Winner! Best Indie Book Award in the Romance Category!!
The Romance Reviews Top Pick! 5-Star Review
“BROKEN EMBRACE is a story that is suspenseful. It has so many twists and turns that I had no idea what would happen, and when they did, I was just speechless. Ms. Mason’s characters and scenes are so vividly descriptive. Her writing is clear and focused, and the romance and the passion can be … passion can be felt in each word, in each look, in each embrace.”
~The Romance Reviews
5-Star Review
“As always, the writing is smooth, elegant and engaging. The characters are wonderfully complex, the “good guys” both flawed and lovable and the “bad guys” so subtly chilling they will make your skin crawl.”
~Lisa Regan, Author of the award winning thriller, Finding Claire Fletcher and Hold Still
5-Star Review
“Broken Embrace is a truly heart wrenching, suspenseful, insightful addition to the Embrace Series that will keep you saying ‘Just one more chapter’ until the book is done.”
~Katie Mettner, Author of the Sugar Series and The Northern Lights Series
BROKEN EMBRACE is book three in the EMBRACE SERIES
Promises Broken. Secrets Kept. Loved Renewed.
The Past…
As childhood sweethearts, Brian and Melissa’s plans were simple: finish school, get married, and live happily ever after. Unfortunately, life didn’t go as planned. Melissa went away to college, and Brian married her best friend.
The Present…
Seventeen years have passed and Brian’s stable family life has come crashing down around him. His wife’s a cheater, his teenage daughter is hiding things from him and Melissa is back in town to remind him of what he lost all those years ago.
Melissa’s returned home, ready to forgive and focus on her future, but that all changes the day she gets a desperate phone call from Brian’s daughter, Erin. Thrown back into Brian’s tumultuous life, Melissa struggles to move beyond the pain of his broken promise.
The Future…
While working together to save Erin from the evil web she’s caught in, Melissa and Brian fight to fix the past or face losing each other all over again.
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This is another terrific book in the Embrace Series, I couldn’t put it down. My emotions were all over the place while reading this book. The story is heartbreaking, heartfelt, and hopeful. The author expertly draws the reader in, while slowly building the suspense and anticipation. There is something for everyone in this story.
Author Dana Mason’s, Broken Embrace, is a double-barreled assault on both your heart and nerves. Simultaneously poignant and electrifying, this third installment in the Embrace Series catapults the reader into the characters’ heart-wrenching tale of first love, broken promises, and the ultimate betrayal. How else could you describe it when your best friend steals the man who promised to marry you?
Seventeen years later, Melissa finally returns home to face the man who shattered her heart and hopefully put the whole ordeal behind her. But while the pain feels as fresh as ever, the love has endured, and Melissa finds herself still pining for the one that got away.
The only way to heal for good is to stay away from Brian, but, as his idyllic life and marriage disintegrate, Brian’s teenaged daughter drags Melissa back in, desperately seeking her help when she’s snared in a scandalous web of danger and duplicity. It’s all too much as Brian struggles to cope with his wife’s deception and unexpected death, while also confronting his unresolved feelings for Melissa and his daughter’s hellish ordeal.
Seduced by Mason’s dynamic prose and emotional sensitivity, Broken Embrace effortlessly engages the reader into a vortex of pain and treachery, of enduring love and unfulfilled dreams, of hope and second chances, while dealing with every woman’s greatest fear and every man’s worst nightmare. And yet, the story, steeped in reality and authenticity, manages to deftly maneuver the reader into the land of happily-ever-after. This book will strike fear in your heart while it wrings out every emotion. Do not even think of missing it.
A story of lost love and a second chance to get it right, it has suspense which keeps the story interesting. It was a very complex read for me leaving me torn between Melissa and Brain getting their second chance but what about his family. Yes his wife cheated but for the love they started with that make their children isn’t it work trying to work out. The children always seem to get the worst end. I loved the twists and turn which held my attention as well as how the author played out the plot with the bad guys. The picture I had in my mind was very chilling.
What it must be like to love a man with all your heart and him you only to have him marry your best friend. As the years go by you come to forgive the best friends and be there for her and her children but you just can’t bring yourself to reconnect to the man you have only loved. Fast forward a few years to find that friend cheated on her husband and being there for the children when the fall out comes.
Brian is a wonderful father and husband he is a cop and that does take a lot of his time. He is devastated when he finds out his wife is cheating. There are only so many choices you can make. With a little help from his ex he knows he must be there for his children. As things happen he finds he still has feeling for his ex.
It is truly a heart wrenching read with the reader being torn so many ways. The suspense is great at times I was left holding my breath to see the outcome. I really enjoyed the story and the characters but still feel a little torn over a family breaking up and two old loves coming back together. I did like how the author laid out the plot for Erin and Cody the outcome very much affected them. Erin’s struggle is just heartbreaking and really pulls on your heart strings. I thought it was a great story that I enjoyed very much. I thought a lot of thought went into the writing, it was well laid out and a very touching read