Review: 3.5 Stars
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 02 11, 2014
Jesse is away in college.  He is in his last semester of his senior year.  Life is great. He has great friends, a beautiful girlfriend, a bright future.  Jesse has everything he ever thought he wanted when he left Glory, Texas to get away from underground UFC fighting and his father.  However, on his birthday, his father shows up at Jesse’s college and tells him that he owes some bad people a lot of money.  People who are threatening to harm Jesse’s little brother.  Jesse feel he has no choice but to go back to his hometown that he left 4 years ago and make the money fighting his father owes.  However, he knows he will need the help of one girl, his first love that he left behind those 4 years ago.This story takes you to the person Jesse was 4 years prior and the man he is now.  Jesse left his past behind and kept it a secret from his new friends and his new girlfriend.  However, this story is told through his POV and you get to feel what he went through then and what he is going through now.  This is not a short book. There are a lot of emotional ups and downs.  Not only does Jesse have to go back to fighting which he loathed, he returns and befriends his ex-girlfriend, Drew.  Drew is caring and loving, but while Jesse was away, she too has had some changes in her life.  This is Drew’s journey, past, present, and future.Jesse and Drew are two great characters.  There is some suspense in this book as well concerning Jesse’s father which made for an interesting read.  It was a nice read.A copy was provided by the author/publisher in exchange for an honest review.