SCARLET STONEby JEWEL E ANN
“My name is Scarlet Stone, and my biggest fear is that someday I will find what I want most in life, and it will be impossible to steal.”
What happens when life just stops? When one moment makes you question your entire existence?
Scarlet Stone is a third-generation thief who has everything: a doting fiancé, a spacious London flat, and a legitimate job offer. In a single breath, everything becomes nothing, and she finds herself on a plane to Savannah, Georgia in search of the meaning of life.
After securing a six-month lease for a beachfront house on Tybee Island, Scarlet changes the way she looks, thinks, eats—basically her entire outlook on life. She needs peace, but what she gets is a housemate who looks like Thor, acts like a warden, and smells her proximity like a Bloodhound.
Theodore Reed is a carpenter and perfectionist with a body built of steel, a black, hollow heart, and a hunger for revenge. He doesn’t like company, girly-smelling crap, and British accents.
He resents every breath she takes.
She’s fascinated by his every move.
In time, they discover their coexistence is toxic, their physical attraction is electric, the secrets they keep mean the difference between life and death, and the only truth they share is that everything is a lie.
“Over eighty-five percent of the world's population believes in a higher power, yet, very few people believe in miracles.”
Do you believe?
"Loving me is killing him."
What is the definition of a good book to YOU? Is it the perfectly written, no errors, well rounded book with a HEA? Is it the story that is complete and no loops left un-looped? Or is it the kind of book that, regardless of the turn of the story's direction, it's the one that keeps you glued to your reader but makes your mind race while you think of the possibilities, daydreaming about the outcome, because you simply can't stop thinking about it long enough to slow down and keep reading it....? Because if you're like me, you are gonna love Jewel's words. I'm addicted. Her willing hostage. Seriously, I cannot get enough of her words.
You know what I love? I just love that she perfectly executes FATE. She can write me any story and make me see how fate stepped in, how it intervened to right all wrongs and move your heart to the belief in any story she tells. While this one may have had an element beyond my comprehension in the realm of fate or what have you, I loved the way she told it. I got to read of a love that was not easy. It was badgered and beaten. It was dragged through the depths of the nasties. It was me, sitting here reading this one, wide-eyed late into the night while I devoured her words because I couldn't soak it up fast enough. I couldn't put it down. This was one of my fastest reads this year, and just like every other one of her books I've read, I was drawn in and completely hooked.
"I will accept both his love and hate, as long as he never stops feeling so deeply for me."
Theodore Reed...he left me scrambling and feeling. He made me angry and desperate. He made me fall in love and want to strangle him. Scarlet Stone was an anomaly all her own. She had the capability to bend her own will, and make me understand why, but not how. She had the desires to learn, and the patience to do so. These characters, they had so much depth to them. There was so much to discover between their mind and their beliefs, their heart and their pain. I loved their journey because it was anything but ordinary, and let's face it...the journey alone is equal parts flabbergasting and gut wrenching, in true Jewel E. Ann fashion. But knowing that it was stretched beyond my ability to fathom, that's what I love about her words. Whether I believe or understand, it's always an experience to read her books and there is always a little bit of her in her books too.
There are all the reasons in the world to love her writing, but this book made me see those reasons why: She makes me think. She makes me feel. She makes me smile. But my favorite reason is that she always catches me off guard. Always. Not always conventional, but always shocking. It never fails that I'm left catching my breath after one of her books, and this one was no exception. I hope you are up for the ride, because this one is a crazy one!
"I don't think it's possible to shatter a person's world without scarring your soul."
~BEE
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~MEET JEWEL E ANN~
Jewel is a free-spirited romance junkie with a quirky sense of humor.
With 10 years of flossing lectures under belt, she took early retirement from her dental hygiene career to stay home with her three awesome boys and manage the family business.
After her best friend of nearly 30 years suggested a few books from the contemporary Romance genre, Jewel was hooked. Devouring two and three books a week but still craving more, she decided to practice sustainable reading, AKA writing.
When she’s not donning her cape and saving the planet one tree a a time, she enjoys yoga with friends, good food with family, rock climbing with her kids, watching How I Met Your Mother reruns, and of course . . .heart-wrenching, tear-jerking, panty-scorching novels.
~CONNECT WITH JEWEL~
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Fabulous review
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ReplyDeleteMandy, you will LOVE this one!!!
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Deleteloved this book still crackup about mouth rape lol
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