*****5 Stars*****
Jewel E. Ann is fast becoming a favourite author of mine, she has a really unique way in telling a story and I've come to expect the unexpected and End Of Day certainly delivers on that. I really don't know where to begin in explaining this story and how I feel about it, it has everything humour, suspense, mystery and sexy characters but I haven't a clue what is going on as the background to the story and that is exactly what the author wants, I think and hope.
The story starts with a funeral being witnessed by Jessica & Jude Day, two of the four people being buried it seems and so the questions begin. After six months in hiding with some intense training the Knight twins are born, as Jillian and Jackson begin their new lives. New lives in Peaceful Woods, which is pretty much a gated retirement village where these two quirky 30 something year old's are supposed to quietly blend in and start over. And so the fun begins because Jillian is quite simply as nutty as a fruitcake, she saunters about in next to nothing collecting her post in her underwear and bright red rain boots and of course the male neighbours are quick to pick up on this little ritual. Though the ladies are equally entertained by the gorgeous Jackson.
It becomes apparent that there is more to Jack & Jill and you are left wondering what happened to bring about the death of their parents and the change in their lives but you are left pondering. Jill & Jack are both highly trained in unarmed combat but by who and why is just one of the questions I am left asking. It is also apparent that Jillian's odd behaviour is not just as a result of these events and even though they are not supposed to talk about their buried past Jill feels the need to unburden by confiding in the deaf neighbour she is hired to look after and so we learn of her past. The story then runs parallel with Jill's memories of Luke the love she has had to leave behind that she is greatly pining for and new life in Peaceful Woods where she starts a somewhat tumultuous non relationship with her grumpy neighbour AJ. Jillian it seems had a rather dark experience as a teen that has left her deeply scarred and shaped the adult she has become, this served to had a dark edge to this humorous quirky book.
As her carefully constructed new life begins to uncoil so does Jillian and things suddenly take unexpected turns leading up to a killer of a cliff hanger and a million unanswered questions which really has me looking forward to book 2 already. A truly unconventional read and love story but brilliantly executed.
Reviewed by Vikki Ryan
Synopsis
Earth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust; in the sure and certain hope of the Resurrection to eternal life.
Four caskets. Two bodies.
Jessica and Jude Day witness their funeral and that of their parents a few yards away from mourning family and friends. Stripped of the only life they’ve ever known, the Days say goodbye to San Francisco forever.
Six months later, two thirty-year-old misfits with elite self-defense skills and penchants for alcohol, sex, and trouble arrive like an earthquake to Peaceful Woods, a retirement community in Omaha, Nebraska, that thrives on rules and gossip. Welcome home, Jackson and Jillian Knight.
Jackson celebrates his new beginning by embracing his job and wiping his cavalier past clean with a temporary oath of celibacy. But Jillian’s past is branded into her soul—the deaths, the insanity, Dr. Luke Jones, and the need to make her lovers bleed. Her chance for redemption comes in the form of a next door neighbor, one Senior Master Sergeant Monaghan. He’s sexy, dangerously alluring, and riddled with emotional issues from years of service. He’s also … So. Damn. Grumpy.
Their mission is simple: Let go, start over, don't kill anyone, and pray that nobody wakes the dead.
Four caskets. Two bodies.
Jessica and Jude Day witness their funeral and that of their parents a few yards away from mourning family and friends. Stripped of the only life they’ve ever known, the Days say goodbye to San Francisco forever.
Six months later, two thirty-year-old misfits with elite self-defense skills and penchants for alcohol, sex, and trouble arrive like an earthquake to Peaceful Woods, a retirement community in Omaha, Nebraska, that thrives on rules and gossip. Welcome home, Jackson and Jillian Knight.
Jackson celebrates his new beginning by embracing his job and wiping his cavalier past clean with a temporary oath of celibacy. But Jillian’s past is branded into her soul—the deaths, the insanity, Dr. Luke Jones, and the need to make her lovers bleed. Her chance for redemption comes in the form of a next door neighbor, one Senior Master Sergeant Monaghan. He’s sexy, dangerously alluring, and riddled with emotional issues from years of service. He’s also … So. Damn. Grumpy.
Their mission is simple: Let go, start over, don't kill anyone, and pray that nobody wakes the dead.
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