Having escaped an abusive marriage, Evangeline simply wants to start over in the small, quiet town of Forrestville. She’s also avoiding all contact with the opposite sex, because she just can’t trust her instincts when it comes to men—not even with the sinfully sexy cop next door. So why can’t she stop thinking about him? Hunter has darkness in his soul, and yet no one ever made her feel so safe. For all her best laid plans, Evangeline didn’t count on choices this hard—or temptation this hot.
MY REVIEW:
Love is a powerful thing especially when
it is used against you. As Evangeline
Ambrose found out the hard way. For six
years she allowed herself to be beaten at the hands of a man who used it
against her. She really didn’t allow it
now did she? Nope! This so called man repeatedly beat and
terrorized her within her own home. With
threats that he would kill her if she spoke up and told anyone.
Being that he was in the military he had
her over a barrel. She was as isolated
as he wanted her to be and away from the family she so loved. He made sure to rid her of all her friends
and accused her of whoring around. When
his wealthy family cut him off financially he stole from her savings account
where she had made money as a singer off YouTube. Where she used to do cover songs and
originals. In fact, he was using the
money for drinking, drugs, and whores as she says it.
So the last beating she received when she
figured out he had blown through almost all of her savings she said something
and he beat her leaving her for dead on the side of the road where Hunter Sloan
an officer with Family’s Victim Unit happened to find her on his way home. He had recovered many women who were like her
and his mother if not beaten worse and taken them to the hospital. Yet, there was something about Evangeline
that stirred his heart and other parts too.
He didn’t mean to be a 15-year-old teen
boy about this but Hunter had never before or since had a feeling so powerful
as he did for her. It had now been 6
months or 180 days since he last saw her or you could say 4324 hours since he
last touched her battered body. But who
is counting. So to say she made a
lasting impression is an understatement.
So much so he has been celibate since he last saw her how crazy does
that sound even to him.
So when he once again bails on his friends
who had plans on setting him up on a blind date that night after a beer. He just laughs at their questioning
faces. When he gets to his apartment
building all he can see is a woman who has moving boxes in her arms so high she
can’t see or open the door. When he asks
if he can help and she responds his body reacts. His mind and body can’t believe it could be
true for it could only be wishful thinking.
Could it be? When he gets to the
top and she unlocks the apartment across the hall from him he wants to fist air
pump.
You see this person is renting the vacant
apartment across from him. She unlocks
the door and takes the boxes when he says he can take them in for her she says
no that she got it. When he sticks out
his hand to formally introduce himself she gives him her maiden name not her
married name. Which she will still be
for another 6 months. Not to mention she
acts like she doesn’t know him. Which he
finds very interesting. So he plays
along of course. He has to push some
buttons too, to see if he can get a rise out of her and boy doe he.
This was an intense yet sweet and sensually
written book about a woman who is taking back her life. A life that a man who promised he would love
and respect but he didn’t he abused her.
Yet, has not a problem telling her kind hearted rescuer her mind. Although she feels bad each time after each
emotional outburst and tends to apologize.
She does it with sass though.
Which means that she is healing and that is a good thing. Which secretly Hunter admires in her all her
sass.
See these two work through difficult backgrounds
and be present as they reveal secrets they hold from their past that threaten
to crush their futures. Their
self-esteems as well. I really enjoyed
the sass and backbone yet the vulnerability this author gave to Eva. Which made it all the more real. As well as the emotional quandary it put her
in as far as her new feelings for Hunter.
I give this 5++++ stars. Provided
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