Nightingale - Jocelyn Adams

Darcy is a reporter but she is tired of writing meaningless articles for the society page. Darcy wants to make a difference in the world. Darcy has  been promised more if she could get an interview with Micah Laine. Micah was a millionaire playboy who had been kidnapped and held captive in Columbia. Micah managed to escape one year ago  and freed several  other people at the same time   when he escaped. When Micah returned home he was a different not  man and he would not open up in public. No interviews in any form.Micah also now has a long scar on the side of his face.  But Micah did form a foundation for those who have been kidnapped or held captive and help them to be rehabilitated. Micah believes Darcy is just another person who wants to plaster his past all over the place. Micah challenges Darcy with a deal  to stay with him for one week in his secluded cottage on a remote island. During this time Darcy can get to know Micah she can also ask as many questions as she wants to. As long as Micah is allowed to ask for something also. Darcy is warm and carefree but she also has secrets.

I enjoyed reading this book. I liked the plot but this did drag for me at times. I liked a lot how Darcy tried to make sure Micah is comfortable with all she asks of him. I loved the back story and felt this was well written. This choked me up at times and made me smile at others. Micah and Darcy are definitely good for each other and help each other heal. I really liked that Darcy and Micah didn’t rush right into a insta love/ lust relationship. I loved how Micah came back and started a foundation to help others who had been kidnapped or held captive. I loved the characters and the ins and outs of this book and I recommend.

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Scardust by Suzanne van Rooyen

 

Dead Rock, Texas, 2037

 

Raleigh Williams made a promise to his brother before he died, that he’d scatter his ashes on Mars. Desperate to leave a life of bad memories behind and start over in the Martian colony, Raleigh fully intends to keep that promise. But his plans are thwarted when a meteor near-misses him in the desert, and Raleigh finds in its crater not debris or even a spacecraft, but a man covered in swirling scars and with no memory of who he is. At least he looks like a man—a man Raleigh can’t seem to keep his eyes off of—but whenever they touch it ignites a memory swap between them.

 

Raleigh agrees to help Meteor Man piece together his life through their cosmic connection. But the memory share goes both ways, and Raleigh becomes inexplicably entangled with a guy who is everything he needs—everything good that Raleigh is not—but might not even be human. As their minds and worlds collide, reality unravels and Raleigh must face a painful truth, one that could shatter his dreams of finding love, reaching Mars, and fulfilling his brother’s last wish.

 

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Beyond the Stars by Stacy Wise

 

Most girls would kill for the opportunity to work for Jack McAlister, Hollywood’s hottest actor, but twenty-one-year-old Jessica Beckett is ready to kick him out of her red Ford Fiesta and never look back. She should be spending her junior year in France, eating pastries and sharpening her foreign language skills. Instead she’s reluctantly working as Jack’s personal assistant, thanks to her powerhouse talent agent aunt.

 

Jack is private, prickly, and downright condescending. Jessica pushes his buttons—she’s not the type of girl to swoon over celebrity heartthrobs, precisely why her aunt thought she’d be perfect for the job—and Jack pushes right back.

 

But as she begins to peel away his layers, Jessica is shocked to find she craves her boss’s easy smile and sexy blue eyes. The problem is, so does the entire female population. And what started out as the job from hell soon has Jess wondering if a guy like Jack could ever find love with a regular girl like her.

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The dead have been waiting for her…

Addison Beckett tries hard to pretend she’s normal, but she’s far from it. Since she was six years old, she’s seen the world around her unraveling, as if someone is pulling a thread from a sweater and it’s all slowly coming undone. When she ignores it, it goes away, so that’s what she does.

Enter her arrogant-but-hot professor Asher Green. He knows all about her special brand of crazy. In fact, he might be just as nuts as she is. Asher insists that the dead from a parallel dimension are trying to possess the living in this one. And since Addison seems to be the only one who can see these “wraiths,” she just might be the key to saving the world.

Addison wants nothing to do with Asher or his secret society, The Mortal Machine. But as their animosity grows, she finds it harder and harder to ignore the chemistry between them. And when she discovers that Machine laws forbid her from touching him, she realizes that’s all she wants to do.

Stop the wraiths. Break the rules. Save the world. All in a day’s work.

Normal was overrated, anyway. (source)

That ending. WTF. Review coming - after I watch Crisis with my dad. Be prepared for LOTS of emotions!