Review: Home Sweet Home – Scarlett Metal

Things for Lance and Samantha have been picture perfect since they reunited four years ago. They are happily married with a little girl and another baby on the way. Lance’s career with the Forbidden Gods is stronger than ever. Samantha has some best selling books to her name and her writing career is taking off.

In just a few short months, that perfect world starts to shatter. Lance has to go on tour without Sam. He has creative differences with management over the band’s latest album that have left him frustrated. He suffers loss after loss, not knowing if he can take much more. He turns to alcohol to numb the pain just like he did all those years ago when Sam left him.

Sam tries to be strong for her family when tragedy threatens to pull them apart but when Lance isn’t there for her when she needs him the most, she questions everything she ever believed about them and their love.

Lance is lost and hanging by a thread. Can Sam save him? Or is it too late? Will Lance be able to find his way back home?

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Release Date: July 31, 2013
Publisher: Scarlett Metal
Source: Love Between the Sheets Blog Tour
Reviewer: Shannon
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Reviewer’s Thoughts

When I started reading this book, I felt like I was missing an important piece of the puzzle.  Then I realize there was a book prior to this one and I was indeed missing some information.  However, after I started piecing things together, the story flowed for me.

Lance and Samantha, reunited and married four years ago, have a solid family life.  They treasure the time they have together and with their 3 year old daughter.  Lance’s band is going on tour and for the first time, Samantha won’t be going with Lance, due to pending deadlines and her pregnancy.  Life on the road is a lot harder for Lance without his family and lifeline there with him and he soon’s falls into old habits, which threatens to tear what he has with Samantha apart.

I think this story would have benefitted from being a bit longer.  Just as the tension between Lance and Samantha started to build because they kept missing each other or couldn’t talk as often as they wanted and Lance depending on alcohol, the story forced Lance home, Samantha to tell him he needed help, and they were HEA.  I needed more of a breakdown, more angst, an addict fighting rehab and then the forced intervention for Lance to see he needed help and go in order to save himself and his family.