I was happy when I heard Julian was getting his own book. I felt he drew the short end of the stick and needed his story told. I loved being in his head and hearing his feelings. Keaton was the perfect person for him though it took them time. She is everything he needs and he's exactly who she needs. My heart hurt for her in how some people reacted. I loved that her book was about her and her healing and future.
Rachel did a fabulous job with this series. I love it. Her writing is some of my favorite as it just grabs you from the start.

A great read that gave me all the feels. The main couple, Julian and Keaton, are so well paired. The way these two broken, grieving characters find their way to each other will have you turning the pages; laughing, crying, and even sighing with them throughout the entire book. A definite must read.

Rachel Van Dyke writes the second book to follow Stealing Her and this one was just as good. I was dying waiting for this book because I loved the first one so much. The twin brother wakes from his coma to find out what all has happened in his life and to be shocked by all the news. He is needing to get away to deal with it all and decides to go to family condo in Vermont where he meets a social media person and that is actually a renter of the cabin, This story is so good and I don’t want to ruin it and you will enjoy it. Five stars!!!

A Heartbreakingly Beautiful Read!
Jillian Tennyson, needs to get away he has had to many changes and just lost his mom. When he is told to take a vacation he ends up at the family’s cabin that he has not been at in years.
Keaton Westbrook just lost the love of her life, Noah. Now she needs to get away to reflect and to write a book telling their love story. So she decides to rent the cabin that Noah had wanted to visit, so she could write and hopefully find some peace.
Little did either Jillian or Keaton know what was in store at their cabins or how it would change them.
This book starts out with kind of a sad tone. Dealing with loss, grief and trying to work through it all. However even though there is a sadness throughout Finding Him there is also so much love. At one point it did have me crying, you just can not help but feel for Jillian and Keaton, and to fall in love with them. There are so many beautiful words in this story. It did have good and happy times as weIl, it was not all sad. Finding Him truly is a Heartbreakingly Beautiful read! I absolutely love everything about it, and I highly recommend Finding Him!

This is the second book in the Covet series, however I believe that it can be read as a standalone. This book follows Julian and Keaton. Julian is Bridge's twin brother that we knew to be in a coma from the first book. He has now woken up to find that his fiance has been stolen from him and life is grim. Bridge suggests that he head off to a vacation home to relax for awhile. Upon arriving, he finds Keaton there.

Keaton has rented a cabin to get a break from the public. She just lost her someone important to her and she needs to grieve privately. She is not expecting Julian to show up and ruin her quiet retreat.

Julian and Keaton begin to bond over their tragic pasts and decide what it could mean for their future.

While I did enjoy this book, I feel like this is more of Keaton's story instead of Julian. Since the first book focused so heavily on Bridge, I expected more of Julian to shine through this book. A great story nonetheless.

Finding Him
Book 2 Covet duet
Rachel Van Dyken

Marvelous! Very good story line that kept me engaged throughout! Didn't want the story to end! Love the characters, their banter, and their chemistry. This story is so full of emotions- betrayal, love, death, and heartache.

"It felt a lot like coming home. Like finding forever. Finding my family again."

Terrific story! What a beautiful duet written by Rachel! I highly recommend!

Outstanding! This book deals with personal lost between two characters with two different circumstances. Trying to move on and getting on with life are hard to do and that is what the characters are trying to do. Keaton Westbrook is a social media superstar who gets stranded with a billionaire on a wintery day in a cabin. The last thing these two wanted to do was have to be stranded together as complete strangers. I wasn't a huge fan of Julian in the first book, but I must say, he won me over and I found myself unable to stop reading.

I loved this book. A guilty pleasure that I can pick up and read in one sitting. Rachel Van Dyken's stories always grasp me from the beginning. Such a sad, but great, read. I highly recommend, not only this book, but the first in the series as well. I received an ARC in exchange for an honest, voluntary review.

Finding Him is book 2 in the Covet series but it can be read as a stand-alone.
I loved this book so much. it is fun, sexy and heartwarming.

I do highly recommend.

What do you do when the life you knew falls apart. Things so completely out of your control that making sense of the world seems impossible? Julian woke up from a coma to find the world he was living in was flipped upside down by the inclusion of his estranged twin brother. Now all the things he worked so long and hard for are gone.
Keaton is struggling in a similar but very different way.Trying to find herself after the loss of someone who defined her.
When these two are stranded and stuck in a storm together, other concerns seem to come up.
Reading how Julian and Keaton become more than strangers stranded together, into friendship and healing hearts is nothing short of phenomenal. Having read Stealing her and seeing Juilan painted as the bad guy to then feel for him in the end, takes this book on another level. This is no simple love story and it one that will have you melting like the snow in springtime.

Finding Him by Rachel Van Dyken was an unexpected read and the second book in the Covet series. This time around we get Julian’s story. Needing to deal with everything that happened, he needed to get away. When he did, he found Keaton, dealing with her own loss and grief. Each are going through so much, but can they find something more together? The story was sweet and emotional and on the light side and just what I needed.

Happy reading!

Overall Grade: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️1/2

“‘My point is this: you fight for love because the minute you have a taste of it, you realize why wars are fought in honor of it. It’s the most precious thing in the world, and it’s worth waiting for…and fighting for.’”

After reading Stealing Her, the first book of Rachel Van Dyken’s Covet series, I found myself in this strange position. For much of that book, Julian, the brother of the hero of that book, seemed the villain. It isn’t until the latter part of that book that you realize there is no “good” or “bad, “hero” or “villain.” That the truth is everyone is a victim to someone’s choices, save Bridge and Julian’s father who is the instigator of the problem. Sympathetic for Julian’s situation at the end of Stealing Her, I needed, nay I wanted, Julian’s story. And Rachel Van Dyken did not disappoint with Finding Him, the second book of this duet. This story is a tale of two people so broken by the circumstances of their lives that they find completion in matching their broken parts together. Julian and Keaton Westbrook find their puzzle completed in each other, and that is the beauty and truth of Van Dyken’s romance.

The story begins with Keaton Westbrook looking for solace in a solo getaway to rural Vermont. There, she intends to write the memoir of her relationship with her now-deceased boyfriend. As a social media celebrity influencer, the world has acted as an active audience to their relationship. In a promise to him and a homage created for her fans, Keaton is struggling to find the words as they will bring completion to his death and their relationship, and she doesn’t feel ready for it. However, she has a deadline to meet, so this seclusion is meant to push her to finish the manuscript. Enter Julian Tennyson. Still angry and struggling with the “betrayal” by his brother and ex-fiancee and the death of his mother, the board of directors of his corporation, along with his brother, strongarm him into taking a vacation as a way to help him find some peace. His brother, Bridge, suggests he go to the family vacation home, a secluded cabin in Vermont. A bit reticent, he agrees so that he can return to a place where he felt the love of his mother. It is here that Keaton and Julian collide into each other. Initially, these two are unimpressed with the other. However, as they spend time together, learning each other, they become attracted to each other. As the story progresses, they find themselves attached, but life threatens their ability to be together. It is here where the depth of this story pulls at your heartstrings. Is it possible for Keaton and Julian to find their happy ending?

I think the reason why I loved this story lies in its tenderness. This isn’t a word that you would use to describe a hero such as Julian Tennyson. Going into the story, he is anything but tender. He’s hardened and angry and hates his world. He’s been devastated in a variety of ways and it spurs him towards being mean-spirited. He’s been changed by his father, but that change is girded through the pain of his life. This is the Julian at the beginning of the story. As he encounters Keaton and finds himself overwhelmed by her story and her pain, it touches at the emotional depths of Julian’s soul. As she tells the story of her relationship to her dead boyfriend, Noah, she tenderizes his heart and soul. In their latter moments together, Van Dyken does what I love with Type A alpha-type characters, she brings him to his knees. She creates a hero who you can’t help but fall in love with. At the end of Finding Him, Julian is nothing like the man of Stealing Her, and you recognize the brilliant depths of Van Dyken’s storytelling. She makes you empathize for him; she breaks your heart for him. Had you told me I would feel so deeply for Julian in Finding Him, I would have laughed. Yet, this is the true story of this Covet duet. It illustrates the power of love to change a person, to bring him to his knees, and return him to his natural condition. Julian is supposed to be softer, more emotional. Hardened under his father’s tutelage, Julian has lost a part of himself. In Finding Him, Van Dyken returns him back to himself, and by extension, his brother, Bridge.

“And then I realized…that was why Julian was special. Because when he wanted something, he went after it full force, with all his soul – and all his heart.”

Through Keaton, I found myself considering death. There are so many truths about death revealed in this story, namely that we often idealize the deceased instead of considering the reality of it. While Noah seems the love of Keaton’s life, it becomes clear that he teaches her to love, but he cannot be her endgame. For much of the story, Keaton struggles against her idealism of Noah with the reality of their relationship. As she falls for Julian, she begins to understand love, but she must learn to let go in order to feel the depth of it. This is where death is complicated because, in letting go, we have to change our memories. The profundity of this truth is the depth of Van Dyken’s story. Even more, we see very clearly how Van Dyken crafts Keaton and Julian to be two sides of the same coin: both in love with the past, reticent to move forward, but drawn to the gravity of their attraction. Besides Julian’s evolution, Keaton’s journey is my second favorite part of Finding Him. The acceptance of her future is any one of us fighting our own.

There is so much quiet and beauty in the moments of Finding Him. Each turn of the page offered healing, a reminder to the reader that moving past loss is necessary to truly “live.” As Julian and Keaton fall in love, the brilliance of Van Dyken’s seamless storytelling is highlighted. She has this uncanny way of creating stories that evoke a tenderness of spirit along with a truth about human nature. Julian and Keaton’s romance is perfect, and the ending of Finding Him will remind you why romance teaches us everything we need to know about living a full life.

This is the second book in the Covet series, however, whilst I would personally recommend reading Stealing Her first as it provides a lot of background to this story, I would also say that this book can be read on a stand alone basis.

I have to say I was pretty hesitant going into this book as I didn’t particularly warm to Julian in the first book but boy oh boy, I’m so glad I read this as I thoroughly enjoyed it. This was actually a really emotional read and I hadn’t been expecting that, in fact at one point, I actually sobbed and I have to say I haven’t been as moved my a book as I was by this one in a really long time. I loved Julian and Keaton and thought they were great together. I’m generally not a fan of fast paced romances but in this book, their journey just seemed right.

This was an addictive, emotional read that I devoured; a definite recommendation from me!

Finding Him by Rachel Van Dyken

This is a story about Julian Tennyson highflying ruthlessly Financier Keaton westbrook a social media superstar who’s paths cross by chance at a time when one is a life changing trauma/tragedy and the other just a shattering tragedy. They both end up in his cabin during a blizzard and they start an initial love/hate relationship. Keaton is there to write a book the reason she rented the cabin unknown to Julian he is there to try and straighten out his life then Keaton has an incident with an elk and ends up with frostbitten hands and Julian has to type her story. Then the book really starts!

Beautiful story leads from sadness anger and love. There is many twists along the way and things are not what they seem. Definitely a must read book. You cry and laugh at almost the same moment. Well done.

This book was so unique and overall amazing. You’ll fall in love with the characters quickly. This story is beautiful filled with laughter, heartache, surprises, and the experience of grief. Let this book heal you. Definitely recommend.

Julian and Keaton’s story is one of grief and learning the heart wants what the heart wants. Both met by chance trying to deal with their grief and both were able to help the other in ways only they could for each other. This book is emotional and takes you on a roller coaster of their highs and lows of how they feel versus how they think they should feel. Neither Julian or Keaton expected the other person but they were exactly what they needed.

Here we go with another review from yours truly. Julian Julian Julian. What are we going to do with you? I will admit I was skeptical at first about this whole book. The last book did not put Julian in a good light. But leave it to Rachel to redeem him. Last book I wanted to punch him in the throat. This book has me wanting to hold him and wipe his tears. The man just wants to be loved and he lost his mommy😭 don’t even get me started on the tears I cried for Keaton. That poor girl. So I’m not a celebrity but I definitely know people can be cruel just because they think they know everything about you. that poor girl needs to live her life without being under a microscope. Towards the end there I just wanted to shake her and say ” Who cares what people think” but I have to refrain myself because I’m in an apartment and there’s nobody here and I would just look crazy 🤣 anyway here’s my review. The book was obviously great. We finally see Into Julian’s mind. We get to see he actually does have a heart. We see him go through a lot of ups and downs with regret and guilt from past choices. And I think it’s safe to say Karma sucks. Keaton is trying to find the best way to mourn her first love. A love gone way too soon. How these 2 collide with humor and pain makes for a very dramatic story. But who doesn’t like drama? I know it grabbed my attention. In a way they help each other get through hard ache. There’s so many quotes in this book that I love. No I won’t reference them but there are a lot that portray the meaning of life. The way Rachel captures feelings in her words is just magnificent. I would highly recommend this author no matter which story you read of hers. I do recommend them all but Thats me ☺️. This story definitely tugs at your heart strings. Fair warning go into this book with a full box of Kleenex. I was a snotty mess. Reading about a topic that touches so many lives definitely makes it hit close to home but also it makes you understand the pain. I believe that’s what makes a great book is when you can feel the emotions of the characters. It is definitely something that you get with each and everyone of Rachel‘s characters. These are just two broken souls trying desperately to find their other halves. They both had to experience love and lose it before finding their happily ever after.

Emotionally charged, heart-wrenching read. Strong-willed, complex characters dealing with their personal loss in the public eye. Rachel Van Dyken brings the heartache and we, as the readers, need to bring the tissues – and the whiskey.

The story arc for Finding Him moves at a steady pace and watching the story unfold before our eyes just draws the reader into the narrative that much more. Both Julian and Keaton have issues, and flaws, but together they are explosive.

This is the story I was hoping Julian would get at the end of the first book. He deserves his happily ever after and was strong enough to fight for it.

Another fantastic read from RVD. Even if it made me cry.

Finding Him is the second book in the Covet series by the talented Rachel Van Dyken. I've been waiting for Julien's story since Stealing Her and Rachel did not disappoint. She's one of the few authors who rips your heart apart but you know she's going to fix it by the time it's over. Julien woke up a different man from his coma. He lost his woman, but that's not the heartbreaking part. He's happy for Bridge and Izzy, he's just lost in his own grief. He decides time away at their family cabin is the perfect solution except he's not alone. Keaton, a social media star is there too. He's a royal jerk to her at first, but he can't help but fall for her. Keaton is trying to move on from her own heart break and loss, but when she finally sees Julian for who he really is she can't help but fall for him a little. Now there's guilt to deal with. After their initial hostility, they realize they can actually help each other. Julien can help Keaton move on and she can help him find peace. But what happens when they are back in the real world? Is it possible to be together when the world isn't going to like it? Oh man! What a fantastic story! Julian is so surprisingly sweet and gentle with a heart of gold. He's not the man he was before. He just wants to make his mother proud. Keaton never thought by closing one door she's find another one open. And Julian would be standing in the doorway. It's funny how fate steps in when you least expect it.

I loved this book! The attraction and chemistry between Julian and Keaton was unstoppable. Even though he was kind of a jerk in the first book he definitely redeemed himself for me in this one. 5 stars all around!

Since waking up from his coma Julian has had time to re-assess his life and he is not happy with what he sees. Not only did he drive his fiancé into the arms of his brother, but he is still dealing with a loss that has devastated him and now finds himself at the family cabin, but he wasn’t prepared to find another guest there.

Keaton has endured a tragic loss of her own and is still reeling. She plans to honor him by chronicling the love they shared by sharing it with the world but what she doesn’t need is another guest at the cottage. Circumstances transpire which have her telling Julian the story while he types it for her which brings them closer than either wanted or expected but when their collaboration on the book ends will that mean the end for them as well?

This is a story about two people who are trying to handle their grief in their own way and through each other find healing, hope and a new beginning. There journey wasn’t without its obstacles but overcoming them makes it that much sweeter.