Until one day, the boy who first had her heart comes back. With a vengeance...Drew Dean has been apart from the girl he loved all of those years ago for far too long and now that fate has provided them with a second chance, he will make it clear to her that she is, and always has been the one for him. But what Drew discovers in the process, is Mackenzie may just end up being completely unreachable.
Is it possible to get through to someone who has no intentions of ever letting anyone in again? Can a person find their way through the darkness and emptiness they've created? For Mackenzie, trudging along in life alone is where she feels she deserves to be. But will she find it in her to fight and break the barrier of the internal distorted view she has of herself? Or will she let everyone and everything slip away?
As Mackenzie tries to piece together the remnants of her shattered existence, she inadvertently discovers life, love and loss are one in the same. A hopeful journey to be taken with an ending to fill the emptiness she's carried for too long.
*This book contains adult situations and some explicit language.*
3.5 Star Review by Lisa Kane
Mackenzie is broken. After
having spent years with her former fiancé, Wes, she is a shell of her former
self. Her friends Ade and Cass have tried to bring her back to the land of the
living. Her brother Kip, has always been overly protective of her, but has now
kicked his coddling up a notch. He knows something happened, but has no idea
what caused her to break off her engagement. Mackenzie sees herself as a
failure, unattractive and unworthy.
She is having coffee at her
favorite shop when she hears someone call her name. She looks up and she sees
the face of her brother’s childhood friend, Drew, who moved from Florida to
Virginia with his family years ago. She
once had such a huge crush on him but can barely meet his eyes now. He is
mesmerized by her; he can not get over how beautiful she is. Although there is
a four year age difference, Mackenzie is the same age as his little brother
Jax. He had feelings for her when they moved. His life took a turn and after
one or two occasional visits, he never came back to see her. It seems
Mackenzie’s father’s business is merging with Drew’s family’s business. He and
his brother have moved to Florida and are basing their new business there.
They run into each other
several times. The brothers’ new apartment is in the same complex, same floor
as Kennie’s (Drew’s nickname for her). They hang out with Kip and Mackenzie’s
friends. Drew knows as interested as he is in her, something happened to make
her so insecure and besides which, he has his own secret he is hiding from her.
He vows to take things slowly.
A nemesis, Sammy, from Kennie’s
life with Wes appears to do some work for her father. Seeing her reminds her of
all the failures of her life and her shortcomings. It also reminds her of
Sammy’s betrayal. Things come to a head while Kennie is doing some free lance
photography for the company and Sammy is there. Several confrontations later
and Kennie finally loses it and goes ballistic on Sammy. Well, we finally know
why she and Wes broke up. Ironically, this all results in a sexy hot encounter
between Kennie and Drew. Just as it
seems these two can trust their hearts to each other, Drew’s secret threatens
to destroy the trust between them. Kennie wanted honesty above all things, having
been betrayed in the past. Is Drew another mistake and one she can’t afford to
make again?
I enjoyed this book. Things
were not rushed between Kennie and Drew, although I do wish they had moved a
little quicker. Drew’s secret gutted me and when it came to light I wanted to
give him a swift quick to the throat! What an idiot! Ending the Beautiful Journey is a good read and I can see the
potential for further books about the secondary characters-primarily Jax and
Cass and Kip and Ade.
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