From the outside, Abby’s life looks like a fairytale.

Loving family, wealthy lifestyle, education at a prestigious university. The truth? She’s barely managing to survive. Few know the nightmare she lived before she was adopted. And no one knows the secret agony that still haunts her nightmares.

With a degree from Berkeley, she could have gone anywhere, but she’s back in Colorado. Not for a fresh start—fresh starts are only an illusion—but for Wes Ahern. Her protector, who throws around words like “therapy” and “talk to me.” Her brother in every way but blood. The one man she wishes could be so much more.

Maybe, just this once, she can stop running from her demons.

But does she dare let Wes see inside the darkest closets of her pain…or will love be the biggest mistake of her life?

An inspirational and emotional contemporary romance Begin with You is a heartbreaking tale of fresh starts and old wounds. This jarring and dark novel will leave readers at the edge of their seats. This is part one of a duet, thus containing a cliffhanger that leads into the next installment. It contains references to childhood trauma, kidnapping, and PTSD.

Begin with You by Claudia Y. Burgoa

My rating: 5 of 5 stars

 

What can I say about this book? Ouch. That sums it up pretty good. My heart hurt. My head hurt. And soul hurt for the pain that these characters went through. It’s taking me much longer than I would like to post my review, but this is the kind of book that makes you think. It makes you realize just how much one person can make or break you. How that one person can help you heal. But most of all, it shows you just how much pain and suffering one person can suffer and still make it out alive at the end of the road.

It’s not my first book by this author, but the fact that Claudia Burgoa has evolved so much since that first book I read, it’s truly amazing. It still astounds me to the point that i`m both scared (in a good way) and excited to read her next book. It’s the kind of scared that makes me wonder if my ‘ouch’ will survive her emotional train ride that i`m being put through when I pick up her book and go through that journey alongside her characters. Two huge thumbs up from me for this book and i`ll be looking forward to the next instalment in this duet.

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Claudia is an award-winning, international bestselling author. She lives in Colorado working for a small IT company, managing her household filled with three confused dogs, two daughters wrought with fandoms and a son who thinks he’s the boss of the house. And a wonderful husband who shares her love for all things geek. To survive she works continually to find purpose for the voices flitting through her head, plus she consumes high quantities of chocolate to keep the last threads of sanity intact.

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