The Best Friend
About
Gretchen Hendricks spent half her life in love with a man who ended up more dedicated to his job than her. After a divorce that left her devastated, she put all her energies into building up her career as a psychologist. Now, well into her thirties she has achieved professional success, and leads a model life. She has tried to let go of her girlhood dreams of a marriage and kids to complement her career. After being burned so thoroughly by the boy she’d given her young, girlish heart to, she is happier alone.
Until one day she runs into her adolescent friend, Tony Lindstrom and realizes the catastrophic circumstances that have ended his service in the United States Army. It has been two years since the end of Tony’s professional career, and life as he knew it. But he has done nothing to accept what happened to him, or even begun to learn how to live with it. He is holed up in his parents’ house, without a job or prospects of any kind, and the thing is: he’s just fine with that. He figures he’s paid his dues to society more than the average person; doesn’t he deserve to be left alone to deal with things how he wants?
But then he runs into the one woman he always loved, and could never have, because she was always his best friend’s girl. Gretchen will not accept who Tony has become, or that he has completely given up on living a worthwhile life. But Tony can’t contemplate anything with Gretchen because to him, what good is a man who is incomplete on the outside, but completely broken inside?
Praise for this book
"SPEECHLESS!! JUST SPEECHLESS!! Leanna Davis is a New Author for me and She Had me Intrigued from the Very beginning of this book!
This is Book #3 in the Sister Series and didn't stop me from reading this one. I do in fact want to go back and read the first two books of this Series!"
"What an amazing book filled with well-developed and deep characters who nearly leap off the page with their intelligence, bravery, and deep connections to one another. This book centers on Tony Lindstrom, the former best friend of Will Hendricks, and wounded Army vet. When Gretchen Hendricks, Will's ex-wife and former childhood crush of Tony's runs into him at the grocery store, she's flabbergasted at the change in Tony's attitude and personality. Family members ask her to step in and help; she's a licensed therapist, but she has not idea of the depth of Tony's pain and rage. Gretchen and Tony have a long, slow burn in this book before anything happens between them, but the heat they create and the chemistry....Wowza! The complications and outside stressors that combine to add to the story are heartbreaking and real - a young child is losing the only mother she has ever known, and she will become Gretchen's responsibility. The story is extremely detailed and fleshed out, and the supporting characters (most from previous books, from what I can surmise), truly help to make this a saga without end. Each character draws you into their personal lives and worlds, and I cannot wait to get better acquainted with the rest of these lovely people"
"Fantastically endearing and captivatingly inspirational tale of heartfelt, enduring love between two long-lost friends who cross paths again in challenging circumstances!"