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Synopsis
Mia Lee has a secret…
A secret she’s kept hidden since she was eight years old, however, Mia will no longer allow that secret to define her.
An irrevocable decision has left Mia Lee a fugitive and on the run—a circumstance that should leave her weak and scared, yet Mia has never felt so alive.
Under the pseudonym of Paige Cassidy, Mia is ready to live the life she’s never had, and she’s determined not to allow her tainted past dictate her promising future.
Paige is on a Greyhound bus heading from L.A. to South Boston, Virginia, to start a new life. A life that includes finding her mother, who abandoned her at age three. But what she finds, is four people, who will change her life forever.
Yet no one can outrun their past…
Especially one filled with bitter memories, which refuse to remain hidden.
Review
This is a story about Mia…well really it’s about the person she has to become thanks to her old life and her journey as she runs from her past.
Mia has had an awful start to life and when she has to make a decision between life and death, she chooses life but knows she can no longer remain the girl she once was and instead she renames herself Paige and runs away from her old life. She expects not to stay too long in where she’s settled temporarily but soon finds herself surround by 4 people who become to feel like family to her. Unfortunately for Paige, her life as Mia catches up to her and has devastating consequences.
“Well here’s to new beginnings. Cause’ the past fucking sucked”
Wow…what a story. Right from the start I was hooked. The prologue itself literally grabs hold of you straight away and from that point on I was already desperate to know what had happened and what would happen to this beautiful broken girl.
“But most of all, I see a survivor”
The characters were brilliant. From Paige’s strength, courage, bravery and kindness, to Quinn’s bad boy persona that is hiding a broken young man who still manages to be kind and sexy. With Tristan’s charm and how chivalrous he is and Tabitha’s quirky, happy and delicate personality. And finally Hank, (grandpa) who is the kindest old soul I’ve ever read… this book had a wealth of characters you couldn’t help but fall in love with.
“My skin feels like it’s being torn open, bleeding out wanton need with his gentle touch”
Then the plot which was both suspenseful and beautiful. Starting off with Mia’s journey as she becomes Paige and starts her new life and the way each person becomes someone she starts to see as family, then onto her flashbacks and dreams which leads us to finding out why she is running, and then knowing deep down that her past will catch up to her and that it’s just a matter of time before everything explodes in front of Paige! The ending was so fast paced and honestly quite devastating leaving me desperate for the next book.
“Can you give me everything, even though you know I will push you until you’re ready to break?”
This was a captivating, quite heart-felt read that hooked me in right from the start and didn’t let me go once. It was sad, it was beautiful, it was tense, it was funny… A brilliant story which held my attention in such a way that I couldn’t put it down. It’s left me desperately wanting the next book praying that it doesn’t end in disaster for not only Paige/Mia but all the others as well.
“We’re both broken, attempting to become unbroken, but somehow, together, we fit.”
Bethany
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