ONE BREATH AFTER ANOTHER
by Bethany-Kris
Cover Credits: London Miller
The After Another Trilogy, book #2
Publication Date: October 5, 2020
Genres: Adult, Romantic Suspense, Crime Thriller, Organized Crime
They say you can’t go back but …
Penny Dunsworth was broken.
Before she became the white ghost, she was already unrecognizable. A troubled teenage girl with monsters that couldn’t be slain, and an irrational crush on the only man she considered a friend. Her one crime was daring to think she might finally be free.
Luca Puzza was only trying to figure things out.
His days are balanced between his duty and worth. He can’t seem to make it all work, but that doesn’t stop him from trying. Somethings are just more important—like the girl with the haunted eyes who seems to trust him. He only ever wanted to help.
The past never stays where it belongs—why would it?
It’s the only thing left to warn about the future.
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NOTE: One Breath After Another is book 2 in the After Another trilogy. It follows the same couple – Luca and Penny – from present to past, and back again. The books must be read in order. Be warned, the trilogy discusses a subject that may be triggering.
Picking up where we left off, the story started out with a bang, the search was over, or was it?
We loved this second installment just as much or more this time around. I loved getting to know these characters even more. We loved getting to know what drove Luca to do the things he did and the decisions he was making when it came to his life and how it must have been very difficult being caught between two worlds but, along the way, he did find something that he was passionate about and very good at.
Penny, we got more of a glimpse into her past with both what happened to her as a child with the abuse she endured with being sold into sexual slavery and her present and the things that she had to endure to become the woman we see today.
Penny was known as the white ghost with no history of past or present, and that is the way she wanted it for reasons of her own and also for protecting the ones she has come to love.
Things started to heat up between Luca and Penny, something that's been a long time coming. The couple's chemistry was hotter than all get out, but, they were also each other's match in every way. We loved seeing the stronger and more confident women that Penny has become but, beware, she has become as dangerous as the criminals she hunts.
The story was just as emotional this time around as it was the last time, especially after learning the extent of Penny's abusive past, it was enough to break one's heart all over again.
This story does give the reader the fees and one that plays on the reader's emotions, as I can attest mine were all over the place. We are finally getting some answers to her abrupt departure from all of their lives 5 years ago, and it is all not pretty but, she has made great strides in bringing justice to herself and those like her.
Overall, we loved the story and the continuing plot. The story had tons of suspense and a ton of mystery. The plot thickens as these predators who hid behind the dark web with their power and money and their sick desires are about to get their just deserts. The danger escalates and lives are on the line but, for Penny, giving up her life would be her willing sacrifice in order to bring the downfall of The Elite and to free and or prevent even one child from having endured what she did.
The story drew me right into from the beginning and kept us glued to the pages to the bitter end. We are hoping for a happily ever after for this couple but, time will tell as it seems the stakes are stack against them but, knowing Luca, he will go to the ends of the earth and that of beyond to protect the woman he has come to love.
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ABOUT BETHANY-KRIS
Bethany-Kris is a Canadian author, lover of much, and mother to four young sons, one cat, and two dogs. A small town in Eastern Canada where she was born and raised is where she has always called home. With her boys under her feet, snuggling cat, barking dogs, and a hubby calling over his shoulder, she is nearly always writing something … when she can find the time.
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