Hunter Dennison has been an overachiever in all aspects of his life. He knows what he wants and goes after it, and he intends to follow suit in his love life with the young and beautiful Molly. His patience is at its last resolve as he waits for her to come of age, but finally the time has arrived, and he prepares to tell Molly how he feels.
What he doesn’t know is that someone else has set their own selfish agenda into motion, wreaking havoc on Hunter’s intentions and his confidence in Molly’s character.
Believing the vicious lies, Hunter veers off his planned path. He finds solace and comfort in another’s arms, never realizing that he leaves in his wake a devastated Molly.
However, fate cannot be fooled.
Now, twenty years later, they both have settled into their own lives in Clearwater Falls. Hunter intends to rectify the past by letting Molly know that she is the one he wants now, just as he had wanted then.
Can passion all these years in the making overcome the weight of regret that they both carry? Or will the price of their previous mistakes leave an insurmountable divide in their chance at forever?
WARNING: Recommended for adult readers (18+) only. Mature themes, strong language, and sexual content.
4.5 Star Review by Jen Skewes
Taking the Fall is the second book in the Dennison Family
series. I have been a fan of Ms. Ferraro's since reading the Hamden Series, which is her first series. I fell in love with her writing and the
characters she creates. In reading that
series she gave me Jarod, my fave book boyfriend of Wendy’s. But I must say that Hunter Dennison is a vey
close second to Jarod. This is the story
of Hunter and Molly and how they have a second chance at love.
Hunter and Molly have had crushes on each other since they
were younger. For Molly all she could
think about was Hunter. She was in love
with him at the age of fifteen, or at least what she knew love to be. She hoped that one day her dreams of being with
Hunter Dennison would come true and that his feelings for her would be just as
strong as hers were for him. Little did
Molly know that Hunter loved her from afar.
He always made sure he was in the right place at the right time when it
came to Molly. He was 18 and she was
fifteen but even at that young age she still held his heart. When she reached the age of eighteen he had
every intention of revealing his true feelings to her in hopes that she would
feel the same and that they would have a future together. But when that moment came for Hunter it was
taken away in a split second. Someone
got in the way of any chance that these two had to be together. When that moment happened I wanted to slap
Hunter and yell at him to pay attention and to put his anger aside for one
moment, because if he did he would have realized the truth. He never did get the chance to tell Molly the
truth and as he walked away that day he left behind a girl with a broken heart,
one that probably matched his own.
It’s been twenty years since that moment. Hunter has moved back home recently and every
time he sees her, those old feelings come back.
In the past twenty years the anger and the pain has never left his
side. But as much as he wants to hate
her he can’t. Because even though it’s been 20 years and so much has happened in
those years, there is one thing that has remained the same, and that is his love for Molly Jensen.
Molly was in an unhappy marriage for so long. She has two beautiful daughters that she
loves. She didn’t love her husband the
way that he deserved to be loved and I think that had everything to do with
Hunter Dennison. She tried so hard to
escape her feelings for the man that she has loved for so long. But she couldn’t, because even twenty years
later just seeing that man does things to her.
But the friendship that they once had has been strained and Molly is
trying to understand why. They both want
each other, they both still have feelings for each other. Will Hunter let a misunderstanding from when
they were young get in the way of his second chance with Molly?
There was jus something about Hunter Dennison that I
loved. Now when he made an irrational
decision when he was younger I wanted to slap him for it. But he more than made up for it because he
proved over and over again how much he loved Molly. And you see how much pain and hurt he carried
around because he did not have her in his life.
He was sweet, sexy, caring, and totally swoon worthy. And the relationship with his daughter and the
terms of endearment he uses for Molly and his daughter Leah will just melt you.
Molly was dealt an unfortunate hand in the sense that she
loved a man for so long and I think at one time thought maybe he felt the same
way. Only to find out that he didn’t,
leaving her with a broken heart. She
spent years married to a man she didn’t love and still pined for a man who
didn’t want her. Or so she thought. And even now that she has Hunter back in her
life she is still afraid of moving too quickly. And I for one cannot blame
her.
Taking the Fall definitely has some drama and a few moments
where my stomach got those knots that we all hate but at the same time love because it just means that you are feeling it all. I loved Hunter
despite the stupid mistake that he made years ago. But if there is one person that I despised it
was the one person who got in the way of Hunter and Molly’s love. And that was Allison. I honestly did not like that girl and hated
the role she still played in Hunter’s life but I understand why it all occurred
the way it did. I waited for the moment
when the truth would finally come out.
Because when it did I wasn’t sure where they would go from there. I was glad that it was resolved early on in
their relationship but I honestly thought that Molly’s reaction would have been
a bit different. I wanted her to be mad
and maybe it’s because I was mad for her.
I felt how much she loved Hunter and being in her shoes and losing the
man you loved to someone else and for the reasons that it happened just killed
me. But that's what I loved about this book, the feelings. I felt it all for these characters. The anger, frustration, the hurt and the pain but I also felt their love and how deep it really was.
Things happened for a reason and in the end Molly and Hunter
were given their chance at love. If any
two people deserved it, it was certainly these two. I loved their connection and how much they
loved each other. The fact that their
love was still so deep even after all of these years just proves how much they
belong together. In the end a few people manned to surprise me and let's talk about the epilogue. Oh My God, I loved it. I had tears in my eyes, happy ones of course. It was just so sweet and amazing. Another fantastic job by Ms. Ferraro. I cannot wait to see which Dennison is next!
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I live in New England with my young family. I’m a stay at home mom to two very active children. For all of you who are familiar with the stress of this job, I decided to complete an item on my bucket list and write a book. When I’m not writing, you will find me cooking, reading, shopping or being silly with the kids. In my opinion, one of life’s greatest pleasure is being able to get lost in a book.
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