When her dog died and her boyfriend turned gay, Liz Collins forced herself to look on the bright side of things and stoically endure misfortune. Liz knew the sun would shine for her, for her mother always told her so. But when her parent's died in a tragic car accident, a part of her died with them. The naive part that believed in tomorrow's sunshine rather than the night's darkness, the darkness of sin and death. But even when she was falling part, she couldn't fall apart. She just couldn't. For the sake of her family and for Stacy—Liz's morbid, redhead, best friend. Even if Stacy would never admit to anyone—least of all Liz—she was all Stacy had and Liz made a promise to attend college with her. For a girl holding on to the last strand of her sanity and self-esteem, it was a promise that offered her an escape from the never ending nightmare that was her life but nothing more. Until, she meets Nick Jones.
Flying was his passion and the only thing stopping Nick from being a fighter pilot was a college degree. Should be a piece of cake compared to his last surveillance mission in Afghanistan or his last rescue mission in Brazil. Or so he thought, until he discovered his girlfriend Liz's knack of stumbling into trouble. The girl's got a bounty on her head, literally.
Charming, annoying and ruggedly gorgeous, Nick Jones was full of surprises and falling for him was not part of Liz's plan, if she ever had one. After all, Liz was still holding on to the last strand of life and taking a leap of faith at that point was a bit like sky diving without a parachute. But she couldn't resist Nick. She couldn't seem to help herself. Brave, no. Foolish, maybe. Because a man who says he is an FBI agent just dropped the biggest bombshell about her new, mysterious boyfriend and his whereabouts on the day of her parent's death. Tore between love and despair, Liz is put to the ultimate test of creating her own destiny from the clutches of fate, inflicted upon her.
My Review:
One of the things I absolutely loved about this book is that it put you straight into the action. I was enthralled from the get go and when the author suddenly shifted back in time to the events leading up to the action I just had to keep reading. I had to know what had happened to make someone want to put a bounty on Liz's head. The love and electricity between Nick and Liz moved the story along in an interesting way, I couldn't turn away from the book because the author kept adding in new twists that I just had to know the repercussions of.
I do have to say that I was a little disappointed with the ending, I felt like the problem was resolved way to quickly and that there was no true reason for the bounty. It just didn't make sense to me. As well the transition from present to past in the beginning was confusing and for awhile I was unclear that I was reading about the past.
All in all I believe the book had a great plot but would have been better if developed a little bit more.
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