Home to Whiskey Creek
4 HEARTS
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Sometimes home is the refuge you need-and sometimes it isn't. Adelaide Davies, who's been living in Sacramento, returns to Whiskey Creek, the place she once called home. She's there to take care of her aging grandmother and to help with Gran's restaurant, Just Like Mom's. But Adelaide isn't happy to be back. There are too many people here she'd rather avoid, people who were involved in that terrible June night fifteen years ago.
Ever since the graduation party that changed her life, she's wanted to go to the police and make sure the boys responsible-men now-are punished. But she can't, not without revealing an even darker secret. So it's better to pretend....
Noah Rackham, popular, attractive, successful, is shocked when Adelaide won't have anything to do with him. He has no idea that his very presence reminds her of something she'd rather forget. He only knows that he's finally met a woman he could love.
Home to Whiskey Creek is the 4th series by Brenda Novak and the first book in this series to make me want to scream. Mind you, I think this is a good thing. When a book can bring forth so much emotion that I am mad reading it, it's a good book.
Addie Davis has come back to Whiskey Creek. After being assaulted by a group of boys during a graduation party Addie left and never looked back. A boy lost his life that night, so it was easy enough for her to hide her trauma and fade into the background. Now, she's back to help her aging grandmother and leave again as soon as she can. Her being back has stirred up some old fears for those that were involved that night. She was abducted from her bed and deposited in the very mine that changed her life forever. She doesn't believe her abductor wanted to scare her, but she would've died had it not been for Noah finding her. Noah is the last man she wanted to save her life and the last man she needs back in her life. The old flame that she carried for him back in high school was still there, but Noah has to be off limits for more reasons than one.
Noah Rackham couldn't believe his ears when he heard a woman yelling for help and it seemed to be coming from the exact mine where his twin brother lost his life the end of their senior year. Finding Addie at the bottom of the mine was bad enough, but he could tell she didn't just tumble down there on accident. But, she wasn't talking no matter how hard he tried. Still, she triggered a fierce protectiveness in him that he's never felt for any woman. Let's face it, he isn't known as the guy that will never commit for nothing. Using all of his charm and resourcefulness Noah does all he can to convince Addie to give him a chance. He knows she is attracted to him and he's definitely attracted to her. He just has no idea what's holding her back.
Finally, finally the group of friends from Whiskey Creek step up and support Noah without trying to run his love life. And they picked a perfect time to do it. No one has ever needed to feel love and supported the way that Addie did. The topic of rape is so hard to deal with and seeing how she was treated by so many was appalling. I found myself wanting to take some of these people and shake them. If I would have read one more time "that it happened in the past and she turned out fine, so let it go" I think I would've screamed.
Noah was exactly how every man should behave in a situation like this. I admired his sense of justice and his loyalty to the one that deserved it. Addie's sense of forgiveness is above and beyond. I don't know how she did it, but it was good to see it helped her piece of mind to do so.
Thank you to NetGalley.com for the loan of this book in exchange for my honest review.
Hotness Rating
3 out of 5
