Indianapolis architect, Breck Lawson steps out of her self-preservationist’ shoes to fall in love with a charismatic client, who catapults her career to designing fame. She leaves her hometown, her parents and her past bad relationships behind for Boston to be near her dashing sweetheart, the very handsome and very rich, Eric Warren of Warren & Peterson Property Management. But the great catch is no Prince Charming. He’s a devoted father and committed husband to a woman, who he has no intentions of divorcing, not even when Breck becomes pregnant with his son.

Will Breck listen to her family and friends and let Eric go? Will Eric have second thoughts and leave his wife? Will his wife find out and throw a wrench in their plans, or will the two boys become saving graces for both families?

I would love to tell you the ending, but this story is a whopping surprise to the very end, so I won’t spoil it for you.

This book is provocative, sexy and a surprise. You will like it and talk about it for months to come. Great book for a reading club.

Darlene Johnson is a master at presenting this love triangle in a way that keeps the reader questioning the validity of what happens to Breck and Eric, and the reality that it could happen to anyone of us.

I gave this novel a 3.5 rating mainly because I did not entirely agree with its resolution and ending. Johnson is such a great plot twister. She has the writing capability to churn out a more controversial resolution, to haunt us at the end and leave us breathless. I wanted her to step out and floor me like she did in the first turning point and the climax. This ending cheapened all that she worked for in the beginning and the middle, which dropped the piece to something more average than exceptional.

Call my boyfriend.

more cautious about my romantic relationship

Darlene Johnson

Breck’s independence and drive has always kept her from surrendering herself to a committed relationship. At the beginning of the relationship, she is quite cavalier about Eric’s other life, because her business is booming and she is swamped with work. It isn’t a threat to her until she bares their son, Jordan.

Eric is the best version of Dr. Jeckyl and Mr. Hyde that I’ve seen since the Robert Luis Stevenson classic. I fell in love with his philanthropic heart and his love for his children, but in the same instance I hate his polygamist lifestyle and jealous rage. Both he and Breck epitomize the human condition, the ability to exist between heaven and hell.

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