Within Temptation by Tanya Holmes

I received this book as a gift from the author for an honest review.

Tanya Holmes is a gifted writer. She has a way with words that made me sigh at times.

Trace Dawson has had a hard life. Poor and abused as a child, thrown in jail for a murder he didn’t commit. An awful family, life just doesn’t get much harder. Yet, with Shannon, he was soft, loving, giving and supportive.

Shannon’s life wasn’t much better, even though she never wanted for anything. That is anything monetary. She wanted the love of a mother who was incapable of loving anyone. She wanted the love of the boy who she thought was lost.

This is the story of each of them meeting again, facing the demons of their past and wanting to forge a future together despite the odds.