This is a quick read that was recommended to me. I like that the book is told from both Connor and Ellie's perspectives. Both have suffered from domestic abuse and have a daughter from one night together eight years ago, though Ellie married soon after and Connor has been away with the Navy Seals. It's somewhat slow and fairly predictable though I was taken by surprise by a twist later in the book. It's okay but didn't really click with me. ( )

This review will most likely be unpopular.
I don't seem to quite connect with this author.

I can see that the circumstances are written to be a moving story as it deals with a violent parent/ husband but I just felt it was contrived and predictable.

The heroines actions, she sleeps with the Hero, leaves before they exchange names and then the next day marries a man who ends up being violent and controlling.

The Hero returns 8 years after his ONS to his home,after still dreaming of the girl he met all those years ago.
When he gets back he meets a child, no suprise it's his daughter, as the girl is living next door, big snag she's married.

There is technically no cheating as they wait for her divorce to have sex though they are definitely emotionally involved but it's okay cos her husband is abusive and she's finally made a decision to leave just as the Hero turns up on the scene, why she choose that day to leave and didn't feel he was too much of a danger to her daughter before that point I'm not sure.

And the daughter turning out to be his, fancy that, even though she slept with the man who is now her husband the next day.

I just felt it was contrived.
I'm not meaning to demean the effects of abuse but this didn't work for me.

No intimate scenes other than the Hero and heroine.

HEA.

Breadcrumbs dropped for future books in series about the brothers, groundwork laid for next book.

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