“Not looking for closure. I don’t close a good book until the story ends.”
And ours started when I was sixteen. Eighteen years later, we had become different people, living another life than the one we had imagined then. One without each other. Having Rome Bower back in my life had been more than a blast from the past. My soul had felt at home again. Turns out he wasn’t just my first love but he’d been the only one to truly own my heart.
Loving him was easy, surviving him was hard. And I had a secret that was best left alone. There was no need to drag up painful memories that he didn’t need to know. Not even when someone else gets the one thing I’ve wanted more than anything else. I refuse to be the distraction that will one day leave him with a world of regrets.
But then, I may not have that choice to make. When our second chance is being tested, and we are holding on tightly to what we have found, it is snatched away by a man with my dead husband’s face. I know too much, and the Irishman known as The Ghost can’t allow that.
Review:
Finished in a day! Had to get to Salem and Rome’s HEA 😉 Ms Glines gave us plenty more twists and turns before she got us there, but that just made everything all the sweeter once we arrived.
This book had more emphasis on Salem and Rome as a couple now than the first one–the flashbacks to the past weren’t nearly as frequent, and we see a bit less of Rome as Tex, the MC member and all-around morally grey character (to be clear, he very much is still in the club, but we don’t see as much of him actually participating in some of the iffier aspects, like hanging out at the clubs with the girls and participating in takedowns of rivals). Salem’s still dealing with a lot of baggage from her old life, though, some of which comes back to haunt her before the book is over.
Overall I enjoyed this one–it kept me turning the pages to find out what was going to happen next. Salem’s big “secret” that she was agonizing over and hiding from Rome turned out to be a bit of a nothingburger, but really that’s the only complaint I have here.
This one can be read without reading the first two books in the series first, but I definitely wouldn’t read it without reading the part one of Salem and Rome’s story, Old Flame first. A future romance between Brady and Pepper looks to be in the works, and I for one cannot wait!
Review: 4 stars / B+
I voluntarily reviewed an Advance Reader Copy of this book.
About the author:
Abbi Glines is a #1 New York Times, USA Today, and Wall Street Journal bestselling author of the Rosemary Beach, Smoke, Sea Breeze, Vincent Boys, Field Party and Existence series. She never cooks unless baking during the Christmas holiday counts. She believes in ghosts and has a habit of asking people if their house is haunted before she goes in it. She drinks afternoon tea because she wants to be British but she now lives in New England and that’s as close as it is going to get. When asked how many books she has written she has to stop and count on her fingers. When she’s not locked away writing, she is reading, watching Netflix and all the introverted stuff.
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