Review: Hot, Sexy, Emotional and Wonderful!!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 04 16, 2012
Thank you Kristen Ashley for a wonderful heart-wrenching character driven story with such a hook I read this start to finish from bedtime until 6am on a school night. As a mom to 4 boys 11 and under I LOVE my sleep so this story is going grab you so fast and hard it will not let go until the final page. No joke. I got about 2% into this story and was wide awake and hooked. Hot, Sexy, Emotional and Wonderful!! From the first introduction of Cal(Joe) you are immediately swept away with his alpha-male so sexy even a potentially disfiguring scar on his face has no impact on what he does to women with one blazing look. Violet is a widow with two teenage girls, with a back-story so well developed you want to be her best friend. Her dead husband was a cop on the trail of an insane Chicago crime boss that falls for Violet and wants to make her his own. She flees to Indiana suburb that was home to a serious stalker serial killer whose victim(Feb and Colt from For You, Ashley's first in this series novel) lives across the street. Wow what a neighborhood!The relationship that develops between Violet and Joe(Cal) is an intense roller coaster ride to paradise. They stop in hell a few times along the way and with every page turn you are wondering if the story can get better and it does. I laughed, I cried and I gasped while reading this book. So satisfying without overdoing the suspense, violence and crime angle. It is a story about failed family relationships and staying strong and rebuilding a life after devastating heartbreak only close family can inflict. The ups and downs of Violet and Joe's relationship lead Violet to date Mike, a police LT with a $6000 bed (thanks to his materialistic ex-wife), two kids and a heart of gold. He is the subject of Games of the Heart the next book in this series which I have downloaded this morning and will not begin until I know I have at least 6 hours to kill.I purchased this on my kindle and would highly suggest anyone that liked Beautiful Disaster, 50 Shades, Semper Forever, Sweet Dreams(another amazing story by Kristen Ashley) buy this now.