Blog Tour Review & Giveaway: Near & Far – Nicole Williams

There’s optimistic. And there’s Jesse Walker.

If he wasn’t so charming, his sunny disposition and incessant grin would get old. Fast.

Falling in love with the girl who had at first seemed immune to it, was the best thing to happen to Jesse since the Walkers adopted him into their family when he was five. But loving the girl who has her fair share of secrets is about as easy as that same girl loving the boy who seems to have none.

As Jesse’s life continues at the ranch, and Rowen begins making her mark in the Seattle art community, they begin to wonder where the middle ground is. Or if there even is one.

As push comes to shove and choices aren’t only needing to be made, but forced to be made, Jesse and Rowen have to face what their lives might look like without the other.

Can two people with such tragic pasts and different presents, go on to expect a promising future? Whatever the answer, they’ll need a lot more than love to make it.

Title: Near & Far (Lost & Found, #2)
Author: Nicole Williams
Release date: July 30th, 2013
Age Group: Mature Young Adult/New Adult
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Tour organized by: AToMR Tours
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I loved Jesse and Rowens’ story in LOST AND FOUND.  I loved how Jesse was able to show Rowen that, despite the bad things that may have occurred in your life, you are more than those events and can be whoever you want to be.  He showed her she was worthy of a strong, steady man like him loving her and he was privileged to her love her.  I really wanted to see how their relationship was working with the distance between Montana and Seattle.  What I wasn’t expecting was for there to be a complete role reversal between Jesse and Rowen.

In my mind, Jesse was a rock.  I knew that if Rowen floundered, he would be there to help her find her way.  It always appeared that Jesse could handle anything with that stoic cowboy grace of his.  But a run in with a certain nasty homeless woman sent Jesse on a downward spiral I wasn’t sure he was going to be able to pull himself out of.  He pushed everyone away and he sank back into the feelings he had as the young abused boy left chained in the basement.  It was sad to read just because he was the last person I would have expected to spiral.

And in that role reversal, it was Rowen that became Jesse’s rock.  Rowen proved to Jesse at different times that he was the one she wanted, not matter what.  She didn’t see him as a dumb cowboy or felt as though he was holding her back, the way some of her peers felt.  When he started his downward slide, she tried to stick with him, even as he pushed her away.  And when Jesse does the unthinkable, it’s Rowen, without being there, that helps pull him through his darkest hour.

I loved the way LOST AND FOUND had ended, but I’m glad Nicole Williams gave us a second book in the series.  It gave us a new perspective to the couple and demonstrated just how right for each other they are.

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• 2 Print copies of Near & Far – International
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I’m the New York Times and USATODAY bestselling author of the LOST & FOUND series, the CRASH series, and a handful of others. Basically, I get to do what I love. Every single day. I write romance because I’m a sucker for a good love story, and I write happy endings because there are too few of them in real life.

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