The epic conclusion to the Edge Series.
What kind of man would die to save his wife?
The only thing that ever stood between me and madness was my wife.
And now, she’s in trouble. She’s falling into the hole that almost ended me. The only thing standing between her and the fate I escaped is me.
But I have no expertise in this. No knowledge but what she taught me. I’m flying blind here….and every … blind here….and every moment that passes brings me closer to losing her.
She says I’m crossing the line, but she can draw a million lines around her and I’ll cross every single one to get to her, even if it destroys me.
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This is the conclusion of the EDGE SERIES!
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The Edge
Cutting Edge (free prequel)
Rough Edge
On the Edge
Broken Edge
Over the Edge
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I may be emotionally broken, but only in the best way. I truly loved this entire series. CD Reiss is a master!
Awesomely freakish ending to a wonderfully dark series!
Tables are turned on our couple. Camden has to see Grayson through her storm and try to be in his whole wide out the other side. Heart wrenching and painful as we watch Grey fall over and over while Caden tries to catch her. My stomach stayed tense and my heart broke so many times while they fought to purge her memory. Christine Riess knows exactly how to keep us glued to a story and this was Super glue! I wish we had more than 5 stars because I would give them all! Bravo!
Intense…. Dramatic…. ‘Over the Edge,’ is the highly anticipated conclusion to THE EDGE 4-part novella series. It kept me guessing about what was happening and what the finale outcome would be, until the very end.
Caden and Greyson are the protagonists that take centre stage throughout. I became highly engaged with the series, invested in them as a couple and interested in their individual histories.
Part 4 is the fallout from the dramatic **WHY DID SHE DO THAT??** event from part 3. The consequences are far reaching and, in the end, pivotal to the conclusion of the story that perhaps ultimately felt very slightly rushed towards the end and constructed to allow all the story pieces to fall into place. However, maybe this had to be the case to maintain the pacey, highly dramatic style of the narrative. The conclusion has certainly provided lots and lots of book chat with my fellow bookies.
Loaded with sexual scenes where the chemistry of the protagonists is palpable, I felt their passion, their love, their trust and their loyalty leaving no doubt that the main characters and their relationship is crafted perfectly with development and engaging personalities. A high-octane story that will keep readers guessing until the end.
Advance copy provided/ Reviewed voluntarily
With CD Reiss, I’m never completely sure she’s going to give me a happily ever after, at least not an easy one. Over the Edge took me on a nailbiting journey through the final pages of Caden and Greyson’s story. Oh, my heart!
I love that Ms Reiss makes me think and keeps me questioning what could possibly happen next. This story is intense and erotic, and everything I hoped it would be…
This is a series unlike anything else I’ve ever read. People say they hate to see a book end…well, I truly mean it with this one. 5 Stars!
Book one in this series introduces us to husband and wife team Greyson and Caden who met and fell in love while serving together in a military war zone and as they return home and try to adapt to civilian life. WOW I’m not sure words would be ever able to explain the intricate relationship between these two characters as they deal with PTSD and the ravages of war. The story line was so layered and intense that it had you on edge, enthralled and addicted through the whole book. The characters were so interesting and complicated and you just needed to know more. The sex was rough, hard and raw and may push the boundaries for some readers. I had this book on audiobook and the narrators Maxine Mitchell and Joe Arden deserve an Academy award for their portrayal of these two characters and the love they have for each other, this series was an absolutely brilliant insight into the depths of PTSD and what military personal have to face when they come home as forgotten casualties of war. This is a must read.
Loved the whole series!
So much happening in this book, a non-stop ride from start to finish. The completion of the story of Caden and Greyson was perfect. There was so much happening, some things took me a bit to comprehend, but it all came together in the end.
So the moment I was dreading has finally arrived. The review for the final installment of CD Reiss’ mind (and panty) melting series, The Edge. Dreading it mostly because the moment I post this review, this journey will be finally and irrevocably over, and I am just not ready to let this couple and their world go. Spending time in it has changed me – as a reader and a woman. I’ll never think about relationships quite the same way again. And that’s the way of CD Reiss – she changes your perspective in her own beautiful, raw, lyrical style.
The first three books have been driven by Greyson, the psychiatrist. Patiently guiding us through a slow, almost painful dissembling of a broken Caden while single handedly holding their marriage together as she finds a new side of herself. And their story unfolds much the same way a psychiatrist would deal with a patient, steadily and deliberately, the pacing and structure acting as an anchor for all of the emotional turmoil battering the St. John – Frazier marriage. Through that journey, Greyson manages to save him, and their love, creating a stronger, whole Caden thanks to the sheer force of her love and devotion. And at the end of Broken Edge she went to the brink to protect him. Her action was so impulsive it stretched the boundaries of devotion like a rubber band.
Now it’s Caden’s turn to step up to the plate. Can he save Greyson before her devotion snaps from the strain, breaking them both?
Just like the beast of a trauma surgeon that he was born to be, he does it – his way. He’s so perfectly wrought. The balance of his cool, surgical detachment and the deep well of emotion he’s finally allowed to reemerge rings so true. Still waters truly run deep and you get that sense on every page. His declarations of love are so soul wrenchingly matter of fact, they settle in your blood and bones. The feeling is so primal.
Over the Edge is “go time” and all Caden. Yes, we get Greyson’s story of buried pain and loss, but it’s like that moment when the monitors go haywire and the patient starts crashing. The time for patience and reflection is over. It’s time to cut. Find the bleeder and fix it. Ms. Reiss’ subtle brilliance shines through once again, using compartmentalized, spare plotting and an almost frenetic pace to recreate the “zone” a trauma surgeon steps into when he’s the only thing tethering his patient to their life and loved ones.
This series didn’t just live up to its promise, it exploded all of my expectations. It’s a stunning, operatic story that should be on every romance reader’s shelf. I’ve spent the last four months asking what did I just read? Now I’m screaming “I NEED MORE”.
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And we come to the end of the series, Over the Edge is the last book and the conclusion of the story of Greyson and Caden. After the final events of the previous book, where Greyson injects herself with Caden’s drug, we find that what was given to him was not placebo, and this unknown drug is largely responsible for the whole situation created so far, it was the responsible for bringing out all Caden’s personalities.
Greyson is suffering from the effects, and as much as she knows exactly what to expect, she already knows the symptoms, and finds that it will be easy to deal with, in fact she will find that her path will be much harder than she imagines. Her highest quality and pride is her sanity. With everything that happened to Caden, she kept her cool, stood by him and tried to help him, dealing with the best way possible. But now that she’s the one dealing with these effects of the drug, her ability to rationalize and be objective more and more is fading. What to do when the only thing that ground you, is being taken from you? Greyson is starting to get lost in herself.
Caden will have to be the force of the relationship at that moment. It will be up to him to support Greyson and not let her succumb. In the midst of war, Ronin’s suspect project, and all of Caden’s problems, these two will have no easy task. And Caden will be even more lost when Respite appears on the scene. He should search for a breaking point and bring Greyson back.
In that final volume Greyson will be tested. We will see that just like Caden, she also has past issues that are stifled and forgotten, but that need closure. Her sanity will be pushed to the limit, as will her love for Caden. To what extent will he be strong enough to make her see the light?
The great point of the whole work is all the love of these two. Greyson and Caden love each other, in a crazy, exaggerated, disturbed and deep way. The two of them survived it all because they were together. There is no way to question the degree of commitment of this couple. Greyson proved several times that she would do everything for her husband, the sky is the limit. Caden in this volume also shows how far he can reach to save the woman he loves.
Like its predecessors, this volume is filled with secrets, tension, many hot scenes and much drama involving the couple. It is difficult to review the book without spoilers, but I say again that it is worth reading. The Edge series is completely different from anything I’ve ever read, and once again CD Reiss did a brilliant job. Greyson and Caden may not be perfect, but they love each other without limits.
I loved this series. Twisted psychological love story.
This was the exciting conclusion to the Edge series. If you haven’t read the other 3 books you MUST read them first. This book left me wrung out so many emotions. If you like CD Reiss and why wouldn’t you you will Love this series.
This series was SO good!! CD Reiss outdid herself!
“Caden…
Whose love woke me so slowly, I didn’t realize I’d been sleeping.
Whose body is the source of my deepest aching need.” – Greyson
I am continually astounded by the remarkable and glorious writing of C. D. Reiss. The “Edge” series is a rich, sexy, entertaining and thought-provoking tour de force in my honest and most humble opinion. It is at the same time both sophisticated literature and dirty-dark popular romance. As you read this work, you can lose yourself in the searing sexuality and/or you can glimpse the author’s true brilliance…maybe a little of her lovely soul…filled with the promise that love does indeed matter and not only can… but ultimately will…conquer all.
What I ultimately received from reading this series were not only hours of entertainment pleasure but days of thinking about war, sacrifice, trauma, mental health, the nature of romantic love…the power of connection through sexual intimacy…the pain/pleasure dynamic. Tucked into the pages of this series in the narrative of the story told to us through the POVs of Caden and Greyson…between the lines even…are the author’s profound ideas beautifully expressed through the plot points as our characters weather the harrowing battlefields and the human misery of the war in Iraq, the agenda of a military contractor whose business is making money from war, a confused, zealot-like, rogue, psychological operations officer/contractor civilian, and the need to relive their own past personal traumas.
In this last book of the series, we learn more about Caden, as a whole person, and how deeply he feels his love for Greyson. We also begin to see how transformative her love for him has been.
“Before you, I was sure of everything. I had it all worked out. Now, because of you, I don’t know anything. I’m lost in my own life, and I love you for it.”
We also begin to appreciate how hard-won Greyson’s strength of character has been in her life. In her psyche’s effort to guard her sanity through significant trauma, we get an intimate glance at how all of us…in our frailty (or is it our strength?) as human beings, as a means to survive it, we psychologically tuck our trauma away…perhaps consciously forgotten…buried somewhere deep in our psyche. After a trauma or a life-changing event, we’re never the same person we were before. We are different…a different person. We also begin to understand more of Greyson’s motivations for joining the army. Her need to keep moving forward…despite trauma and loss. Maybe it was her need to be directed…even punished.
The exquisitely intense erotic lovemaking between Greyson and Caden is how healing is fought for and hard won by these two lovers…a sacred needed connection that touches and heals the psyche and personhood. No other means would have achieved healing…no one else could have saved either Caden and Greyson…only each other.
The writing is at times wonderfully close in…tense…filled with sounds and colored with a mood created brilliantly through words evoking the very atmosphere in which events occurred. The language is rhythmic and musical; at times the use of repeated words create a feeling of motion. I never once felt lost in a complex telling of the story. All the expressed introspection of the characters felt revelatory and exciting to read. I never felt an urge to skim. I wanted and read every word on the page.
I need to edit myself at this point. There are so many ideas this book sparked in my mind I really could go on and on. I will leave you with the most cherished idea I discovered in reading this final book. It is about the one certainty in all the questions, dilemmas, uncertainties and trauma life can bring so beautifully expressed through Caden’s words offering reassurances to Greyson…
“We were a promise the Universe made before we were born…
I knew it the first time I saw your face. You were a promise kept. I knew that if I let you go, I’d be breaking something bigger than me.”
What could be more worth rejoicing over or more positive or more full of light than the promise of love from the “Universe” or from in whomever… in whatever you happen to believe? And that this love…this promise is inevitable, bigger than us and immutable through the experiences of our life no matter how life leaves its mark on our personhood. This love was there before, now and will be there always.
I guess by now, you can tell just how much I recommend this series to you.
Two Favorite Quotes:
“You’re the one indisputable thing in my life…The only thing I live for. It’s you, baby. You’re gravity. You’re the sky. You’re the air. You’re the first breath in the morning and my dreams at night. I’m sure of you because you’re mine.”
“My wife never accepted a boundary. She’d have pushed a mountain across the desert for me. She wouldn’t give up when she saw a wall. She’d break it down, dig under it, climb over it, and conquer whatever was on the other side.”
I absolutely loved this series, it has been one of the best I’ve ready so far this year!
CD Reiss knows how to do her research well and she did an exceptional job with this series, especially with all the mumbo jumbo verbiage of the military. I was completely and utterly enthralled with this series.
Greyson’s character was one of the strongest heroine’s I’ve read this year. Talk about reverse psychology! She would do just about anything for her husband that’s how much she loved this man. The things they both went through, the hell and the ups and downs was just a roller coaster that felt like it was never stopping!
Every book in this series was intense and had so much going that it would leave me at the edge of my seat every time I would reach the end, but it was never far fetched for when the next book would hit my kindle and I would be immediately engrossed in their story again.
CD Reiss has done a magnificent job with this series and I applaud her for all her hard work and dedication to this series.
Over the Edge has been the best out of all four books, and that’s unusual for me to say because usually the first book or movie is always the best no matter what. But in this series, it just kept getting better and better as each book was released.
Over the Edge by CD Reiss is the perfect title for the conclusion of this series. This book was sexy, erotic, edgy, gritty, and full of surprises. It is definitely one of those reads that you devour in one sitting. Since I practically inhaled this book, I will just say Reiss will take you on one sinful erotic journey but at the same time an emotional one. All I can say is go read this book and series as Reiss showcases how far one goes to fight for their happily ever after.
What a PHENOMENAL read! With each installment of Greyson and Caden’s story I was pulled further and further into their complex and captivating story.
This series had been beyond any other story I have come across. The originality is unlike anything I’ve encountered. With an incredible combination of psychological and erotic components, Greyson and Caden face a situation that tests their love time and time again. And it’s absolutely exquisite to see the depths of their love and devotion as they help each other and fight to keep the one they love. Willing to sacrifice themselves for the other, they prove over and over the lengths they’ll go to.
This series is one of those you have to experience for yourself and among those most difficult to review…only for fear of giving anything away.
This series MUST be read in order to get the full story and TOTALLY worth every moment. I was engrossed, captivated and intrigued from beginning to end as I read this series conclusion in just one sitting!!!
Could not put down any of the books in this series!!
What a conclusion to a series. No one can take you on a rollercoaster like CD Reiss! Okay, so imagine you dropped your great grandmother’s favorite vase. All the pieces were broken, the jagged edges made you bleed where you touched them. You found gloves and did your best to put them all back together again with the lights out. It’s not the same, but the new piece is beautiful, different, but beautiful and you have this story. It’s a story about mental illness, the lasting horror of war on the psyche and love so fierce that it leaves you in yet another spiral. I loved this series, and CD Reiss for taking me on this journey. The last part of the book had me on the edge of my seat but lordy, when I reached the last page and could breathe again, I was insanely happy.
Highly recommend this series, start from the first book and work your way through, you won’t want to put the book you’re reading down and will have a fabulous book hangover at the end.
The last book in this series was very intriguing. Again, I’ll say I’ve never read a series quite like this. I enjoyed the mind trip that I was on for most of the series. Over the Edge took my on another journey that I didn’t see coming. If you are looking for something edgy, different and intense, then give this series a read.
The conclusion to the Edge Series is nothing short of prenominal. I have loved these characters from the first words, and seeing their story coming to an end was everything and more than I could’ve ask CD to give us. OTE had us on the flip side of what we’d experienced in the first three, where now Greyson has split and Caden is the one doing all he can to help his wife become whole again. I loved seeing this strong, determined loving side of him. I have to admit, it was so different seeing Greyson be the to struggle with her sanity and go through being different entities. But it was amazing seeing them come together and see that role reversal take place. This “love story” is so different than anything I’ve ever read, and once you start it, you simply just can’t stop!! People say in reviews all the time how it’s their “favorite book”, or “read of the year” but I can say without any doubt that this is mine and would be your “READ OF THE YEAR” if you just picked it up or downloaded it. Christine never ceases to amaze me with anything she writes, and The Edge Series is another testament to that. Happy Reading!