Fourteen-year-old Charlie Simmons is looking for answers about his family history. His mother, Lin Su, doesn't want to give them to him. She is only trying to protect him, but he just won't let it go. Lin Su is a nurse taking care of Winnie, who is struggling with ALS. Lin Su is proud of taking charge and never showing weakness. WILDEST DREAMS, Book 9 in the Thunder Point series, takes us back to Thunder Point to get caught up on our old friends.

Blake Smiley is an Ironman, a triathlete, who just had a house built in Thunder Point - right next door to Grace's. He and Charlie instantly hit it off, but Lin Su is extremely suspicious of Blake. When Blake's actions puts Charlie's asthma condition at risk, Lin Su goes a bit crazy and now it is a battle of wills between Blake and Lin Su. Blake's immediate attraction to Lin Su is supported by the fact that he is ready to settle down and find "the one," and is even happy to find his one plus son, but it is being dragged down by a tremendous amount of baggage carried by Lin Su.

I found myself cheering for Blake through out the whole story and wanting to smack some sense into Lin Su more than once. She has serious insecurities regarding her ability to trust, to love and lose, and huge roadblocks regarding her son's health and activities, her own history, and the conditions of her employment.

WILDEST DREAMS is a wonderful book from start to finish. We see how Grace, Iris and Peyton, who are all pregnant at the same time, are coming along with their pregnancies. And we catch up with Winnie, Grace's mother, who is struggling with her ALS, and her lifelong friend Mikhail, who will not leave her side. We catch up with a lot of the inhabitants of Thunder Point and that is just what readers want in Robyn Carr's books.

I love the Thunder Point series by Robyn Carr. WILDEST DREAMS is the best book in the series but then again, I said that about the previous eight books. I love the relationship and banter between Charlie and Winnie. I was reading and giggling through many pages. You can never go wrong with a Robyn Carr book and WILDEST DREAMS does not disappoint.

Thunder Point sounds like a great place to live and an awesome place to raise a family. I found WILDEST DREAMS to be a very fast and pleasurable read. The only problem is that now I'm all caught up on the Thunder Point series and have to wait for the next book.

Book Summary

WILDEST DREAMS is the story of Lin Su Simmons, a home health care nurse who was separated from her natural Vietnamese family as a child refugee, and later as a pregnant teenager, abandoned by her adopted American family. When she meets professional triathlete Blake Smiley, she isn't ready to let her guard down but her 14-year old son, Charlie, doesn't have her same reservations.

What Lin Su doesn't realize is that turning her back on love and friendship now might cost her more than just a better future—it might also close the door on a past with which she’s never been able to reconcile.