"Highly emotional story told in first-person from all three viewpoints of a triangular relationship."

Before Marine recruiter Brice Matthew met Mia, he and Christian, his best friend since childhood, were considered players, dating a different woman every night. But the day Brice met Mia, the attraction was instantaneous. Within the 30 days of Brice's vacation, they fell in love and got married.

Christian was left on his own after his buddy got married and settled down. For a while, he continued his womanizing ways, but soon decided he needed to take a break. Whenever Brice would leave town on business, he'd ask Christian to keep Mia company and out of trouble. Christian was more than willing to spend time with his new friend.

It didn't take long for Mia to discover that Brice was a very controlling man. The clothes she wore before she met him were no longer allowed, and he never wanted her to leave the house unless she was with him or Christian. When she went back to school to get her teaching degree, Brice was not a happy man.

Then Brice started getting physically abusive. He promised to never do it again, and Mia swore if he ever laid a hand on her again, she'd leave him. Christian just couldn't believe his best friend would hit his wife. She's everything a man could want in a wife.

After several years of being controlled and smacked around, things really get out of control. During one volatile incident, things are said and done between Mia, Brice and Christian that can never be taken back. Now serious decisions need to be made.

This story is told completely in first person, and it's very emotional from all three viewpoints. It's a lesson for all women to learn, and I really liked reading this book.

Reviewed by Tammie Ard
Posted September 20, 2004

Here's a straight-up novel about men and women, sex and betrayal, and playing the fool for love. Mia is a hopeless romantic who dreams of getting married and settling down with the man who could make that dream come true. Brice has his own ideas about love. He wants a woman willing to surrender everything and he thinks he's found her in Mia. Then again, so has Christian, who likes love to last just as long as the night takes. Now he's met an angel with the power to turn him around. Unfortunately she's married to his best friend.