Review: Five stars
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 11 5, 2013
WOW and double WOW......just finished this book and there is no way I can wait to write this review.  PURE INTENSE BRILLIANCE  is what I would say about this book.  What starts out as a simple love story between two damaged people turns into a dramatic tale leaving me begging for more and I mean MORE NOW.  These characters and even the support characters are so well written, you are instantly drawn to them.  I laughed out loud at some of the antics the Trio pulled and melted when Noah would flash his charm.  I cheered for Lexi as she tried to reclaim her life and cried when I would see her stumble and fall.  These characters are a family who are begging for us the reader to join them .Lexi is a fighter, a survivor and a broken woman all at the same time.  Being attacked, raped and almost murdered years ago, she escapes from California and her family to start over at her Grandma's beach house.  Finding comfort and healing in photography she spends her time taking pictures and playing with her dog.  She had built walls to protect herself, never really letting go of the shame and guilt of her attack.Noah, the hot rock star who just wanted a two month vacation at his beach house, away from fans and the demands to constantly be performing, saw Lexi hiding in his garden one morning and decided to investigate this discovery.  For him it was love at first sight.  Lexi had a pure innocence about her, she was nothing like the groupies he had found and had sex with while on the road.  He knew he had to take his mother's advice and treat this one like a gentleman and give her what every woman deserved.........love and respect.As the story progresses Noah finally shares his past with Lexi and the heart-break that he has endured in life.  This gave Lexi the courage to tell Noah about the attack and the damage she has had to live with.  Noah went into protective mode instantly while Lexi went into independent survivor mode.  I am sure you can see where this was going.......battle of the wills but thank God the heart finally won.The ending was amazing.  During the whole story Lexi thought she knew who had attacked her, he had been sent to prison and was recently released but monitored in his home.  There was no way that feeling of being watched, or things missing in her house was reality.  She was sure she was just letting her imagination play games with her mind, till that one night when everything exploded.  The truth was discovered and she was facing a new demon, one she didn't even know existed.  She found out how she was just a pawn in his evil game.  She was going to have to live with the fact that her confusion and his lies changed the direction of an innocent man's life forever.What Noah found that night will forever change his life.  His whole world was lying in a pool of blood, gasping for her last breath, while the monster who had invaded her life disappeared.  Noah is going to have those images with him forever along with the guilt that he didn't protect Lexi as he promised.  Can they both learn to forgive themselves and let the monster take the blame for destroying so many lives?This story isn't over when you finish this book.  It is a cliff hanger for sure and the next book Eye Of The Storm is in the process of being written and released.  I know I can hardly wait.  After the Storm starts out like a normal love story, man meets woman, they battle their feelings, give into them and just when you get ready to say they live happily ever after, the author pulls the rug out from under you and says "I don't think so".  It is a heart racing, breath seeking ending to this book.  I highly recommend this to you readers, be ready for Eye of the Storm, I know I WILL be reading and reviewing that one.