Title: The Voice We Find by Nicole Deese

Pages: 416

Publisher: Bethany House Publishers (Apr. 15, 2025)

Genre: contemporary fiction, romance, Christian fiction

Summary

Two voices. One story. A chance to rewrite their future.

Sophie Wilder returns home to California with nothing more than a failed Broadway career and a geriatric cat. Stuck working at the family winery with her egotistical brother and desperate for a way to revive her acting dreams, she takes a side gig as an audiobook narrator with Fog Harbor Books. But getting mixed up in the life of her reluctant sound engineer was never a part of her plans.

August Tate is still reeling from taking on guardianship of his teen sister. Determined to find a solution to her degenerative hearing loss and to prevent his private recording studio from going under, he agrees to produce audiobooks part-time. When Sophie breathes new life into his creativity and forms an unexpected bond with his sister rooted in their common faith, he must confront the reasons he turned away from his own or risk losing the second chance he’s only just started to believe in.

The Voice We Find is the third book in Nicole Deese’s Fog Harbor Romance Series for fans of clean, faith-based stories, deaf and hard of hearing representation, workplace romance, books about books, found family, and sibling bonds.

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*I received a gifted copy of this book. Thank you to the author and publisher! All thoughts and opinions are my own!*

I loved this book! For the past month, I’ve been in such a reading slump. Even books that I knew I would love were not catching my attention like the way they should. Then I picked up The Voice We Find and suddenly I could not stop reading.

Everything about this book is so well done. From the very first chapter, I was hooked. The California setting was so immersive.The author writes in such a way that just feels so natural and flows so effortlessly. All of the characters are well developed and I loved the dual perspectives. Both August and Sophie have endured some very difficult hardships and reading about how their lives come together is just so beautiful. The romance is so cute and flirty but also not over the top. The heartfelt moments just kept hitting me in my feelings. The side characters, especially Gabby and Natalie, were some of my favorites. Also, Gabby is deaf, so it was interesting to learn about that culture and experience. Diverse representation in books can be hard to find – I find that is especially the case with a lot of Christian fiction books, unfortunately. So I really appreciated the representation! I genuinely cannot think of one thing that I did not love about this book.

As a lifelong book lover, I always adore stories about books. So the fact that Sophie and August meet each other through recording audiobooks was just so creative and special to me. I loved getting a little behind the scenes look at all the hard work that goes into creating a great audiobook. Also, while I read the physical copy of this one, I now feel compelled to listen to at least an excerpt of the audiobook for The Voice We Find. I have a feeling it would be a good one!

I do want to add that The Voice We Find is technically the 3rd book in the Fog Harbor series. I, somehow, missed that. That being said, this book is definitely very easily able to be read as a standalone. However, because I loved it so much, I will be going back and reading the first two books in the series.

Overall, The Voice We Find was a very enjoyable and authentic read. I flew through this book, which is something I had not been able to do for a while. This is a Christian fiction novel, but the faith content is not overly preachy or cheesy. The characters are well written and genuine. The romance is heartfelt and swoony. I would recommend this book to anyone looking for a closed door romance with a lot of heart.

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