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Today’s book: The Sweetest Obsession by Nicole Snow.
Well, damn.
That’s definitely a dead body.
I tilt my head back, looking up at the pair of heeled loafers twisting slowly over the grand ballroom of the Arrendell mansion.
We’re standing on the upper walkway looking down over the massive checkered floor. I’m so far away that the dead woman still looks tiny, dangling from the central chandelier.
Her own weight makes the whole thing sway gently with a morbid chiming of glimmering ornaments.
I cock my head to the left and right, frowning up at the body.
Next to me, Junior Sergeant Micah Ainsley huffs, cocking his head to the right, his pale-blue eyes pensive.
“Don’t know how else to call it, Captain Faircross,” he says. “It’s a textbook suicide. Pretty clear-cut.”
I grunt in numb agreement.
Not much way it can be anything else, of course, but I can’t help scrutinizing the scene anyway, considering where we are.
Call it a cop’s overdeveloped instincts for detail, but I need to be sure, dammit.
Because right now, looking at this woman dangling some fifty feet off the ground, hanging there by a trailing velvet red curtain drawn into a noose, I’m not fucking feeling it.
Oh, I am feeling lots of other things.
I don’t know.
Maybe it’s because it happened in this house, but even if it hadn’t, I’d still get a damned funny feeling about this whole mess.
About: This series is absolutely amazing. Everything about this story and these characters surprised me, from the action and intensity to the heat and emotion. I don’t always love RH but this one is perfect. I’m equally sad that’s it’s over and eager to know how their story ends because I love all five of these characters.
Blurb:
My brother’s best friend owned my heart until the day he drenched it in kerosene and burned it down.
Grant flipping Faircross is so not the reason I’m coming home.
I don’t care if he’s gotten bigger, meaner, and grumpy enough to flash freeze the sun.
So what if he’s up in my business the second I arrive?
I’m smarter now.
I’m only back in Redhaven for my sick mother and to talk some sense into my sister before she marries a toad.
Grant ran me off once and I’m not running back.
I can handle the drama, the messy secrets, and an unexpected stalker just fine.
…or maybe not so fine.
When Prince Anti-Charming charges in to protect me, it’s kinda hard to say no.
When I find out he’s a single dad with a heart bigger than a prune, it gets harder.
And when his lips storm mine with a growl that says “stay,” oh God.
Are we really doing this again?
Especially when an old tragedy resurfaces with hard truths, stinging tears, and one brutal question.
Will our sweetest obsession finally deliver us or destroy us forever?
