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Home the Hard Way

By: Z. A. Maxfield
Narrated by: Shannon Gunn
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Dare Buckley has come home - or at least, he's come back to Palladian, the small town he left as a teenager. After a major lapse in judgment forced him to resign from the Seattle PD, Palladian is the only place that'll hire him. There's one benefit to hitting rock bottom, though: the chance to investigate the mystery of his father's suicide.

Dare also gets to reacquaint himself with Finn Fowler, whose childhood hero worship ended in uncomfortable silence when Dare moved away. But Finn isn't the same little kid Dare once protected. He's grown into an attractive, enigmatic stranger who neither wants nor needs what Dare has to offer.

In fact, Dare soon realizes that Finn's keeping secrets - his own and the town's. And he doesn't seem to care that Dare needs answers. The atmosphere in Palladian, like its namesake river, appears placid, but dark currents churn underneath. When danger closes in, Dare must pit his ingenuity against his heart, and find his way home the hard way.

©2014 Z.A. Maxfield (P)2016 Audible, Inc. Literature & Fiction Romance Suspense Thriller & Suspense Heartfelt
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I really don't hope people actually is like this in real life. Blaming a girl for/young woman for their dirtbag partners cheating? Blaming the son?!?
are people IRL like this? I hopefully newer meet them - or they will get a pice of my mind. Especially if they call themselves good and Christian. It is not good nor Christian to blame others for your own failings as a human or a family. Get your crap together and deal like an adult.
otherwise an okay book.

alright, but...

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I really enjoyed this story. It was very well plotted and surprisingly, I didn't realize 'whodunnit' until the reveal. Shannon Gunn can be really OTT with his narration, but he kept a measured pace on this book- until the sex scenes which were performed in a super-growly way that was not sexy, but instead made me laugh out loud. Entertaining no matter what, this was a great book.

Great, complex story, good narration

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I had hoped for less steamy graphic sex but this was not to be. The basic plot line is good, as with the last one but Maxfield needs to decide whether it's a porn novel or a crime story. I fast forwarded all the sex in the end. I have no objection to romance in a story or a bit of description of the sex but this goes on for pages and pages. I'd rather have heard more about how the relationship developed emotionally and less about the physical.

won't read any more Maxfield.

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Well written interesting story with likeable, realistically flawed characters. The narration though was overly dramatic.

Good story

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It’s a great story with lots of surprises along the way,it kept my interest throughout. I found myself incredibly frustrated by one of the main characters,I totally wanted to smack him upside the head at times but he didn’t disappoint me at the end.

Kept my interest.

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