It was kind of alright - sort of cute. The characters had some development, it was some bored-parts but overall cute.

Noe Burke is ready for love and commitment two years after the death of his wife and child. He's an award winning musician who seems to be attracting women who are interested in his celebrity. Noe decides to take a hiatus at his cabin at Bainbridge Island, Washington. Katy is a thirty-something vegan who enjoys experimenting with recipes and volunteers at an equine therapy center in Fort Worth. She has dreams of building an animal sanctuary, but she lacks the funds and she's running out of options. The two encounter each other on a vegan forum, he hires her to be his consultant and offers her a trip to Seattle. Rebecca, his best friend, believes he is giving his heart to the wrong woman and begins to manipulate their relationship. Can Noe and Katy overcome her scheming, or will it destroy their happiness?

This book was well written for a first time author! It has a modern romance feel with how they meet. I enjoyed the characters and the storyline. I can't wait to read the next book Alison Reese writes.

Katy’s song by Alison Reese .
Neo Burke is an multi-award winning musician who two years after the death of his wife is ready to start looking for love and commitment. But the women he attracts seem interested only in his celebrity, So he decides to concentrate on his health and takes a hiatus at his small isolated cabin away from the public eye. A chance meeting with a stranger who gives him a lift and gives him a book on veganism and how it changed his life and improved his health after he lost 80lbs.
Thirty-something vegan Katy enjoys experimenting with recipes and volunteering at an equine therapy center in Fort Worth. She dreams of building an animal sanctuary, but money's tight and options are dwindling.
When Noe encounters Katy on a vegan forum, he hires her as his consultant, offering a generous salary along with an all-expense-paid trip to Seattle. But his best friend Rebecca suspects he is dangerously close to handing his heart to the wrong woman, and she begins to manipulate their relationship.
Though when Katy does go to Seattle she has know idea who Noe is as she only knows him as Jon. When they do meet she doesn’t treat him as a rock star just as a normal every day person which is refreshing for Noe. Whilst Rebecca is meddling the go to a baseball game Katy crosses paths with her recent ex who is a ball player . It all be comes a mess . Will love overcomes in the end???

Loved the book warm-hearted well written . Everything to love. With lots of twists and turns enjoyable read !

This was a surprisingly well written book by a first-time author!

Noe Burke is a famous Grammy-winning rock star. Two years after suffering a tragic and devastating loss, he’s desperate for a break and needs to make some changes to his life. So he heads home to Seattle for some down time, and the chance to be his normal self (aka Jon Abbott). When a chance encounter introduces him to the vegan lifestyle, he immerses himself in research and joins an online forum hoping for answers to his plethora of questions.

Katy Moore suffered her own painful loss recently and has been passing the time with a younger man, hoping it will turn into something meaningful. When it doesn’t, she throws herself into plans to open a small farm/animal sanctuary and buying a favorite horse she works with at a physical therapy horse center where she volunteers. In her free time, she visits an online vegan forum, where she’s happy to dispense knowledge and answer questions from newcomers.

After several days of back and forth between Jon and Katy on the message board, they decide to exchange phone numbers. Then after spending weeks on the phone, Jon invites Katy to Seattle to visit and help introduce him completely in how to be vegan. Though hesitant at first, Katy agrees, and looks forward to meeting Jon in person.

Things don’t go smoothly for Jon and Katy in Seattle though, thanks to a meddling “best friend” who continually interferes and facilitates miscommunications and misunderstandings at every opportunity.

It’s exciting to discover a brand new author, especially when they do such a great job not spitting out the same thing just about every other author does in the romance genre. There were no alpha males, no insta-lust, no repetitive thoughts about pecs (or other body parts). No, none of that, thank goodness. Instead, we get a compelling story about a relationship that develops at a realistic pace. These were two mature, adult people who behaved as such, and it was refreshing to read a story without a bunch of angst. While the antics of Jon’s friend reached soap opera-style meddling, it added just the right amount of drama without being over the top ridiculous.

I was concerned that the story would be preachy, or one big advertisement for the vegan lifestyle. It wasn’t. That part of the storyline was just that - a part. An integral part, but not one that was overpowering. This was a story about Jon and Katy, who met each other because of an interest in being vegan, and not a book about being a vegan with some romance thrown in. Sometimes authors want to share what they are passionate about, and that will come through in the story to the detriment of a plot in the rest of the book. I would say the vegan storyline took a definitive back seat to Jon and Katy’s relationship (as it should, in my opinion), but still shared enough information that I now feel more educated about vegans, what they believe, and the challenges they face trying to live in a world that isn’t really vegan friendly.

The question I always ask myself after reading a book by a first-time author is “would I be willing to read another of their books?” This time, the answer is a resounding YES! There is a shortage of authors who write compelling, realistic stories about mature adults, and do so without all the silly storytelling techniques so prevalent today. I hope Ms. Reese has more stories in her, because I’d be happy to read them!

* thank you to NetGalley and The Wild Rose Press, Inc for providing an ARC in exchange for an honest review