A Brilliant Suspenseful Story!
I ‘discovered’ Ali Parker’s books last year and have been addicted to them ever since. I love the way she weaves a story. The way she develops her characters that are so believable and 3-dimensional. The way they pull at your heart strings and I always end up liking them [well apart from the obvious unpleasant ones ]. In this book I loved Mila as the heroine. The hero was Ben, who is her brother’s best friend so obviously their love would break the ‘bro code’. She had a crush on him as a child but nothing happened. He always wanted to be a firefighter but work in New York pulled him away. When his parents and ‘uncle’ die in suspicious circumstances he gets a chance to come back home and they reconnect. Passions overtake them but then he feels that he ‘has to’ leave town to protect her. Ben did annoy me at times because he need to be more assertive and not floundering in his thoughts. This is a longer story than normal but it was so full of what was going on that it didn’t seem long at all to me. This is a real page turner and you won’t want to put it down. W|ell worth purchasing so that I can re-read it whenever I want to do! Most definitely recommended!
