The Persistence of Thornes by Micalea Smeltzer is now live! 

Hawthorne Mills is supposed to be my chance to start over with my brothers. Becoming their guardian wasn’t the plan, but I’ll do anything it takes to keep them from being put in the system. Even if it means raising two teenage boys when I’m only twenty-three.

There’s one thing I don’t expect.

Caleb Thorne.

He’s literally descended from the founding family of the town and practically royalty here.

And also my new neighbor.

Which makes him privy to every screw up I make trying to navigate being a parental figure to my younger brothers.

It should be easy enough for me to avoid him but he’s annoyingly persistent in wanting to help me. I call it pity even if he insists it’s not.

The worst part is there’s undeniable chemistry between us and the more time we spend together the harder it becomes to resist.

But nothing good in my life has ever lasted so I fully expect Caleb to be another of those temporary things.

Especially when my past demons finally catch up with me.

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5 Absolutely Incredible Stars

When I read the Wildflower Duet by Micalea Smeltzer a few years ago, I fell in love with this small town, it’s unforgettable characters, and the consuming way that this author brought every detail of this world to life. I still think about that world. I still think about those characters, their journeys, and the beautifully emotional story. I got within those pages. So to say that I was excited to come back to that world, to come back to those characters, and to see one of my favorite characters get their well deserved happy ending, is putting it mildly. My heart was ready for this book. My soul is ready for this book. I was just ready to see Caleb Thorne find the person who was meant to be with him.

And let me just tell you now, every bit of this incredible romance was perfection. Every second of this book getting to see Caleb find his match and Halle was everything. Every moment with these two solidified, how much I knew, they needed to be together in every way possible. Every page of this book had me knowing in the deepest part of my heart and soul that these two were soulmates and that they were exactly what each other needed.

Getting to experience and feel all of that over the course of this book with Halle and Caleb was truly wonderful. And honestly, it’s just scratching the surface about what I loved about their story. There were so many big things and little things and just incredible things that had me melting into a puddle of swoony goo reading their story. Those two have an irresistible connection, they have a love that is built stone by stone and brick by brick in the most thoughtful and vulnerable and heart touchingly real way, but more than that they have this magic and dynamic between them that is truly mesmerizing.

Those two are endgame. They are two halves of the same whole that were meant to find each other to complete everything. They didn’t even know they needed. Those two are soulmates. You feel it in your bones. The first moment they meet and the way that these two show up for each other, the way they fight for each other, and the connection and love they are building across this book, and the way that they show everyone around them, but most importantly, each other, that they are meant to be is absolutely beautiful. And it will touch your heart in every way possible. I promise you that.

The Persistence of Thornes has all of the best pieces that make it an incredible love story from start to finish. It’s got a single father who has the biggest heart, stepping into help his neighbor who he definitely has a crush on and wants to have so much more with. It has a strong, independent woman who has been let down so many times in her life by those she should’ve been able to trust, just trying to raise her brothers in the best way possible, while also feeling all of the things for her very handsome next-door neighbor. From the moment these to meet, it is on. Their connection, their fire, and their pull to one another. They may fight it at times, they may take it slow at others because they know the other is scared, they may question everything they think they feel and know, but through it all that fire and that pull to each other is there. It’s fierce, it’s real, it’s vulnerable, and it’s absolutely beautiful.

And you will love every second of getting to experience all of that with Caleb and Halle.

Those two are just something special. What they feel for one another is so real and right and you will just love getting to see the two of them give into all of that over the course of this book. The way they see each other, the way they completely and wholeheartedly get each other, the way that they show up for each other in the exact way that the other needs is truly incredible. It shows the honesty and realness of these characters and their connection, it shows how much they truly understand each other in a way that only they can, and it is just beautiful. It is incredibly beautiful and emotional and meaningful.

Halle and Caleb‘s characters truly stole my heart. I mean from the moment I met them in this book. I loved them with my whole heart. I had already loved Caleb from my previous experiences with his character in the rest of the series, and Holly wiggled her way in there from the very first page. Those two are just so special. There’s just something so incredible about each of them on their own, but when they’re together, it’s truly like fireworks. It’s truly like everything clicking into place in the right way at the right time and it’s incredible to experience that with them.

Caleb Thorne is a character that I have been intrigued by and that I have loved ever since I met him in the first books in the series. That man goes through a lot. And while I would not change an ounce of the story that I’ve already read with these characters, I was definitely ready for him to find his happily ever after. That man has a heart of gold. He shows up for everyone. He loves with his whole heart. And honestly, he just wanted somebody to pick him. To love him first. To choose him. And getting to see him experience that, getting to see how thoughtful he was with Halle as their relationship evolved and developed, and getting to see just how he was willing to show up for her, his family, and himself was absolutely amazing. That man is truly the best. He has the biggest heart, he is always willing to show up and put in the work, and he just loves with his whole heart. You feel that in your bones reading the story and getting to be with him as he experienced a love that he’s so truly deserved, while also giving a love that was so honest and true was beyond meaningful and just so damn beautiful.

Also… The fiery mouth on that man, I was not prepared. Caleb Thorne definitely brings the heat and do not count him out because he is ready and willing to show you that not only is he in this with Holly, but he is bound and determined to show her and everyone around them that they Are meant to be. And that everything they share together is worth it. Watching Caleb build a relationship that he did with Halle, her brothers, and everyone around them was beautiful and so hard touching. That man shining the love and adoration he has on those around him, but especially on Halle was truly everything. That man is so thoughtful, he is so endearing, and he is determined to show her that she is worthy of love and help and care, and that she can count on him. The way he shows up continually for her, for those around him, and the way that that love and adoration is reciprocated to him from Halle is wonderful. And it made my heart so beyond happy getting to see this genuinely good man experience everything that he so deserved.

Now Halle‘s character completely enamored me from the very first moment I met her. I love that girl fiercely. She is a young woman who has had the hardest lot in life. She has experienced too many things that nobody should. But she continues to show up, she continues to fight for herself and her siblings, and she continues to put in the hard work to make a better life for those around her. She herself has a heart of gold too, and she is just so genuine, determined, and hard-working. But she’s also somebody who has been let down so many times and it’s hard for her to trust others because she has trusted before and it’s broken pieces of her. I felt so much for her throughout this book and her unraveling all of those pieces of what she had been through as she tried to resonate with what she was experiencing and feeling in the present tense of this book.

That girl has been through everything, and getting to see her finally bask in the light, getting to see her except the love of someone who deserved her, and getting to see her over the course of this book realize that she deserved that goodness, that she wanted it, and more than that that she was willing to fight with her life for it was absolutely mesmerizing and emotional and beyond beautiful. Halle deserves every good thing in life and you will love getting to see someone doubt on her, getting to see people show up and fight for her, and getting to see her come into her own and realize that she is worthy and deserving of the love that is right next-door. Getting to see her fully except those things about herself and her life and her journey is incredible and so telling and vulnerable. You will love how you connect to her character, you will love just getting to watch her love and experience the trueness of that for the first time, but more than that you will just love The tenacity of her character and her heart through every page of this book.

If you can’t tell already, I loved these two with my whole heart. They were the epitome of meant to be. These characters just saw each other. They got each other. They realized what each other needed and showed up in the ways that truly mattered and in the way that changed everything for these two. Their hearts were so genuine, their connection was so real and true, and the love that grows over the course of this book is so hard thought and honest and beautiful that it completely encapsulate you in the rightness and the depth of what Halle and Caleb share together.

I really can’t say that enough.

My words honestly do not do their love story that justice it deserves. The persistence and the tenacity of these two, their connection, and the love that is eternal between them is absolute perfection, and there truly is no resisting it. These two are meant to be, and you will bask in every swoon worthy moment. You get with them as they try to figure out how they can click all of those puzzle pieces into place to get to the happily ever after that they both so truly and unequivocally deserve.

This love story and what this author gives you with her characters is truly outstanding. I can’t say it enough. I melted reading this book. I swooned. I felt the butterflies right along with these characters. I just believed in them and their love story and I truly cannot say that enough. Micalea Smeltzer put you right in the thick of it, she put your heart on the line right along with her characters, and that pulls you in fiercely. You are just able to live and breathe every ounce of this love story with these characters, you believe in them, you love them with your whole heart, you root for them with all you have, but more than that you just know that they are meant to be and getting to experience all of That as you experience, their story is truly nothing short of everything.

I probably could go on for thousands of more words with all of the things that I loved about The Persistence of Thornes by Micalea Smeltzer. This book is definitely one of my favorite reads of the year and has just brought me back to a series that is so so special to me. I love it. This author does justice to Halle and Caleb and their story and love that they build together, while also bringing you back into a world of characters that Stole my heart years ago. She also leaves a few doors and windows open for possibilities in the future and I for one cannot wait for all of that. This town, these characters, and the connection they all share is truly something special and it was the most incredible reading experience getting to be back with all of them in this very special place as yet another epically, emotional and beautiful love story comes to life.

My heart was beyond happy getting to experience what I did with Halle and Caleb and the boys, and just every other incredible character of this world. It brought back so many of those original feelings I felt reading this series from a few years ago, but it added and multiplied the love I have for this world and what this author creates within it. She truly pours her heart Into every bit of what these characters share. That shines in every interaction, in every little moment, in every big moment, and every moment where these characters show you that they are this found family of people who have seen each other through the hardest moments of their lives and yet continue to show up and love each other because they want to. Because they choose each other, they choose to live life together and show up when it matters, and they continue to love each other, even when that love is complicated…and they always will. Getting to experience that level of heart and connection with all of these characters, while also getting the most romantic and all feeling love story between Halle and Caleb truly makes this book. It makes it everything and more.

And I honestly cannot say enough good things about it.

This book is a must read for anyone who loved the Wildflower Duet, but more than that is just a must read for anyone who loves a good love story. This book is the epitome of two people finding the exact right person who will show up for them in ways that they need, that will sear their hearts to one another, but more than that that will have them believing in every possibility of what could be for that happily ever after. This book is romantic, it is heart touching, and it is absolutely beautiful.

I continue to be blown away by what this author creates with her words and characters, and this book is definitely one of my new favorite of hers. It stole my heart, it completely consumed me from start to finish, and it just reiterated the fact that the right people will find their exact right person at the exact right time that they’re meant to. And getting to experience that, getting the honesty and vulnerability with these characters, thrown in with all of the love and connection and fire they share, It’s truly everything. Everything and more.

Run yourself to this book as soon as you can, and just prepare yourself for one of the most beautiful love stories you will get to experience. I know that I will never forget what it was like to fall in love with these characters, and to experience everything they give you in this book. It is romantic, it is beautiful, it is full of feels and swoon, but more than that it is just wholeheartedly them and the truest and realist way, and I just loved every second of it. These characters completely stole my heart, and I really don’t want it back because I just love them so much. I loved every bit of this book and I know you all too. Because I completely believe it is 100% impossible to not fall in love with these characters and the beautiful love story that they give you in this book and in this entire series.

Meet Micalea

Micalea Smeltzer is a twenty-something author from Northern Virginia. She has four dogs, which is as crazy as it sounds. As a recent kidney transplant recipient she’s dedicated to raising awareness around the effects of kidney disease, dialysis, and transplant as well as educating people on living donation.When she’s not writing you can catch her with her nose buried in a book.

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