Lead Me Home (Fight for Me) - Inspirational Romance Novel - Perfect for Book Clubs, Beach Reading & Gift Giving

I cannot even begin to form the right words to give this book the praise it deserves! From beginning to end, I was riveted, completely enthralled by Ollie and Nikki's story.If you've read the other books in the series then you've gotten a little peek into the heartache of Ollie's past, but what unfolds as this story is told will shock and amaze you. AL Jackson is an amazing writer and the buildup from book one in this series to this final chapter in the series is so emotionally moving, I dare you not to shed a tear or two."Oliver Preston was armor and stone. Bitterness and venom. Broken fragments. Shrapnel waiting to burst" This quote stuck out to me when I read it because it at first made me think of Ollie as a weapon, or something really strong and scary. But then I thought about it from another perspective. Ollie was hard and he was strong on the outside, but on the inside he was broken, held together by a pin. There was a pin in place, a last drop of hope so to speak, that he'd one day get the answers to his tragic past that he so clearly needed. Either the pin would hold or it would burst. No one shook the pin around like Nikki did.Knowing Nikki from the earlier books in the series you'd never guess the pain she holds inside. She's quite literally one of the strongest female characters I've read. To go through so much at a young age and keep on such a brave face was commendable. The type of person she grew up to be from childhood was a nurturing one, a compassionate one, a positive ray of sunshine in other people's lives. But there was one thing that weakened her. It was the way she felt for him, for Ollie. The way she'd always felt for him. "Attraction trembled around us like a magnified force. Like the world still spun while we stood still. The two of us no longer in orbit, and instead, we were strung up in an endless oblivion." "... this man would be my complete undoing. My beautiful beast" "one look, and I was yours"... "one touch, and you owned my soul" Those words are just a fraction of the words written to describe what the chemistry was like between Nikki and Ollie. "It was like finding peace in the darkest night" But, chemistry or not, they both have a lot of inner demons to battle. The past is too strong to ignore, too many things have happened, and too much is left unanswered. When the pieces of the past start to become clear it's like a shockwave hitting everyone all at once. The scene in the book where Rex confronts Ollie was such a gut wrenching moment, I literally highlighted the entire thing. My heart broke for these men who lost so much. For all of them who lost so much. Moving forward after we found out the answers of the past was hard but they find the strength to do it. To move forward. "I want to try to be the kind of guy you deserve" ... "Sunshine"..."you are light and life. My life. My everything. Let me be yours." "Forever and ever, you and me" I will never forget this book. The way the story moved and the emotions felt while reading it were so profound. Amy has such an amazing way of writing her stories to make you feel the characters and know them, truly know them. You feel their love and joy, their heartbreak and sorrow. And their genuine realness. I highly recommend any book by AL Jackson, she's an amazing author and her books will make a mark on you for a long time after you're done reading. You'll want to go back again and again just to reread and reenter the worlds she creates. ♡