The Wrong Drive by Annie Wild

My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Welcome to a holiday from hell. 

Emersyn 
All I want is a secluded getaway.
Instead, I get a wrong turn, a fortnight blizzard, and…
A malevolent, enticing, and unstable stranger. 
Merry Christmas to me.
Here’s to unwrapping his insanity…
And trying not to lose mine.

Turner
I come here when I lose my grip.
I come here so I can wreak havoc alone.
Instead, I get an unplanned and unwanted gift.
How dare she show up.
She doesn’t belong here…
But now, I’m not sure I can let her go.

The Wrong Drive

Awesome!

The following ratings are out of 5:
Romance: 💚🖤❤️💜🩵
Heat/Steam: 🔥🔥🔥🔥
Story/Plot: 📕📗📙📘📔
World building: 🌏🌍🌎🌏🌍
Character development: ☹️☺️😊😍🥰

The Hero: Turner – he is former special forces who suffers from severe PTSD. He got a dishonorable discharge for liking killing too much. For the past decade, he has been living in his family hunting cabin in the remote Colorado wilderness. He has a dog named Gunnar that was given to him by his older brother. His dog alerts him when he has a PTSD episode and helps to bring him out of the past and back to the present. He only goes into town for groceries about once a month because he hates crowds and people.

The heroine: Em – she is some sort of writer who has been dating a guy named Adam for the past three years. She is driving from Oklahoma to Colorado to spend the holidays alone with him at a cabin to try to get their failing relationship back on track. Though when she is nearly there, she gets a call from her best friend who tells her Adam thinks things are over between them and is only spending the holidays with her, so his friends think he tried to make things work.

The story: when the light snow turns into a blizzard, and Em gets in to fight with Adam over the phone, and breaks up with him, her GPS takes her in the wrong direction then completely freezes. She ends up spinning out and getting stuck in Turner’s driveway. She is forced to spend the next few days with the man who shot at her when he found her trespassing on his property.

I actually really liked this one and wished it would have been longer. Turner was definitely a complicated guy. He had been through a lot in his life and was mentally damaged from the lasting effects. When he would have a flashback, he would black out and become very dangerous to anyone around him. Not that he wasn’t already dangerous when he was in his normal state of mind. His story is so tragic that you can’t help but feel for him (as did Em). You can see why she was so conflicted about him. The book is a novella at only 190 pages, but they are packed with a really good story.

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