Review: ~Just the Beginning for Silla Webb!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 03 17, 2014
Silla Webb has left me with my jaw on the floor! This is the raw, emotional, captivating story of Carly Jo Simon's life! From the very first chapter, you are pulled in and know this is a book you won't put down til it's finished! I felt every emotion of Carly Jo, watched as her world crumbled, but she didn't! In times when most would have given up, fell through the cracks & stayed down, Carly picked herself up, stayed strong and moved forward!  At the age of 17, Carly Jo's life changed completely.....she went from being a young, carefree and in-love teenager, to alone & pregnant! She turned to the one man that had always been there for her & guided her in the right direction....her Daddy, Big John Simon! Boy...was she wrong this time!! Big John turned his back on his daughter in the time when she needed him the most, only to save his name & reputation! Left with no one to turn to for guidance, she did the only thing she could, she left. She left her little hometown in KY for the one place she always loved as much as home, Myrtle Beach, SC! She decided to make a life for herself & the one person that would love her unconditionally.....her baby!After being on her own, becoming stronger & more independent that she ever knew possible, Carly Jo is returning to KY for the first time in seven years to say goodbye to her Daddy. He is dying of cancer and she needs to make amends. Even tho he'd said hurtful things & turned his back on her when she needed him most, she had to make peace with her daddy! Her plans were to go back to KY, spend the last few days with Big John, help her sister take care of things & return home to SC, back to her quiet, peaceful life! What she didn't expect was to be told that her dad had made her CEO of his empire, Simon Energy Incorporated, come face to face with the one man that still held the pieces of her shattered heart & uncover buried secrets that should've stayed deep beneath the surface!Learning how to manage life as a CEO of an empire of 5 coal mines, several hundred employees and the secrets her daddy had buried deep, was nothing compared to keeping the steel cage around her heart and out of the hands of Colton Weston! At the age of 17, she thought the young Colton Weston was everything! But the man he has grown into, with his tanned muscles & tattoos, and those lips.....those smooth, delicious lips that turn her skin to flames with every kiss, is the sexiest thing she has ever laid her eyes on!!! Keeping that steel cage up is impossible!! She decides to give in, to love Colton & let him love her! She wants to finally feel everything that has always been buried deep in her soul!When Colton broke things off with Carly Jo 7 years ago, he did it b/c he didn't have a choice! He loved her, but he'd made some bad decisions & they'd came back to bite him! The night he let her go, he lost more than he could have ever imagined! But now that she's back in his life, he refuses to let her go again! He's determined to dig up all their buried secrets, get past them & move on! He wants her as a part of his family, and he will do whatever necessary to make that happen! He will not let anything, or anyone come between him & the woman he loves!I absolutely can not wait for the rest of this series! This is the first book for Silla Webb and I am certain this is just the start of something AMAZING for her! She is a very talented writer! She pulls you in & lets you feel every raw emotion of every character! Oh....and she will make you blush with her hot, steaminess! ;) I'm sure you will fall in love with these characters just as I did!And......I guarantee 'Covered in Coal' will leave you saying....."What to Hell!"  ;)