Autumn Promises

A friend sent me this book in a box of mostly Love Inspired line books.

I do somewhat disagree with another reviewer who said this subseries has to be read in order. I haven't read others in the series, and I was able to read this one. I did struggle a bit with some of the Pennsylvania relatives to Meg.

What I liked:
*Evan and Meg have a bit of a history (even if it is antagonistic)--so it's not that they just met each other, fall in love, and get married a few months later.
*The fear of being hurt again or having someone leave you again is real (if a bit overdone for fiction).
*The desire for a "home" (or a secure place to call home) is also real.
*It was nice that the plot didn't have both of them ready to commit at the same time (even show more though that was a bit frustrating as a reader). Evan resolved his issue with having a relationship first, but Meg still had to work on hers.
*Meg had a good point that her father treated her brother and her differently.

What I didn't like:
*The struggle for the Evan and Meg to get to the point where they're both ready to commit to each other seemed dragged out.
*It's a little hard to believe that neither Evan nor Meg could come up with the thought of a compromise--each feeling that it had to be all or nothing. They had to live in either Colorado or Pennsylvania and only (rarely?) visit the other state. They had to either travel like Meg usually did or not travel past Denver at all. show less