From award-winning author, Freya Barker comes the complete set of her Portland, ME series. Including Kindle Book Award Finalist – From Dust.Four Friends—Four Women—Four Stories Celebrating Resilience, Redemption, and Rebirth!Start these poignantly heart-stirring tales of loss, intrigue, friendship and love TODAY!*****“FROM DUST”:Pain punished her… punished her…
The bottle numbed her…
Guilt kept her trapped…
In the dark alley of a pub, she tentatively grabs on to the slim thread of hope that unfolds inside of her.
He never expected the shadow of a woman he finds in his bar, to bring him the air and the light he’s been missing.
*****
“CRUEL WATER”
Innocence marked her…
Violation crippled her…
Love left her raw…
The life she carefully rebuilt is challenged when she is faced with her past, leaving her exposed and vulnerable.
No stranger to hiding pain, he questions his own rules of detachment, as the feisty blonde with old pain marring her clear-blue eyes, gets under his skin.
*****
“THROUGH FIRE”
Violence corroded her…
Obedience defiled her…
Fear kept her chained…
Freedom is hard to embrace when she’s never learned to trust or known friendship. Yet she finds herself surrounded by people who accept her as she is.
He likes his life predictable and uncomplicated, but the moment he looks into a pair of liquid brown eyes, all control is gone.
*****
“STILL AIR”
Deprival haunted her…
Regret troubled her…
Silence left her detached…
She soothes her personal hell by pulling victims from theirs, helping them on their path to survival; never finding her own.
When he finds his family slipping through his fingers, he calls on the one person who has the ability to heal and the power to break him: the woman who sees right through him.
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This review is going to be short and straight to the point. These books are amazing! They’re about real women and their real life problems. These women are the ones we wish were our sisters, our best friends. Grab this box set, block off a week or so, and read read read!
Wow! I absolutely loved every one of these books! The characters were so real, each having their own individual faults or insecurities. I loved watching these couples come together in their own way and their own time and in the process finding healing and love along the way.
Fast paced and well written, each one will pull you into the story as you fall in love with not only the hero and heroine but the amazing secondary characters as well. The steam level is sizzling but it’s the emotions that’s the real gem of these stories.
Highly recommend each and every one of them!
These books all dealt with serious issues but I couldn’t put them down. These characters drew me in and I didn’t want the series to end.
Favorite Quotes:
“I used to think I was dropped off by aliens when I was little and a bit over-imaginative. I can see why now. They are like something from a different planet, aren’t they?”… “Uranus, more than likely.”
Amazing how my brothers can’t find a pair of clean socks to save their lives, but put them in a strange house and they easily find the kitchen.
Sometimes I don’t like Pam, particularly when her arguments start to make sense. But most of the time I appreciate her brutal honesty – I just prefer it directed at someone else.
Kissing this man is a full body experience, with every one of my senses fully engaged. Except perhaps my common sense.
My jawline is definitely softening, and I don’t even want to get going on what’s happening under my original chin. Since I discovered a long hair where it most definitely does not belong, I’ve avoided getting too close to a mirror.
My Review:
Engrossing, sensual, heartbreaking, emotive, evocative, eventful, dramatic, frighteningly accurate… these are just a few of the adjectives that flit through my addled mind while I attempt to describe Freya Barker’s body of work. She writes people I would like to know and now resides on my must read/must have/will surely die without it list. She excels at writing compelling, relevant, and life-affirming stories. Her emotive and thoughtful stories have never failed to squeeze my cold heart or remind me that there are far worse things occurring in this world than my petty nonsense.
Her stories are expertly crafted, well plotted and detailed, deeply moving, highly intriguing, and totally consuming. She seems to have a special gift for providing endearingly flawed characters that feel inadequate and weak in themselves, yet are undeniably strong in that they were capable of coming out of the worst types of devastation and tragedy that would have ruined even the best of us. In addition to that awe-inspiring ability, she also magically conjures the perfect swoon-worthy partner to support, heal, and complete their recovery and transformation from fractured to whole. And along the way – she tosses in lots of sensual sizzle, a tender romance, and typically a bickering pair or two for periodic comedic relief. Impressive and highly addicting – to say the least!