Victoria is a Wildwood, she was kidnapped at the age of six and manipulated by the Exotic Lands Touring Company... she is now 18 and a tour guide. She is forced to use her magic to protect travelers in a Jamaican jungle teeming with ghostly monsters and spirits. Victoria thinks this is finally her time to get the promotion of team leader but her backstabbing ex receives it instead, and despite her having the strongest magic on the team... she is not the image the boss wants to send to their new client, Thorn, a handsome renowned goldminer who wants the gold in the jungle. Victoria is barely just trying to get by ever since the incident in which she was sexually assaulted by the boss, she lives ib fear, for not only herself but those she cares about... so she stays quiet, never voicing her opinion, and just doing whatever the boss asks... but she wants this promotion to help her family... and to maybe escape. She is instead made to work with the new client and work under Dean, her ex who betrayed her in ways she can barely process. Thorn is charming, kind, confident, and handsome... and he just happens to fall for her. Yet in the expedition into a dangerous jungle along with scheming people and traitors in the group does not make a safe trip. While they fight to survive the jungle they must also survive each other. Victoria will have to ask herself if she is ready to unleash all her power and finally speak up against everything that has happened to her. The story deals with sexual assault, trauma, abuse, slavery, and colonization, definitely read the trigger warnings before you go into it. Unfortunately this one didn’t work for me, it started off rocky and ended eh. I guess it kind of just fell flat for me despite what the story was trying to do. I was initially interested in the book summary and definitely felt like it could be for me, but it just didnt. Despite that, do give it a go if you loved the author’s previous book!

Spoiler

in the end she does not take up a life with Thorn despite them being in love, she spends one day in society and knows its not for her. Instead she goes into the jungle and when Thorn offers to go with her and live with her she declines and tells him to go back to his life and thats it. yup. She frees the company, dean dies and kills the boss.

*Thanks Netgalley and St. Martin's Press, Wednesday Books for sending me an arc in exchange for an honest review*