I haven't breathed properly in four years. The bullet that ripped my girlfriend away from me in Iraq, ripped a May shaped hole in my heart that I don't want to fill. The only time my lungs fully remember how to do something as simple as breathing air is when I'm with a woman who can never be mine. In a relationship? I'll take it. Engaged? Yes please. Married? Hell yeah.
Then I met her. The blonde with the boyfriend who's involved with everything I hate. I don't know if she knows what he's into, all I know is that my pants aren't the only thing that tighten when I'm around her. And now history is trying to repeat itself and I'm letting it happen over my dead body.
Juliana:
My life is comfortable. My boyfriend is seriously good-looking and my best friend is fun, supportive and always up for having a good time. I'm content, until I'm not.
My perfectly constructed life comes crashing down around me and it's a mysterious, super hunky ex- SEAL who's suddenly at the right place at the right time. Every time.
But when choices I didn't make impact my life in ways I never thought possible, I'm alone. Screwed. Terrified.
When everything is on the line and your life is on the wrong side of the plumbing system, what do you do?
I don't know...
I don't know because this wasn't my mess to clean up. I like to think I'm an optimist, but how is it possible that anything good can come of this?
Pacey lost his love May on a mission. So he promised her memory that he would stay single the rest of his life. Until he meets Juliana. His one night stands were women who were taken. Well Juliana just broke up with her cheating boyfriend. Can Pacey be more than a one night stand kind of man? Great read. This book includes seven extra books. The first extra book is called Gamed with Quinn and Owen. The second extra book is called Bad Professor with Clarity and Ford. The third extra book is called Addicted with Nate and Abby. The fourth extra book is called Fireworks with Cora and Brody. The fifth extra book is called Conviction with Ollie and Wren. The sixth extra book is called Bad Coach with Eryn and Wade. The last extra book is called Roomies with Leila and Dane.
I voluntarily submitted this review after reading an advanced copy of this book.
The angst shown by Pacey, the main character, I am sure is not an entirely fictional feeling for those returned soldiers, who have lost comrades in arms and also seen and done things that are sure to leave marks on their souls. However, a good partner, can erase those issues, perhaps not eliminating them, but elevating the pain and nightmarish symptoms from the retired soldier's being. Thank you again Ms Adams for a sensitive and understanding story, which although romantic in parts, was dramatic and suspenseful in others.