Book Review: ‘An Everyday Hero: Heart Of A Hero Book Two’ By Laura Trentham

Three lost souls come together and help heel the pain they’re going through.

Thirty year old Greer Hadley has moved back to Madison, Tennessee, after years in Nashville trying to make it as an artist. She has moved back into her parents home and the bedroom she had growing up. She also found her boyfriend Beau cheating on her. So she went to a bar called Becky’s got drunk, attacked a jukebox and attacked a cop (a guy she went to high school with). She’s in court to face the judge (who is her uncle) and ends up getting 50 hours of community service at an organization that aides veterans and their families as a music teacher.

She’s assigned Ally, a troubled teen that recently lost her dad in combat in Afghanistan. She is a hard girl to work with. She’s been through a bunch of other counselors and none have worked out. Greer might be here last choice. Ally likes music and Greer gets her slowly to talk and to write out her feelings, which she will help her write into lyrics and songs.

Then’s there’s Emmett Lawson, a high school jock, who went off to serve his country and came home with a missing leg, but a hero. He lives in a cabin on his parents horse farm and hasn’t adjusted to being back or what happened to him. Greer went to school with him and is trying to help him as well. He doesn’t want help but Greer will not be deterred. Soon she breaks through his defenses and they end up helping each other. The find comfort in each other and realize that things are not as bad as they seem and to push the past behind them and move forward. There’s a shocking connection between Ally and Emmett that helps to push Ally forward as well.

This is the second book in author Laura Trentham’s Hero series and she nails everything perfectly here. She shows how the effects of war can affect two families in different ways. And how music can help heal wounds that run deep. It’s also a romantic novel as you root for Greer and Emmett to be together and the reader is along for the ride from the beginning. Just a well done job.

You can pick up The Everyday Hero in stores on Tuesday, February 4th from St. Martin’s Griffin.