Recovery by Shyla Colt

This is a story that I recommend for couples as odd as that sounds. It's a story of forgiving and letting the past stay in the past. Despite its short length, it was thought evoking and had an impact on me.

Max has a drug problem. He thinks he can only write his music when he's high. This has hurt his ten year relationship with Oceane. The Dubois women don't tolerate nonsense.

She pushes him away. He goes. His love is for cocaine and getting it. I thought he was an asshole for the whole "I'm gonna do cocaine til this album is wrote and then quit and go back to her" attitude, and to be blunt, I would not have forgiven him. I found myself frowning at Oceane when she let him back home, back into her bed and into her heart.

BUT here is where it got me. "It was time to leave the drama of the past behind, and move forward into the light."

If Oceane didn't forgive him, didn't give him another chance, she would have missed out on her HEA.

This made me wonder, how many of us have made that mistake? If we had simply taken a page from Oceane's book and took a chance...

So you got a man with an addiction who has to re-earn his woman's trust and beat his demon and a woman who risks everything because she has faith.

I also thought the "replacing one addiction with another" bit was cute and sexy. I won't explain that. You'll have to read it for yourself.

Five stars. I bought this on Amazon Kindle.