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From Ashes

From Ashes, April 2013
by Molly McAdams

HarperCollins
Featuring: Gage; Caddisy Jameson; Tyler
ISBN: 0062267728
EAN: 9780062267726
Kindle: B009NF6IJA
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"A Heartbreaking Love Triangle"

Fresh Fiction Review

From Ashes
Molly McAdams

Reviewed by Susan Dyer
Posted June 16, 2013

Romance Contemporary

Cassidy Jameson has had so much heart ache in her life.  FROM ASHES will break your heart as you read about all she has endured in her short life.   She was abused  on a daily basis by her drunken mother and step father since she was six years old.  Some days she couldn't even get off the floor. That is where Ty would find her and he would carry her home to his house and have his father stitch her up.  Tyler is  her next door neighbor and his father is a doctor.  This went on for eleven years until Ty was moving to Texas to attend college and took Cassi away with him.

They move in with Ty's cousin Gage Carson and Cassidy's life is never the same. On the night after they first got there, Gage notices all the bruises on Cassidy's back and freaks out on Ty.  How could he let this continue to happen? Why didn't he tell the police? Why did he let her stay with them? Ty tells him that Cassidy begged him each and every time not to tell. If he told, they would take her away and she would lose Ty, the only person who has ever taken  care of her.  Gage is instantly taken with Cassidy and even though he thinks Ty and Cassidy are a couple, he can't help his attraction to her.  All he wants to do is protect her and make sure no one else ever hurts her again.

Ty sabotages Gage's efforts to get to know Cassidy and get closer to her.   Ty tells Gage to back off, she is his. Gage has a temper andTy  thinks he is going to hurt her.  All Ty has ever done is protect and take care of her.  He isn't going to let Gage get near her, but Cassidy feels the same attraction as Gage does and no matter how hard they try, they can't fight it.    From the second they saw each other, they have wanted to be together.  Will Ty loosen the hold he has on Cassidy and let her become involved with Gage? You are going to have to read FROM ASHES to find out. 

I was absolutely sucked in to FROM ASHES. I could not put this book down until I read the very last page.  Molly has a way of doing that to you.  She goes right to your heart and squeezes and doesn't let go until the end.  I was so caught up in all the characters lives and fell in love with Gage right away.  Cassidy has been lost since she was six and her  Dad passed away.  Ever since, her world has been such a mess.  This book is all about  life's lessons and letting go of the past.  Can someone ever be happy again after going through so much heartache?   FROM ASHES will stay with you long  after you finish reading it.

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SUMMARY

hen Cassidy Jameson's best friend Tyler took her to Texas with him when he left for college, she was expecting his cousin, their new roommate, to be a Stetson-wearing cowboy since his family owned a ranch; not this incredibly gorgeous guy with a husky Southern drawl that seemed to make the world stop whenever she looked at him. Because of her past, she's only ever trusted two men in her life, Tyler and her dad whom passed away when she was six. But there's something about Gage that draws her to him in a way she can't explain, only problem? He's always telling Tyler that he doesn't want Cassidy living there and sees her as nothing more than his little sister. Gage Carson was excited his cousin Tyler was coming to live with, and go to college with him. When he'd called to ask if he could bring his friend Cassi with him, Gage didn't care. Gage had heard about this mysterious friend since they were kids and felt like he already knew her. Nothing would prepare him for watching her jump out of Ty's Jeep though. Not only was Cassi the most beautiful girl he'd ever seen, but there was something about her that within seconds of meeting her, made Gage want to protect her, and make her his. Too bad Tyler made it a point to remind Gage on a daily basis that he was dating her and she was completely off limits. For a year and a half, Gage and Cassidy dance around their feelings for each other as Tyler continues to keep them apart; until one day Tyler unknowingly pushes her right into Gage's arms. With Tyler unable to keep lying to them, they finally start a relationship both have been craving since their first meeting. But when an accident and disaster sends her back to Tyler and California, will Cassidy be able to come face to face with the demons from her past to live a life she and Gage deserve; or will the fact that she once again ran to Tyler be the final push that ends Cassidy and Gage for good?


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