"Run to me Amy, not away," Liam Stone
Amy Benson is on the run. From what, we do not know. From the moment you begin the first paragraph, you know that whatever it is is something terrible. She is uprooted from the life she has built in New York and moved to Denver. Ms. Jones does a wonderful job of showing Amy's fear, paranoia, and distrust of everyone around her... until she lays eyes on Liam Stone in a crowded airport terminal.
Their connection is immediate. Tangible. Despite her fear that everyone around her could be a threat, she feels that she can trust Liam. She has not trusted anyone in years, save for the man she calls her "handler" and even he she does not fully trust. And yet in Liam's bright blue eyes, she finds a kinship and despite her own back-and-forth with herself of whether or not she can trust Liam, she does finally let him in.
As the book progresses, you begin to wonder how much is Amy's own mind hiding from herself. She suffers from blackouts, where she has flashbacks of her previous life. She has been on the run since she was eighteen years old. All she remembers about her REAL life is that her parents were killed in a fire. During one of her flashbacks, she recalls her brother calling out for her, "Amy!" Only her name then was Lara.
Through it all is Liam. He never pressures her to answer any questions about her past and that causes her trust in Liam to grow. His trust allows her to feel like she can take back control of her own life, despite the fact that she does not even know what exactly it is she's running from! When she finally feels ready to let him in and allow him to go along for the ride of figuring out her own life, she finds out information that causes her to question whether her trust in Liam has been misplaced.
The book ends with a cliffhanger and her final words:
"I'm not running at all Liam," I whisper. I'm going back to Texas.
I adored this book. I fell in love with Liam the moment I met him. I truly hope that his initial attraction to Amy was real and not his way of keeping an eye on her. I feel like his feelings towards Amy are true and that his inverted triangle tattoo are proof that Amy can trust him and not some terrible coincidence. The author does a wonderful job at allowing the reader to really connect with the characters and giving us all a taste of the confusion that comes with not knowing who to trust or where to go. I cannot wait to read Ms. Jones' conclusion for Amy in Infinite Possibilities!
(ARC provided by NetGalley for an honest review.)
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