Title: The Redemption Of Nixon Thorne
Author: S. Steele
File Size: 2249 KB
Print Length: 242 pages
Publication Date: March 24, 2020
Sold by: Amazon.com Services LLC
Language: English
SYNOPSIS
Steamy, college romantic suspense. Standalone. Happily ever after.
Ella Black
Quiet. Shy. Awkward.
I used to be that bright, fun girl everyone wanted to be friends with, before I had to carry this dark secret inside. The secret that no one knows. Now, I'm ruined. Nothing but ashes of the bubbly, young girl I used to be. I've been running from the past for the last four years, but college will be the perfect, fresh start that I need. Like pushing the reset button on my life. Or so I thought until I met Nixon Thorne.
Nixon Thorne
Ex-con. Streetfighter. Monster.
I thought starting at The University of Oregon would be a new beginning for me. Getting a chance at freedom, a taste of the real world again instead of the four cement walls of my prison cell.
That is, until Ella Black stumbled back into my life. She doesn't remember the boy from high school, the one from the wrong side of the tracks--but I remember her, and I know what she's hiding. My head tells me to stay away from her. She is the reason I went to prison, after all. But it still doesn't stop me from wanting to protect her. From wanting to save her. From wanting her. Especially since I'm the only one who knows of the dark past she's running from.
I liked this book a lot.
Since I started it, totally caught me. It is known that there is a secret between the protagonists and that neither of them says so, each with their own reasons for keeping it hidden. Ella finds it hard to open up to others and although Nixon intimidates her at first as the days go by and the interaction they have she begins to see that there is more underneath that facade he shows and that he uses as a defense against others.
I have liked Nixon perhaps a little more, with a difficult and abusive childhood he still has a tender heart and is willing to help those he believes deserve it, the love and devotion he feels for his mother is very nice to read, and what he is able to sacrifice for Ella is simply priceless.
The story has a little bit of everything, secrets, a little bit of suspense, drama and an unconditional love that seems to be able to survive the evil of a madman.
While I loved the story, there are some parts that I found a little hard to believe and actions that seemed a little wrong on the part of the protagonists since they trust a friend but not their parents who are the adults and for what I read that they have an excellent relationship, but outside of that I'm left with the feeling of having read a very recommendable story.
ARC generously provided by author on exchange for my honest review. Thank you so much.
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