“I’ll wait forever, sunshine. I loved you then. I love you now. I’ll always love you.”
Former Navy SEAL Travis Blake is a rising star in the security business. In two short years, Blake Security Inc. has become highly sought after by the who’s who in Washington DC.
But unbeknownst to many, Travis is haunted by the mysterious death of his wife three years before. He carries with him the guilt of not being there to protect the one person who meant everything to him. He has buried his wife, but his heart refuses to accept that the body six feet under is hers. His obsessive search for her leads him deep into the trenches of covert ops—and everything is not what it seems.
Caitlin Kincaid has been on the run for a while. The sum of her memories began three years ago when she awakened with a broken arm and leg and a severe concussion. Hunted down by a secret group within the U.S. government, her companion persuades her to stay off the grid because of the standing kill order on their heads. One night, while fleeing assassins, she is left on the side of the road with a cryptic message: “It’s time for you to stop running. I’m not the one you love.”
When Travis receives news that the woman who has turned up at the American Embassy in Berlin could be his wife, he wastes no time getting to her. He is unprepared for the devastation that shreds him when Caitlin looks at him with no recognition in her eyes. Amnesia is a challenging enough obstacle for winning the love of his life back. But with lies defining the past three years of her life, Caitlin becomes wary of anyone’s help.
Love was never the problem. A marriage cannot survive without trust. As sinister forces threaten the bond they are trying to rebuild, trust must come quickly or one of them will die.
* Strong sexual content and language. Disturbing situations.
Review
Review By Heather
Travis’s life ended with the news of his
wife’s death. He spent years digging
into her death to find out the truth. Three years later he gets the news that
not only shocks him to his core but gives him reason to live again.
Caitlin cannot remember anything that
happened before three years ago. Suffering from amnesia, she has zero memories
from her old life…where her name was Sarah who was madly in love with her
husband, Travis.
It’s Always Been You is a tale of second
chances but what happens if that second chance is completely different from the
person they were the first time? A lot of sexual tension and a lot of drama.
Travis in a ex-navy SEAL and is the epitome
of alpha. He is demanding and hot and reading his struggles to rein it as to
not scare Caitlin away but to get her to
stay with him forever was really great. I felt like I understood him in a
sense.
Caitlin has no idea who Travis is and the
pain behind not knowing, learning who she used to be compared to who she thought
she was and finding a happy medium between the two was written so simply and
elegantly. I really loved Caitlin’s feistiness.
What I didn’t like about the book was that
some of the stuff we learned about Caitlin was hard to follow. All the government
agencies involved in bringing a certain group down and what her role in it was
at times was unclear.
The suspense in this book was pretty good.
Some of it I was sitting on the edge of my seat, while other parts were
predictable.
The romance was genuine and the sex was
hot. All in all I really enjoyed this book and give it a solid 4 stars.
4 Stars. . .Heather
Review By Leeann
This is a story about Travis who believes his wife Sarah is dead. Then one day 3 years later he gets a phone call telling him she is alive. He races to get to her only to find out she has amnesia & has absolutely no idea who he is. She also thinks her name is Caitlin Kincaid.
This story has a lot of action scenes that keep it interesting. Turns out Caitlin was an agent for a branch of the CIA & the Russian mafia are after her as they think she has their $100 million dollars.
Travis is fighting to keep her safe but at the same time trying to get her to fall in love with him again as he slowly comes to term with the fact she may not get her memory back at all.
I think the author is trying to have Travis come across as a protective alpha male, but in some parts I was just shaking my head thinking he was just plain mean & overbearing. Caitlin in some parts comes across as strong & determined but then in other parts she is like a complete doormat.
Travis’s bestie Nate is there to keep Travis in line for the most part, but he too cops the brunt of Travis’s unfounded jealously & anger.
Overall I could see where the author was trying to take the story, but for me It just didn’t quite get there.
4 Stars. . .Leeann
Meet Victoria Paige
I work as a freelance database administrator, and when I’m not geeking out, I write romantic suspense novels. I live in Richmond, Va—less than two hours away from Washington DC—so most of the settings of my books are in the nation’s capital—of course, I’m not averse to creating fictional towns and cities. ;)
When I’m not arguing with the alpha male characters in my head, I love to watch high-octane action movies. I think Jack Bauer is the shit, which is why most of my characters are such badasses bent on saving the world from evil doers.
I love reading adult contemporary, paranormal, urban fantasy, historical, romantic suspense, and a few new adult fiction as well as military non-fiction.
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