Review: Once Touched by Laura Moore

Laura Moore and the Silver Creek series are new to me and I am so glad that I found them. Once Touched is a great, sweet read!

The focus of Once Touched is Quinn, the youngest of three siblings. The story opens with her feeling a little out of sorts as she is surrounded by love and thinks she is the target of new match making attempts. She ends up working with Ethan, an injured family friend, and an unexpected romance blossoms.

I enjoyed watching Quinn and Ethan together. Their relationship was a gradual build up as she had to work through his walls to even form a friendship. One of the things I appreciated most about these two characters was how they paid attention to each other. A great example was the night their relationship moved from friends to lovers; Ethan was the only person to notice that Quinn wasn’t her normal self and sought her out to determine what was wrong.

Once Touched dealt with several issues, one of which was survivor’s guilt. Ethan’s issues around surviving an IED attack and Quinn forcing him to deal with it are what ultimately cause the conflict between them. Ms. Moore handled everything with grace and made Ethan and Quinn characters that you wanted to see succeed.

This is the third book in the Silver Creek Series, but it reads very well as a stand-alone. The characters from the other books are active in the story line, but not having read their stories doesn’t hinder understanding this story.