For college student Emily Sheppard, the thought of spending a summer alone in New York is much more preferable than spending it in France with her parents.
Just completing her freshman year at Callister University, Emily faces a quiet summer in the city slums, supporting herself by working at the campus library.
During one of her jogs through the nearby cemetery while visiting her brother Bill’s grave, Emily witnesses a brutal killing—and then she blacks out. When Emily regains consciousness, she realizes she’s been kidnapped by a young crime boss and his gang.
She is hurled into a secret underworld, wondering why she is still alive and for how long.
Held captive in rural Vermont, she tries to make sense of her situation and what it means. While uncovering secrets about her brother and his untimely death, Emily falls in love with her very rich and very dangerous captor, twenty- six-year-old Cameron. She understands it’s a forbidden love and one that won’t allow her to return to her previous life.
But love may not be enough to save Emily when no one even knows she is missing.
Toot's Review by Stephanie Silva
I miss him every day and as I watch his stone I can’t help but remember how it used to be. They may have moved on but while they are enjoying Europe, there is no place I rather be than near him. Loneliness and hardships are nothing is I can be near my brother.
My name is Emily Sheppard and this is the story about how my life changed, actually, I think it was always pretty messed up but I didn’t know it until he appeared in it. This mysterious guy that seems to try to make me get away from the cemetery where my brother Bill is buried knows a lot more than he is telling me, I don’t know why I think that but I do. He seems so cold but there is something about him that draws me in. Sure, I sensed there was something wrong about him but…drugs, killing and kidnapping sure weren’t top of my list much less that he knew Bill.
I didn’t know what to think and I was a frightened because I ignored what they would do to me but as days passed and they didn’t seem to be ready to either kill me or let me go, I realized that they aren’t really “bad guys”. Sure, they lives are pretty messed up but whose isn’t? I learned something about Bill that I wouldn’t have imagined and as I spend some time with Cameron, I can’t help but if you are really bad just because you made a bad choice for a good reason. Bill was a good man, I know it and Cameron seems fond of him but there is something he isn’t telling me.
”You and I are just too different”
He seems to get so close and I thought that he will finally let me in but….then he is so far away. It makes me wonder if I mean anything at all to him. Kidnapped? Yeah I am but what I feel for him is not some sick syndrome that developed for my survival. I was lost and lonely until him. I agree we didn’t meet in the best circumstances and with him I will probably never have a sweet, tender and normal relationship like the ones in those movies, I don’t know if I stand a chance of a happily ever after with Cam but I don’t care. He may try to deny it but I refuse to do so.
"You'll probably die if you stay with me," he told me.
"Then I'm dead either way, because I won't survive without you”.
Let this be a warning ladies, this is a wonderful book full of mystery, sweet teen love that developed under not so innocent and in fact pretty messed up circumstances and a heart breaking past that attempts to interfere with the future of everyone involved in it, specially Cam and Emily. So I would recommend you to have your tissues near, your heart calm, the sequel bought or pre-ordered—believe me it makes the heartbreaking a lot more bearable because it gives you hope of more—and take deep breaths are you accompany Emily in her roller-coaster of a life because I assure you, you won’t regret a second of it. Her and Cameron’s story deserves to be heard and even though some details may not sound too realistic at the begging it captures you since the very first chapters because Julie makes us connect with Emily and Cam.
We all know what it means to be alone, to lose someone dear to us and to hope for someone that would make you put the pieces of your heart and self together and make you whole once again. That is what those two did for each other but…do they have a chance to be together when Cam has so many demons and sins and Emily seems to be getting more and more involved not only in his life but learning things he somehow wish she didn’t.
“Whoever said that love hurts was wrong. Love is excruciating, especially when you can fell it slipping through your fingers and there is nothing you can do about it”
Are your sure there is nothing you can do?
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4.5 Stars!
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