Series: Surrender Series #3
Author: Rachel Madbury
Genre: Adult Romantic Suspense
Release Date: May 26, 2016
Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30286351-forgotten
Blurb:
There was a time when Graciella Snow didn’t know what she wanted from life. Growing
up without her mother had left her directionless and apathetic, her anger and
resentment closing her off from everyone around her.
But that was before After following in her mother’s footsteps to the coast of Maine
she’s finally getting a sense for who she is and what she wants from life, but at what
cost?
Falling in love with Alexander has opened her up in ways she never dreamed of, and
now that love is on the line. Even with all of Alexander’s attempts to protect her, Grace
finds herself in more danger than ever before as they learn the terrifying truth about her
mother’s past, and come face to face with a darkness that refuses to be forgotten.
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Updated bio:
Rachel Madbury is a writer of sexy romances whose alter ego rocks a classic 9-to-5 in the
beautiful city of Boston. A life long New Englander who loves to travel she was slow to
admit to being the romantic-at-heart that she is. Though she went to college for writing,
she only recently began dabbling in the addictive world of romantic fiction
It’s safe to say, she’s hooked.
With the help of plenty of Red Bull and late nights she explores the worlds of her
characters, relishing the ride they take her on, and falling in love right beside them.
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Excerpt:
I can’t breathe. Everything is black and I’m choking, tight bands around my lungs
keeping them from pulling in enough oxygen, stars alighting at the edges of my vision,
blurring with the smoke wafting by.
But they’re not bands around my chest They’re arms. A desperate, rigid grasp that
holds me back from running headlong into the roaring fire that’s consuming my home.
My life is in that fire.
My history and my future. I rail against my captor, making out faint, gentle whispers in
my ear, “No, Grace, no.”
Max, a member of the security team that my boyfriend Alexander brought in to protect
me while they find whoever has been terrorizing us, is following the order his boss,
Pauley, gave just before running into the burning building to look for Alex. His
counterpart, Freddie, is next to me sagging against the hood of the car as savage coughs
rack his body. Freddie’s brother, Jake, is off in the woods somewhere, searching for
whoever he saw when he and Alex arrived to check on the alarm. They’d thought it was
malfunctioning, having been unreliable in all the tests this week they were wrong.
Months ago when I’d come to this house I’d expected to hate it. My mother had lived here
for 15 years without me. My dad had raised me in New Jersey while she’d stayed up
here by herself. Her life was a mystery to me right up until she died last year. When she
left me this house in her will I was confused, both with what I should do with it, and why
she’d left me anything at all. We’d barely spoken, and I hadn’t seen her in years. My
father had never stopped loving her. I, on the other hand, had just been angry.
But as I spent more time here, supervising the renovations Alexander and his team were
doing to the house so I could rent it out as a vacation home, my feelings started to shift.
Being in her space, seeing what her life might have looked like, had started to take the
sting out of her deserting us. When we’d found out that she had reported strange
occurrences at the house, feeling like someone was watching her, I began to really worry
about what had happened here, and why she’d stayed. Having come home to a houseful
of broken windows a few months ago, and then waking up to two dozen murdered gulls,
one in my kitchen sink, had seemed to link my mother’s time in this house with mine.
But I never thought it would come to this.
While proximity to her home and her life had helped shift perceptions, what had
impacted me the most was something I never saw coming or perhaps I should say
someone. Alexander was the first man I’d ever gotten close to, the first one to ever touch
a part of me I didn’t know was there. He’d had to face down his own demons to be with
me, and he thought I was worth the pain that caused him. No one had ever done
something like that for me before...
We were only just beginning to discover each other, and ourselves. The shockingly brutal
fear of losing the chance to continue on that journey with him is what seized my heart
now as I watched in stunned horror as the house he’d painstakingly redone for me was
reduced to nothing, and he was nowhere to be found.
“He should have come out by now,” Freddie grunts, pushing off the car and heading
around the side of the house.
“Fred!” Max calls, but Freddie doesn’t turn around.
“We have to find them!” I shout at him, pulling again on his hold, slamming my hands
into his chest. Max is the youngest of the crew and up until now I had underestimated his
strength. Feeling the full weight of his body used against me I can’t move an inch.
“Goddamn it!” he curses, running after Freddie.
We’re running around the side of the house toward the beach and rocky shore behind it.
Even from a distance I can feel the searing heat of the fire. My eyes catch a quick,
devastating glimpse of flames licking up the whitewashed pine walls before I’m jerked
forward.
Over the roar of the inferno I hear shouting in the darkness, and we follow it, nearly
crashing into Freddie as he hauls Pauley’s limp body toward the sand. Max lets me go,
taking Pauley’s other shoulder and carefully setting him down. They check his pulse and
breathing, finding a deep gash on the side of his head. He’s alive.
“What happened? Where was he?” My voice comes out panicked and desperate.
“Damn porch collapsed on him,” Freddie snaps, checking the rest of him over for injuries
while bending under his own hacking coughs. “Where’s Alex!” I scream at them, both their eyes flying to mine with anguished
uncertainty. Freddie shakes his head.
This can’t be happening.
In the Series:
Forsaken (Surrender #1)
Forbidden (Surrender #2)
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OMG! I loved this book and this series! I feel in love with the drama and suspense of this couple and all the crap they had gone through in books one and two, that continue in book three. We are left with a little bit of a cliff hanger, but not as bad as some books. Many questions are answered and we can hope that Alexander and Grace finally will get their HEA. I loved the writing of this story, that made me laugh, made me cry, and definitely had me on the edge of my seat.
Can't wait for the next book in the series! 4 1/2 Stars!
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