When Dr. Blake Hunter discovers Casey Edwards wandering along a Sweetwater, Georgia, road, she’s a woman without a past, her memory stripped of the terrifying events that shattered her innocence a decade ago. The scrap of paper she clutches in her hand bears the address to Swan House, the magnificent mansion where Casey’s mother lives with her mysteriously ailing husband. But “home” turns out to be anything but a safe haven.  .  .

Casey is determined to untangle the web of secrets that surround her. The answers lay somewhere within Swan House and its lavish gardens but someone wants Casey out of the way before she remembers too much. It will take the strength she’s always had–and the love she’s just found–to uncover her past and claim her future…

WARNING: THIS BOOK HAS ADULT THEMES IN THEM AND MAY NOT BE FOR THOSE WHO ARE SENSITIVE TO SOME TOPICS.

You’ve been warned. That being said this book is beautiful. It WILL make you cry, and cringe and curl up into a sushi roll of blankets in your bed. I read this book as a kid. Honestly I was probably too young at the time to have read it. No more than 14 or 15 I would say. Even then I knew I had found something special. Our main heroine is messed up….at least she thinks so. Our story starts with her getting out of a mental institution after having been in for 10 long years. Her mother Evie is doesn’t even come to pick her up! Even she has changed, remarried into the creme de la creme of their small town Georgian society even she is a woman Casey cant recognize—her own mother!

She doesn’t understand credit cards, she missed the huge beginning of the internet, and her whole life has changed. Not to mention she doesn’t remember a good part of it and no one knows why.  Dr. Blake Hunter comes into the picture by helping Casey find her home after being found wandering around the town. He seems to know more than he;s letting on. But so far he is the only one Casey can seem to trust, and he has no memories of her past for her to live up to. The two set out to try and track down Casey’s memories.

The story that unfolds is that of mystery and confusion. We dont know what going on either and as much as we want  Casey to know we cant help the lingering feeling that shes better of without her memories. Nevertheless there are so many questions to answer:

why was she in the hospital?

why did they release her?

Why will no one talk about the events preceding the day she was institutionalized?

Who is trying to make her doubt her own sanity?

Did the flashbacks she’s experiencing really happen or are they a sign of a mental breakdown?

With all the drama surrounding Casey and her recovery this book will leave you in tears, shocked and uncomfortable. But take heart, all romance novels have a happy ending…dont they?

xoxo EhbookEhday