While Avery’s job is to minimize drama, Jake embraces the chaos of an emergency. After enlisting in the Army National Guard, Jake became a nationally recognized leader in disaster recovery. Yet a life on the road has left him restless. So when a class-four tornado wreaks havoc on Chance, he’s eager to return home—and to the woman never far from his mind.
Now, Avery and Jake must team up to help their hometown weather a siege of violent storms. But it’s clear to them both that nature isn’t the only force they’ll have to reckon with. Will Avery and Jake’s whirlwind love affair be an all-new disaster—or can they recover from their stormy past to build a future together?
MY REVIEW:
Fear, love, passion, all these emotions
can cause us to act out in so many different ways. Some can motivate us to change our world or the
world around us. Others can make us
freeze up and never do anything, then there are others that make us so bitter
we do things out of spite.
Avery Sparks in this story was a young
girl of four when she started hanging out at the home of Heidi and Wes Mitchell
the Chief of Police. You see Avery’s
grandma used to clean their home. But when
she ended up with custody of Avery she needed to take Avery with her to the
homes while she cleaned. Since Heidi had
always wanted more children especially a little girl she offered to watch
Avery. You see it taken Heidi a long
time to have her son Jake who was the same age as Avery.
Jake was very glad when Avery came into
his mother’s life at the age of 4. He
hung around his dad more do boy things. Because
that meant he no longer had to bake, cook, or gardened with his mother
anymore. He could now go off and get
into mischief with his two cousins Dillon and Max. Yet, Avery and Jake never interacted with one
another yet knew about the other and saw the other.
Heidi and Wes became very attached to
Avery especially when they would see how her grandmother treated her. So when she was working and even when she wasn’t
working at their house they said Avery was welcomed at their home. They loved her like a daughter. They taught her everything she knew. She thought of them as her parents as her
family.
Avery and Jake’s senior prom was upon
them. Jake was going but not planning on
taking anyone in fact he hadn’t dated anyone all year. Avery had bought a dress and everything but
had not even been asked so was not even planning to attend. So Heidi had Jake ask Avery. He didn’t want to but he did it for his mom
out of love. He found Avery very
interesting and that he really liked her.
In fact, he started hanging out with her a lot. There was a whole month between that date and
their graduation and they just about spent everyday together. So the night of graduation for the party Jake
asked if Avery wanted to with him since she was changing at his house they
could ride over together. She did. She was one excited girl. That night she lost her virginity to
Jake. When she went to his house the
next morning he was gone. He had not
told anyone not even his parents he had joined the national guards. When she spoke to the devastated Heidi things
were said that cost her the only family she ever known the harsh words that
came out of Heidi were bad enough that Avery left never to look back…
Ten years later their hometown of Chance
was having its ten-year class reunion.
Like she had planned it she received email updates from her new best
friends. Kit, Bree, and Liza as to when
Jake would touch down at the high school.
Where she was decorating for the reunion. She figured if she was prepared for his
arrival she could shore herself up when it came to him kissing her out of the
blue. Usually he came home four times a
year. As fire chief she was usually busy
but a couple a times a year he would catch her off guard and lay one on
her. A toe curling one for sure.
Only
this one came with a twist as a tornado was following on his heels. So when he insisted on following her to a
shed on grounds at the high school to find more decorations he followed. The winds took on too much of a gust and they
got stuck in the shed. Holy Moly!
This was a funny book in an ironic
way. Jack was too unbelievable for
words. Avery was sad at first but then
as the story went along you get it.
Relationships are hard, so this one was long and drawn out, and would
have driven me crazy over ten years.
Nope not for me. Different
strokes. I give this 5 stars. Provided by netgalley.com. Follow us at:
www.1rad-readerreviews.com.
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