Dead of Spring
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3.2 • 5 Ratings
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- $5.99
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Publisher Description
When Quin Levington shows up at her door, Josie Ryan is fuming. It's the one-year anniversary of Liam's death: her boyfriend and Quin's best friend. And it's been eight months since Quin fell off the face of the earth—when she needed him most. Despite the anger simmering inside her, part of her is relieved to see his warm hazel eyes. But he comes bearing news. Quin believes Liam's death wasn't an accident, and when Josie is attacked, it becomes shockingly clear that a killer is among them.
Quin has always been in love with Josie, but he'd never cross the line with his best friend's girl. He knows someone tampered with the harness that should have prevented his friend's fall, and since Liam's death someone has been trying to chase him away. After being framed for starting a bar fire, Quin was forced into hiding—and away from Josie.
He and Josie quickly realize that the killer won't let up until Josie is dead. Quin will do everything in his power to protect her. He owes it to his friend . . . and himself. But the closer he gets to Josie, the harder it is to keep his hands off her. Her haunting eyes are full of anguish and grief, but when her lips touch his, he knows he can never let her go. Not again. Together, they must bring the killer to justice and avenge Liam's death, once and for all.
Customer Reviews
3.5stars-fast paced, enteraining,engaging
3.5 stars— DEAD OF SPRING is the second instalment in Samantha Wilde’s contemporary adult WHITLEMORE erotic, romantic suspense series. This is businessman Quin Lexington, and tarot reader/jewellery maker Josie Ryan’s story line. DEAD OF SPRING can be read as a stand alone without any difficulty. Any important information from the previous story line is revealed where necessary.
Told from dual third person perspectives (Quin and Josie) DEAD OF SPRING follows the building romance and relationship between Quin Lexington and Josie Ryan. One year earlier Josie’s boyfriend and Quin’s business partner Liam died on the job, at the logging company he co-owned with Quin and their friend Cody. Several months would pass when Quin would be framed for arson, a crime he did not commit, and our hero found himself on the run but as the months passed, Quin struggled in the wake of his best friend’s death, a death he now considers a possible murder. Returning home on the one year anniversary of Liam’s death, Quin finds himself falling for his best friend’s former girlfriend, a woman who has been target by an unknown assailant. Enter Josie Ryan, and the woman with whom Quin will fall in love. What ensues is the building relationship between Josie and Quin, and the potential fall-out as our couple find themselves the target of a sick and twisted mind.
Quin Lexington has been in love with Josie Ryan for as long as he can remember but his best friend had fallen in love with Josie as well. Upon Liam’s death, Quin struggled to remain in town, and offered to sell his shares to the remaining partner but Quin never suspected that Liam’s death was anything more than an accident until pictures reveal someone may have tampered with the logging equipment. Josie Ryan battled between head and heart with the return of our story line hero. Josie needed Quin in the wake of Liam’s death but someone was trying to frame Quin Lexington, and staying in town meant facing the possibility of of a lifetime in jail.
The relationship between Josie and Quin is a friends to lovers in which Quin has never stopped loving his best friend’s girl. Quin arrival coincides with an attack against our story line heroine, and Quin offers up his protection to the woman to whom he has lost his heart. The $ex scenes are intimate and passionate without the use of over the top sexually graphic language and text.
The secondary and supporting characters include Josie’s best friends McKenna Winter (Dead of Winter 1), and Desiree, as well as Quin’s business partner Cody, Hank the Sheriff, LIam’s sister Kennedy, and local bad boy Frasier Donahue. Desiree’s story line is next.
DEAD OF SPRING is a story of betrayal and vengeance, desperation and obsession, love and acceptance, understanding and moving forward. The fast paced premise is entertaining and engaging; the romance is seductive; the characters are energetic and dynamic.