⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️✨ 4.5 out of 5

A story of a woman who needs to start over after a bad break-up and bad luck that followed, and a wounded man who needs his privacy and his secrets to remain secrets.

Hayley West decides to move to Chicago after a bad break-up and takes her ten-year-old niece with her on a road trip. She needs a new beginning after the touch patch she is going through, so she takes her sisters prized mustang and drives to Chicago where she plans to start over, only to run into trouble and get stranded.

Warren For is a man who is hurting and is very private. He was an Army Ranger who moved back home to his small town and is living on the property of his grandmother’s Inn. He has secrets and needs his privacy. He is looking for answers and doesn’t want to be distracted from his task.

I loved this book and the characters were so great. They had that perfect amount of Alpha, sassy, caring, and funny. The story is suspenseful, has twists that you don’t see coming and keeps the pages turning. I love Hayley’s strength and her warm heart she is a woman who has hit bottom and realizes that she is bitter but doesn’t want to be. She wants to be free and light like her niece Tara. Warren has an exterior of a mean, grumpy, miserable person, but he has a huge heart and cares too much.

I give this story a 4.5-star review and recommend it to readers who enjoy stories of suspense, military, and characters who keep you entertained.

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️✨ 4.5 out of 5

She’s looking for redemption and forgiveness and he’s looking for retribution.

Geraint is a man who works in the Cavalieri Della Morte and is not a nice man. He had a tough childhood and a mean father. He feels that his life has gotten better until he is called into Arthur’s office, the father of the Cavalieri Della Morte, and is told that his brother has been murdered. Now all he can think of is retribution for his brother.

Branwen is a woman who is on the run from her family and has taken a vow of silence until she can get redemption and forgiveness for her crime. She’s young and runs right into Geraint when she is trying to find safety. Their paths will cross again in a few months when Geraint is looking for a way to get to the man who killed his brother, and she will be his path.

This book is a quick read, but a great read. It goes fast and kept my interest all the way through. These two will find their redemption in each other.

I really enjoyed this story and I am looking forward to the other stories in the Della Morte. I give this story a 4.5-star review and highly recommend it to readers who like organized crime, suspense, and twists in their stories.

Title: Break of Dawn
Author: Anne Conley
Genre: Crime, Suspense, Romance
Release Date: March 26, 2019

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ out of 5

A story of two people who are trying to live their lives on their terms and not their fathers’.

Dawn Giordanno, a young woman who ran away from her father and mother so that she could live her life her own way. She’s been hiding and doing what she needs to so that she can survive and stay out of her father’s clutches. She left Chicago and went to Austin only to find herself in a different type of danger. A hurricane has hit Austin and she gets stranded until she is picked up by Jackson and his buddies in a boat while they are out patrolling trying to save as many people as they can and get them to safety.

Jackson McLellan, a young man who is compassionate, caring, and lawful. He was in the service and is now a lawyer. His father is a prominent politician who works any angle to get votes and support. A hurricane is not going to stop him from holding a fundraiser, not if he has any say in the matter. Jackson and two of his buddies that he was in the service with are out on a boat picking up people who are stranded due to the rising water from the hurricane and taking them to the coliseum where it’s dry and safe.

Dawn is a private person because she is trying to stay safe and away from her family, but Jackson’s dad and his closest advisor have other plans for her. When Dawn finds out what she was has in her possession, she decides to use it to get further away and start over some place far away and safe, but her plans backfire on her.

I really liked this story and found the characters to be well rounded and enjoyable to read. The struggles that these two have to go through to find their peaceful lives can destroy them, but they find their way out and they find their peace. I give this story a 4-star review and recommend it to readers who like a story with tragedy, corrupt politicians, and criminals, then you should read this book. There is a HEA and the characters are strong, entertaining, and full of hope.

A story of love, hate, bullying, and finding the power within oneself.

Cleopatra “Blue” Paige is a young woman who is trying to hold onto the past after she has been orphaned and left homeless. She is from the side of town that has had to work for what they have, and her parents did work hard. After her a tragic accident, she wants to get her home back that she grew up in with her loving parents. In order to do that though, she will have to work for the one person that made her life miserable in school. She is sentimental, strong, sassy, and a woman who stands up for others when they are being wronged. A childhood of being bullied has taught her to be compassionate towards those that need a champion in their life.

Zachariah Prince is the son of the founding family of Princetown, and he is also the one man who can destroy Blue’s dreams. He comes from a rich family that has many secrets, and they own the town. He didn’t have a loving childhood like Blue did, and he took out his frustration and hatred towards those who hurt him on Blue, making her life miserable. His friends at school were all rich just like his family and they treated anyone from the wrong side of town as though they were lower than the dirt they walked on.

This story hits a lot of tough subjects that kids go through in life, and it shows how someone who is humiliated, bullied, and treated with disrespect is actually the stronger person as well as the person who holds the power. The power they hold is the ability to move past the bullying, disrespect and humiliation and be the person they are meant to be. These characters have to find their way to the right side of life and being the person they were meant to be. These two find that with each other and they have a beautiful story.

I give this story a 4.5-star review and highly recommend it to any reader who enjoys stories with strong characters who find their way in life, young love, and the power to move on from the life that has brought you down.