Book Blurb:
Some silences are chosen.
Some are inherited.
Selena Wilder is tired of running into walls.
She knows what she feels for Ezra Merrick. She isn’t blind. She isn’t foolish. But loving someone who hides behind quiet can feel like shouting into a locked room. And lately, the quiet in Willow Bend has taken on a life of its own.
Notes are still appearing.
The air still shifts when no one is looking.
And the past refuses to stay buried.
Ezra has spent years believing silence is safer than truth. If he doesn’t say it, it can’t break. If he doesn’t dig, it won’t bleed. But when the echoes of 1965 begin pressing closer—closer to his family, closer to Selena—his restraint starts to look less like protection and more like fear.
As tension builds between them, the line between caution and avoidance blurs. Old loyalties are tested. Family history resurfaces. And something in Willow Bend is no longer content to wait.
Because in a town where memory lingers in every creaking floorboard and every flicker of light, the quiet isn’t empty.
It’s listening.
Tropes:
*Indie Author *Small town romance *slow burn *mystery *Age Gap *supernatural elements
*Family mystery *cover up *secrets *town lies *multiple POV *Found family *longing
*pining *Forbidden romance (Ezra thinks so... no one else feels that way)
Thoughts:
This is the second book in the Willow Bend Trilogy and should be read in order as these books build off each other and this one picks up where the last book ended.
While this book is multiple POV between our group the leading characters of this book are Selena and Ezra (middle Merrick brother).
Selena and Ezra have been friends for a long time but something more has been coming to the surface for a long time, Selena one night wanting to push things further into more than friends asks Ezra a question... which leads to Ezra going into a big of a spiral... truth is he feels a lot towards Selena but doesn't believe he should due to his own reasons.
Ezra was frustrating throughout this book he wanted to be with Selena but was pushing himself away and pushing her away from him as well, he was hot and cold with her and sending mixed signals... I wanted to pull him aside and tell him to get it together and tell her how he felt already!
The small town mystery continues in this book as Ezra, Selena and their friend group work to find the clues and put together what happened to the woman the town seems set on hiding even existed... throughout the first book and this book there was a paranormal element helping/leading our group in the right direction and had me wanting to get to the bottom of what happened all those years ago.
I love the found family elements being back in this story felt like visiting with old friends, and wanting to maybe play cupid pull Ezra aside and tell him to go for it, get your woman before she gives up on you... on another note I do get Ezra's internal struggle with his feelings but I think that he was so hyper fixated on these issues that he failed to see that anyone who mattered would be happy for him and Selena.
It's Christmas time in town but spooky vibes continue throughout the story with mysterious messages from unknown beings, notes that show up at random, strange voicemails and radio static that comes through as a transmitter from beyond the veil.
I appreciated the blend of the mystery still happening along side the Romance and the tension from the push and pull from Ezra and Selena.
Also what is happening with the Merrick Brother's aunt and uncle?
This book revealed some hidden truths but with all the questions left unanswered I'm looking forward to seeing how everything ties together and is revealed in book 3.
Have you read this one? What did you think?
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