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Finally. This DP hit all the check boxes for me! I’d take away maybe a star because it deserved more romance between the mcs. But have to give fair rating to a book that claims to be a suspense/romance genre.

I love DP’s descriptive writing and the intricacy of hundreds of side characters in the special forces. You’d feel like she really knows the whole town when she writes her book and they’re all important characters. The melancholy of it is rather sweet and soulful.

Grace is a sweet and shy next door neighbor to Garon. Her mundane life bothers Garon who’s forever on the go, hunting for trouble. With her sole guardian’s passing, her abusive grandma, the whole town is worried about Grace’s future and safety. Apparently the whole town is on a small secret of Grace’s past and no one is willing to share.

Incidentally Grace ends up having temporary residence with Garon and he can’t but fall for her. The more Garon spends time with her, the more he realizes that she’s built of strong stuff. Deeming himself a man who has no patience for small town girls, he says the cruelest unkindest things to Grace to push her away.

Their HEA is a sweet surrender of Garon. I stayed up the whole night to finish off this book and just wished that there was a bit more loving between the mcs. They barely get a page of an epilogue and the climax really doesn’t wrap up till the page before that.

Also trigger warning: this might not be for someone looking for easy reading. There is some really disturbing ghastly inclusion of serial killing involving young children. Crime scene details and such.

However still, this ones’s a keeper!