Gavin had loved Melanie-along time ago. Now, returning to Taylor's Crossing, he wanted only to forget her and the promises they'd forged in the heat of passion. Promises she'd inexplicably broken the moment he'd left to secure their future.
To Melanie, seeing the infamous world-class skier was like lightning striking twice--thrilling but terrifying. Pent-up passion still blistered the air around them, but the bitterness in Gavin's eyes was glacial. He thought she'd betrayed him, but he hadn't known of her desperation without him, hadn't known of the child they'd conceived....Dare she bare herself to his accusations--twice?
Lisa Jackson is the number-one New York Times bestselling author of over ninety-five novels, including the Rick Bentz and Reuben Montoya Series, the Pescoli and Alvarez Series, the Savannah series, and numerous stand alone novels. She also is the co-author of One Last Breath, Last Girl Standing, and the Colony Series, written with her sister and bestselling author Nancy Bush, as well as the collaborative novels Sinister and Ominous, written with Nancy Bush and Rosalind Noonan. There are over thirty million copies of her novels in print and her writing has been translated into twenty languages.
Before she became a nationally bestselling author, she was a mother struggling to keep food on the table by writing novels, hoping against hope that someone would pay her for them. Today, neck deep in murder, her books appear on The New York Times, USA Today, and Publishers Weekly national bestseller lists.
With dozens of bestsellers to her name, Lisa Jackson is a master of taking readers to the edge of sanity—and back—in novels that buzz with dangerous secrets and deadly passions. She continues to be fascinated by the minds and motives of both her killers and their pursuers—the personal, the professional, and the downright twisted. As she builds the puzzle of relationships, actions, clues, lies, and personal histories that haunt her protagonists, she must also confront the fear and terror faced by her victims and the harsh and enduring truth that, in the real world, terror and madness touch far too many lives and families.
The main characters were lovers eight years ago, she was seventeen and he 5 years older. The hero asked her to wait for him when he leaves in order to qualify for the Olympic team, where went on to become a professional ski racer. She agrees to wait for him.
A few weeks after the hero left her the heroine discovers she is pregnant. Her father advices her to not stand in the way of the hero’s life dream, as he would never forgive her. So she write a letter to the hero telling him, that she is not interested in him anymore. A few weeks later she marries the son of a wealthy timber trader and moves to a different town with her new husband.
8 years later, they meet again. Both still have strong feelings for each other, which is apparent from their very first meeting. It was so touching to read how the hero overcame his distrust and embitterment towards the heroine. I absolutely loved him for this. And I think the heroine a very strong person to let him go when she was 17.
3.5 stars.. I hated that these teens had unprotected sex and are surprised when they turn up pregnant. That is not romantic. It is stupid and irresponsible.
Gavin being angry, moody and distrustful wasn't very romantic, but I believed he was in lust. Gavin and his partner buy the local ski lodge. Melanie is a photographer for the local paper. Seattle ~ where Melanie lived when she was married. Just Me ~ ND sweatshirt
I am liking these different kinds of books of Lisa Jackson's. Most of the books of hers I've read prior to these last two were more like thrillers, espionage, with a bit of romance thrown in. They are still well-written with complex characters and plots that are intriguing and heartwrenching, yet heartwarming and romantic too.
This is another good read. I’d really prefer Jackson stick to her less racy style of writing. A few scenes of this one were very close to soft-core pornography. She’s a good enough writer not to need that to sell her books. Good story;engaging characters; natural dialog. This one, like the last one, could have been edited more tightly for grammar and usage.
It was a good "mind candy" read. I did not like the ending and was thinking throughout most of it that there's NO way that this would happen in real life, but that's probably not the point of this book, so... it was a good story, but not one of my favorites from her.
A real tear jerker.Have the tissues ready.Has a lot of thrills and adventure,takes you on quite a ride.Just when you think nothing else can happen something does.