Taylor McAvay stumbled into a covert operation in the middle of the woods while playing with air guns with her cousin. Sebastian saved her pretty little head or not depending on your outlook on the book. It is not your typical love story for sure and not for the faint of heart or for children to read either.


You may hate Sebastian instead of doing what people normally do and love the lead man. He is full of blind hatred and murder. He kills without remorse. Not only killing the bad guys, but families as well. He is a member of the FBI branch known as the SKALS.

After saving Taylor from being killed by his partner he talks her into going out with him and he stalks her after that to the point of it being freaky. He finally talks her into moving in with him where things really get hairy. He is willing to go to any lengths to keep her safe and with him. Murdering drug dealers that shoot up her apartment. Putting her Uncle and cousin away for setting her up to take the fall for their moonshine operation. He uses conditioning and manipulation to get her to behave a certain way. With his line of work either she does things the way that he says or she could get killed. Not only that, he has a serious temper and it's best just not to rile him.


She knows something is wrong with this situation, but has fallen head over heels in love with him and accepts things as they are. Even when he abuses her she begs for forgiveness. Somehow, in spite of his inner rage at life and himself, he falls in love with her as well. He just has a funny way of showing it. Being married to a dominant and jealous husband at one time, I found this unnerving. I liked the guy because he was battling an internal war between being good and evil I found him to be sexy as well and the love scenes are quite remarkable. He’s definitely the definition of an antihero, and the author did a great job of making him likable regardless of his abusiveness.

I did find that Taylor got a little lost in all of this because he overshadowed her so much. It was really about him with a bit of her mixed in the mix. She has a few moments of fight in her and a spark that causes you to love her, pity her, and pray for her. Usually she just goes along with whatever he says and to heck with her own life. She is like a prisoner in her own home. Not allowed to go out without his knowing where she is going and what she is doing. He also controls her ability to have friends or lack thereof because of him.


I thought about giving this four stars because of the way he was to her, but I can’t do that. She wrote a compelling book here with a likable anti-hero. No matter what happens in the book, she wrote a great story and deserves five stars.

Anyone interested in romance, covert missions, abuse, or anti-heros

The war that played out inside of Sabastian. He was not bad, but was conditioned to be that way, but a war waged in side of him. He loved with an unshakable love, but he was also one of those people that didn't think he deserved the love Taylor offered to him.

I didn't like that Sabastian could kill his family without remorse and I didn't like the abuse he gave Taylor or the way he choked his sister. It is apart of the book though and it told his story. A story well told.

I was hoping for a book two where he got married and had a family and he changed and got out of the SKALS group without having to die to do it. I was hoping he overcame that group of men to become a hero instead of an anti-hero.

Pity for Sabastian and Taylor and the life they have to live.

Is an author I plan on reading again as soon as I can.

It tells a story in such a way as to make you love the unlovable. It is well-written and as honest as one can get with situations like this.

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