When old love
and new love collide an impossibility is born.
When Lee
Townsend’s husband leaves on a community outreach to China, the last thing she
expects is for him to never come back—for him to have tragically met his
demise.
Lee goes on
to marry his adversary and settles into life and business with him, merging her
vineyard with his and creating a worldwide conglomerate.
Five years
later a twist of fate brings the past back to her and forces Lee to make a
decision that will change the landscape of her life forever.
Secrets
emerge, forcing relationships to be examined—magnifying the surprising true
underpinnings of her marriage to both Mitch and Max.
Lee’s heart
is unwilling to surrender her love for either Mitch or Max.
She must choose
to carry forward with the past or present.
Lee has a
choice to make.
Mitch can’t
figure out how to win.
Max never
loses.
Worlds
collide in THE SOLITUDE OF PASSION
Excerpt:
Max thought
we could have something big, way back when. The truth is, I did, too. I thought
for sure he wanted me, but he didn’t fight for me and Mitch did. Max made the
decision all too easy, and I can’t help but wonder what would have happened if
he didn’t. Mitch and his glorious face blinks through my mind, and I push him away.
It’s water under the bridge now. I hope my heart can accept that one day, maybe
then I can finally move on without the agony of losing him all over again. I’m
with Max now. I belong to Max. A part of me has always felt like that even when
I was with Mitch. And, ironically, now that I’m with Max, I know for certain a
part of me will always belong to Mitch. It’s a twisted game my heart plays, and
I want none of it.
Max burrows
in and lashes his heated tongue over me until I forget all about the world and
everyone in it.
It’s just Max
and me.
No more
detours.
My Review:
Lee
is married to the man of her dreams, a beautiful home, and she is pregnant with
their first baby. She has everything. Though her perfect world is about to fall
apart. Her husband Mitch has to go to China in the place of his irresponsible
brother Colt. Mitch was supposed to be gone for only two weeks, but he is taken
as a hostage and put into prison.
Lee
is understandably devastated when she discovers that Mitch was killed in a car
with other outreach workers. She is now faced with trying to save Mitch’s
Vineyard, because she knows that his brother Colt will not take it seriously.
Lee is then forced to turn to the person that her husband would never want her
to turn to, Max Shepard.
Max
and Lee have a history, one passionate night that only her friend Katrice knows
of. Max however lost Lee to Mitch when he went home for summer. Lee was always
the one that got away to Max, he never stopped loving her and. Mitch and Max
used to be friends, but because of an affair between Max’s mother and Mitch’s
father, that resulted in the death of Mitch’s father tore their friendship
apart. With Mitch out of the picture, Max steps in to help care for the family
of his best friend Lee. As life moves on Lee and Max grow closer and feelings
develop, and a bond is formed between Max and Mitch’s daughter Stella, which
results in Max and Lee being married with a child of their own named Eli.
Yet
again, the happily ever after for Lee is shattered when Mitch is released from
prison and returns to what he believes is his family, only things have changed.
Both men love Lee and are not willing to let her go. Who will she choose? Who
will have a family in the end? Will the secrets that are revealed ruin
everything? Those are answers you will not get from me, you will have to read
it for yourself.
Addison
Moore, I don’t know how you did it, but you turned me into one big emotional
mess with Solitude of Passion. I laughed, I cried, and not just silent tears
running down my cheeks crying, I mean full on body convulsing, snot running,
loud sobbing, ugly crying. Believe me when I say it was not a pretty sight. I
don’t know what decision I would have made if I was Lee. I get why she was so indecisive,
but at times I wanted to shake some sense into her. She was giving me as I like
to call it, “ping pong syndrome”, because I kept trying to figure out where her
head was at. The back and forth indecisiveness kept me on the edge of my seat,
and kept me completely immersed in the story. Solitude of passion impacted me,
in more ways than I can explain. I was emotionally attached to the characters
and could fee their pain, their happiness and their sadness. I believe that is
why I had such a hard time putting my feelings about this book into words,
because I felt so much. Addison Moore, such a great writer and kept me
interested throughout the whole book. Even after I was done with Solitude of
Passion, I couldn’t get it out of my head. I kept thinking about it. It’s one
of those books you can’t get out of your head and re-read a few times. This was
not my first Addison Moore book and it certainly won’t be my last. I love her
writing style and in me she has a fan for as long as she continues to boggle
our minds.
Author
Biography:
Addison Moore
is a New York Times, USA Today, and Wall Street Journal bestselling author who
writes contemporary and paranormal romance. Previously she worked as a
therapist on a locked psychiatric unit for nearly a decade. She resides on the
West Coast with her husband, four wonderful children, and two dogs where she
eats too much chocolate and stays up way too late. When she's not writing,
she's reading.
Blog:
http://addisonmoorewrites.blogspot.com
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OH my Gosh! I love, Love, LOVE your review! Hugs to you for reading and I'm so thrilled you enjoyed it! I'm deeply touched that it impacted you. xoxox
ReplyDeleteI love all your books that I have read, and I know I will love the next one too. :)
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