Halfway Hidden

Halfway Hidden by Carrie Elks

When fear mixes with desire, who can you trust?

Rachel Stone is stuck, contemplating that very question. Spending her time as a bartender in an isolated West Virginia town, she hides behind dark hair and an assumed name. She exists from day to day, trying not to let her past overwhelm her.

When a tall stranger walks into the bar at closing time, her attempts at hiding turn to dust. Muscled and intense, he is attractive enough for Rachel to ignore her instincts and listen to her baser desires. As a storm brews in the skies of West Virginia, confusion builds in Rachel’s mind. What begins as flirtation explodes into a darker, more primal passion, leading her to question everything she thought she knew.

While snow blankets the outside world, they are forced to remain inside, confronting their demons and the sizzling attraction between them. Submitting to their urges is easy; learning who to trust is anything but.**

Thank you to the author for providing the ARC for me to read and review! 

Rachel doesn't trust anyone. She's hiding in a small town in West Virginia, hiding from what though we don't know. She doesn't like any attention on her and does her best to make sure people don't ask her questions. In walks a stranger and it seems like he sees her. He's the first man in a year to make her want to break her rule of not letting people close. 

Soon though she finds out hes not only after her body, he's after her. Someone from Rachel's past is hunting her and they sent Murphy to find her. 

      Then her world came crashing down.

     "No thank, Lucy."  He spat the words out like they were a bitter pill, enough to chill her from head to toe. He didn't sound like the Murphy she'd gotten to know, the soft-voiced guy who cleared the parking lot of snow and listen to her stories with a smile. This Murphy- the one with the edge in his voice and her old name on his tongue- was a stranger. One who scared her shitless. And he knew who she was?

     Her feet were glued to the sticky wooden floor, her pulse racing. hearing her real name was enough to remind her of long, dark nights spent in agony, her face pushed down in to dirty tiles, hands bound behind her back. It made her remember pain and misery and a life not worth living, things she had buried for so long that she thought they'd disappeared. As they rose to the surface, they brought with them the fear and terror she'd tried to suppress. They wrapped around her heart and squeezed it tight.

     

I was sucked in and had to know how this was going to play out. Murphy was there to take her back to a life she didn't want to be apart of anymore. It scared her and she couldn't get away. There was still an edge of lust that rolled off of both of them. He was there to do a job but he couldn't help but be attracted to her. This was a easy read that I inhaled in a couple of hours. I can't wait to see what happens in the next book!! 

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