Will they be able to mend the rift left after their years apart or will pride cost them all ...Mrs Wendy LaCapra has a wide palette with which she paints complex characters with many layers.From Rayne to Julia, none is easy to comprehend fully at first glance. Themselves are ambivalent about their own desires. One moment they doom the other to hell, and the following minute they want to hold tight the second.Julia was very young when she first was attracted to Rayne, then he left. But since, never a man was able to rise her interest like he.But when they meet again, she herself is unable to decide if she wants him in the lions’ den or to embrace her.Rayne knows he has reacted under anger, why he left with no wish to return.But for his sister’s weeding he is back, and ready to apologize before his definitive departure.It was without counting on the meddling influence of his only remaining friend.Their relationship is like oil and water, when in closed space, all their discussions turn to a battle field and up to them to mend fences.There is no doubts, except for them about their feelings but they keep so many things unsaid or under strict contrôle, their trust is not easily won.Rayne seing himself as unworthy of Julia is their biggest challenge, while he lusts after her, he thinks of little else, therefore when the passion quiets a little, he is unable to see the end of the tunnel.My only complain is I would have liked a bit more details about their past issues as they are what shaped them. All along the story, I grabbed the main for Julia, still I did not really captured Rayne’s so intense dislike of his childhood home.Why I felt I missed something about Rayne’s anger and Julia’s nightmares.I do not know if it is because I haven’t read the first book in this series.Yet, Mrs LaCapra delivered a touching tale of the damages miscommunications and distrust can bring, and sometime you must overstep society’s bounds to go after what you hold dear in your heart.« “Anything worth having is worth some inconvenience.” »As it may prove, only a little boost might help reveal what was hidden deep in one’s heart.« You aren’t a battle I’m going to win. “What am I, then?” “You’re the life I choose to live.” »4.5 stars for this se and chance tale.I was granted an advance copy by the publisher Entangled through Netgalley, and purchased my own.Here is my true and unbiased opinion.