Review: I enjoyed it!
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 03 7, 2014
This book had me teary eyed in the first twenty minutes of reading it! The author's description of the abusive events that take place are very vivid and raw and made my heart break for the victim, Riviera Bleu Benson.Riviera moves to a new town to escape from her abusive relationship. She finds a job painting murals for an interior designer. She ends up meeting the owner of a construction company who is responsible for building high-end homes in the area. Her first introduction to Benjamin Shandon doesn't go all that well. He is a highly stressed business owner who ends up taking out his frustrations on her and jumping down her throat (unnecessarily). Riviera is timid around men who lose their tempers, so this doesn't go well for them.He ends up apologizing for his horrible behavior ( he has no idea about her history). They end up developing an attraction to one another, but Riviera has trust issues and is afraid of her growing feelings for him.Throw in a conniving interior decorator, a steroid addicted ex-boyfriend, a former black-ops agent (although he'd deny it!), action, suspense, and romance galore....and you have a great novel.Needless to say, I will be buying the second book in this series!