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Living in a world full of colors, Sofia Brazier escapes a career gone south as a juvenile probationary officer in New Orleans. After moving to the small town of St. Fleur, Sofia opens a photography business in hopes of ridding her life of all the dark auras surrounding the damaged souls she once tried helping. Her comfortable new life is upended when widower, and ex-security-forces-turned-handyman hunk, Noah Tyler enters the local pub.
Noah attempts to avoid the voluptuous beauty who has captivated his every thought. That is, until his daughter vandalizes Sofia’s building and effectively seals their fate. After cutting his daughter a break, Sofia begins tearing down the walls he built after his wife’s death.
Just when life finally seems worth living for Noah, Sofia finds herself the victim of a string of crimes. Can he protect Sofia when he failed to protect his own wife?
Noah cleared his throat. “Ladies, you look wonderful.”
“Thank you,” they told Noah in echo.
“Okay, picture time!” Sofia said.
Sofia accepted the camera from his hands. Their fingers briefly touched, shooting a bolt of pleasure down to his groin. His eyes shot to hers as she took a deep breath.
Taking a step back, she lifted the camera to her face. Noah watched her relax, all distractions disappearing on the other side of
the lens. He’d never seen her work and witnessing it was a gift as she captured Lexi’s special day.
hidden gem of a book. Okay so it’s not that hidden as it has just been released.
St. Fleur!
Brazier has been living in St. Fleur for two years now. Orchid Photography and has
become quite popular. She left her old life behind to start anew and has
settled in with new friends and finally feels like home. Sofia sees auras of
people. Green, blue, orange and red all have a meaning it tells her a lot about
people. That is until one night at Whiskey’s….a hot buns hunk catches her eye.
an aura around the man had been unsettling. It wasn’t a bad omen necessarily,
but it was the first time that it had ever happened.
make things very interesting. Very interesting.
His wife Vanessa was murdered he blames himself. Hard trope the dead spouse but
it was done well. Air Forces was a cop. The last two years have been tough for
him and his daughter Lexi. They have been a drift at sea. That is until he sees
a woman at Whiskey’s that takes his breath away that makes him feel again. Thinking
that their paths will not really cross again he pushes her to back of his mind.
But there is Lexi………
let her hand go. He would either strangle Lexi for her latest act of rebellion
or take this woman right here, right now with the sheriff and his daughter to
witness it all.
pressing charges, Sofia gets Lexi to do community service and starts to mentor
her. The interaction and love between the two was real. It is a rocky start for
all three of them. Sofia gets some good advice though.
him turn from you. He thinks that he needs to be punished for what happened,
but it’s not what the woman wants. The girl will come around as well she just
needs love.”
was a goner.
Not only was this woman gorgeous, but she was giving his kid a break, she
kissed like a goddess, and God save him – she could cook.
This worked
really well for me. It was engaging, captivating and I had a great time reading
it. I couldn’t put it down. I was reading when I told the hubby that I only
needed one more minute before bed. He reminded me ten minutes later that I was
meant to sleep. Ops!
the author built in a somewhat paranormal aspect into the book.
characters have depth and they mesh well together although they both have some
things that they need to come to terms with. I felt that although Noah spoke
about his deceased wife and it was mentioned that what he had with Vanessa was
a slow burning love from friends to lovers. Whereas what he has with Sofia
burning, consuming and passionate. There was no comparison and Sofia didn’t
live in her shadow but just took on a different dynamic in the family that they
have.
tried to match make.
“You should ask my dad out. It’s obvious you guys have the hots for each other,
and he’s not manning up. You guys would be great together.”
see that ending coming and there was suspense with what was going on but it
wasn’t OTT and was done well that I had no idea who it could be and at the end
I picked the wrong person and that hardly ever happens.
bothered me was that he should have asked her if she could see his aura when
she mentioned her ability. It felt kind of important to me that they would talk
about it. And a term of endearment that drives me batty is “honey” there were
quite a few of them. I love how they danced around one another and the build-up
was great but that anticipation didn’t continue after they got together and I
don’t really know what could be done to keep it going but it did pick up again.
Highly recommended
