Title: Wherever You Will Go
Author: Stephanie Smith
Publication Date: August 7, 2014
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Synopsis
Brooke Willis had everything she ever wanted: a happy marriage, volunteer placement at the art gallery, and the promise of starting a family with the man of her dreams.
Saxon Reed had everything he ever thought he needed: a successful career, nice cars, expensive apartment, and more money than he knew what to do with.
After losing her husband Brooke insists on taking over his company to keep his dreams alive. Struggling in an industry she knows nothing about, Brooke turns to Saxon, her husband’s best friend and business partner, for guidance and support. Their mutual grief, and Saxon’s need to look after his best friend’s wife, creates a connection beyond just business.
Can Brooke take over the company and find a new life without saying goodbye to the past? Can Saxon protect and care for Brooke without scaring her away?
What happens when your heart doesn’t listen to your head? When lines are crossed and boundaries are pushed?
“Life goes on, whether you choose to move forward and take a chance in the unknown or stay behind, locked in the past, thinking of what could've been. I don’t want to live in the past anymore. I’m so lonely; there’s nothing for me here.”
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Gripping her hips so tightly she can no longer shake and shimmy them, I try to gain some kind of control over my anger. What the fuck is she doing?
As I step up behind her and hold her tight against me, the douche touching her releases his hands and steps back. Good idea, buddy. Brooke hasn’t turned to look at who it is, but I know from the way her body relaxed into mine that she knows it’s me.
“What are you doing, Brooke?” I say into her ear, trying to keep all traces of anger out of my voice. If she was mine, if I wasn’t so scared of pushing her away, I would have picked her up and thrown her over my shoulder and carried her the fuck out of here.
She turns her head slightly towards me. “I told you it was girls’ night tonight,” she says defensively.
“You know what I mean.” I grip her hips harder and pull her against me tighter as my control begins to snap.
She turns around in my arms and steps out of my embrace. “Saxon …” She’s frustrated and becoming flustered as she tries to find her words.
I don’t think about it as I grab her hand and begin to pull her off the dance floor. I don’t miss the curious looks from the two blondes, the confusion on Rachel’s face, or the smirk on Harper’s.
I couldn’t care what any of them think or if any of them find out. I actually wish they would. I want everyone to know Brooke is mine.
I don’t care how she feels about what we are doing, what she thinks it is—she is mine. I wanted to stake my claim on that dance floor. Tell that douche he better not put his hands on what’s mine and then take Brooke into my arms and show everyone exactly who she belongs to.
Of course I couldn’t do anything because I live in a constant state of panic, watching everything I say and do, living in the fear of scaring her off.
REVIEW
Foxy Rating = Five Stars
*ARC provided by the author in exchange for an honest review
This is the debut book by Stephanie Smith and what an
amazing debut it is. I was totally hooked from the onset and did not put down
until I had finished it.
Brooke and Nate have been together for ten years and are happily
married. On the day they make a huge decision that will complete their
beautiful life together fate steps in and takes it all away in one swift moment
in time.
Brooke is devastated at losing her soul mate. She is
devastated and nobody in the World can understand her pain, well everyone
except Saxon – Nate’s best friend. They have grown up together and have been
more like brothers so the loss that Brooke and Sax share is the one thing that
binds them together.
Nate and Sax had built a financial investment company
together but once Nate has gone it is up to Brooke to decide what to do with
the company. After three months of grieving she receives a life line from Sax
when he asks her to come work at the office. Never believing she would and
thinking she would just sell the business he is astounded when she turns up and
makes plans to take over Nate’s dream. She just cannot let it go, the same as
she cannot let Nate go.
Over the coming months Saxon and Brooke become close and the
friends they once were when Brooke first got together with Nate takes an altogether different turn.
The flow and pace of the storyline was an easy one to follow
and the depth it developed. It was an inspired inclusion to follow the five
stages of grief that people who are going through it do not appreciate what is
happening in their life. The battle of heart and mind is a constant in everyday
occurrences and I loved how this was identifiable in Brooke and Saxon’s
relationship.
I loved both Brooke and Saxon and I totally got what each of
them were going through and the reasons for their actions. Yes Brooke did push
people away, she did make uneducated decisions but this was a woman who had
lost the love of her life so to find herself having new and unexplainable
feelings for an old friend would certainly make her act differently. Saxon was so
adorable in his reactions to Brooke. I loved how this normally alpha and
controlling man was a complete wuss for Brooke and frightened to say or do the
wrong thing that would push her away.
I also liked the secondary characters and am happy to read
at the back of the book that the next books would feature their stories. I was
hoping for Rachel and Will as Will sounds delish, so hope he is one of those as
his feature was kind of left hanging. I wanted to know what happened!
A great debut novel and start of a new series, I absolutely
loved it and will definite one click the next book! Five stars.
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I'm first and foremost a reader and fangirl, I will always be first and foremost a reader and fangirl. I am on street teams, I pimp and I brag. I LOVE my Authors!!
I have recently started writing as a way to relax and spend some time for me. My first novel Wherever You Will Go is due to release later this year. I'm having so much fun writing my first story and I'm looking forward to the journey it is taking me on.
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Thank you so much for your awesome review!!! xo
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