Book 4: Conor’s Way

Conor’s Way by Laura Lee Guhrke is a wonderful read. It’s a romance novel, but it is also the story of a man coming to terms with his own past and learning to look beyond it.

After refusing to go down deliberately in a fight, prizefighter Conor Brannigan is beaten severely and left in the middle of the road, where stubborn, proud Olivia Maitland rescues him and takes him in, nursing him back to health. During that time, Conor finds his soul being healed by Olivia and her three adopted daughters, and Conor learns, too, of Olivia’s own pain.

This book really worked for me. The characters don’t get into stupid fights. They talk to each other, and their misunderstandings are genuine.

The author also draws her other characters well, and makes the small Louisiana town where the story is set come alive for me.