Skye Sullivan and Trace Weston had been young lovers when they were both in the Foster Care system together. They had also been the first loves of the other. Skye was training to be a dancer, and was very good at it. Trace eventually left her, however, because he knew Skye would never see to her dreams of being a dancer if he stayed with her. He runs off to join the military, and Skye pursues a career in dance. Ten years later, Skye's dancing career is over after a horrific car accident, and Trace is the mysterious and extremely rich owner of a Security and Protection firm.
Scared and broke, Skye turns to Trace for help when an obsessed stalker won't leave her alone. The stalker has followed her from New York to Chicago, and has broken into her apartment numerous times. Now the incidents are escalating, and she is terrified. Skye can feel herself being watched at times, and she also feels that Trace is the only man who can keep her safe. Trace personally takes over her protection rather than assigning the case to one of his agents, and their long dormant love affair immediately takes off. In between searching for Skye's stalker and intense sex scenes, the pair interview old lovers and deal with a threat to Skye's sanity. Whoever her stalker is, it is someone who knows her well, even intimately. Both Skye and Trace have darkness in their pasts, and secrets they are keeping from the other. There is also an intriguing twist in the story that made a rather routine plotline stand out.
There are a few issues with the plot. Trace dominates Skye; and is obsessive and jealous of her former lovers to the point that it is a bit creepy. Also, the stalker trope is a bit overdone. The biggest concern is that the story is rather dΓ©jΓ vu in places. Not only is Trace an extremely rich businessman under the age of thirty; there are several scenes that readers will have seen a version of in any number of erotic romances lately. It detracts a bit from the story that it lacked originality; but the fact that it is much better written than most, and doesn't have a storyline that stretches out to three or more books weighs heavily in the story's favor.
MINE TO TAKE is a very good story in a heavily over-saturated market of these kinds of books; and is more enjoyable and better written than most. Author Cynthia Eden is much more well-known for her work in Paranormal Romance and Romantic Suspense; but this jaunt into the world of erotic suspense suits her just fine. This is a recommended read for fans of this genre; and for fans of Eden's work in general.
Sometimes you want someone so much... Sometimes you need someone so much... Lust can become love. And love can turn into a deadly obsession. *** Skye Sullivan knows that someone is watching her. Not just watching—stalking her. Months ago, Skye was involved in a dangerous car accident. The accident ended her dancing career and sent her fleeing back to Chicago. Skye is convinced that her stalker caused the crash, and she fears that he won't stop pursuing her, not until she's dead. When someone breaks into her apartment in Chicago, Skye turns to the one man she believes can protect her—Trace Weston. Once, Trace was her lover. Two lost souls, they'd come together in a firestorm of need and desire. But then Trace had pushed her away. He'd joined the military, vanishing from her life. She'd put all of her emotion into dancing, and she'd tried to forget him. Now Trace is one of the most successful men in the United States. Rich, driven, and carrying dark secrets, he agrees to help Skye. He'll protect her from the danger that lurks in the darkness, but Trace wants more than to just be a guard for Skye. He wants her. And he'll take her. The years have changed him, hardened him. He's not just a poor kid from the streets any longer. Now, he can have anything—or anyone—that he wants. And the one woman he has always wanted has just come back into his life. He won't let her go again. But with the threats mounting against Skye, she suspects that her stalker may be intimately close. He's a man who knows her too well. As his attacks grow ever more dangerous, she realizes that if she trusts the wrong man, she could be making a fatal mistake. Lust. Love. Obsession. Just how far would you go in order to possess the one person you want the most?
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