I had high hopes for this book and it was definitely as emotional as I expected considering one of the MMC suffered unimaginable trauma. Most of the book was spent dealing with that as he worked through what happened to him. As much as I like the realism of a character trying to heal as compared to Ward just making the pain disappear, it made for a sad, emotional and difficult book to get through. There was a HEA but it wasn’t terribly happy.  Too complex to explain without spoilers. I felt like there wasn’t a lot of romance in a romance book.