4.5 Smooches!
Synopsis
Alexa Kendrick has no recollection of the car accident that left her scarred and sent her life careening wildly off course. When the half-sister she thought she’d never meet shows up at her door with an invitation to a new life, Alexa finds herself in Florence, Arizona, a town notorious for being populated with more prison inmates than actual citizens…a town that has done its best to hide its own dark secret.
After Ellie is called out of town, she leaves her sister with the keys to her flower shop and Alexa finds herself swapping lives with her sibling: running Ellie’s business, living in the house left to them both by their absentee father…and forging a smoldering relationship with sexy-as-sin penitentiary officer, Nate Fury—a man with his own demons.
But arranging flowers by day and tangling with the only man who has ever seen her real self by night isn’t enough to silence the mysterious panic that fuels Alexa’s dark dreams. When Nate brings home a book written by an inmate, one describing an unspeakable crime, the shackles binding Alexa’s own lost memories begin to shatter. And as the devastating truth comes to light, she realizes that Nate holds the key to unlocking her past, as well as her heart.
Review
This book took me by complete surprise. I almost made the bad decision to listen to a negative review and not give the book a whole hearted chance but this story sucked me in!
Some secrets are best left locked away in the past….
We start out with the mysterious leading lady Alexa. She is a painter and tortured soul trying to remember life before an almost life-ending car crash.
When the half-sister she thought she’d never meet shows up at her door with an invitation to a new life, Alexa finds herself in Florence, Arizona, a town notorious for being populated with more prison inmates than actual citizens…a town that has done its best to hide its own dark secret.
Her sister is called away to a family emergency and leaves Alexa to manage her flower shop. In spite of her lack of social skills she manages the business with a few mishaps. She finds herself itching to draw and create again and the subject happens to be the handsome yet haunted penitentiary guard, Nate Fury. The pull between them is undeniable and hot even as their secrets unfold and twist until the story you thought you knew the ending to changes with each page. The mysterious darkness of the last half of this book is absolutely gripping and had me wanting to turn the page to find out what the heck was going on. I encourage anyone who likes a little mystery tucked in with your romance to read this!! I give it 4.5 smooches!
