Games of the Heart
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From the balcony of his house, Mike Haines can see the quiet, commonplace beauty of the Holliday farm. But what he remembers is Dusty, the little sister of his high school girlfriend, who grew up there. As a teen, Dusty had gone off the rails but when she was a kid, she was sweet, she was funny and she had a special bond with Mike. After high school, she took off and Mike never saw her again.
Tragedy strikes Dusty’s family and she comes back to town. Mike thinks she hasn’t changed back to the sweet, funny girl he knew but instead continued to be selfish and thoughtless, leaving her family alone to deal with their mourning. He seeks her out and confronts her in an effort to understand what went wrong and to force her to sort herself out.
He finds out quickly he’s wrong about Dusty Holliday. Very wrong. After Mike discovers that, the bond they had years before snaps back into place in ways he would never suspect.
But Mike Haines had a bad marriage and then played games of the heart for a good woman...and lost. In order to protect himself and his kids, he’s cautious, he’s careful to read the signs and he’s not interested in finding a woman he has to fix.
When he learns what happened to Dusty, he thinks she needs to be fixed.
He swings, he misses and in this new game of hearts, Mike just got strike three.
Kristen Ashley
Kristen Ashley grew up in Brownsburg, Indiana but has lived in Denver, Colorado and the West Country of England. Thus she has been blessed to have friends and family around the globe. Her posse is loopy (to say the least) but loopy is good when you want to write.Kristen was raised in a house with a large and multi-generational family. They lived on a very small farm in a small town in the heartland and existed amongst the strains of Glenn Miller, The Everly Brothers, REO Speedwagon and Whitesnake (and the wardrobes that matched).Needless to say, growing up in a house full of music, clothes and love was a good way to grow up.And as she keeps growing up, it keeps getting better.
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Reviews for Games of the Heart
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5the best one so far
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5loved it
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5gotta say...this one was so far my favorite inthe series...It made me feel like its possible to just have a normal..sweet ...giving and taking relationship...and made me feel like i wanna move to a farm lol..awsome
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/54.5 amazing book.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5I was so glad that Mike got someone really good for him (I did feel a bit regretful about him in At Peace.. he's a nice guy and it was a touch sad to see him disappointed). Dusty was just right for him but I must say that in this book (especially in the beginning) Mike seemed to have disconnected any governers on his mouth. Talk about saying things without forethought.
Still, in the end it all worked out even with the 'mandatory tension' (and he learnt very well where his loyalty lay).
To counter this, one of the things which really annoys me is someone 'wallowing' so Rhonda really annoyed me. Personally I think her family was waaaay too patient with her (I mean it was more than three quarters of the book before she was confronted and made to face the way things were).
Overall it was a good book but still it was the least favourite of this series for me