Risk

Where do I even begin to express how much I loved this book...it was dark, beautiful, heart-breaking and hit home with me on so many levels.
When I first met the Gentry triplets (Cord, Creed and Chase) in Draw, they were everything a girl could want (or really shouldn't want) in a boyfriend. They were like a sexy bad-boy tag-team of muscles and brawn all rolled into a package of heat...you want one Gentry boy, you get them all...a package deal for any girl lucky enough to have a night of no-strings fun. To quote the author they were “ head-turning triplets that hatched somewhere in the desert and then descended upon humanity like a plague of testosterone”...LOL...I couldn't have said it any better!
Then one of those boys got bitten by the bug and her name was Saylor and because of her history with Cord, things happened that would forever alter their relationship... so when Risk begins, we are down to only two unattached brothers.
Truly was a unique young woman...Saylor's friend and fellow waitress at Cluck This was a beautiful girl who didn't carry herself like she knew it, and with her love of vintage dresses and simple ways, she stood out from the crowd. When Creed first glimpses her at the restaurant and tries to catch her eye, she plays indifferent to him until one night out with Saylor changes everything.
Truly had more in common with the Gentry boys than what first is apparent...she had a difficult and rather abusive home-life growing up with sisters who were dragged around by their mom from town to town, living off of charity and never feeling the love a girl should from her own mother. Creed and Truly both knew what loss and heart-break felt like (for different reasons) and when these two finally see in each other what they need to maybe find fulfillment, it is nothing short of magic.
Unfortunately when Creed finally finds someone worth his time and worth living for, the ugly past and a promise made to payback a huge debt comes back to haunt him and his love for his brothers must be put above all else.
Both of them suffered from childhoods lacking in nurturing and loving parents, so it was understandable to me that they acted out (Creed in violence and sexual escapades and Truly with her own string of men and various relationships that went nowhere).
I found myself so engrossed in their emotionally charged stories that I was brought to tears more than a few times, and it was hard to just read this book without tensing up and fearing the results of what obstacles lay ahead for them. A life and death situation threatens the happiness and future of the brothers as well as the women they love, and when all is said and done, the risk for what “could be” in the future outweighs the present predicament they must all fight through to the end. When Creed says “One more thing...Tell her she was it for me”...it was game over for me...my heart was bursting at this point.
I really feel like the author stepped things up a notch with this book...it was deep and passionate and full of so many explosive moments that I just loved it all (even when I was quietly sobbing). So much better then the first I already picked up Chase's book