Review: Romance with an interesting twist!
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 04 4, 2013
Carter has no idea why a man like him, successful, high class, good looking, would want to stop and help a homeless woman of all people when he is on his way to work and sees her on the sidewalk looking half dead already.  Why should he care, people die all the time on the streets.  What is that pull he feels to help her?  Why would he feel such a thing and who is she anyway besides just another bum?  Shayla has no idea why this stranger is helping her at all, much less doing everything in his powers to keep her alive and get her back on her feet.  Why did he save her when all she wanted was to die to be with her dead fiance again?  Who is this man really and why does she feel like he is a lot like the man she loved?  Soon the questions are answered and Carter knows he should tell Shayla the truth, but he also thinks perhaps she has broken his "refuse to love" bubble.  Why does he love her though?  Is it truly love or just a love of her because she is the only person left that can help him understand his brother who committed suicide that he never got the chance to reconnect with?  When Shayla learns the truth will she run from him or to him?I must say that this book was well written with very well developed characters.  I felt that I came to know Carter and Shayla like they were from my own city.  As I read, I could just feel the emotions that the author was portraying through them.  I very much enjoyed watching the characters grow throughout the book.  The plot of two people meeting by chance, but realizing they are anything but unconnected to each other, was a good twist for the romance.  It was not like any other romantic suspense I ever read.  The suspense was there, but not in the "traditional" sense you usually see.  What do I mean by that?  I mean that it was indeed suspenseful, but not in a mystery/crime solving kind of way you usually see (at least I have seen in all the romantic suspense novels I have picked up).  In some ways this disappointed me, but at the same time intrigued me and made me want to read it to see where this different suspense level lead.  It was suspense in another way of being on the edge of your couch reading waiting to see if Carter really has the nerves to tell Shayla who he really is and why he is so super supportive of her and helping her.  Then also wondering how Shayla will really react to it all if he does tell her.  As I read and saw their relationship grow I found myself as conflicted as Carter felt about telling her, worried for him how she would take it, but hoping at the same time he would tell her because she deserved to know the truth about him is they are to maybe move past it, and into a real relationship with each other.  Also as a reader I kept thinking how I would feel if I were in her shoes and heard the details from Carter.  Would I feel hurt, mad, or just confused, and would I want to stay with him still after finding out the truth he hid?  I really did enjoy this book and all it had to offer me as a reader.  I would recommend it to anyone that is in the mood for a romance with suspense built into it with fantastic characters.4/5 Stars!Received free for honest review.