Reviewed by Rowena on
This book follows Leah Jones as she tries to survive in life. She’s seventeen years old and she can fly airplanes. She lives in a trailer park with her negligent mother and she works at the local airport. She’s dirt poor and her mother would rather pawn their meager belongings to pay the rent then get an actual job to help support her young daughter. Leah didn’t have it easy but she survived her way through life and she was a fighter. The only parental figure she had in her corner was her boss, Mr. Hall. He taught her how to fly and helped shape a future that Leah could look forward to but when he dies, the future she was working so hard toward is thrown all out of whack.
Leah doesn’t expect Mr. Hall’s two young sons, Grayson and Alec to take over the family banner flying business and she doesn’t expect them to hire her on to help them run it. Grayson and Alec have been around for years but Leah’s not close to either of them. They don’t bother with her and she doesn’t bother with them, but she’s watched them. For years. She’s got the hots for Grayson but when he blackmails her, she falls in line but is pissed off that she still has the hots for him.
Grayson has reasons for everything that he’s doing. Whether they’re for the right reasons or not, they’re his reasons and he’s doing what he needs to do. When his older brother died in the military and then his father died, shortly after, Grayon’s life has been one huge pot of grief. Not wanting to lose anymore family members, Grayson takes over his Dad’s banner flying business and hopes he knows what he’s doing.
Watching this story unfold was exciting. The characters draw you in and you can’t help but want to read on to find out what happens. I was just as invested in Leah’s life as Grayson was and I wanted to know more about Grayson, the same way that Leah did. Jennifer Echols did a great job of bringing Grayson and Leah together. She was patient and she let them work their crap out because when the end finally came around, I was so freaking satisfied with everything that I’d read that I sighed myself to sleep. The characters were great, the storyline meshed well and even the things that I thought were kind of weird (Grayson’s reason for blackmailing Leah) didn’t matter because the book ended the way that it was supposed to end and I really enjoyed the overall reading experience. Kudos to Jennifer Echols on writing another story that just knocked my socks off.
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- 31 October, 2013: Reviewed