Synopsis
For Adriana Monroe life
couldn’t get any better. She has great friends, her photography
business is booming and she married Alex, her childhood best friend.
Life is perfect. It’s a fairy tale really.
But one night changes everything for her.
Suddenly she’s alone. She’s afraid to trust and afraid to love. Most of all she’s afraid she’s broken beyond repair. Nightmares torment and haunt her every time she closes her eyes.
Will she ever be the same?
For Tucker Stavros it looks to the outside world like things come easy for him. He’s gorgeous, rich, famous, has a hot girlfriend. Hell, he’s a movie star. If women aren’t trying to get with him then men are wishing they are him. What they don’t see is the broken child hiding behind the smiles he fakes for the cameras. They don’t see the man who wakes up drenched in sweat from his nightmares from a past he can’t escape.
Betrayal sent him running.
A chance encounter throws Tucker and Adriana together. They try to fight their attraction for each other. They feel they’re too broken for the other.
Will they continue to suffer in the hell of dreamland separately or will they find that Waking Up to real life together can be so much sweeter?
But one night changes everything for her.
Suddenly she’s alone. She’s afraid to trust and afraid to love. Most of all she’s afraid she’s broken beyond repair. Nightmares torment and haunt her every time she closes her eyes.
Will she ever be the same?
For Tucker Stavros it looks to the outside world like things come easy for him. He’s gorgeous, rich, famous, has a hot girlfriend. Hell, he’s a movie star. If women aren’t trying to get with him then men are wishing they are him. What they don’t see is the broken child hiding behind the smiles he fakes for the cameras. They don’t see the man who wakes up drenched in sweat from his nightmares from a past he can’t escape.
Betrayal sent him running.
A chance encounter throws Tucker and Adriana together. They try to fight their attraction for each other. They feel they’re too broken for the other.
Will they continue to suffer in the hell of dreamland separately or will they find that Waking Up to real life together can be so much sweeter?
Review by Guest Blogger Angela:
Adriana Monroe has been living the last sixteen months of her life in Hell. If you could even call it living. Her husband and best friend, Alex, was killed in a car accident. They had known each other since they met in Kindergarten. In her attempts to deal with what has happened, Adriana has been pretending to be fine when she is around their close-knit group of friends. But she is secretly dying inside and is thinking she needs to move away from them and all of her memories of Alex.
Tucker Stavros is a movie star that is haunted by his past and running from his present devastation. He has no plan and is driving aimlessly to get away from it all, with the only contact he has being his grandmother and best friend, Eddie. And then he stumbles across Adriana.
Neither one of them are prepared for the reactions they have to one another. Adriana, for the first time since Alex died, feels alive for the first time. Tucker has always felt lost and abandoned. But Adriana makes him feel at home. And he wants to keep that feeling.
My heart breaks for both of them. Adriana has such a hard time dealing with Alex's death that she just can't decide anything. And that both breaks my heart and makes me mad at her! Tucker wants to help and protect her but realizes she hasn't let go of Alex yet. Tucker struggles with his own demons, and his view of the whole situation breaks my heart. I just want to comfort him all by myself!
The book's first few chapters are told in dual points of view, however they are merely re-tellings of the same scenes. That did bother me at first because it seemed to drag things out too long for my liking. But, as the book progresses the story moves along more quickly.
I can say that I really did like this book a lot. The story intrigued me and made me want more. Especially with the way the book ends! I could not believe I was left hanging like that! You must read this book so you can understand what I am talking about!! After such a great story, I certainly hope there is a resolution in a future book that I don't have to wait for forever!!!
As for whether or not Adriana and Tucker ever admit their feelings to one another....... I'll never tell. ;)
Adriana Monroe has been living the last sixteen months of her life in Hell. If you could even call it living. Her husband and best friend, Alex, was killed in a car accident. They had known each other since they met in Kindergarten. In her attempts to deal with what has happened, Adriana has been pretending to be fine when she is around their close-knit group of friends. But she is secretly dying inside and is thinking she needs to move away from them and all of her memories of Alex.
Tucker Stavros is a movie star that is haunted by his past and running from his present devastation. He has no plan and is driving aimlessly to get away from it all, with the only contact he has being his grandmother and best friend, Eddie. And then he stumbles across Adriana.
Neither one of them are prepared for the reactions they have to one another. Adriana, for the first time since Alex died, feels alive for the first time. Tucker has always felt lost and abandoned. But Adriana makes him feel at home. And he wants to keep that feeling.
My heart breaks for both of them. Adriana has such a hard time dealing with Alex's death that she just can't decide anything. And that both breaks my heart and makes me mad at her! Tucker wants to help and protect her but realizes she hasn't let go of Alex yet. Tucker struggles with his own demons, and his view of the whole situation breaks my heart. I just want to comfort him all by myself!
The book's first few chapters are told in dual points of view, however they are merely re-tellings of the same scenes. That did bother me at first because it seemed to drag things out too long for my liking. But, as the book progresses the story moves along more quickly.
I can say that I really did like this book a lot. The story intrigued me and made me want more. Especially with the way the book ends! I could not believe I was left hanging like that! You must read this book so you can understand what I am talking about!! After such a great story, I certainly hope there is a resolution in a future book that I don't have to wait for forever!!!
As for whether or not Adriana and Tucker ever admit their feelings to one another....... I'll never tell. ;)
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