Love Comes Unheard

Garrett Bowman has spent the last few years since his mother died, trying to find a place where he can feel accepted and for a person who has been deaf since birth, that’s not easy. Garrett is on his way back to his family when he runs out of fuel in the middle of nowhere, the only place he can see is ‘Christmas Tree Village’. When Garrett has a look around the ‘village’ to find someone to help him, he is startled by a hand on his shoulder, as he turns around he tries to say hello as clearly as possible but he’s absolutely shocked when the man starts signing to him!
The owner offers him a job helping him plant trees and as Garrett has no money left he accepts. When they go for lunch at the town’s diner he meets the rest of his boss’s family, Garrett can’t believe his luck when they all sign to him! It turns out that his employer’s adopted daughter is deaf as well so they’re all earning to sign, when they ask Garrett to help teach not only their daughter but the whole family the finer points of signing, well, Garrett can’t believe his luck. After all these years he has finally met a family that accepts him for who he is and honestly doesn’t care if he’s deaf. It’s like all Garrett’s dreams have come true when he meets his new employer’s butler Wilson Haskins, he’s handsome and he talks to Garrett like he’s a real person. There is something about Wilson that appeals to Garrett a great deal but because he can’t hear he’s just not sure if Wilson can possibly feel the anything for a deaf person.
Wilson Haskins can hardly believe his luck when he meets the new hire Garrett, he’s gorgeous but he thinks there’s no way someone who is so much younger could be interested in him. As they get to know each other they both learn that contrary to belief they have a lot of pre-conceived ideas about the other like the fact that Garrett is not that much younger than Wilson and the fact that Wilson’s older brother Reginald is in debt up to his eyeballs to a loan shark over in England.
Both Wilson and Garrett bond over their dysfunctional families, Garrett’s family has never been particularly close to him. His younger brother even went so far as to blame their mother’s death on Garrett saying that if it wasn’t for the fact that she spent so much time with Garrett she would have found the cancer sooner and been able to do something about it! Reginald wiped his hands of him when he learnt that Wilson was gay although it never stopped him trying to get Wilson to help him when it suited him! Now, he expects Wilson to come up with $500,000 to pay off his debts, the only thing is, Wilson has never had that kind of money. After Wilson tells his employers about his brother’s demands for money, considering the fact that Reginald has turned up in America, in their small town Wilson doesn’t feel he has a choice. When it becomes apparent that the loan shark’s thugs have followed him and they’re threatening the entire family including the children, the police are called in and the hunt is on!
Love Comes Unheard is yet another incredibly well written, emotional instalment for the Senses Series about people from all walks of life with their own particular set of difficulties in life and how with a bit of patience and a lot of love you can overcome or adapt to just about anything life sends your way! The emotions Andrew Grey can invoke with his stories is nothing short of amazing, you come away from his books with a completely different attitude and view of a wide variety of disabilities. The range of information is phenomenal; you truly get an in-depth understanding of what are today common health disorders.

The newest book in the Senses Series, Love Comes Unheard is just as great as the rest have been. We get to meet past characters from other books. We get to see more interaction with the kids so the reader got to know them better.
Dan and Connor have such big hearts they took in a deaf man who needed a job. He soon found a family with them.
Simon has been Dan's right hand man since Dan bought the house. The butler or housekeeper came with it. This was Simon's love story. He was matched very well with Garrett. Simon is patient and has experience with working with the deaf. Garrett is thankful for the acceptance he was getting and you know how Andrew Grey is, sparks start to fly and soon they are happy together. The intrusion of Simon's brother from England brings trouble but it's not something that they can't deal with when they do it as a family unit. I love this book but then again I love all the books in the series.

This book, while easily a stand alone, continued the story began in Love Comes Around. Conner has turned the farm into a Christmastree Village, with a ferris wheel as well as the carousel he had refurbished by hand, and other items he has made in the woodshop. Garrett Bowman, down to his last twenty dollars and hasn’t eaten in almost two days when his car ran out of gas right at at the driveway of the Christmastree Fram. When Connor greats the man coming up the drive, and realizes he his deaf, he offers him a job planting trees, at least for the day. He does so in sign language once he realizes Garrett is deaf. Garrett is so amazed that this man offers him a job right away, then that he knows sign, he thinks his luck just might be turning,
Wilson Haskins has worked in the states for ten years, he is an English trained butler and when Dan bought the house he was working in he stayed on happily. Now this younger man has been brought in the house, and is teaching all of them all about the world Janey, their youngest adopted daughter who was born deaf, is living in and will grow up in, and awaking things inside Wilson he buried years ago. Can these make a life together?
Then before they can even figure out how they figure out how they feel, Wilson’s brother comes to the states looking for money because he is in deep trouble. This brings all kinds of things from Wilson’s past to light, things he had worked very hard to forget. Reginald also brings danger across the pond with him, right to his brother’s new family’s doorstep. Can they keep each other safe until this is over?
Again Mr. Grey weaves a tale of love and passion with strong family contections. He teaches us, again and again, in each of his works that family is not necessarily the people you share blood with, but the people that know your heart and love you. The people who even with miscommunication stand by you and protect you. And i would love to have known what Connor said to Dan the couple times this happened in this book. But since most of those scenes took place from Garrett point of view we will never know, but the gestures and deep apologies that followed made you laugh. This is a five star read, another story in this series that is not to missed.
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Once again Andrew has given us a story that we can all relate to one way or another. For me because I have a brother who is legally deaf. Through his words you feel the emotional, physical and somewhat spiritual experiences his characters go through. We are always pulled into a love story that makes us think and feel and this is no exception. Garrett and Wilson's love story just jumps off the page. Getting to \"see\" some of the characters from previous books and being introduced to new ones is always a treat. Such an amazing addition to the Love Comes series.

There’s no secret that I have loved the Senses series since the very first book. I have a serious soft spot for those that are differently abled (for many and obvious reasons) and this is one series where at least one of the MCs falls into that category every time. What makes this series so different is that the “disability” isn’t really. Now, that’s not to say that being deaf, blind, mute, etc. isn’t hard, because it very much is, but that the character doesn’t let this stop them from living. Though, they do tend to have done so to a point early on (but then haven’t we all).
In the beginning of Unheard, Garrett is down to his last few dollars, the last touch of fumes in his gas tank, and his hope of being independent of his family is pretty much shot. He stumbles upon Connor from the last Senses story and finds work, but that’s all he thinks he’s found. Temporary work.
Wilson, the caretaker for Connor and Dan’s children and home, is smitten with the new man when Connor brings him home, but Wilson has his own past, own family issues, and own pains, so he’s not interested in more with the handsome man now under foot and under his skin.
It was so much fun to watch these two men dance around one another and all their issues. Each man has a past that could cripple if allowed, but each still suffers from that rare thing we call hope. Together that hope might just bloom into something truly wonderful. It was this journey, intermixed with secrets, the past, Wilson’s brother and the trouble he brings, and a whole lot more, that kept me riveted and turning the page. I’m glad I read fast or I would have been up for days as I could. Not. Put. It. Down!
This is another great story from Mr. Grey. This one has heart, love, heat, and a soul that will draw you in and not let go even when the book is over. Just be warned, you should have tissues on hand when reading certain parts. Happy reading!