SYNOPSIS
After her father commits a crime that shatters her family, eighteen-year-old Delaney Cross is tired of pretending everything is all right. Packing up her car, she sets out to find the people her father hurt. Her search leads her to places she’s never been—and into the arms of Adrian Westfall.
To the outside world, Adrian is a sexy, charming ladies’ man. But his playboy persona is just an act. Secretly his soul is tortured by a memory too painful to share. Only Delaney seems to see through his façade to the real man underneath. And for the first time in his life, Adrian feels he can begin to open up about his past.
Together, Adrian and Delaney share a passionate love they never expected to find. Yet both still harbor their own secrets. When the dark truth is finally revealed, will it bring them closer together—or tear them apart forever?
MICHELLE’S REVIEW
Nyrae Dawn has done it again. I don’t even know what to do with all of these emotions. I seriously spent the last few chapters in tears. Just crying like a crazy person. I was like:
The story of Delany and Adrian is a beautiful one. It is one of healing and love and forgiveness. But it’s not as simple as it sounds.
Without giving too much away, Delaney’s father commits a crime that deeply effects Adrian’s family. And even with all the information that Adrian shares in the story- you cannot even begin to predict the way the story will wrench your heart. Again, I was like:
Adrian is immediately attracted to Delaney and she fights it knowing that in her rational mind, being with Adrian in that way is a not a good idea. She knows who he is and she knows she needs to let him know why she is really there. She longs to be in his life, though for reasons he could never predict. No matter how hard they fight, the attraction pulls them in and soon enough they are lost to it and giving into it.
And it’s beautiful. Breathtakingly beautiful. Stop your heart beautiful. I give you this example: “I feel your heart,” I tell Adrian. He pauses. “I thought it ran away.” COULD. YOU. DIE. I’m dead. I mean it’s stuff like that throughout the whole book.
I can’t even stand it. I was rooting for them so much because it was just so right and so perfect. Until it wasn’t. At which point I started crying. And I stayed a wreck until the end. Sometimes I was a wreck because of Adrian and Delaney, sometimes for Adrian and sometimes just for Delaney. But no matter what I was an emotional mess. And again I was like:
And I loved it.
Read this book. Nyrae Dawn is an amazing writer. She will make you feel invested in her characters in a way you can’t even imagine. She gives you the HEA but she makes you work for it. You have to go through about a million emotions before you get there. Kind of like real life. It happened in Charade, it will happen in Façade and I can just bet it will happen again in Masquerade. Thank you for a wonderful story!
AUTHOR INFO
I am a compulsive reader and writer who loves YA fiction.
I love nothing more than writing about young adults. There is something so fresh and fun about it. You can pretty much always find me with a book in my hand or open document in front of me.
I live in Southern California with my husband and two children.
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