Cute story about the lonely owner of a small movie rental business and the lost and damaged man he hires for help. Zach Mitchell has been stuck in a rut for the past 10 years first working at then owning a small store that rents DVDs in a small suburb outside of Denver. His life is safe, boring, and monotonous until he hires a regular customer to help run the shop. Angelo Green is native American and Italian, abandoned by both parents to the foster care system, and distrustful of everyone. He's also stuck in a rut working two jobs with no friends, but when he starts working at A to Z video things improve. When the new owner of the building doubles the rent, Zach must decide if he should take a chance by moving the business to the small town of Coda, CO, and asking Angelo to go with him.
This is not a sequel but takes place in the same world as "Promises," and the main characters from that novel play an important part in the story. It is told from both Angelo's and Zach's points of view, which I liked since they both have very distinct voices and backgrounds. I really enjoyed this book and seeing how both Zach and Angelo changed over the course of it. Some of the funniest parts were with Angelo trying to school Zach on movies, of which he knows very little for a DVD rental store owner. 197 pages (Kindle edition).
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