Published by Avon Romance, HarperCollins on June 23, 2015
Genres: Contemporary, Romance, Suspense
Pages: 368
Buy on Amazon
Goodreads
The third book in the beloved #1 bestselling author’s sexy, romantic suspense Slow Burn series…
They say young love doesn’t last, but a girl from the wrong side of the tracks with unique abilities and the hometown golden boy were determined to defy the odds. For Zack Covington, Anna-Grace—his “Gracie”—was the one. Until one night forever alters the course of their future, when a devastated Gracie disappears without a trace, leaving Zack to agonize over what happened to the girl he loved. As the years pass, his desperate efforts to find her uncovered nothing.
Now working for Devereaux Security, he stumbles across a painting featuring a special place only he and Gracie would know. The image is too perfectly rendered for it to be coincidence. His Gracie must be alive. When he finally tracks her down, he is shocked—and heart-broken—to discover the wounded shell of the girl he once knew and still loves. Her psychic gifts are gone, and worse, she believes he betrayed her all those years ago.
Zack has enemies, and once his weakness is discovered, Gracie becomes a target for revenge. He’ll have to save her before he can earn her trust and her love. And he vows they’ll never be torn apart again.
Stephanie’s 4 Star Review:
I received a copy of this book from the publisher for an honest review.
This particular Maya Banks novel started out as a struggle for me. It was about 40% into the book that I actually started liking the story. The basis of the story is in high school Zack met and fell in love with a girl from the poor side of the tracks – Anna-Grace. She was his everything. They dated all through college and then one day he came back home to her after a football game and she was gone. Completely disappeared.
His father was dead set against him being involved with Anna-Grace. The dad was definitely happy when she went missing. Zack never stopped looking for her.
So fast forward a little more than a decade and Zack is faced with a painting that has to be hers. Has to be. When he finds her she’s frightened out of her mind to see him. It’s her every nightmare come true.
This is where we start the actual journey. Maya Banks has definitely added some drama to this couples story. There’s quite a bit of horrible/bad/awful things happening in this story. Some just plain sick stuff. It’s amazing the levels people will go to just to get their way. Who cares who you hurt in the process. There’s definitely a method to Maya’s madness with this story. You must push through the beginning to get to all the greatness this story turned out to be.
You will enjoy reading about the characters from the other Slow Burn Novels too. They add some great companionship in this story and assistance to Zack and Anna-Grace as well. I hope you like this story as I did.
Leave a Reply