Healing Embrace

A blind date between two lovers gives them an opportunity to take the harder road to love or to say a final goodbye.

Barb and Janet are still eating dinner when we meet them again in Healing Embrace (2017). Their blind date set up by friends gives them an opportunity to decide whether to go forward with their relationship or not. The road to happily ever after is never easy. Barb and Janet suffer continuous misunderstandings, miscommunications, and hardships. Every one of their friends and family is invested in the relationship though and does everything they can to help, but in the end it comes down to just Barb and Janet. Can they overcome the hurdles long enough to want to stay together?

Anne Hagan comes up with some interesting disasters in the second book of the “Barb and Janet” series. Holy sugar, each lady goes through some dramas. Janet has grown as a character as I have been with her since she first appeared. I really like her. Once again, I was drawn into their individual stories and even I was thinking, “Okay, that's it.” This is why Hagan writes romances and I write horror (laugh).

I think there is at least one situation in this book that almost everyone could identify with as Hagan packs in a multitude of catastrophes on both an emotional scale and life affecting ones. (I am trying not to give away too much of the stories here (laugh).) This is what is appealing about Hagan's books. She layers her stories so that her characters as individuals can stand on their own and not just as a couple or as a mother for example.

I do not think Healing Embrace could be read as a stand-alone, but who would want to? (laugh) After getting this far, do you not want to know how it ends? Hagan brings it home in her third book: Steamboat Reunion (2019).