HALO by R.C. Stephens-a review

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ABOUT THE BOOK: Release Date: November 2016

I fell in love with Thomas Wells and knew he was my forever.
I was sixteen when I gave him my heart.
Our love was the kind to last a lifetime.

But Thomas was broken.
The first day we met he told me he was going to become a Navy SEAL.
At nineteen he enlisted.
At twenty he married me.
At twenty five he left me pregnant and didn’t turn back.
I knew he was suffering….
I also knew I couldn’t save him.
He left me broken.
I was scared and alone.
Until I met Ryder St. John a wounded soldier…
He was lost.
I was lost.
Together we made sense.
I fell in love again…
What Ryder forgot to mention was that he held a secret so explosive that it could shatter both our worlds.

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REVIEW: HALO by R.C. Stephens is a stand alone, adult contemporary romantic storyline focusing on three people: Thomas Wells, Halo Pearson, and Ryder St. John.

Told from three first person points of view (Thomas, Halo, and Ryder) using present day, and several times lines in the past HALO focuses on the relationship between Thomas Wells and his wife Halo Pearson; and Halo and her relationship with Ryder St. John.

All of his life Thomas wanted to escape the h*ll in which he grew up, and enlisting in the U.S. Navy was his ticket to freedom and the Navy SEALs. Meeting and falling in love with Halo Pearson was never in the plans especially when she announced they were expecting a child. Fast forward several months and Halo is now a single parent whose husband filed for divorce, and Thomas Wells is never to be heard from again. Enter Ryder St. John, a wounded U.S. Navy SEAL, and the man who would change our heroine’s life for good. What ensues is the building relationship between Ryder and Halo, and the revelation of a love that has never died.

HALO is a predictable story line with a bit of a twist that I deduced very early on. Ryder is a combat veteran whose life was destroyed along with his entire unit but our hero is unable to remember anything about that day, or his life prior to awakening in the hospital. HALO is a story about one man’s physical and emotional recovery from war, and his struggle to regain the memories of his past.

HALO is also a story that I struggled with its believability and the overall twist to the story line premise. The build up to the truth is slow; how no one was able to decipher the truth is unimaginable. And our heroine’s response is rather staid and unemotional. HALO is an interesting story line of heartbreak, loss, recovery and second chances buy I had a difficult time accepting the circumstances; I wasn’t completely convinced to the possibility under conditions laid out in the story.

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Reviewed by Sandy