Synopsis
Anniversaries are usually occasions worth celebrating, but when your fourth wedding anniversary is also the first anniversary of your husband’s death, you’ll only want to drink your sorrows away. And that’s exactly what Phoenix Nightingale does.
In the small town of Breckshire Wyoming, everybody knows everybody, so when Evan Tyler walks into the same bar she’s drowning her grief in, Phoenix knows that he’s new in town. What she doesn’t know is that he’s just moved in a few houses down from her and is about to try his hardest to break through the wall she’s had up for a year.
Phoenix has experienced a tragedy that nobody ever wants to experience. In the year following her husband’s death, she’s had what her parent’s considered embarrassing public meltdowns, and lost some friends along with her career. Just as she feels she’s at her very lowest, Evan barges into her life, forcing her to get out of the house and look at life a little differently.
He vows to help her, encouraging her to rise from the ashes and live once again. Evan doesn’t know that just by being in her life, he’s bound to send her into a tailspin, because both of them are keeping things from each other, and Phoenix may not be strong enough to handle what she finds out.
Will she pull him into the dark with her, or will he be able to resurrect Phoenix, freeing her from the depths of her depression, and show her that surviving isn’t the same as living?
In the small town of Breckshire Wyoming, everybody knows everybody, so when Evan Tyler walks into the same bar she’s drowning her grief in, Phoenix knows that he’s new in town. What she doesn’t know is that he’s just moved in a few houses down from her and is about to try his hardest to break through the wall she’s had up for a year.
Phoenix has experienced a tragedy that nobody ever wants to experience. In the year following her husband’s death, she’s had what her parent’s considered embarrassing public meltdowns, and lost some friends along with her career. Just as she feels she’s at her very lowest, Evan barges into her life, forcing her to get out of the house and look at life a little differently.
He vows to help her, encouraging her to rise from the ashes and live once again. Evan doesn’t know that just by being in her life, he’s bound to send her into a tailspin, because both of them are keeping things from each other, and Phoenix may not be strong enough to handle what she finds out.
Will she pull him into the dark with her, or will he be able to resurrect Phoenix, freeing her from the depths of her depression, and show her that surviving isn’t the same as living?
5 stars
Holy wow …. You talk about a punch to the gut story that is so realistic. Resurrecting Phoenix is an incredible and emotional story of a woman who lost in the most horrific way you can imagine. Not only did she lose but her world collapsed on her anniversary.
Phoenix should be celebrating her fourth anniversary except she is drowning ... she is numbing the pain of what should be a beautiful day ... instead she is trying to drink the pain away of the first anniversary of her husbands murder. From tragedy Phoenix sinks deeper into a darkness filled with poisoning herself nightly with alcohol. She talks to no one except Carol. Max watches out for her but her parents; they moved away after her “embarrassing public melt downs that affect their social status.” Phoenix has been brutal to her best friend Marissa. She still has her husband. Anthony was supposed to protect Gordon. He lived; her husband didn’t.
Evan moves into town and is mysterious. He doesn’t pressure Phoenix. Its almost like he is an angel sent from Gordon. This character is something else. Evan wants to be friends with Phoenix. He sees her pain but doesn’t push, he shows her she can enjoy again even if it’s the little things. The determination and the care all wrapped up in this man is just wow.
Lucero has created remarkable and unparalleled characters. They are REAL. I love that. These are not perfect people; you can feel their pain, their joy and we know as readers that connection is something we stand up and cheer for. Emotions are RAW in this story. The story flows easily yet painfully. Survival …. EXCELLENT READ! Grab this up friends. You will not regret it.
I received an ARC for an honest review. Thank you Isabel Lucero!
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