Jasinda Wilder is a master at story telling. Her ability to make someone like myself, an avid reader, fall in love with her characters like I've known them forever is just breathtaking. I've read this book three times and I loved every minute of it. From the very first chapter I was hooked.
This is a story of a sheltered pastors daughter living in a small town. At a young age she looses her mother to cancer and soon after her father disowns her because of her dream to work in hollywood behind the camera. The back story is sad and helps to show why she is the way she is.
The story continues with her going to UCLA in LA, California. She's been attending school and making getting by, when she suddenly finds out that her last year of schooling costs isn't covered by her scholarship grant. She's forced to look for work, besides going to school full time and working as an intern at a movie studio. She looks for work, but finds nothing and is forced to work as a stripper. It's humiliating, and degrading for a woman like her, but when forced with the alternative of not finishing school and starving their's really no other choice. She throws up after every show and showers when she get's back to her dorm. All that shifts when she's asked to dance in the VIP room and she meets Dawson Kellor. He's a well known movie star. He's gorgeous and his eyes penetrate as if he can see her for who she really is. The fact is he can. He knows she doesn't belong working in a strip club from the moment he lays eyes on her. He feels a connection and he can't shake it. He wants her and he's not use to wanting something he can't have.
Later he sees her again when he's at a meeting for his new movie. She's been given the job of production assistant. At first she tries to get out of it, but her boss makes it clear that this opportunity is rare and it's a make it or brake it chance. She works with Dawson against her better judgement and their relationship grows. It's not long before he's in love with her just as much as she is with him.
The ups and downs of their relationship are heart warming. The moments when she freaks out just makes you want to cry for her and everything she's lost and everything she's believed in. She's like a lost child in a grown up world and all she wants to do is find herself. She wants to be with Dawson, yet her fear keeps on driving her to run away. Good thing Dawson isn't the kind of man to just give up.
I love both main characters. Dawson is the proverbial alpha male and she's the small town girl, now in the big city trying to make it. It's a wonderfully written love story about two opposites who attract.
This is a story of a sheltered pastors daughter living in a small town. At a young age she looses her mother to cancer and soon after her father disowns her because of her dream to work in hollywood behind the camera. The back story is sad and helps to show why she is the way she is.
The story continues with her going to UCLA in LA, California. She's been attending school and making getting by, when she suddenly finds out that her last year of schooling costs isn't covered by her scholarship grant. She's forced to look for work, besides going to school full time and working as an intern at a movie studio. She looks for work, but finds nothing and is forced to work as a stripper. It's humiliating, and degrading for a woman like her, but when forced with the alternative of not finishing school and starving their's really no other choice. She throws up after every show and showers when she get's back to her dorm. All that shifts when she's asked to dance in the VIP room and she meets Dawson Kellor. He's a well known movie star. He's gorgeous and his eyes penetrate as if he can see her for who she really is. The fact is he can. He knows she doesn't belong working in a strip club from the moment he lays eyes on her. He feels a connection and he can't shake it. He wants her and he's not use to wanting something he can't have.
Later he sees her again when he's at a meeting for his new movie. She's been given the job of production assistant. At first she tries to get out of it, but her boss makes it clear that this opportunity is rare and it's a make it or brake it chance. She works with Dawson against her better judgement and their relationship grows. It's not long before he's in love with her just as much as she is with him.
The ups and downs of their relationship are heart warming. The moments when she freaks out just makes you want to cry for her and everything she's lost and everything she's believed in. She's like a lost child in a grown up world and all she wants to do is find herself. She wants to be with Dawson, yet her fear keeps on driving her to run away. Good thing Dawson isn't the kind of man to just give up.
I love both main characters. Dawson is the proverbial alpha male and she's the small town girl, now in the big city trying to make it. It's a wonderfully written love story about two opposites who attract.
