This is not a stand alone. It is a cliffhanger and it is highly addictive! Three chapters in and I had experienced the greatest high, the most amazing love, and the most heartbreaking thing imaginable! It just kept hitting you with punch after punch and I loved it! Bring on book 2, no I mean seriously, I need it NOW!!!

Jack and Laurel are married, in love and they are enjoying their first born child. Everything is perfect until they decide to go out to celebrate their anniversary while Laurel's mother is watching the baby. Their life will change for ever when criminals will get inside their home and they will kill both the baby and the grandmother. After 2 years Jack is still hooked with finding who did this and getting his revenge. Laurel after breaking down she cannot face any image of that day and she can no longer stand Jack's obsessions. She decides to leave Jack and she moves to her mother's place trying to revive the neglected garden. Laurel will meet Isaac and slowly she will start taking her life into her hands and standing on her own feet. Jack will be persuaded to start seeing a wedding counselor, but will it be enough? Can they survive their wedding and their love?

Though I found the story unique I have to admit that at times I found it boring and too lengthy analyzing feelings or dragging too much into events. Though the story includes plenty hot scenes between Jack and Laurel and flirty scenes between Laurel and Isaac, I struggled to get on reading the book to reach the end.

So it says right on the title that this is part of a series. Let me clarify that: this is NOT a stand alone. It very much ends on a whopper of a cliffhanger.

The question is if you will be invested enough to find out what happens next.

Jack and Laurel have suffered a horrific, heartbreaking loss. Their ways of managing their grief differ, though. I liked how Cassia Leo showed you that we don’t all mourn the same way. The problem for Jack and Laurel is that they can’t really communicate about those differences. Well, they can’t communicate verbally. They most certainly do communicate physically. (That aspect … I don’t know. It felt so forced and manipulative to me.)

The proposed separation proves to be a big positive for the book. It helps develop Jack and Laurel separately from each other, particularly her. Jack remains a bit one-note, and I’m hoping Leo digs deeper with him in the next installment. One thing I’ll say about him as a character: Leo warns you that he’s going to make a knee-jerk decision regarding Laurel. She tells you that this is something he’s done in the past, so you are not surprised when he does it again.

There is a pervasive sadness to this book that rarely dissipates. Every character you meet has a sad story, and you start to wonder if any of these people will ever be happy. I guess we’ll find out in Seeds.