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Synopsis:
For Drake Evans, life was once happy. He was living the kind of existence that any man would envy. By his side was the woman he loved and a daughter he cherished. Life was truly perfect, until the day demons from the past came crashing into their perfect world, destroying everything he had been so sure would last forever.
Today, Drake’s life is shrouded in misery. Every day he faces the unyielding pain of losing the love of his life at the hands of a drug dealing murderer. On top of it all, he has to live with the anguishing betrayal caused by the devastating role his brother played in Presley’s death. Gone are the days of carefree happiness and impending futures. They've all been replaced with the shallow emptiness hollowing out his heart and the undeniable rage pumping through his veins. Drake is only moving through the motions of life, raising his daughter and earning a living, in the only way he can tolerate—alone.
Since the day she was banished from her family, Zoe Ledoux lives her life as a free spirit. For the past four years, Zoe’s been moving through life day by day, place by place. She never stays in one area long enough to establish relationships. She refuses to get close to anyone, protecting herself from the fear of once again being left behind. Then a turn of fate sends her to Sulfur Heights where she lands a job working as a bartender.
In a chance meeting, an instant connection forms, bringing together the wounded souls of Drake and Zoe. It is together that they begin to cope; to mend the brokenness of their pasts and feel what it is like to truly live again. However, will their newly formed friendship be enough to pull Drake and Zoe from their dark pasts? Can Drake overcome the fear of losing someone he loves and eradicate his anger just enough to let someone in? Will he learn that Surviving Love with Zoe is what he ultimately needs in order to be happy?
DeAnna's Review:
*5 Stars*
Surviving Love is Book 4 in the Sulfur Heights series. I am so in love with this series and the characters.
This is a continuation of Drake’s story picking up where Tragic Love left off. Drake is still having a really hard time dealing with Presley’s death while trying to raise their young daughter, Mia. He is also dealing with his, at times, uncontrollable anger towards Jeremy. This book is told from a duel POV which includes a new character named Zoe.
In the beginning of the story, Drake still trying to cope with life without Presley, his one true love, while still working and trying to be a single father. He still so full anger and pain and is just plain broken. He is obviously just a shell of the person he used to be. He is just going through the motions of everyday trying to survive.
Zoe is also broken and is dealing with problems of her own. After being disowned by her family, for something horrible that happened to her, she leaves moving from state to state for a while. She finally ends up in Sulfur Heights, and for some reason the name of this place seems familiar to her.
Drake and Zoe seem to keep crossing paths. Drake tries so hard to stay away from her, but since they have a mutual person in common, avoiding each other doesn’t happen. Will these two broken souls be able to help each other heal and move on? You will just have to read and find out.
Once again M.S. Brannon wrote a gripping novel that will keep you glued to it from the beginning to the end. Even though both of the characters terribly broken in their own ways and there were a lot of issues and a few incidents they had to deal with, it was, to me, refreshing to read this novel. After everything Drake had to endure in the previous books, this one kind of brought me back to the feeling I had after reading the first book. Peace. It felt like, for the moment anyway, that there was some peace for these characters. Of course it probably will not last long with one hugely unresolved issue that I cannot wait to read about in the next book, Redeemed Love. Of course, I am recommending this!
About the Author:
M.S. Brannon was born and raised in the Midwest. She still resides there today with her wonderful husband and son. When she is not writing or reading, M.S. Brannon spends time with her family, watching movies, and discovering new music. She writes romance because she believes love and heartache is the rawest emotion one can experience.
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