From the Blurb:
I’ve spent years hoping someone would finally hear me. It’s easier not to try anymore…
Ten years after leaving his small Minnesota hometown in his rearview mirror for what Nolan Grainger was sure would be the last time, life has decided to throw the talented musician a curveball and send him back to the town he lived in but was never really home.
At twenty-eight, Nolan has traveled the world as a successful concert violinist with some of the best symphonies in the country. But success breeds envy, and when Nolan’s benefactor and lover decides Nolan has flown high enough, he cruelly clips Nolan’s wings. The betrayal and ensuing scandal leaves the violinist’s career in shambles and with barely enough money to start fresh somewhere beyond his vindictive ex’s powerful reach. But just as he’s ready to get his life back on track, Nolan gets the call he’s been dreading.
After a stroke leaves his father a partial invalid, duty-bound Nolan returns to Pelican Bay and a life he’s spent years trying to forget. When he’s forced to use the last of his own money to keep from losing the family home, desperation has him turning to the one man he’d hoped never to see again…
Even if I could speak, there wouldn’t be anyone there to listen…
Pelican Bay’s golden boy, Dallas Kent, had the quintessential perfect life. Smart, gorgeous, and popular, the baseball phenom was well on his way to a life filled with fame and fortune. But more importantly, he had a one-way ticket out of Pelican Bay and far away from the family who used love as currency and whose high expectations were the law of the land. But a stormy night, sharp highway curve and one bad decision changed everything, leaving Dallas with nothing.
Because the accident that took his parents, his future and his crown as the boy who could do no wrong, also stole his voice.
Despised for the horrific wreck that ended the lives of two of Pelican Bay’s most respected residents, Dallas has retreated to a secluded stretch of land where he’s found refuge in a menagerie of unwanted animals that don’t care that he once had the world at his feet or that he’ll never speak again.
But when the quiet, bookish boy he wasn’t allowed to notice in school suddenly reappears ten years later at Dallas’s wildlife rehab center in desperate need of a job, Dallas is thrust back into a world he’s worked hard to escape.
Dallas’s silence was supposed to send Nolan scurrying, but what if Nolan ends up being the one person who finally hears him?
Will two men who’ve been fleeing from the past finally come home to Pelican Bay for good or will the silence drive them apart forever?
Autumn's Review:
I loved Locked in Silence. The raw emotion between Dallas and Nolan was the best that I've read for a long while. The amount of sex was perfect, as it didn't take away from the book like so many others do these days. Dallas, even though he was on the bigger side, was a soft teddy bear who loved his animals and only wanted to make a difference.
Rating: 5 Stars
Angel's review:
Dallas and Nolan have had a tough go at life, Dallas was made into an enemy by the small town him and Nolan grew up in after a horrific accident that left him unable to talk. And Nolan was betrayed and framed by his ex which costed him job opportunities, his standing in the music world, and also caused him to be an outsider in his small town.
These two have such beautiful souls but the world and the people in their town have been so cruel to them. I honestly think the animals were more kind and caring than some of the side characters. Loki was adorable, and so was Gentry and the grumpy Zebra! I liked that this book took place on an animal sanctuary, I loved everything about that and thought the animals were described well, as was all the tasks that had to get done to take care of them.
As far as Dallas and Kent as a couple, that took time. They both had a lot to work through, their pasts were intertwined with negative emotions and memories so they had to work on forgiveness and how to move forward in the present. ((Which they did figure out how to do both things, and I love them together!))
They compliment one another well, when one is having a bad day the other helps out and provides comfort to them, and they show their love and how much they care in different ways, which I thought was quite beautiful to see.
All in all, a great book! I'm very curious about Issac, Newt, and Maddox, I wonder how that situation going to go...
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