**Due to sexual content, language and violence, this book is only
suitable for ages 18 and up**
Everyone has secrets. How far would you go to keep them hidden? What
would it take for you to rid yourself of the secret…. to move past it all?
Kayla Williams was stuck in a reoccurring nightmare. The problem was
Kayla wasn’t dreaming. This really was her life for the past sixteen years. No
matter what, she knew she had to keep this secret, from everyone she knew and
loved especially her ten brothers and sisters. It was a secret that would break
the family apart. Kayla is the middle child of a large family. Kayla found it
all too easy to blend into the background. When her twin sisters have a
graduation party, Kayla decides to stop by only to tell them congratulations.
She had tried to stay away from her family and her family home as much as she
could. Kayla loved her family, but it was hard to face them, knowing the awful
secret she was hiding. What Kayla didn’t know was that going to this party
would cause the first domino to fall and trigger the next.
Jason Gold, a dutiful son, was a loner all his life. To Jason, honesty
and trust were only a figment of people’s imagination but something he believed
in. Jason, a police detective is married to the job. When Jason’s sick mother
asks him to attend a party on behalf of her, he meets the one girl that he
could not ignore or forget.
Secrets are dangerous…. they can cause bonds to break and hearts to
shatter…. Will Kayla survive her hidden secret or will it claim her forever?
Will Jason come clean on his secrets or let them tear away the only woman he
has cared enough about to pursue?
***Who Picked This? Book Blog was given an ARC of this book in exchange
for an honest review***
My 5 Star Review!!
An
epic tale of a survivor who found her voice and in turn found herself.
“The first sprays of water that hit my skin burned, but it was better
than the pain I had been feeling; the empty, hollow pain that seemed to ache,
but never heal. It was always with me, like phantom pains that stayed
with me each day.“
We
meet Kayla broken, destroyed, and barely hanging on to her life. She gets
up, goes to work, and comes home never truly living just making it day to
day. She is living a partial life and doesn’t seem to notice it until a
chance meeting with a stranger unlocks feelings she has never had before.
"Whenever he was around me, I felt different. My skin
tingled, and my heart skipped beats. It almost felt like I couldn’t
breathe. This was a reaction to a man I’ve never had before.”
Unknowing
to her family, Kayla had been repeatedly violated for 16 years and it took
everything from her. She withdrew from her family and choose to keep to
herself, rather than hurt anyone else with her problems. Jason is okay
being alone, because being alone means not getting hurt. Jason meets
Kayla and can’t keep her out of his thoughts and is determined to know more
about her. After yet another meeting, Jason sees first had what Kayla’s
deepest darkest secrets are and he wants nothing more than to fix it for
her.
“When I look in her eyes I could see the fear plain as day. The
look pulled at something in my chest; I wanted to protect her, hold her, and
let nothing or no one hurt her again.”
Jason
is assigned to protect Kayla and one thing leads to another between the two and
each one is able to find something in the other they have always been
missing.
I
absolutely loved this book. I love books that make me live and breathe
the emotion in them and this book had me feeling the same emotions they did in
the book. I was happy and sad, laughing and crying and didn’t want to put
it down. The connection between Jason and Kayla was intense. While
reading this book, I felt the love and devotion between them. Seeing
Kayla with Jason was so special, because even though Kayla was in her
mid-twenties she was learning and feeling everything for the first time.
We are able to see her grow and gain strength with each passing page.
Kayla was so strong even after everything she had been through. She found
her voice and was able to speak out against her attacker and I hope her story
will help another person find their voice. I strongly recommend this book
to everyone! Simply amazing!
Mags
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