5.0 (6 ratings)

Unlikely Hero

Name: Unlikely Hero
Rating: 5 (6 reviews)
Author: C.E. O'Brien
ISBN: B00JZAO2E6

by C.E. O'Brien

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About this book

Fifteen-year-old Amber Hendricks is drowning in the suffocating weight of survivor’s guilt. After a horrific car accident claims her father’s life, she is left shattered, blaming herself for the tragedy that destroyed her world. Desperate to escape the darkness, her mother uproots their lives to New Jersey, hoping for a fresh start. But Amber cannot outrun the trauma that haunts her every waking moment and fills her nights with nightmares of the crash.

Then, everything changes. Instead of the usual terror, Amber begins dreaming of a handsome boy named Troy. As their connection deepens, she discovers an impossible truth: Troy is the mysterious stranger who pulled her from the burning wreckage that night. He is a ghost tethered to a past he didn’t survive, and Amber is the girl who refuses to let go.

This poignant paranormal romance weaves a heart-wrenching tale of love that transcends the boundaries of life and death. As they cling to one another, they must navigate the thin line between grief and healing. Will their love be strong enough to anchor them both, or are they destined to remain echoes of their own tragedies? Prepare to believe in fate in this unforgettable story.

Publication Date: May 25, 2026
ASIN: B00JZAO2E6

Reader Reviews

Fabulous YA Story!

May 14, 2014

Such a touching, captivating, heartbreaking, and uplifting YA story that anyone who is romantic at heart will love. Do you believe in fate? After reading this story you will! The lives of Amber and Troy cross in the most unimaginable way possible but there's a reason for it. When you're young and troubled sometimes you need a higher power to step in and show you there's a reason for everything and people are put into your life for a purpose. I loved how the author didn't reveal that purpose...

Beautiful story

May 13, 2014

I had the honor of reading this book while it was still a work in progress and I read it again now that it has been published. It is a story of heartbreak and healing. I felt the pain that Amber lived with and the guilt that consumed her and it broke my heart. Sometimes we are saved in ways that we didn't think were possible. This story makes you believe in true love and soul mates. ) One person found this helpful

Will love conquer?

November 27, 2016

Take a romance, take a ghost story; add the mind of the writer and stir. The result, CE O'Brien's 'Unlikely Hero.' The tale starts with a bang, literally; carries the reader along for a while and with a locale move by the M/C's family life settles back into a rhythm but there's an undercurrent of the surreal bubbling around, a smattering of the unknown, a sense of the unreal. this is the extra ingredient that keeps the reader interested, because you just have to know. There are ups and downs in...

Can Love Conquer all?

May 5, 2014

Can Love conquer all? That's what you'll be asking yourself as you read C.E. O'Brien's Unlikely Hero. Troy is a lost soul that makes the decision to help a friend, and that decision changes his life forever. Amber is just a normal teenage girl who's life is irrevocably changed on one fateful night as she and her father are in a horrific car accident. Troy's and Amber's worlds collide and bind them together in a way no one could imagine. I could not put this book down! I kept thinking I had it...

Amazing YA book!

May 16, 2014

This is my first reading a YA novel and I have to say I loved it! Without giving anything away, the story surrounds Amber a young girl, with her Mother and Step father Tim set out to start a new life after Amber begins healing physically and emotionally from a devastating car accident that claims her Dad's life. Troy a young handsome man, is himself a person in repair having dealt with witnessing his good friend murdered tries to find his peace and when he meets Amber, finds his attraction to...