This was a surprise as I’m not usually one for the Harlequin but FIRST COMES TWINS piqued my interest for several reasons, to start with it contains two of my favourite romance topics that of the tortured hero and reacquainted lovers. It also takes place on a small island which I could relate to because that’s where I live. Mirabelle, as the island has been so well explored that it almost becomes a character within its own right, filled with lighthouses, beaches and a fascinating group of islanders each with their small town idiosyncrasies and problems.

Helen Brenna has written a great love story, full of longing, heart tugging regrets, reacquainted families and healing. She’s also has done a wonderful job covering PTSD and the loss of a limb without making her hero a cripple. Speaking of Noah what a great character he’s just tormented and damaged enough that you can’t help but fall a little bit in love with him as we watch him begin to heal and face his first love again.

Photojournalist Noah Bennett has come back to Mirabelle Island to heal after recently losing his leg covering yet another war zone. Ironically it’s the island and its inhabitants that has kept him running all these years but he‘s never been able to forget. Now under deadline to finish his latest book and suffering from post traumatic stress and phantom leg pains he’s shutting down and grabbing the bottle.

Sophie can’t believe Noah is back on ‘her’ island, how dare he return after leaving her heartbroken all those years ago? Sure she married his older brother soon after but he’s gone now too leaving her a widow with teenaged twins and a hotel to run. However it’s hard to stay mad at the shell of a man that’s come back and Sophie reasons that the sooner she helps him recover the sooner he’ll leave Mirabelle again. She just hopes its before he breaks both of their hearts. Cheers!