Growing up, I did everything my father required. Straight A’s in school. Perfect manners. I forced myself to live up to his standards--standards that pushed the Chadwick family name to the highest rungs of society.
Over the years, we climbed so high that my father hoped we’d never fall.
If only he’d been right. With each successful year, the Chadwick family skeletons grew bolder and darker. Every lie threatened to undo us.
The secret Avery Jackson and I shared was the worst one of all.
She was the one person I shouldn’t love--the one person I couldn’t love. But I did. I loved Avery Jackson. I wanted her, even though a romance with her threatened everything.
It all felt so natural.
And that was exactly the problem.
3.5 Stars
Review by Jen Hagen
One of my favorite genre of books is the taboo love
story. In this book we have an illicit
affair between Spencer and Avery whom are step siblings. The story is told solely through Spencer’s
words.
Spencer is 24 years old and has just returned from a
2-year stint in the Peace Corps, of which his father used his money, power, and
resources to enable Spencer a spot. This
was done as a means to curb Spencer’s unruly behavior which stemmed from
alcohol indulgence. Spencer is back on
US soil ready to claim his position in the Chadwick empire. Spencer’s father is extremely wealthy, but
Spencer is the black sheep of the family never having any acceptance by his
father. Spencer is determined to show
his father that he is knowledgeable and capable of being part of the Chadwick
business. Spencer is thought to be fully
free of the hold alcohol has had on him, but he is still fully (and secretly)
indulgent on it.
Avery is younger than Spencer and has a secret that she
has been keeping under wraps for 3 years.
Only Spencer knows what haunts her.
My thoughts
flickered to three years earlier and the largest secret both of us carried, the
one that drove me to my “drinking problem.”
Another secret Avery is holding back is her attraction to
Spencer. Spencer also is fighting his
attraction to Avery. It seems to me that
there is enough sexual chemistry between these 2 to blow the roof off.
“I want you,” she
said. “That’s what I want. I want to be with you.”
Now that their attraction is out in the open, what will
Spencer do? Will he act upon his own
desires?
Avery Jackson would
ruin me. I knew it. And I didn’t care.
Spencer and Avery have a difficult road ahead of them if
they want to embrace their mutual love for one another. Even if they have their parent’s blessing,
life’s demons may overpower any chance at happiness.
Then a blistering,
loud, guttural scream filled the house…The kind of sound that tells you that
everything from here on out will be vastly different.
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