Have you ever wondered if regret will imprison you, or does it set us free as the truth does?
Regret was the one thing I had. It owned my charred black soul. That emotion was digging so deep into my bones like a deadly disease.
I hid it well. Let people believe I was a kind man.
I’m far from one. I’m brash, bold, and angry at the curveball life has thrown at me.
My saving grace came in the … me.
My saving grace came in the form of a tiny bundle wrapped in pink. My daughter.
The day I learned I’d raise her on my own, was the day I kept the only vow I didn’t intend to break. I wasn’t letting a woman in my bed or my heart. There wasn’t room for one with my daughter owning one half and a woman I let slip through my fingers holding onto the other without her knowing it.
I kept that vow until now.
She’s back.
The one that owns the other half of my heart.
She’s carrying more pain than she left with, I can see it in her eyes. I should never have let her go, and now my regret is here, facing me head-on.
I made a mistake, one I plan to rectify.
I am a Mitchell, after all. I’ll stop at nothing to get what I want.
Her.
I have to prove to her that there will be no more broken promises, show her that my heart, the half I gave to her so long ago, is still hers.
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Abrupt by Kathy Coopmans is a powerful rollercoaster of emotions ride that you don’t want to stop nor do you want to get off!! Lane and Sienna’s story will leave you completely breathless due to all the twists and turns and larger than life characters. This story will start off with almost destroying me with the heartbreak but slowly puts me back together with Lane and Sienna’s 2nd chance romance. What a sizzling, heated, deliciously mafia dark romance. Ms. Coopmans has written a story that will hook you from start so get the tissues handy because Abrupt is intense, twisted, powerful, emotional, heartbreaking, lies, intrigue, raw, gritty, secrets, forbidden, steamy, tempestuous, forgiveness, healing, hope and love- this is for me what is Abrupt. A Must Read romance!!
My Rating: 4.8 stars *****
Just give me a minute *pats self down. Oh yeah, that’s what I did with them! Before starting a Kathy Coopmans book, I wholeheartedly, without hesitation, hand over my heart, my ability to breathe and all other vital organs! This author said that she put her soul into this book and honestly, I believe she does that with every one of her books. She most definitely takes my heart and soul and then hands them back, admittedly abit battered and stitched up, at the end of each of her books. And I bloody love her for it!!
With every virtual page turned, the emotions build and pour off the pages, burrowing under your skin, seeping into your bones and your very soul. What Sienna and Lane go through is heart breaking, it floats in the air like an invisible cloud, sucking all the air from around you as you read this book. Both battle with feelings of guilt, remorse, anger, what-ifs, it’s enough to bury anybody but together they are strong. Will they be able to forgive themselves and each other before its too late?
This book took everything from me and I mean everything! I have cried that much, I am dehydrated! Pass me the wine!
I have said before and I will say again, who needs vital organs and the ability to breath whilst reading a Kathy Coopmans book? #oxygenisoverrated
A Devastatingly Beautiful Romance 5 Stars!
A regretful action of youth brings on the consequences of a lifetime.
No one can imagine the heightened sense of anticipation that I had going into this book. Ms Coopmans had stated she’d broken her own heart in writing this book, and TBH, I was so scared, and I’d put off reading this book until the last minute. Even in the current restricted environment, I’d hoarded paper towels to sob into in preparation for this moment and damn right too, she broke my heart in the Prologue!!! The emotions of hurt and loss were that strong, it’s almost as though Ms Coopmans reached up from the virtual pages of my device and tore my heart from my chest, ripping my tear ducts along with it.
It’s a story of a love that was forbidden, and hidden, and seared so deep into the souls of its’ victims, yes victims of birth and circumstance, as to leave a scar forever. And, it was all over and done when Kathy Coopmans brought me to the start of their story.
Regret /rɪˈɡrɛt/ verb 1.feel sad, repentant, or disappointed over. This is the life that Lane Mitchell had led since that one action that lead the love of his life to marry another man. I felt that soul deep regret emanate from the pages as he told of his debauched aimless life until the moment, he found out he was going to be a father to a baby girl. He made her such a beautiful promise of commitment to her as a father that I absolutely fell in love with the man, even as I hadn’t forgiven him for the action that had driven Sienna away. I loved his character as he described keeping the darkness of his life within the mafia away from the beautiful angelic life force that was his daughter.
Consequences /ˈkɒnsɪkw(ə)ns/ noun 1.a result or effect, typically one that is unwelcome or unpleasant. For the last 10 years, Sienna’s life has been one of dealing with the fallout of that decision to marry a within her father’s organisation. While Lane lived with the regret of his actions in driving Sienna away, her consequences I have no words for. All I can say is that Ms Coopmans has dealt with some pretty heavy subject matter in the best way that I know she does so well. Sienna is a woman on the edge, hanging onto sanity by a thread, but I absolutely admired the element of strength that was woven into her character. She had so much to survive for.
What I loved most about this book is the theme of unconditional love and family. Seriously, I was glued to this book, loving it, even as my heart was broken for the pain these characters were being put through by the gifted mind of Kathy Coopmans. What an epic love story this was, and I can see that it can’t have been an easy one to write, because oh holy hell, at times it wasn’t easy to read. There were times I just had to step away and breathe. That being said, I would absolutely hand on heart recommend this book to all and sundry. Hell’s teeth, do not miss out on this book, it’s one you have to read and experience. Unfortunately, 5 Stars in the highest that these ratings go!