{"id":28929,"date":"2022-05-31T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-05-31T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/twinsietalk.com\/?p=28929"},"modified":"2022-05-29T12:09:51","modified_gmt":"2022-05-29T17:09:51","slug":"wotr22-newrelease-releaseday-military-2ndchance-bestfriendstolovers-arc-review-the-ones-he-left-behind-by-h-dagostino","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/twinsietalk.com\/?p=28929","title":{"rendered":"#WOTR22 #NewRelease #ReleaseDay #Military #2ndChance #BestFriendsToLovers #ARC #DoubleReview – The Ones He Left Behind by H. D’Agostino"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Title: The Ones He Left Behind<\/span><\/div>\n
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Author: H. D\u2019Agostino<\/div>\n
Genre: Second Chance Military Romance<\/div>\n
Cover Design: Cassy Roop, Pink Ink Designs<\/div>\n
Photographer: Golden Czermak<\/div>\n
Model: Charlie Gaddis<\/div>\n
Release Date: May 31, 2022<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Ethan has been my whole world for most of my life. From our childhood antics to our promise to love each other \u2018til death do us part\u2019. I\u2019ve never known life without him\u2014 until now.<\/span><\/p>\n

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When the soldiers knocked on my door, my life forever changed. They stood there in their dress blues, and their words shattered my world.<\/span><\/div>\n
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Ten years have passed, and not much has changed. The pain is less, thanks to the gift Ethan left behind\u2014 our son. I\u2019ve found happiness in the small things in life. Everything was good until Ethan\u2019s best friend, Cooper, showed up.<\/span><\/div>\n
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They enlisted together, went to battle together, and then he disappeared. I haven\u2019t heard from him in ten years. Why is he back now, and what does he want with me?<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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I received this book from the author for free for an honest review.<\/p>\n

This is a story about a love triangle of sorts.\u00a0 Ethan, Cooper, and Hope.\u00a0 Ethan and Hope are the young couple who fall in love while Cooper watches from the sidelines.\u00a0 Cooper would never do anything to ruin what his friends have but he loves her from the sideline. The three are always together.\u00a0 Ethan and Hope get married while Cooper and Ethan leave for the military together.\u00a0 As you can guess, Ethan doesn\u2019t make it back leaving a devastated and guilty Cooper, a widowed Hope, and a son named Jake.<\/p>\n

Hope and Jake had made a great life for themselves when Cooper enters their life.\u00a0\u00a0 He is guilty for still loving Hope and not being there for her and Jake all the years since Ethan\u2019s death.\u00a0 He is a mess but can\u2019t not be near her.\u00a0 We learn about his past and slowly he reveals what has happened to him since Ethan died.\u00a0 We see the hurt, sadness, and guilt over Ethan\u2019s death.<\/p>\n

Slowly Hope and Cooper start to realize things between them is more then friends.\u00a0 They have some emotional baggage to figure out and then tackle how Jake will feel about Uncle Cooper being a bit more than just an uncle.<\/p>\n

The story was about a 2nd<\/sup> chance between these 2 old friends. Will the past allow them to move forward and will they take the chance their hearts want or will they continue to hide from the happiness that is right in front of their faces.<\/p>\n

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I received a copy of this book from the author for an honest review.<\/p>\n

Ethan, Cooper, and Hope have been friends since they were little. Cooper has had a thing for Hope but Ethan and her struck up a relationship and Cooper would never hurt his friendships by breaking that apart. Hope\u2019s life was changing quickly. Ethan and Cooper when off to the military. Ethan and Hope got married and were going to have a baby. This is when tragedy struck. Ethan was killed in action leaving behind a wife, child, and a best friend. Hope lost not only her husband but best friend also. Cooper is fighting demons from watching his best friend die and could not face Hope. Hope had to push though and raise her son, Jake.<\/p>\n

Both have issues they have to overcome. Cooper is a very complicated person and confusing at times. He wants to stay in the background not to upset what Hope and Jake have going in their life. Then he wants to be in their life like he promised Ethan before he died. Cooper gets into his head and hurts Hope again by disappearing into the background again.<\/p>\n

I liked seeing the scenes of Ethan, Cooper, and Hope growing up. I also enjoyed seeing Jake grow and finding similarities with Ethan. \u00a0This Second Chance story will take you on a journey of highs and lows.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Heather D\u2019Agostino is an avid reader turned Bestselling Author of the Contemporary Romance Series The Broken Series, The Shattered Series, The Second Chances Series, The Cook Brothers Series, and Romantic Suspense series The Witness Series.<\/span><\/p>\n

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She attended the University of North Carolina at Charlotte where she received a Bachelor\u2019s of Arts in Elementary Education with a minor in Mathematics.<\/span><\/div>\n
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