Planting Hope by Jennifer Raines – Review by Kerry Carr

Planting Hope by Jennifer Raines
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

This is a sweet contemporary romance. The author does an amazing job with the characters making the reader feel like they know them and are invested in their lives. This is a story about finding love when you least expect it. It is a story of fear, compassion, love and angst. There is some sensitive topics touched up such as the loss of a friend in horrific circumstances, and history of a bad childhood that the author writes about in a very respectful and sensitive way.

Holly was a nurse in the emergency department of the hospital. After witnessing her friend murdered before her and being unable to save her it has left Holly with a lot of trauma and doubting what she wants to do with her life. Since they she volunteers as a nurse at music festivals. As she trys to rebuild her life her grandmother has a fall. When Holly rushes to her side her grandmother tells her she needs to keep working on the project else it won’t get going. So Holly agrees and this is how she meets Christopher.
Christopher has had a pretty rough start in life and he is trying everything to prove that the violence he grew up with isn’t inside of him. He started working on this research project with Holly’s grandmother to provide and safe space for children who are going through or witnessed violence. Christopher’s idea is that gardening could produce some therapeutic benefit for these children.
When Holly takes over in her grandmothers place the connection between her and Kit gets stronger and the attraction grows.
Can this relationship really work? Will the gardening therapy actually help Holly heals some of her wounds? And what happens when Christopher’s demons raise their heads is he strong enough to fight them to protect the woman he’s falling for and the children he wants to help so badly?

This is a sweet romance about 2 people who are struggling with demons and wounds from their past working together and finding a way of not only healing themselves but each other in the process

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