"…some things can’t be repaired, they can always be remade into something better.” I am left wondering what the private eye number asked for would be used for if the author will continue the storyline in another book just for Jared? I LOVED Leo and thought he was extremely well written. Overall, I loved this story truly an impossible read amongst a lot of the same old stories out there these days. The story does include cheating yet that isn’t the basis of this story and the author throws in a very, very, good reveal and will spin everything you know up to that point on its axis. Our heroine tries to scare her husband into caring/noticing her and his reaction shocks her and this reader. The author writes the heroine’s day-to-day very well as we get to know her married girlfriends and a younger man named Jared who’s very interested in Lila. Because if he won’t do it, then they only person who can fix this pain and make me happy again is me.” I think it needs to snap once and for all. I can’t keep hanging on by a frayed thread. From the first page, her cries for any sort of reaction from Leo that he cares that their marriage is sinking is heartbreaking. The story is about a wife and mother of two, Lia who has been married for ten years to her husband Leo. Her writing is solid, sexy, and suspenseful. Stop breaking me.”Įlla Fields delivers one hell of a debut novel that was impossible to put down.
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