“If you want to be strong, be.”

They are one of my all-time favorite couples. It is one of my favorite stories!

Everything about it - from the beautiful beachside setting, to thieves to lovers. From creative plot twists to incredible writing! From deep meaningful bonds between the characters to difficult and wonderful discoveries along the way!

Sizzling, explosive passionate runs currents through their encounters, yet they are ever so gentle with each other despite their clashing all...

“If you want to be strong, be.”

They are one of my all-time favorite couples. It is one of my favorite stories!

Everything about it - from the beautiful beachside setting, to thieves to lovers. From creative plot twists to incredible writing! From deep meaningful bonds between the characters to difficult and wonderful discoveries along the way!

Sizzling, explosive passionate runs currents through their encounters, yet they are ever so gentle with each other despite their clashing allegiances!

The writing is as GOLD as the cover! Clever, insightful. Every word counts. So much hides underneath the surface! Every thought is there for a reason.

The dialogue is beautiful, down to Earth and genuinely touching.

It’s one of those perfect stories that lifts you up and doesn’t necessarily break your heart in order to stand out and stay in your heart.

While I liked the story and the meaning behind it. It did drag in a few places. I loved their love but, it just took longer to get there in my opinion. Maybe it was just because the back stories were so detailed. I really liked the back stories though and how it brought them together in the end.

While I liked the story and the meaning behind it. It did drag in a few places. I loved their love but, it just took longer to get there in my opinion. Maybe it was just because the back stories were so detailed. I really liked the back stories though and how it brought them together in the end.

This is the best book ever!!! Loved this book, the plot, twist, the characters!!! I am so in love with this!!! Is a clomplex, heartbreaking, amazing story!!!
Wow just wow, as Leigh does to outdo herself every time, I have no idea, but her books just keep improving every time.
This trip with our last Hothole (yesssss, my heart cries for it), was one too intense, emotional, distressing, sad, hopeful, unique, tender, hot, raw, I loved every word in the book, every sentence so full of feelings....

This is the best book ever!!! Loved this book, the plot, twist, the characters!!! I am so in love with this!!! Is a clomplex, heartbreaking, amazing story!!!
Wow just wow, as Leigh does to outdo herself every time, I have no idea, but her books just keep improving every time.
This trip with our last Hothole (yesssss, my heart cries for it), was one too intense, emotional, distressing, sad, hopeful, unique, tender, hot, raw, I loved every word in the book, every sentence so full of feelings.
I knew of course that my dear Leigh would never disappoint me, and that Trent would make me fall at his feet, but let me tell you that it was that and more, Leigh created her magic and gave us a unique story, with twists and turns that I never expected, with unique prose, masterfully developed, she always has the ability to create stories that make you feel, live and suffer with the characters.
I started the book thinking that no one could ever outdo my Dean, but I was completely wrong, Trent, omyGod!!!, the mute, perfectly imperfect.
A journey of two lonely souls, that found in the least expected way, but perfectly complemented. Trent and Edie are perfect for each other, despite the differences that separate them, and the drawbacks in their relationship, they had me sighing with love, crying, suffering, laughing, hopefully.
Trent, called the Mute, for good reason, is an enigmatic character since we met him in Vicious, having a very different upbringing to that of his friends, he has had to fight much more for what he wants. He is a dark, quiet character who prefers solitude to the company of people. He has to raise his daughter Luna alone and besides she is also a solitary little girl who does not speak and has difficulties to relate to others.
Edie is a teenager who carries a heavy load on her shoulders, who does not have a life like that of other teenagers and who despite coming from a wealthy family also struggles for what she wants. She is a beautiful girl, young and full of life, who loves the ocean and surf.
In an adverse situation they find and begin with the left foot, hating themselves and wanting to kill each other, but in spite of everything they are attracted physically.

As they begin to relate sparks jump and each time the attraction is harder to hide. The encounters between them are always explosive, with sparks jumping from both, hot and sexy ... In the end they have to give up to the attraction and those scenes, wow, spontaneous combustion, that scenes, oh my God !!! They made me blush on more than one occasion.
Luna, is a unique character, a sweet, tender, solitary kid, who can not communicate with others. The fierceness, love, and surrender with which Trent protected her made me so tender, made me want more than once to enter the book and embrace them.
The hotholes, Dean, Jamie, Vicious, as always was a delight every time they were together, I laughed too much with them, but I fall in love with the fierce way they cover their backs and protect friends and loved ones.
Bane, I need his story, really, Russian, sexy, hot and I just finished killing me his unconditional support with Edie. Super intriguing, may Leigh bring us his story.

The other secondary characters perfectly complemented the story.
This is a unique story, with so many feelings, so much passion, so much sweetness, so much reality, so much sadness, so much anguish, so much hope, and that epilogue, gahhhh, I cried of emotion with him, that Mr. epilogue.
A story that you will not want to miss, ladies and gentlemen, I fell at it feet, totally in love with the characters, their way of being and the capacity of surrender and sacrifice for those who love. I DO NOT WANT THE END, I do not want to say goodbye to the hotholes, my heart is not ready yet ...
Unique, masterfully written and very well developed ....

If you want to be strong - be.'

This is a book that you need to read completely uninterrupted because once you start it is incredibly hard to stop reading. I was lucky to be able to do that, it was like flying across the dateline because before I knew it I had lost an entire day!

This was such an exciting, exhilarating, emotional and sexually charged read. Not my usual single dad story that is for sure! Trent Rexroth is young, successful, self made and extremely smoking hot. When he wal...

If you want to be strong - be.'

This is a book that you need to read completely uninterrupted because once you start it is incredibly hard to stop reading. I was lucky to be able to do that, it was like flying across the dateline because before I knew it I had lost an entire day!

This was such an exciting, exhilarating, emotional and sexually charged read. Not my usual single dad story that is for sure! Trent Rexroth is young, successful, self made and extremely smoking hot. When he walks into a room, everyone notices him but he is not the sort of man you want to cross though. He has only given his heart away once in his life and that is to his beautiful daughter Luna.

'I wanted to show her that the world was a beautiful, frightening place worth experiencing. That peasants could be crowned kings if they worked hard enough, and how her daddy was living proof of that.'

Luna’s mother left them both when she was still a toddler and not long after that Luna stopped talking. Despite lots of therapy she hasn’t uttered a word in two years and shows little emotion. When Edie Van Der Zee walks into their life, Trent was not prepared to firstly cope with his daughters interaction with her and secondly the way his body reacted to her. He had ‘encountered’ Edie prior to her coming to work at the company he part owns and let’s just say that he has every reason not to trust her.

Edie is very much under her father’s thumb. He is a womanising adulterer and her mother deals with it by drowning herself in alcohol and prescription medication. Edie favourite thing to do is surfing, not much gets in the way of her time on the waves and it’s the only place she really feels at peace in the world. And her father hates the fact that she enjoys it, it’s not an activity that he wants his daughter or family name attached to – image is everything.

Edie is fiercely independent and has denied herself access to her fathers wealth. However, she has one weakness and her father loves to exploit it. For that reason, she has agreed to come and work for him but there are conditions, there is something he wants and Edie has been tasked with getting it for him.

Trent Rexroth oozes sexiness and Edie is not immune to his pheromones. She knows she shouldn’t be thinking of him in that way, she is only 18 and he is 33 but any woman in close proximity to him would find it hard to escape feeling this way. Therefore it is inevitable that these two would fall into bed together and it is hot, not your usual hot, it’s f****** hot.

'I wanted to get wet and let the tide wash over me without dipping a toe in the ocean. I wanted what was forbidden, and wrong, and f****** crazy.'

What was supposed to be a one off thing seems to have turned into a crazy addictive habit. Edie is incredible with Luna and seems to be able to pull emotions out of her that Trent hasn’t seen for a long time. She has impacted both of their lives in very different ways. She also challenges Trent and is wise beyond her years, I guess that happens when you grow up in the family she has. However, Edie has a job to do and betraying people she cares about is the only way to get what she wants from her father.

‘I should stay away from you, but I want you too f****** much. And when it’s all over, when all that’s left of us is sweaty flesh and shattered minds and torn hearts, you will remember me as the man who made you cry, and I’ll remember you as the girl I had to break to stay afloat.’

This was such an incredibly addictive read, there is so much happening and a bit of mystery carefully weaved throughout the story. It was forbidden, sexy and I simply inhaled every page!