The Lights on Knockbridge Lane

By: Roan Parrish

Narrated by: Michael Dean

Can one man’s crowded, messy life fill another man’s empty heart?

Raising a family was always Adam Mills’ dream, although solo parenting and moving back to tiny Garnet Run certainly were not. After a messy breakup, Adam is doing his best to give his young daughter the life she deserves—including accepting help from their new, reclusive neighbor to fulfill her Christmas wish.

Though the little house may not have “the most lights ever,” the Mills home begins to brighten as handsome Wes Mobray spends more time there and slowly sheds his protective layers. But when the eye-catching house ends up in the news, Wes has to make a choice: hide from the darkness of his unusual past or embrace the light of a future—and a family—with Adam.

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Garnet Run

Book 1: Better Than People
Book 2: Best Laid Plans

Love in the unexpected

I enjoyed this story. It was angsty, fun with some silliness thrown in. It was about seeing life through the eyes of an 8 year old.
It was about finding love in the most unexpected places.
I would definitely recommend.

Charming Christmas romance

Wes, Adam, & Gus get to know each other over spiders & Christmas lights. It’s fun & engaging. I thought Adam was a little too quick to think Wes was thoughtful & kind, though he was, I just thought a couple more scenes of Wes learning to interact with humans again would have made the pace a tad more organic. The story held my interest, and the angst is low. Eight year old Gus is the most fully realized of the 3 main characters, and is delightful if slightly felonious.

Possible spoiler: The living situation needed more airtime. The guys just barely get back together by the end, and I kept waiting for tgat conversation. Adam is living in a rental & isn’t flush, so it would make sense for them to move into one house. But Wes’s house has spiders & snakes that are allowed to roam, and Adam extremely doesn’t like being around spiders & snakes. How they could cohabitate is what I expected the main conflict to be but it doesn’t get addressed at all, and needed to be. (-1 star. To be clear, it needs addressing, not to be the main conflict.) There are several options for addressing the house pet issue, including Wes just sleeping over, but for all the problem solving verve all 3 main characters, none of it is applied to this fraught reality. Especially since Wes even says he’s worried about mixing certain other pets in with his existing menagerie.
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Steam: Medium. Details make it on page for a few M/M encounters. It’s made clear that sound doesn’t carry & they lock the door.

Narration: I enjoyed it. Particularly, Gus being enthusiastic made me smile. Good sound quality.

More please!!

This book is absolutely beautiful and the kind of book I would love to see more of. While I do enjoy hot steamy sex in books. I believe sometimes the sex scene becomes half of the book. This book has an amazing story and is narrated by one of my top favourite!! Michael Dean has never disappointed me as he is excellent and brings a book alive. I HIGHLY RECOMMEND THIS BOOK.

Good

I like this book the characters was sweet and loving , I will listen to this author other books

Cute

This was a cute Christmas story. Not deep but ok. I think I would’ve enjoyed it more if it had a different narrator. I just struggle with Michael Deans narration. I usually don’t get books done by him as he sounds the same overly hyper voice in every book but it’s Roan Parrish, and I love RP