I was hooked from the first few sentences. Darcy Flynn captured the emotions of grief, and the sadness of losing a loved one so well that I sympathized for Katie, a fifteen year old who just lost her big brother. The flashbacks in the beginning give us touching memories between a brother and sister that reminded me of my own brother. Katie is a great character, young, fragile and full of such emotion. Reading about her as an adult in "Keeper of My Heart" will be interesting.

Darcy Flynn's writing is beautiful, effortless, and captivating. It's impossible not to feel what her characters feel, see what they see, and want to keep reading about them.

Katie's aunt is a real witch with a capital B! I adored Pop, wishing he were my own grandpa, and Max is a true officer and a gentleman. I liked him immediately upon reading his conversation with Katie's bitter aunt.

As promised with the title, there is a kiss and it is everything...the start of a story. The ending is also perfect, as I knew it would be.

If you want to read a short prequel to a promising romance, read this!