Review: Sexy with a twist!
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 04 16, 2013
*******3.5 stars******Lily Sawyer is suffering from paranoia and a serious case of pent-up anger.  She's left everything behind to escape to the Cape Cod home she visited in the summers with her family, only to develop a terrifying phobia of leaving the house.  Not much of an escape, it would seem, but she's resigned herself to being a virtual shut-in thanks to her embarrassing stockpile of necessities should the world ever come to an end.  She was all set for whatever came her way, unless his name was Cliff Buckley. Now, he would turn out to be the one thing she could never have prepared herself for, but he was also the one thing she desperately needed.This wasn't your typical romance story, where the man meets the beautiful woman and immediately they're swooning.  Cliff, a hard-working carpenter who'd had enough of the stuck-up rich snobs he'd spent years dealing with, took one look at Lily and thought she was just like the rest of them.  She comes from money and is taking off from the city to laze around in his neck of the woods, so he figures she's your typical spoiled brat. Meanwhile, Lily just wants to be left alone, but the house is falling apart around her. It was a strange dynamic between these two for quite some time, and I wasn't sold on Lily and Cliff at first.  Both of them were a bit too much in their own heads, Lily in particular.  They both had a lot of angst about the state of the world and the people inhabiting it for different reasons, and their thoughts were heavy on their minds and a bit much at times.  It wasn't until they stopped dwelling so much on the state of things they weren't able to fix that Lily and Cliff showed a less jaded side of their personalities, and I was so relieved to see them finally let down the icy walls for each other!!  They became the cute, funny, oh-so-sexy couple that I was hoping they could be, and it was a joy to see.  As they forced each other to face the skeletons hiding in their closets, there were some very steamy moments that really took me by surprise...in a good way! Things wrapped up a little too quickly for my tastes, but I was happy with the way things turned out.Overall, I liked that Cliff and Lily's journey strays from the typical path of romance stories a bit, and it was a quick but enjoyable read!