Macy is a nurse with a troubled past and just wants to find a place where she feels like she belongs. She tries to hide her past and is determined not to touch the money her "father" gave her. A traffic accident throws her in the path of Fletcher, a cop from Houston. When bullets start to fly, he protects her.
Fletcher is only in California until his mother is better. She's beaten cancer once, but it seems like it's come back, and he's willing to do anything to save her. He's intrigued by Macy and finds himself wanting to spend time with her. He also has some unresolved feelings about a woman back home.
There's a lot going on in this book. In the first half, we read about the effects of leukemia, a recent widow, a sniper who is determined to kill, the death of a dog (sorry I hate those!), making a decision about life support, a car accident involving a pregnant woman, and a character with a drug problem and a rape. And this is just in the first half.
To me, this was a lot of trauma, especially for the first half of a book. Every character seems to be dealing with some sort of tragic experience (past or present), and if they don't, then by golly, the author gives them one. I know everyone has their own problems and things they deal with, but for ALL these people to have something so major going on at the same time was a bit unrealistic.
The relationship between Macy and Fletcher is an okay story, but it didn't draw me in as much as I had hoped. With all the other "stuff" going on, I found myself almost reluctant to pick the book back up to see what would happen next. At the end, even with many of the threads wrapped up nicely, I wasn't as satisfied as I had hoped. Overall, it was okay. 3.5 stars.
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