrum of emotion. Happiness, anger, sadness, love. Grab a glass of wine and some chocolate and get cozy and enjoy the ride. Be prepared to root for the bad guy again, you'll understand this more if you read Finding Her.

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ulian Tennyson wakes up from a coma to find that he had lost everything that mattered to him and he just wants to be alone. But when Julian arrives at his family's cabin for a short vacation, he finds out the beautiful Keaton Westbrook has rented the cabin and he wants her out. What happens when Julian and Keaton get snowed in together?

Finding Him is a heart-breaking, drama-filled and fun read

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Hold on to your tissue boxes and breath deep. Finding Him is heart breakingly beautiful. This has become one of my top favorite Rachel Van Dyken books. The story line has so much depth and pulls at the emotions (all emotions).
Julian Tennyson was still angry about all he had lost about the betrayal of his brother and ex fiance, yet he told them of his forgiveness. He is forced on a three week sabbatical and that is where he meets Keaton Westbrook.
Keaton needed a month to write the book of her great love story with Noah, but she encountered Julian and decided he was ass of the first order.
In this book you will read how they help one another...again tissues please!

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4.5 Stars

Rachel Van Dyken's Finding Him is a romance between two broken people who meet while escaping to find some solace.

From the start, I was drawn into the story of these two famous people. Some forced proximity leads to a one night stand. Ends up they both find the other makes them feel good, both physically and emotionally.

Seriously, this is one hell of an emotional read. One lost their love to cancer, the other to a sibling. Both know loss and don't want to allow it to happen again. These are two people who know the frailty of life, and think about the unknown of death. The scene were he starts to help her is amazing.

My favorite quote should be everyone's motto.
"Let's just get through today, tomorrow will have its own worries."

The author does a great job establishing the conflict, all while taking these enemies to lovers to their happily ever after.

Finding Him is ultimately a beautiful story of allowing yourself to move on with life. It's enjoyable as a standalone, but I would have definitely enjoyed it even more if I had read the first book.

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This is the second book in the Covet series. I do highly suggest that you read Stealing Her first. We do meet Julian in that book. He plays a big role in it.

I really disliked Julian in Stealing Her.

Only Rachel Van Dyken can make the unredeemable, redeemed.

I ended up truly loving Julian. He changed so much in this story. And there's so much more to him than what it seems.

Keaten is great also.

I love how their story played out.

My heart broke for both of them.

Two broken people can help put each other back together again.

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Julian and Keaton

I want to say I hated the Book and that Julian was a douche, but I can’t, because that’s intrinsically who he is, who he has become after dealing by himself with his father all these years.
And now he is hurt, there is something that broke after he woke up from the coma and realized that life moved on while he was asleep, and he doesn’t know how to deal with it.
He is angry at the world, but mostly at himself, for destroying everything that was important in his life, and missing out on being with the people that matter.
Now that is mom is gone, he has nothing to live for, but he is not a quitter, so he will find a way to at least survive while life passes him by.
The cabin might be just what he needs to reconnect with his past and find himself, of course he is not expecting her to be there.
Keaton fights him from the starts, she challenges him and doesn’t let him get away with anything, and that is irresistible for him.
He is used to people falling to their feet when they know who he is, but she is definitely not impressed.
She has been through hell and being is this cabin was what he wanted for her, so she is not about to get kicked out buy some rich idiot. She expected he will be an empty vessel, only full of himself, but he surprised her by being exactly what she needs.

He is ready to risk it all and open his heart… is she ready too?

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How do I love Julian and Keaton? Let me count that ways. Both are going through emotional pain. Both have healing to do and cannot do it alone. They add value to each other’s lives. I could go on.

This book is so beautiful and their grief processes are heartbreaking at times. They both have some growing to do and new insights to discover.

I highly recommend reading. One ending is another’s beginning.

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