After being abducted and vanishing without a trace, she was presumed dead. But Christie isn’t the kind of girl that goes down without a fight. When she crawls out of the forest almost two years later, bruised and bleeding, she is confronted by a world that seems to have moved on and left her behind.
Dean Hawking returned to Warfields after a terrible tragedy on the job shook his faith in humanity. The cop’s transfer home wasn't the cure-all he hoped for until the best thing about it, the girl he loved since high school, Christie Jayne, turns up alive.
Their worlds are thrust together again for the first time in years. Though still reeling from her ordeal, in Dean she finds a fathomless love that reminds her there are still beautiful things in the world. In Christie, he sees his chance at redemption…
Then Dean uncovers some startling information about Christie’s case, revealing that she might be in imminent danger, and their second chance at love will be put to the test when the full story of her escape is revealed. Can there be any coming back from what she’s had to do?
First, I want to mention, do not read this before reading The Last Thing I see.... which I will be reviewing straight after this one.
I think THE LAST THING i SEE should have been the first book in the series, and and it end with him getting the call to tell him about Christie being alive.
This book ruined the second in a way because I knew everything was okay. It doesn't say it was a series and if it wasn't for me looking on Amazon, I would never have known there was another book to this one.
Anyway.....
Christie is kidnapped after a traumatic experience of finding out her boyfriend, fiance or whatever has died in battle. Needing to get out of the house she leaves to take a walk, but it ends up a run with her ending up in a dark park, alone and that's when she is taken.
Nearly two years later, she is found crawling out of the woods.
You'd think her story would be simple but it's not. The police get nowhere close to finding her kidnapper, and the only place she will leave to is her back garden.
Dean and his dog lure her out, and she starts taking day trips with them and it starts to help her.
But what Christie is suffering with is belonging, she still feels like she's dead, that everyone has mourned her and wish she didn't come back. It was heartbreaking to read.
The story unfolds and the story plot is really good, but I felt like the ending was rushed. It didn't really give me what I wanted, but did at the same time.
3.5*
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