Finding Him

(Covet #2) 

Rachel Van Dyken
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Release Date February 25, 2020

A novel about a shattered family, broken hearts, and healing love by Rachel Van Dyken, the number one New York Times bestselling author of Stealing Her.

Coming out of a coma was one hell of a wake-up call. While I was in the dark, my estranged twin brother, Bridge, had replaced me in the company I owned and swept up my fiancée in the takeover. With my ruthless reputation, can I blame them for falling in love? I have to look long and hard at where I’ve been and where I’m headed. Alone time? The universe has other plans.

Our family’s secluded Vermont cabin comes with a gorgeous—if at first, unwelcoming—surprise. She’s renter Keaton Westbrook, a social media superstar struggling with her own private grief. As a winter storm bears down, we’ve found something to keep us warm—an intimacy neither of us expected and both of us need.

After we say goodbye, what happens then? Keaton and I are longing to reconcile with our painful pasts. I can’t bear to do it without her. Is it too much to ask of fate to give us a second chance at life and love?

After reading Stealing Her (spoilers for that book are coming so abort now if you have not read it!), I was so excited to get Julian Tennyson's story! Julian awoke from a coma to find that his fiancee' was now in love with his twin brother. And his twin also had been running the family company. And after one final loss, Julian is in a dark place and is encouraged to get away. 

Keaton Westbrook is offspring to Hollywood elite and a social media influencer. But she had the ultimate love story that ended in tragedy. So she is sad, lonely, and grief-stricken. She is also overwhelmed by a deadline for the book she is supposed to be writing about it, so she needs peace and quiet. 

When they both end up at the same cabin in a storm, sparks and barbs fly. The ruthless, moody, bad boy meets the goodie two shoes. But they are both broken and mourning in their own ways. And somehow find an unexpected way to connect. Neither of them usually let themselves be vulnerable and hide under their public images, but somehow they can see below the masks.

But their real lives are public and full of scrutiny. He is trying hard to be a new man, but he has a made mistakes and has a reputation. She is stuck in limbo and the public does not want her to move on, even if she might be capable. They find it hard to break their connection. But being seen together could cause a  media firestorm.

Can he only be a dirty little secret or will he ever be enough? Are they strong enough to let go of their pasts and face a new beginning together?

This is Julian's story of forgiveness, growth, self-awareness, and redemption. I honestly really liked him in this one. We see more of his hidden heart and pain that he used to keep buried and it makes him a much more relatable character. I actually sympathized with him often.  I enjoyed more with his brother, Bridge, and Izzy and their ongoing reconciliation. And Keaton was a media star, and was pressured to follow standards and expectations. The situation was complicated, and they both had challenges to their healing.  But I was rooting for Julian to win this one and find his little bit of happiness.
Waking up from a coma is hard, but waking up from a coma to find your fiance in love with your twin brother is a world changer. Especially when it feels like the entire world moved on while you were sleeping. Julian Tennyson has some soul searching to do as he works to find his place now that he is awake again, and his brother and former fiance think some time alone at the family cabin is the perfect place to figure out his next steps. The only problem is the cabin isn’t empty.

Keaton Westbrook grew up with the spotlight of Hollywood on her family. Now she is a social media influencer looking to find some peace and quiet to write a book she is already behind schedule on. A month in a secluded cabin should be the perfect place to sort through her grief and find the words to tell the story she promised to share. But a snow storm blows in and she finds herself not as alone as she thought in the cabin she rented.

I loved both of these characters. Julian is the kind of guy who grows on you. When he was talked about in Stealing Her, I thought I was going to hate him forever. But as we get to know him as he recovers, he makes changes that make it impossible to hang on to the animosity. I loved watching him give of himself as he tried to help Keaton reach her goals. Keaton is just trying to grieve and move on as best as she can, but being in the social media spotlight makes it difficult when her fans expect her to react one way even as she begins to feel something different.

The arc that Julian has made throughout these two books had me rooting him on as he works on forgiveness (of those around him and of himself) and acceptance of his new situation had me cheering for him from the beginning of this book. I loved watching him step out of his norms to help Keaton so she could walk her own emotional journey as well. This was exactly the story I was hoping for Julian as he began to change at the end of Stealing Her, and I couldn’t be happier for the final outcome!

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Kim's 4.5 star review

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author comes an unexpected love story of family, secrets, and the most intimate of deceptions.

My estranged twin brother, Julian, was always the wonder boy—and soon-to-be CEO of our ruthless father’s corporation. My mother and me? Left behind. Now, years after tearing our family apart, my father dares to ask me for a favor? Pretend to be Julian while he fights to survive a tragic accident. It can save the company. Nobody will be the wiser. It’ll be our secret.

I can play Dad’s favorite. I’ll do it for Julian. And for my mother, who’ll want for nothing.

But this double life comes with a beauty of a hitch: my very real feelings for Julian’s fiancée, Isobel. Not only am I betraying Julian, I’m deceiving a woman I love. She doesn’t suspect a thing. As lies compound, lines are crossed and loyalties tested, all I can ask myself is…what have I done?

Because sooner or later something’s got to give. There’s no way I’m giving up Isobel. But once the truth is exposed, it might not be my choice at all.