Hope Even After by Heather Greer

Hope Even After

Book Summary

Loving him was never the problem.

Living with the addiction was.

In a small Illinois town, Daisy Taylor has loved her best friend Luke Masters since high school. But when grief drove Luke away from faith and into alcohol, Daisy learned an impossible truth: loving someone does not mean you can save them. Hoping for more than friendship felt risky, especially when the man she loved stopped believing in God and in himself.

Luke once trusted faith. After devastating loss, he decided it was nothing more than a crutch, and the bottle became his refuge. But when he crosses a line he cannot undo, Luke is forced to confront his addiction and begin the slow, humbling road toward sobriety.

As Luke fights for recovery, Daisy walks a razor’s edge, loving someone in recovery without rescuing him, supporting him without losing herself, and guarding a heart she buried years ago. Old feelings resurface. Faith is tested. And the future she once mourned threatens to reappear—fragile and uncertain.

Hope Even After is a faith-filled story of second chances, hard-earned healing, and the quiet courage it takes to trust God when answers do not come easily. With emotional depth and a gentle thread of romance, this novel explores boundaries, grace, and what it means to hope wisely rather than desperately.

My Thoughts

Hope Even After by Heather Greer demonstrates that addiction impacts more than just the individual experiencing it.  This impacts an individual's family, friends, colleagues, and other members of their social network.  The author effectively highlights the challenges of addiction and its impact on relationships.  Healing is possible with time, patience, love, and God. The text contains some repetitive elements, and the emphasis on faith may come across as somewhat pronounced.  I can tell that the author did her research on teas and tisanes. Hope Even After is an emotional story about forgiveness, redemption, friendship, hope, love, and faith.  

Hope Even After is available from Amazon*.  If you are a member of Kindle Unlimited, you can read it for free (borrow it and you can begin reading right away).  You can find Heather Greer's other novels here.  You can follow Heather Greer on Amazon and Facebook. 

Thank you for dropping by today.  Did you have a delightful Valentine's Day weekend? My mother was my valentine, and I picked up some cute gifts for her.  My mother loves Snoopy and Woodstock.  So, I picked up a cute "bouquet" that had a little stuffed Snoopy and Woodstock.  She also received a musical snowmotion snow globe.  As long as the music plays, the "snow" (little red, pink, and white hearts) continue to swirl around the globe.  She also received a new nightgown and a set of Peanuts socks.  I could tell she liked her gifts from the big smile on her face.  On Wednesday, February 18, I am featuring Murder Will Out by Jennifer K. Breedlove.  I hope that you have a lovely day.  Take care and Happy Reading!

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