The Lookback (The Birch Creek Ranch #8) by B.E. Baker

  

My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Category: Adult
Genre: Women's Fiction, Romance, Clean Romance, Contemporary Fiction
Content: Clean

 

Amanda Saddler has lived a long and happy life. She’s not ready to die or anything melodramatic, but she’s long since given up on finding her fairytale ending.

But when her adoptive granddaughter Emery picks up a box that was delivered to her doorstep, some new stories from the past come to light. Amanda Saddler may have spent her life pining for her neighbor, Jed Brooks, but that’s not the only man she ever knew.

Emery doggedly asks after a man from an old photo, who turns out to be the man Amanda Saddler stayed with when she left town for a few months. When that same man calls Amanda’s phone, of course Emery answers and invites him to come for a visit.

Can Amanda Saddler reconcile the wrongs in her past to set her story right in the present, or is it too late for her to find her happy ending alongside a man who has always wanted a place in her heart?

 

This is the last book in the Birch Creek Ranch series and I'm really going to miss it. I've enjoyed getting to know these characters. In this final installment, we finally get Amanda Saddler's backstory, and in true B.E. Baker fashion, we find out that what we thought we knew isn't exactly how things happened. I found it refreshing to read about a romance between a couple of 80 year olds instead of the much younger couples we usually read about. I also thought it was a very sweet story, and I enjoyed the bits of humor that were sprinkled throughout it. 

Amanda's story isn't the only one in the book though. We get more of Helen and David, and although I still don't really like Helen, I liked the fact that she grew as a person in this book. All the other characters I came to love in the series are also present, but in smaller doses. Overall, I think this was a good ending to the series. 

Thanks to the author for providing me with an ARC of this book.