THE FRIENDSHIP PACT Sunrise Cove, Book 2

Narrator Andi Arndt delivers an entertaining romance set in Lake Tahoe. Tae and Riggs, a retired Marine, both had difficult childhoods, Riggs with an abusive father and Tae with a teenage mother. Arndt fully dramatizes the challenges they both overcame without miring listeners in their pasts. Tae and her mother, April, are more like sisters than mother and daughter, and Arndt's performance evokes April's youthful vibrancy. Riggs has returned home to help his brother, a Wounded Warrior, with his adventure company aimed at other such veterans. Riggs feels guilty his brother is in a wheelchair, and Arndt brings out his distress. Arndt provides an engaging listening experience as Tae and Riggs find happiness, despite their pasts. S.B. © AudioFile 2022, Portland, Maine [Published: JULY 2022]