From the bestselling author of the Vengeful Love series, Laura Carter, comes a new, darkly passionate, second chance romance.Their past will become their future. Their scars will be reopened.Clark Layton has the world at his feet. He is the CEO of one of the largest oil companies in the world and he has a fiancée most men would kill for. Then why, the night before his wedding, is he still … is he still thinking about everything he lost when he walked out on Dayna Cross?
Dayna didn’t intend to take the helm of Subsea Petroleum. But events beyond her control left her no choice. And she can handle it, mostly. She can juggle the long hours, the chauvinistic men, and a broken heart. What she can’t deal with is Clark Layton swanning back into her life and threatening to break down her walls.
They are rival CEOs and they are in a dogfight for a lucrative new pipeline. But as truths of their past begin to surface, business won’t be the biggest battle they enter into.
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This was a fabulous read!
“It wasn’t about other women at all. It was about one devastating woman.”
Clark Layton and Dayna Cross are both CEOs of their families’ respective oil companies. They also have some intense history between them. Clark has hurt Dayna immensely in the past, and now she hates him. However, when he calls off his wedding hours before the ceremony, it throws Dayna for a loop.
“My one and only regret was listening to my own doubts, bowing to my father once again, and walking away from Dayna.”
Aside from their past history, there’s also plenty going on in the present with their businesses, as well as their hearts, as bit by bit, stunning secrets from the past are revealed, and everything Clark and Dayna thought to be true is called into question.
“The man I fell in love with four years ago. The man who tore my heart to shreds, not one time but two. The man who manages to break another piece of me, no matter how small, every time I hear his name”
Dayna is driven and stubborn, but Clark is definitely her Achilles heel. Clark has been under his father’s thumb for so long, until one defining moment when he realises that the woman he wants forever with is not the woman he was engaged to. His past behaviour means that he has his work cut out in winning Dayna back for good.
This was a well-rounded story with a brilliant plot, hot scenes, and great characters. It’s written with so much feeling – scorching chemistry, plenty of passion, as well as anguish. Loved it!
I went into reading this book not knowing the author or even what the book was about. All that I knew when I agreed to read and review this book was that my dear friend Kelsey Burns recommended that I read it, and if you know Kelsey and are smart you take all of her recommendations seriously. And was I ever pleasantly surprised; this was one of the better books that I have read in a long while that has come from an unknown, newbie author. Laura Carter sure does know how to wield her pen; the words in this story were so beautifully strewn together and brought to life on paper.
The story was about two CEO rivals (Clark Layton and Dayna Cross) that have a deep connection and a troubled history together. Clark was engaged to a beautiful woman from a good family, but he left her the day before his wedding because he was still hung up on the woman that stole his heart.
Dayna had one thing on her mind for the last few years, and that was to revive her father’s oil company and show all of those businessmen that she would succeed and surpass them all in the man’s world of the oil business. There was only one major problem with her plan, the man that took and broke her heart and then ran-away as her entire world shattered around her…Clark Layton.
I am so very happy that Kelsey suggested that I read this sweet little gem. This definitely was a rare one of a kind story. I honestly cannot wait to see what Laura Carter will bring to the table in the future.