Review: Secrets, lies, love, money and power...this book has it all!!!!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 06 3, 2014
James Riley had no idea about the secrets of his past, his mother and step-father made certain to keep those buried for as long as possible.  So James had no idea what he was walking into when he decided to transfer to the States to finish his last year of college with his mentor, Liam Ashton.James was going to be rooming with Marcus, who was a son to friends to his parents.  Upon his first night at Cloverley University, he had no idea the can of worms he was opening when he stepped in to help a girl who was being attacked by two men.  But James was a very kind, selfless individual that was an all around good guy, who didn’t like violence but knew how to take care of himself when it was needed.Anais was a legacy to the secret society that was known as the Lappell.  James didn’t care who she was or what this club meant all he knew was he saw an angel in front of him and he felt an instant connection to her.The turn of events set in motion by James knocking out the two men attacking Anais and winning the car race to help Anais’ cousin Seth, set into motion a destiny that was never meant to be but without all the information to understand, James was walking right into the battle that many people have spent their lives trying to avoid.This is not a simple story of boy meets girl and fall in love.  No, this is a story of what happens when money and power makes people think they can control the world and mold it into what they want no matter what the consequences.  The connection between Anais and James is sweet and pretty hot at times.  James is an artist pure and simple and demonstrates it in many ways to Anais, first by the dedication of his sculpture that he is building and then also by the words he speaks.  Like in the book when they are in the moonlight and Anais is trying to convince James that she has a darkness that he fails to see, he states,“I think you are the moonlight…because even the moonlight needs darkness to shine”This book traveled back and forth between current time and past, to help the reader put together what all James was blocking and what exactly the past had to do with the present.  I enjoyed this book and was amazed at many of the turns in the plot that I didn’t always see coming.  This cliffhanger was a tough one to take, so I can’t wait to be able to read the second part of this story when it is released to see how it ends.  What will be the fate of James and Anais?  Will the Lappell finally be taken down or will power and money win????