The Nature of Love

This is the final book in the three-book series Love in the Spotlight.  Chris Gamble is the last of his friends to find a partner. He works at a nature preserve and sometimes takes in wounded animals to rehab and then either release or rehome. Erykah Kennedy has found a wounded dog and brought it to Chris to check over.  The puppy only needed to be cleaned up and fed.  Erykah took the dog home, but she needed to have a place for the puppy to go during the day while she was at work.  Chris offered to keep the puppy at work with him and allow him to have the activity he needs instead of being cooped up in a condo all day.  Chris and Erykah became friends through the days of handing the puppy back and forth.  They were about to go to dinner when the local police come to the door to tell Erykah that her sister and husband had been killed in a car crash. She was named the guardian for her two nieces.

Chris helps Erykah bring the girls from Kentucky to Colorado.  In the process Erykah meets Chris's friends, Tuck and Piper. Back in Colorado, Chris allows Erykah to move into his basement and helps her with her nieces. Throughout the whole process they become closer and closer. 

Toni Shiloh has taken a tough life situation and handled it with care and aplomb.  She openly discusses the grief in losing close family members and the grief that children experience. It's a beautiful novel that takes on difficult life situations and opens the readers' minds to be not so judgmental.  

Strong Four Star Book 

Bethany House Publishers provided the copy I read for this review.  All opinions expressed are solely.