This book opens at a cemetery in Louisiana when Noah, a worker there, is putting dirt on Emma Miller’s grave. Her husband had her buried on Valentine’s Day. Noah hears yells and at first thinks that it’s teenagers making out, but it turns out to be Emma who is still alive.
Emma believes that her husband, who was dealing with financial difficulties, had been poisoning her over the last six months. She had just discovered this, along with his infidelities; she was looking to get a divorce. He pushed her down the stairs and likely gave her something that would put her into a coma. He had power of attorney and was also her doctor so it was easy to keep her in a coma up until she was buried, where she would wake up in a coffin and die.
But, Noah stopped that from happening and he took Emma to his place out in the country because she doesn’t want anyone to know that she is alive, since her husband would come back to finish the job. Emma’s husband didn’t just cheat on her he also put her down so many times that she thought he was right.
Noah doesn’t see things the way that her husband does. He sees a beautiful, smart, kind, woman who needs the touch of another human and the love a man who has adored her from afar since high school. The two discover a passion neither has known before. But will Emma’s husband kill them before they can have a happily ever after?
I really enjoyed this book that is the sixth of a series that explores second chances. A novella that clocks in at 95 pages it’s the perfect read for an afternoon. The series has a hot pepper scale to indicate how hot the book is and this one got the highest score of four peppers. This novella is only $0.99 as a kindle book on Amazon. It’s worth a lot more than that. A perfect read to get you in the mood for Valentine’s Day.
Quotes
“Why are you so wonderful?”
“I’m not. I’m decent, at best. The bar, as we’ve already established, is in hell.”
Navessa Allen (Valentine’s Slay p 48)
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