"You’re living in the past. You’re afraid to let yourself be too happy. You’re afraid to tell me you love me." - Vivienne

"I’ve never felt so helpless. Knowing I should push her away, but also knowing that I don’t want to." - Asher

This is Asher and Vivienne their second book (first one is: Restrictions). It is strongly recommended reading this Serie in order. This Serie is about the Sterling Family finding love while grieving.

Everyone feels guilty about what happened to their loved one. Especially Asher has a very hard time allowing himself to be happy, he was struggling with that a lot and because of that, he pushed people away and hurt them. Everyone handles grief in different ways and does that in their own time.

"With the Sterlings, it’s never easy, but we get there."

Vivienne is an amazing person and mother to Sebastian. Bash is the sunshine of the family and I'm really glad that the family is healing for themselves and each other. This serie is also very toxic, after a long time Asher & Vivienne learned how to talk and break the toxic cycle. The epilogue made me cry, their proces felt very realistic. Their loved one that passed away would have wanted their family to find love and be happy. They deserve that.

"No matter how many seats we add to the table, there will always be an empty space."

It's really good to read about the other family members too, after already have their books. They grew up so much! There are also some much needed conversations in this book too, that definitely gave Asher & Vivienne courage to have those conversations themselves as well and to finally be together. It took a lot of time but they got there in the end.

This book is republished under the name N. Brown (Nicole Dykes her pen name). I received an ARC copy of this book.