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They say a trouble shared is a trouble halved, but what happens to a person who is unable to share, swimming in lies, on the run from their past, and lost in plain sight?
Mallory Evans knows the face of evil all too well. She’s willing to pay any price to keep the people she loves safe. On the run for ten years—since that fateful night everything changed—Mallory sought refuge in the small Texas town of Belle Ridge, keeping her head down and living a life of lies. But when a handsome stranger arrives in town, she questions if mere survival is worth all that she’s paid.
Lucas Witter knows who he is and where he comes from. Confident in his life and purpose, he arrives in Belle Ridge with a singular focus. It doesn’t take long after he first lays eyes on Mallory to begin second-guessing himself. She has shaken him to his core and he wonders if he will be able to walk away from her when the time comes.
When ghosts reappear, will he be her saving grace or will she be his fatal downfall?
Explore Belle Ridge, Texas where the tea is sweet, neighbors are nosy, and “things like this don’t happen”—until they do. Each book can be read as a stand-alone but contain spoilers when read out of order. Belle Ridge’s Department of Tourism takes great pride in their lack of cliffhangers and guaranteed HEAs.
Lost was previously titled Lost in Belle Ridge.
Mallory Evans knows the face of evil all too well. She’s willing to pay any price to keep the people she loves safe. On the run for ten years—since that fateful night everything changed—Mallory sought refuge in the small Texas town of Belle Ridge, keeping her head down and living a life of lies. But when a handsome stranger arrives in town, she questions if mere survival is worth all that she’s paid.
Lucas Witter knows who he is and where he comes from. Confident in his life and purpose, he arrives in Belle Ridge with a singular focus. It doesn’t take long after he first lays eyes on Mallory to begin second-guessing himself. She has shaken him to his core and he wonders if he will be able to walk away from her when the time comes.
When ghosts reappear, will he be her saving grace or will she be his fatal downfall?
Explore Belle Ridge, Texas where the tea is sweet, neighbors are nosy, and “things like this don’t happen”—until they do. Each book can be read as a stand-alone but contain spoilers when read out of order. Belle Ridge’s Department of Tourism takes great pride in their lack of cliffhangers and guaranteed HEAs.
Lost was previously titled Lost in Belle Ridge.
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August 22, 2021
DV
This is a very strange book that belongs to a philosophy about relationships that would make more sense if it had been written 40+ years ago. It begs the question: What is worse? Being single or discovering that the guy you’ve been casually dating purposefully puts your life in danger? Does a person owe a second date to a man who ruins their business plans? Is it possible for a man to be cute enough or nice enough to make up for trying to kill the woman he’s been pursuing romantically?
The male character, Lucas, deliberately sabotages Mallory’s effort to build her small business. He does it specifically to fool her after he had been actively stalking her for more than a year. Then he tells the man who violently murdered Mallory’s mother where to find Mallory. At every possible opportunity, when Lucas has the chance to come clean, he instead perpetuates his lies and puts Mallory’s life in even greater danger. Even when he sees that the attack that left Mallory’s mother dead also left Mallory with permanent physical and emotional scars, he tells the murderer helping him finish what he started and kill her, too. Later, when a hired assassin shows up to break into Mallory’s house and murder her, Lucas still doesn’t confess that he set her up.
I am utterly flabbergasted that Mallory would feel safe in the company of the man who psychologically terrorized her before he sent someone to physically attack her. At the very end, the author tries to do a 180 and pretend that Lucas, who is over 30 years old, was simply naive and innocent. She tried to posit that Lucas had no idea that his Uncle who was serving time in prison for killing Mallory’s mother was guilty of killing Mallory’s mother.
In some ways it was almost funny reading the author’s tap dance around Lucas’s motivations without holding Lucas accountable for his own behavior. He simply believed his Uncle when his Uncle said that Mallory was a teenage slu+ who tried to seduce him and he couldn’t help but murder Mallory’s mother and try to kill Mallory, too. In the subsequent 10 years or in the weeks that Lucas spent pursuing a relationship with Mallory, he never changed his mind. Not even after he slept with Mallory, told her that he loved her, and sat idly by as one of his Uncle’s friends coincidentally assaulted him and tried to kill her.
This is a very strange book that belongs to a philosophy about relationships that would make more sense if it had been written 40+ years ago. It begs the question: What is worse? Being single or discovering that the guy you’ve been casually dating purposefully puts your life in danger? Does a person owe a second date to a man who ruins their business plans? Is it possible for a man to be cute enough or nice enough to make up for trying to kill the woman he’s been pursuing romantically?
The male character, Lucas, deliberately sabotages Mallory’s effort to build her small business. He does it specifically to fool her after he had been actively stalking her for more than a year. Then he tells the man who violently murdered Mallory’s mother where to find Mallory. At every possible opportunity, when Lucas has the chance to come clean, he instead perpetuates his lies and puts Mallory’s life in even greater danger. Even when he sees that the attack that left Mallory’s mother dead also left Mallory with permanent physical and emotional scars, he tells the murderer helping him finish what he started and kill her, too. Later, when a hired assassin shows up to break into Mallory’s house and murder her, Lucas still doesn’t confess that he set her up.
I am utterly flabbergasted that Mallory would feel safe in the company of the man who psychologically terrorized her before he sent someone to physically attack her. At the very end, the author tries to do a 180 and pretend that Lucas, who is over 30 years old, was simply naive and innocent. She tried to posit that Lucas had no idea that his Uncle who was serving time in prison for killing Mallory’s mother was guilty of killing Mallory’s mother.
In some ways it was almost funny reading the author’s tap dance around Lucas’s motivations without holding Lucas accountable for his own behavior. He simply believed his Uncle when his Uncle said that Mallory was a teenage slu+ who tried to seduce him and he couldn’t help but murder Mallory’s mother and try to kill Mallory, too. In the subsequent 10 years or in the weeks that Lucas spent pursuing a relationship with Mallory, he never changed his mind. Not even after he slept with Mallory, told her that he loved her, and sat idly by as one of his Uncle’s friends coincidentally assaulted him and tried to kill her.
February 17, 2021
Romance or Betrayal?
Solid writing, solid 3 dimensional characters and solid plot.
I don't normally read romance-type novels, but this book was recommended and I took a chance. Glad I did.
Solid writing, solid 3 dimensional characters and solid plot.
I don't normally read romance-type novels, but this book was recommended and I took a chance. Glad I did.
March 28, 2021
Nice story
Keeping secrets is never a good idea. Lucas and Mallory both have to face that truth. Thankfully, after danger and heartache they learn that lesson.
Keeping secrets is never a good idea. Lucas and Mallory both have to face that truth. Thankfully, after danger and heartache they learn that lesson.
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