June, Reimagined

June Merriweather’s world has been collapsing since the death of her brother. College seems like a waste. She’s just going through the motions, and she can’t tell anyone the truth, not even her oldest and dearest friend, Matt. When June gets cornered, she runs, and this time it’s to the Scottish Highlands in the winter. By the time June arrives in the backwater hamlet where she has lined up a job, she’s exhausted. Then she triggers her peanut allergy and discovers she didn’t pack her epi pen. She’s saved by handsome but fractious Lennox, the local paramedic. The two encounter sparks that neither understands because both are fighting deep grief and are not seeing life clearly. But love strikes when one least expects it, and both must confront their past in order to embrace their future. Narrator Amanda Berry’s skill with accents, cadence, and characterizations is outstanding. June appears flighty while Lennox radiates anger—Berry reads them both effortlessly. She also takes time to satisfyingly voice secondary characters as well.