Clay Yeager’s Redemption is another terrific series romance – I seem to be reading a lot of them lately am thoroughly enjoying myself! It’s an intense story of one man’s efforts to deal with the aftermath of a family tragedy, and the woman he meets who is haunted by her own demons. Davis takes a familiar theme and makes it an incredibly moving story.

Fans of Davis’ Trinity Street West series know that Clay Yeager is looked upon as a hero by the other officers. Clay has disappeared after a personal tragedy, but we don’t know what the tragedy was. Each book in the series mentions him, so we know he has had an impact on the lives of the main characters in each of the previous books, but you don’t need to have read them to appreciate this one.

Casey Scott is the woman who owns the land where Clay stops for a rest on his journey to nowhere in particular. She finds Clay after his dog, Mud, steals her prime rib. To make up for the loss of the meat, Clay agrees to stay on and be a handyman on Casey’s run down house.

Clay is a loner with a lot of guilt. He lost his family, and I won’t reveal how because it’s integral as to why Clay feels so guilty. He finds himself opening up to Casey and feeling for her which throws him into turmoil. He feels he has no right to be happy.

Casey has her own secret which is the reason she returned home. Clay can tell she’s hiding something, and so can the reader. The nature of her secret becomes obvious after Casey begins receiving threatening phone calls. The calls escalate as she stands up to the caller and refuses to be intimidated.

What made this story so wonderful was the way Casey helps Clay heal. Casey has learned that she did nothing wrong and helps Clay begin to see that he did nothing wrong either. Clay begins to see things more clearly just from being around Casey, and from seeing how she has taken control of her own life. She nurtures and takes care of him, but she also lets him take care of her. She also convinces him to contact his former colleagues, which completes his journey of redemption. Davis’ writing is so absorbing that it drew me in instantly and didn’t let me go. There’s an intensity to this story that makes the final resolution very sweet.

The added element of suspense, resulting from the threatening phone calls Casey has been receiving, adds to the story. The suspense is enough to move the characters along, but it doesn’t take over the story.

I highly recommend Clay Yeager’s Redemption. Clay’s journey back from isolation and guilt and his eventual reunion with his former colleagues make this final chapter in the Trinity Street West series just about perfect. I am sad to see the characters go, but I am satisfied that they all got their happily-ever-after endings.