When Snow Falls
4.5 HEARTS
From Goodreads
After growing up in cheap motels, moving from town to town with her sister and mother, Cheyenne Christensen is grateful to be on her own. She's grateful, too, for the friends she found once her family settled in California. But she's troubled by the mystery of her earliest memories, most of which feature a smiling blonde woman. A woman who isn't her mother.
Although Cheyenne has repeatedly asked for explanations, the people who could help aren't talking. Cheyenne is set on finding answers, but without so much as a birth certificate, it won't be easy.
Things get even more complicated when her closest friend is attracted to the man Cheyenne has secretly loved for years. For Eve's sake, she decides to step aside—which lands her right in the arms of Dylan Amos, oldest and baddest of the hell-raising Amos brothers. He's the kind of guy she's sworn to avoid. She can't afford to make a mistake, not when she finally has a chance to learn who she really is and change her life for the better. But…maybe there's more to Dylan than she thought. Maybe letting him go would be a bigger mistake.
Ack! When Snow Falls is the 2nd book in the Whiskey Creek series by Brenda Novak. I didn't think I could like a story better than the first one, but I do! I couldn't read this book fast enough.
Cheyenne Christensen is the good girl of the group. Raised by a nomadic, grifter mother she was so happy to finally settle down in Whiskey Creek as a teenager when her mom was diagnosed with cancer. She vowed to be the opposite of her mom and drug addicted sister. It's not an easy vow to keep somedays. With her mom in the final days of her diagnosis and not a nice patient Cheyenne is running herself ragged. It doesn't help that all her friends have left for a Christmas cruise and she's all alone dealing with memories of a nicer life that her mom swears she is making up. Yes, her sister is still there, but some days her sister needs as much help as her mom. Surprisingly, the town badboy becomes her biggest help. In a weak moment, she ends up in his bed and gives him her virginity. It was just one night, right? She has to find a way to fight her attraction and keep it from her friends.
Dylan Amos is the town badboy. As a child his mom died of a drug overdose and his dad is in prison for stabbing a man in a bar. He stepped up to raise his hellion brothers and has earned quite a name for his self. It doesn't matter to the town of Whiskey Creek that he hasn't done anything wrong in years. He will always be one of the hoodlum Amos boys. Because of that, he never imagined he would get the chance to act on his long time attraction to Cheyenne. Imagine his surprise when she not only comes on to him, but she gives him her virginity. He can't believe his luck, but then the games begin. Cheyenne comes to him at night, but then fights her attraction by day, insisting on hiding their association. Can he hold on long enough to convince Cheyenne that no one will ever love her like he does?
"I'll do whatever I can to get you what you need." "What's love, if not that?"
Dylan was so hot and everything you would ever want in a guy. Cheyenne annoyed me so many times with her callous disregard of Dylan's feelings. Although, I totally get where she was coming from. Her mom was abusive and neglectful in health and even worse in sickness. She never had a life to be proud of and the fear of losing the respect of her friends because of Dylan's reputation paralyzed her. She stepped up and did the right thing in the end and that's all that mattered.
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