This book was enjoyable for a lot of reasons, but I also struggled with it for a lot of reasons. I'm on a Karen Robards kick, because I've just discovered her, and there's a lot in her writing that I enjoy and that remind me of another favorite author--Sandra Brown. She handles the emotional intensity in much the same way, but also draws these characters who feel interesting and complicated and who I want to know more about. From the first sentence, Nick King had me. His enduring love for Maggy was lovely, but born out of something bigger for me than just soulmates garbage. This wasn't an epic romance of cheese, it was built on two kid who grew up in the slums together, survived together, and always loved one another like family. Nick protected and took care of Maggy when no one else could, and their love grew from something shared by children to something bigger than them both. And then something happened. And Maggy's choice is one of the stupidest, most ridiculous, I-can't-believe-her-logic sort of things that land her in a world of trouble and separate her and Nick for 12 years. So despite that TSTL choice that Maggy made, as soon as you see these two together you just feel it. That spark. That reaction. That tightness in your chest that these two are completely unaware of anything outside of the other. So I loved them together, I loved Nick's brother Link, and I enjoyed aspects of the premise. There were certain things I wish I could have seen between them, and a little more out of the ending, but still, I was not only taken by surprise but I was also constantly rooting for these two kids from the wrong side of the tracks to make good. And like any romance worth its weight, they do. And that makes reading it worthwhile.
Magadalena's life was the envy of the people around her. She married into aristocracy, she had so much money that she never would be without anything in her life. A loving husband and a wonderful son.But appearances can be deceptive. Magadelena is living a life of hell in private where she tolerates her abusive husband because her son is the pawn in this game of marriage.Out of the blue Nick King the only love of her life is back in her life after 12 years and is determined to win her back.Nick and Maggy have a past where both had seen hunger and poverty together and had a passion for each other, when poverty breaks them apart.But Maggy has a secret which she never wants the world to know, it would tear her son's world apart.
