She was his ultimate game…
Journalist, Meadow Graham, is invited to interview death row inmate, Vincent Mercier. Given three days to hear his sordid confession, Meadow seeks to learn why a wealthy hotel owner killed four people, including her twin sister.
Sensually exotic and enigmatic, Vincent details his deception while bragging about the amusement he took in manipulating Meadow’s sister.
Their interview is a battle of wills. His story is a twisted web of coercion and lies. And the tragedy is too perfect to be real.
Will Meadow discover all of Vincent’s secrets while she fights to protect her own?
ABSOLUTELY 5 ***** STAR READ!!!!
Wishing Well is VERY twisted, A dark tale with unusual hints of dark romance and as always a great deal of suspense and thrill. This book will keep you on your toes and squeeze your heart into the steely grip of apprehension. Sometimes you will find it hard to breathe from the tension of the twisted games Vincent played with journalist Meadow, or the dark premise of the story about her sister Penny and him.
The book starts with Meadow Graham coming for an exclusive interview with Vincent Mercier, the man who killed her twin sister Penelope (aka Penny). She is brilliant, fierce and has backbone needed to deal with charismatic, sadistic Vincent Mercier. Meadow needs to know the truth, and she mustn’t fall into the traps the intelligent mind of Vincent so smartly wounds around people. Vincent Graham is the mastermind in his social, psychological games. He is excellent reading people and knowing how to hook them and pull them in until they are willing captives or victims of his brand of passion. *********************************************************************************** “Cruelty stretched his full lips, the corners lifting with amusement. “She was mine to play with as I wished, Meadow. Penelope gave me that permission eventually. She admitted that without me, she could no longer continue living. She begged to be transformed into what I helped her become.” Pausing, he studied her face. “And she did become something truly special, a rarity in a world of facsimiles and replicas, of people who don’t have the balls to be who they are. I was, and I’m still, proud of her.” *********************************************************************************** This story had so many layers Vincent and Meadow peeled back together it was sometimes hard for me to deal with since it wasn’t the story of heroes and people you relate easily. My nerves there spiked and my instincts were telling me to turn and go the other way, but I needed to know. Even if the man sitting in front of Meadow is a seductive toxic pill hard to swallow, and the tragic story already happened, there is no way to save what was lost. Vincent is not the one to hide his real face or his intents from Meadow, he was straightforward, mocking and antagonizing. But sometimes there will be those moments when you will see that softer side of him – the human side that you would be helplessly drawn to it. For instance, his love for his younger brother, their twisted relationship, although it pissed me off how little regard he had for woman’s independence and individuality.
Lily White tends to show us that life is not just white and black, but it is always full of colorful hues and grey zones. There is never as simple as good or evil, but rather quite the contrary, there is no good without darkness and evil without light. This story even if it was hard to read it also made me cry and feel their despair and unfairness of the life it was dealt to Wishing Well characters. The author magicly composed emotional, tragic music and led me into the darkest corners of this story, let me feel love and hope just to drown me in desolation later. She is mastermind herself since I felt like I was standing on razor sharp edge and if she chooses I will bleed with her characters and fall down into the abyss.
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