I loved Raleigh and Adam’s dynamic…their past and their relationship. It made for lots of interesting and exciting tension. I also really liked both of their characters. 

However, I did not like how Adam threatened her with violence a lot and the things he said to her that, in my mind, were pretty unforgiving, which he never apologized for. He probably didn’t think he needed to because he doesn’t even consider it. It was always Raleigh’s mistakes that were brought up time and time again as being unforgivable and her traits that were constantly pointed out as wrong but not his traits or the things he did or said. I didn’t like that. 

The prologue pulled me in right away, but after reading more, I wish the prologue had been about what happened with the warehouse explosion and Phillip, and then Chapter One could’ve been about what happened with Cavanaugh. With how many times the past was brought up and we’re given their memories of it later, I would’ve liked to have fully experienced their past relationship and what happened the night their world went up in flames.

Since we’re not given that full experience to build their past relationship, there was a lot of repetition and padding throughout the story. I felt like I was reading the same thing over and over again about the situation and their thoughts about each other and the past. And that’s because I was.

The head-hopping will never fail to pull me out of a story. Also, there was a moment when Raleigh was thinking back on the past and then all of a sudden it *was* the past, without no indication of a change like a scene break or italics. That pulled me out of the story, too. Again, that could’ve been solved by starting the book with the defining moment in their relationship and the moment that changed everything.

With all that said, I really enjoyed this story. It kept me reading, kept me engaged., but the happy ending, the resolution to their relationship, felt rushed. I would’ve liked a bit more after all that tension and betrayal (on both their parts).

P.S. The cover is deceiving. It looks like a sweet-ish romance but is really romantic-suspense.