Love You, Finally

De: Lauren Lacey

Narrado por: Nichole Chimere Morgan

To find love is beautiful, but to find love when you believe you don’t deserve it is powerful. Sometimes, love is the missing ingredient to healing your pain. This is the story of Avery Waylen and Deacon Owens in Love in Beverly Mills: Love You, Finally.

Avery Waylen is a beautiful, smart attorney with amazing parents and siblings. She's had the perfect life, or so it seems. She’s a black woman adopted by a white family, but growing up, there wasn’t enough love in the world that could fill the void of wanting to be loved by her birth mother.

From childhood to adulthood, the void within Avery continues to grow and manifests into fears of rejection and abandonment, but most notably, Avery believed that she was never quite good enough. However, her best friend, Deacon Owens, is always present to remind her that she deserves all that is good and every bit of love that life has to offer.

Deacon loves hard. He's passionate like his mom who struggled to receive that love in return from his father. Therefore, as a young boy, Deacon swore to treat the love of his life, like she deserved to be treated – like his mom deserved to be treated. He stands by Avery’s side even when she pushes him away because his mother once told him that love isn’t worth it, if you don’t have to work for it.

Avery and Deacon meet in elementary school and continue their close friendship as adults. He helps her combat her belief that she isn’t good enough, and he’s also the first person to comfort her through every traumatic experience she’s faced in life. She trusts him the most and he loves her the most.

This is a Southern Black love story based in Beverly Mills, Georgia – a rustic beach town that centers around family, friends, love, and community. Fall in love with characters who support one another and lift each other up, but also dish out tough love and don't hold back from the truth. And the truth is, love isn’t always easy, but it’s definitely worth it for Avery Waylen and Deacon Owens.

©2023 Lauren McDonald (P)2025 Lauren McDonald

Powerfully Written

This book is amazingly powerful! It’s a roller coaster of emotions but takes the reader through each emotion gracefully!

The voice

Monotone, dry did not do the characters justice. Storyline connected and hard to appreciate and follow