
Their love is a slowburn littered with fear and uncertainty but also new love and hope. Her brother and his fiancée are the only constant friends she has.Īfter 2 years, she finds Tyler and they strike an unlikely friendship. Her parents obviously don't know how to handle her bad experince and pretty much abandon her in that facility. She is so innocent and sincere and still believes in fairytales. In a lot of ways, Holly is still stuck in her 5 year old state. They don't see each other for more than 2 years, in which time Holly is sent by her parents to a facility to deal with her emotional and physical abuse. He manages to kill her attacker and call for help.Īt that point, Tyler had been in a fire that led him to drug abuse and another horrible accident that nearly took his life, almost severed his vocal chords and led him to a lonely secluded life.

In the beginning of the story, Tyler finds Holly one day in a basement in the woods where she had been kept for almost 12 years by a psycho, from the age of 5 until de age of 17.

But it then unfolds into one of the cutest, coziest, most adorable romances that I've ever read.

This was a great Christmas read altough the book starts rough.
