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 was involved in a horrific car accident that claimed the life of her father. When Amber was told of his death, her world crumbled and she blamed herself for the destruction of her happy family life. Her life changed and she was sliding down a slippery slope. Survivor’s guilt consumed her. Her world was bleak.

Amber’s mother was running out of options to help her daughter. She knew time was against her and decided the only way to save her small family was to move far away and start new, in a new place.

It was after moving to New Jersey that Amber’s life began to change in a way she never thought possible. One night, instead of the same nightmare she had every night, whereas she relived the fatal accident that took her father’s life, she had a dream, a strange and moving dream.

She dreamt of a boy. It was the first of many new experiences that would gradually bring Amber out of the darkness and back into the light.

Troy, the handsome boy in Amber’s dreams is the very person who pulled her from the burning wreck and saved her life.

They fell in love instantly. It was a new beginning for them both. Each avoiding a past neither one should have survived; they clung to each other. Their love would ultimately change both of their lives forever.

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...