Title: Finding Home
Author: Leighton Rose
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Length: Novel (302 pages)
Publisher: Leighton Rose (June 19th 2014)
Heat Level: Moderate
Heart Rating: ♥♥♥♥♥ 5 Hearts
Reviewer: Tams
Blurb: For Dillon Turner, home was never a place that meant anything to him. It was simply where he lived until he was old enough to leave. The day he turns eighteen, he boards a Greyhound bus and leaves Chicago behind for what he hopes will be something better.
Upon arrival in Omaha, an unexpected streak of good luck leads him to Banks Motel where he meets sexy tattoo artist Adam Banks. A belated birthday celebration is just the beginning for them, and Adam easily infiltrates the protective wall Dillon has built around his heart and becomes the center of Dillon’s world. Adam and the Banks family take Dillon in as one of their own, and Dillon finds he’s never been happier in his life.

That is until becoming a part of someone’s family proves to be harder than Dillon thought. When caring about other people makes him more vulnerable than he can handle, Dillon’s first instinct is to run. Throw in a meddling ex-boyfriend and it all becomes too much for him.
Can Adam prove that the positives far outweigh the negatives, or will Dillon let his fear of being hurt ruin his chances at finding a real home?

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Review: Dillon Turner is just minutes past his eighteenth birthday when he boards a bus and leaves the darkness of his past behind him. He purchases a ticket for Omaha, for no particular reason than it’s not Chicago. When he arrives, he finally takes a minute to think about his situation. He doesn’t know anyone, where will he work, where will he live? As luck would have it, he winds up at the Banks motel and eventually in the arms of the owner’s grandson, Adam.

The Banks family are kind, generous and immediately accepting of Dillon. It is a kindness that Dillon is not used to and he is very wary of them in the beginning. Where Dillon’s parents were either drunk and/or drugged out of their minds and emotionally absent since birth… Adam’s family is always in each other’s face, very loving and attentive. It sort of scares the shit out of Dillon at the start. But Adam is patient and kind, biding his time until he can move Dillon from his guest room into his room.

Both men have something from their past that defines them, some type of tragedy or circumstance that makes them less willing to trust. They will have to learn how to navigate each other and, most important, to communicate if they are going to make their new life together a permanent one. While Adam mourns his dead parents and remembers the pain of a broken heart, Dillon has nightmares of being violated when he was just a child due to his completely oblivious parents parenting skills. Has Dillon found his home with Adam and the Banks?

What a beautiful love story with unnervingly simple and down to earth characters. While the heart of this story is the love story that is ever growing and evolving between Dillon and Adam, the secondary characters give it an added grittiness that make it that much more endearing. Watching the two of them learn not only how to be a couple, but how to be a family and deal with issues that arose on a daily basis, both good and bad, gave the story some depth. There are a few years between them and at first, I thought maybe Dillon held conversations in a more mature manner than a normal eighteen year old would, but then when you think about his life up to this point, he is way more mature for his age than he should be.

I was completely engaged in this story from start to finish. It’s a very romantic, sexy and endearing story about finding your true love your first time up to bat. About Dillon finding the Home he always wanted with Adam, and about Adam finding the Home he so desperately wanted with Dillon. Just beautiful! Yes, it’s a must read.