“Instincts are what keep us safe from fate. Ignoring them
can change your life forever.”
Fame and fortune arrived overnight and months on the road
with her singing tour, all Estelle craves is peace. Tired and ready for
paradise, she travels to Fiji to recuperate.
Stubborn and surly, Galloway is avoided by most-which is
exactly the way he likes it. However, he’s done spending his life in regret and
hopes to find redemption in the tropical wilderness.
Together, they board the flight that changes their fate
forever. Crash landing on a deserted island, they not only have to figure out
how to survive with no skills and daily dangers-learning how to fish, find
water, and build shelter-but also inherit two children who look upon them to
keep them alive.
However, staying alive might be the least of Galloway and
Estelle’s problems. As the days creep to months and rescue doesn’t find them,
their desire for each other ignites.
They started as strangers.
They grew to be friends.
They fought the desire to be lovers.
Lust can be the most beautiful thing. Love the most
rewarding. But not on an island where life hangs by a thread and giving into temptation
can kill you.
Can they survive being forgotten or will love be their
ultimate undoing?
I was lucky enough to be chosen to receive an ARC of this
book, but then I fucked up and gave the author the wrong kindle address (like a
giant idiot). I wasn’t about to be that jerk either; plus, I had pre-ordered
it, so when it finally came live, and I finished all my homework, you know I got right down to business. This
book was unlike a lot of other Pepper Winter books I’ve read before. I love
everything she does, and this one was absolutely no exception. I know it has
been far too long since I’ve taken the time to review anything. This one was
well worth carving out some time (I’m not gonna lie, I kinda missed this). Let
us get to it though. I loved these characters. All of them. Not one of them
pissed me off or had any flaws that can sometimes really irritate me in a
character. What these people went through on that island, what they did to
survive, reading it all was just incredible. It really made look at life a
little differently, which isn’t something a lot books make you do. (Thumbs up
Winters) Of course the love story in here was beautiful, and god, I don’t want
to give any spoilers out, but WTF. WHY DID YOU DO THAT TO US!?!?!?!? There were
some pretty heart wrenching parts that were really awful and I just hated, and I
mean that in the best way possible. They made the book what it was.
This book was, hands down, a five. I can barely stay up past
10 at night anymore, and I was reading this until 2:30 in morning, balling my
eyes out, cursing the author’s name a few times. The writing and the characters
and the story and everything was perfect. It was different, and it was terrifying
to think of this happening to you. To wonder if you could survive that.
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