I could not put this one down and was downright mad when life forced me to! I was worried after reading some reviews about the "dark" side of the book but didn't allow that to keep me from buying/reading it. It didn't all pan out how I would have liked but it's not my story. I did hate that Jake was gone for so long. I had wished for a swift resolution/retribution. I did love the epilogue. I live in Southwest Florida/Cape Coral. Matlacha (pronounced Matt-La-Shay) is 5 minutes from my house....I go over that bridge all the time. Yes, it is constantly under construction but now a new one is there. My husband and I eat breakfast at "The Perfect Cup"... A little hole in the wall Matlacha restaurant all the time. Small world!! ( )

Omg. Huge trigger for me. I cried so hard but I made it through the book, and loved the writing. Ty for not detail drawing. Hate authors that do that. This book was very straight to the point. Loved it. ( )

Ultimately unbelievable. The hero was a 22 year old assassin but there is no real explanation as to how he became one. He was never in the military and the author never really gave us enough of his back story to set up how this 18 year old kid on the run managed to fall into this business. The heroine had a brutal childhood. She was much better developed. But I will say her backstory was pretty hard to read about. Okay they meet and fall in love. He manages to get her over her life long aversion to being touched and everything is hunky dory but the next day he has to leave to kill another person. That very night she is raped by someone she thought of as a friend but who the H is enemies with.

So she gets beat up really badly but doesn't go to the cops cuz the sheriff is the rapist's corrupt uncle. The rapist's mother tries to pay her off, then has her arrested and beat up by the corrupt sheriff. She turns up pregnant and here's where it really all falls apart. When the hero comes home he has heard a rumor that she has been putting it out for the bad guy. She says "how can you ask me that? how can you believe that of me? I would never do that to you" and other words to that effect. And he's all like "tell me the truth!" And I'm thinking didn't she just? Wouldn't you at least question her a little more closely? And why didn't she just come out and say he raped me? Cuz necessary break up of characters. And he walks away from her for 4 years. So, honestly I think that is a failure of consistent characterization right there. The hero knew that she hated to be touched that she had never been sexually attracted to any person other than himself because she was so badly damaged by her past and he also knew the bad guy was a jerk. Why didn't he at least suspect that she was telling the truth? All those factors being in play I think a more believable reaction from him would be an immediate leap to believe the bad guy had been up to meanness. At least he should have been up for taking revenge on the Bad guy Even if just for touching his gal.

She ends up pregnant of course and it's got to be the bad guy's because the hero used a condom. Anyhoo she stays with the hero's father for 4 years until he dies. Hero comes home and immediately falls in love with the little girl and suspects he's the father. But no the heroine tells him. So he's all "I've always loved you and I'll love her too, blah blah blah." Well believing rumors and staying away for 4 years really proves that. But after the bad guy attacks her again and nearly kills the little girl it comes out that the girl is really the hero's after all. How and why? The hero used a condom. I know they fail but usually there is some reason. It breaks, it leaks because you didn't take it off soon enough etc., something like that. And if the author had set it up that way from the beginning I would have found it easier to swallow. But no! Miracle! Happy ever after! Especially after the hero goes and kills the bad guy.

And to top off all the crazy with a WTF cherry, the heroine forgives the crazy bitch mother of the bad guy. And the thing that really doubled up the WTFery, the mother forgives the hero for killing her son. As the mother of sons myself, that bit was the straw that broke the camel's back for me. No matter what my kids did, I will always love them. I think that she would instead have agonized over what she did wrong and how it could have happened and what she could have done different but she would have wanted her son to live maybe in prison or a mental institution or what have you, somewhere to get help. Not played happy families with his cold blooded killer. ( )

It got better and better and better...

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Completely twisted tale. Characters are twisted, relationship is twisted, the events are twisted. It was amazing to listen to because I was all like "Daaamn what next??".

... I probably shouldn't have enjoyed this as much as I did. ( )