Hailey thought she’d missed her chance with Nolan. Five years ago, the moment she realized she loved him was the moment he decided to leave. Now, when a brutal assault lands her in the ICU, Nolan flies straight to her bedside, acting like nothing’s changed. What’s a rock star like him doing, canceling shows and risking his record deal, just to nurse an old friend back to health? And why should Hailey believe he’ll stay this time?
With her attacker still at large, Nolan’s ready to rise to the occasion. He knows he let Hailey down once before, but he’s ready to give her everything, heart and soul—and he’ll fight for the chance to prove it.
MY REVIEW:
When you grow up in a house of hate yet
find love in others you gravitate toward it.
For Nolan Kincaid that is the way it worked when he met his female best
friend Hailey Wilkins. She lived across
the street. He and his male best friend
Brandon were playing and she wanted to play too. Nolan said okay but Brandon was having no
part of that. Hailey was ready to
physically fight her way in. In order to
save Brandon a black eye, Nolan explained that she could be a good asset. Reason being her mom baked the best
cookies. Brandon voted her right in.
From that day forward they were always
together even more than him and Brandon and that was a lot. Hailey was a huge soccer player and Nolan
spent countless hours in the backyard with her doing her drills. He would spend all kinds of hours writing
music and playing his guitar. The two
supported each other’s through everything.
Until the teen years the secrets they used to share were not as much
because well they had fallen for each other but neither would ever tell the
other. At Hailey’s house he was normal
at his house all hell would break loose.
You see his dad would start drinking and
then become violent. Not only with his
words but with his hands. At 19 Nolan
was feeling trapped at home. He wanted
to leave so badly he could taste it. He
couldn’t not with his little sister, Sarah, 11, still stuck there as well as
his mom. His dad was a monster. He had to be there to protect them. But on this one night something had gone
terribly wrong. His mom and sister were
dead by the hands of his father who almost killed him too. His father was killed by the police in the
act of doing so. If only he could
remember the details that led up to it but he was told he may never get it the
memory of that night back. That’s how
bad it was and his brain is trying to protect him.
Now five years later, Nolan who is Tyler
Erickson, lead singer for Pushing Limits a rock band. For all this time the girl he loved, he said,
and carried her picture on stage every night with him, he has not once called
her to say HI! “F off!” Nothing. The ironic part is she nursed him back to
health, drove him to the airport, and was his biggest fan and supporter and
after 4 months of calling him and texting him she gave up on him once he made
it to LA. He did have the decency to
send a text when he arrived safely to say he arrived after that nothing.
Yet, her parents are caring for his home
still because he can’t seem to let it go yet.
So he is alive. He needs some paperwork
from the house and her dad couldn’t get over there so he asked her to go to get
it. Later that night they found her
brutally assaulted and left for dead in the seedier side of town. Nolan gets a call from Brandon saying Hailey
is in a coma in ICU. He finishes the
concert and takes the first flight home. He needs to be by her side no matter
what.
See if the two damaged and hurt souls can
find a place in each other’s lives and hearts.
Is her attack random? Or is there
something to really worry about? Can
Nolan restore his memory enough that he can forgive himself?
This was an intense love story that keeps
the reader on their toes. There were
very tender moments but there were very tense ones where you want to bite your
nails too. I give this 5 stars. Provided by netgalley.com. Follow us at:
www.1rad-readerreviews.com.
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