Review: "My Aslan, My Faye" and yes - Wookieepedia all make for a great Kristen Ashley read in the Colorado Mountain series
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 11 5, 2013
Breathe focuses on Faye Goodknight, Carnal's town librarian and Chace Keaton, one of Carnal's police department detective.  Polar opposites with intense chemistry.Faye, a 29 yr old virgin lives her life in books and is a dreamer, but that's not to say she isn't aware of what goes on in her town.  She's had a major crush that morphed into love for Chace as soon as he came into Carnal as a uniformed officer of the law thirteen years prior.Chace, 35, having the same attraction for Faye a few  years later and knowing he'd wait for her because he wanted a future with Faye, even planning for it but sadly, this was not to be - you see his life went down the toilet because of the scheming town slut that involved blackmail, police corruption (read Sweet Dreams and Lady Luck), a father who's only interest at heart was his own and a mother with chemical imbalance issues.Fast forward to thirteen years present day, Chace is a tortured and haunted soul.  Because of his ex-wife, Misty, schemes, Chace found himself between a rock and a hard place.  His father's nasty and gross predilections is the reason Chace ended up looking like he had no chance to the future he envisioned for himself which was to start a family and live a good life in Carnal.  Through his father's associations with the "Elite" (city council, local town officials) in the towns of Aspen, Gnaw Bone, Chantelle, a dark web is formed and cast over Chace.  Chace, having no choice in the matter, decides to play out his life this way for 10 yrs, working to gain control of the end results by going to CPD IA to report the corruption in CPD and going undercover of over a year.Breathe begins where Lady Luck ends - Misty is murdered.  Although Chace couldn't stomach Misty, he didn't want to see her life end this way.  Chace also doesn't feel like he deserves a future with Faye.  He's been mired police corruption, a scandal that could push his mentally fragile mother over the edge and a father he detests.  Faye, not knowing all of Chace's demons, gets involved with Chace even after his rude brush off.  Faye witnesses a young boy who appears to be homeless and abused when he comes into the library, takes books without checking them out but always returning it.  Faye tries to engage with the boy at first but scares him away.  Faye knows something is wrong and it's when she goes to CPD to file a report that the interactions between Faye and Chace begin - Chace giving into his desire to get to know Faye even though he doesn't feel worthy and Faye getting all the moral support from Lexie, Krystal, Lauren and even Twyla (Sweet Dreams and Lady Luck) she can get.As Breathe unfolds, the characters from the three previous books, the Gamble, Sweet Dreams and Lady Luck play a huge part in the lives of Chace and Faye.  Breathe is sweet, heartbreaking, heartwarming and hot.  I love a female character who has her head in her books and dreams, who holds out and manages to catch the hero.  I love a male character who knows his girl will make everything wrong in his world, right.