Synopsis
Cami Montgomery stole a car and smashed it into the front of a building in upscale Beverly Hills after a lousy date with the epitome of sleaze balls. The worst part, her parents are following through on threats after this latest plea for attention. Banished from her L.A. paradise and plunged into the Appalachian Mountains with her industrious aunt and uncle, Cami is about to find out how precious life really is.
Stockton Wright has been thrust into a hard life. He sacrifices everything to give his family and community what they need. He’s exhausted from life and work—and he’s only twenty four. What he needs is some change, and some sunshine. Even he will agree to that. He just doesn’t expect to find it in a stuck up, pompous, entitled Californian.
Cami bursts into Stockton’s life like wildfire, consuming all his thoughts and tangling him in her web. What starts out as a contentious rivalry evolves into a desire neither of them expected. When hammer meets metal, will they crack under pressure or be forged as one?
Cami and Stockton might just end up being exactly what the other one needs, but first their love will have to be drawn out in fire
4.5 Star review by Jen Skewes
I could not wait to get my hands on this book. I am a big fan of Lila's work and I will admit this is my first book by Rachel Higginson. Together they created an amazing story.
When we first met Cami, to me she was the typical spoiled rich girl, who loved spending her parent's money and only cared about herself. She is on a blind date with some guy that her sister set her up with. She has absolutely no interest in this guy at all. When she sees this date going in a direction that scares her she decides to make a run for it. So she does what any sensible girl would do, she runs out of the restaurant, steals her dates car and crashes it into her mothers store. At this point her parents are fed up with her reckless behavior and decide that the best thing for her is to go live with her aunt and uncle in small town in Tennessee. While staying with her aunt and uncle she is forced to actually do work. Getting dirty and working on a farm is not something Cami thought she would ever have to do. But she needs to take responsibility for her reckless actions and get her life back on track. Then she meets Stockton and things begin to change.
Stockton Wright is all kinds of amazing. He has his own baggage, having lost his parents a few years ago and taking on the responsibility of taking care of the house, the bills, the family business and his siblings. One of them being his teenage sister Willa. Stockton has a lot on his plate and the last thing he needs right now is someone like Cami coming into his life. When he first meets her there is no denying how beautiful she is. But then she opens her mouth and all he sees is the rich spoiled "Dutchess" from California. They are from two different worlds. Cami has never had to work for anything in her life, while Stockton works his ass off trying to provide for his family, and at the same time taking care of the other families in their small town. Cami and Stockton may not get along in the beginning, they may drive each other crazy and they certainly know how to push each others buttons. But what they don't know is that they need each other in a way they never expected.
Cami becomes tired of being treated like she doesn't matter, like she can't do anything right. And she sets out to prove to everyone that she isn't that reckless teenager any more. Cami is determined to turn her life around. She forms a special friendship with Willa, Stockton's sister and I think the friendship with Willa is exactly what Cami needs. But her and Stockton also call a truce and form a friendship, which at some point turns into something more. Stockton sees that there is so much more to Cami once you get beneath the surface. There was a reason for her reckless behavior and it has everything to do with the treatment she received from her parents. You begin to see that Cami didn't need the money and everything that went along with it. She just needed someone to show her that she was loved. And that is exactly what she got when she moved to the mountains.
Stockton is simply amazing. There is simply no other word to describe him. Once he really got to know Cami and see the real her, he started to fall in love with her. And he wanted to do everything he can to get her to fall for him. And he did it the old fashioned way. He had such a sweet romantic side to him that will melt your heart. There were nights when he would just sit outside her window at night talking to her just because he wanted to get to know all of her. It doesn't get any sweeter than that. I loved Cami. Yes she was a little hard to take in the beginning but she completely turned her life around and showed her true self. She has people that loved her and that was all she needed in life.
Cami and Stockton both has a past that they were trying to move on from. Their relationship was anything but perfect. But they loved each other and together they were perfect. Cami came to Tennessee to find herself and to become a better person. In the process she found an amazing man who she fell in love with. A man who needed her just as much as she needed him. Together they found their way. Rachel Higginson and Lila Felix did such an amazing job with this story. Striking is a wonderful story about hurt, love, and finding yourself. A must read for all.
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