Review: This was a really, really fantastic read!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 06 6, 2013
I don't know what I expected when I first picked up this book, but I assure you, it wasn't anything even close to what I had first imagined. Jeremy Asher brought it all: He mad me feel every single gut wrenching emotion that these characters were going through on their long journey together. I felt their sadness, their hopelessness, their fears, and their triumphs. This is not just a story of sadness though, it's way more than that. It's a story of 4 very different people coming together, people who are grasping onto one another for support and finding true inspirational hope.Frank Goodman being the older, and wiser of all of them. He has the patience of Job, and the wisdom to prevail through it all. He always seemed to be the calm in the storm, and just happened to be wherever he was needed at the time.Seth Storm was a man so full of guilt over his wife's untimely death. A guilt that ran so deep, that made him sort of lose his way for awhile. After his wife died he started drinking, until he lost it all, including his precious daughter and his music career, when he finally hit rock bottom. He knows he needs to get his life back on track again, so the first thing he does is voluntarily turn himself into a rehab facility. Now that's he made it through months of rehab, his focus is on reclaiming his daughter, with hopes that maybe one day soon... he'll even be able to reclaim his life in the music business once again.Trista lost her husband, who was the love of her life,  a little over 9 years ago. She was left all alone to raise her small daughter, and she admits to making some pretty bad mistakes along the way. But none of those mistakes were as bad as the one she made 2 years ago, when she ended up getting mixed up up a abusive and dangerous man called Tuck. After suffering a few years of his abuse, she decides to pack and move her and her teenage daughter, Savannah,  from Nashville to Illinois. She drugs Tuck that night, hoping he'll be out long enough to get a good head start. But Tuck has warned her, he'd find her and her daughter and kill them if she ever tried to leave him. Trista has no doubt that Tuck meant every every word of that threat. She can't let her guard down, and continues to look over her shoulder with every slow mile that passes.But none of these people ever thought they'd end up in the terrible situations they find themselves in, especially when a major blizzard hits and all flights out were canceled. There are several unexpected twists and turns in this story, some that that will surly have you sitting on the edge of your seats, and other tie ends that you will never see coming.I highly recommend this book to everyone. This is the first time I've read anything by this author, but I can tell you right now, Jeremy Asher has just found himself a new fan.