4.5 stars.

This started out a little frustrating for me but I ended up loving it.

So for almost 30% of this book we don't meet, mention, or see the heroine. I think she comes in at 28% but even then I didn't know for certain that it would be her because her name was never mentioned. I hoped it was but didn't end up finding out for sure until about 35% in. That's a long time to wait for the love interest to show up or have a presence in the story.

However once Megan officially entered the scene I was on board and flipping those pages, wanting to know how everything would play out with her and Mason.

Lillian is a horrible person. I can understand

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her hurting her brother, after all he's the one who actually hurt her. But to torture, mentally, physically, whatever, an innocent person, whose only "crime" was being born to the person who hurt you, no...just no. I felt horrible for child Lillian, adult Lillian can go jump off a cliff.

I adored the brother/sister relationship of Mason and Evie. I'm a sucker for a good protective brother sister dynamic.

One thing, that's not a big deal, but annoyed me all the same was that as someone who watches Judge Judy quite often, and has since she first started her show, the inaccuracies of the 2 mentions of Judge Judy bothered me. Judge Judy has never used a gavel to end a case. It's a folder tap and/or says 'we're done' or 'goodbye' or something to that affect and stands up and leaves. Never a gavel. And also the second mention of Judge Judy mentioned a spousal support case and about whether a wife? would pay that or not, which she doesn't decide those things on her show. Her show is a small claims court show. So I wish the author just spent 30 minutes watching 1 episode and I feel like those mistakes wouldn't have been made.

Overall this was really great. I ended up reading it fairly quickly and didn't want to put it down. I'm looking forward to the next in the series.