Follow Me Back

Twisted Love Series – Book 2

By A. Meredith Walters

Synopsis

The sequel to Lead Me Not, this dangerously sexy second installment in the Twisted Love series continues Aubrey and Maxx’s love story, from New York Times bestselling author A. Meredith Walters—who “writes the most beautifully flawed characters that still have you swooning” (Sawyer Bennett, USA TODAY bestselling author of the Off series).

Aubrey Duncan has loved…and lost. Should she follow a heart that’s betrayed her or a head that tells her to let go?

Maxx Demelo’s addiction almost destroyed him. It ruined his life and, most importantly, his relationship with the only girl he ever loved.

He has vowed to become the man Aubrey Duncan deserves. Even if he has to tear himself apart to do it. So he enters rehab, trying to fix the parts of him that are shattered as he longs to be healthy and whole.

Aubrey lost everything because she chose to listen to her heart. Now she has sworn to put herself first, to heal in the only way that she can…far away from Maxx and his demons.

But just as Aubrey is starting over, Maxx is released from rehab and thrust back into her world, determined to prove how much they still need each other. And the chaos that had defined them threatens to unleash once again…

But a heart, no matter how broken, is impossible to ignore.

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Michel’s Review

Follow Me Back by A. Meredith Walters is the sequel to Lead Me Not in the Twisted Love Series.  It is the conclusion to Aubrey Duncan’s and Maxx Demelo’s tumultuous relationship.  Their forbidden relationship was on a very destructive path that led to the ruin of both of them as individuals and as a couple.  Follow Me Back is the aftermath and consequences from their helter skelter relationship.

Maxx Demelo is a drug addict.  He has finally hit rock bottom.  He overdosed and very nearly lost his life.  Now he is dealing with the recourse of his addiction.  He is also dealing with the loss of Aubrey and his relationship with his younger brother.  He has destroyed everything good in his world.  His overdose was a wake up call.  He could not handle his life without the drugs.  The drugs defined his art, his popularity, his persona, and his relationships.  Now he is in rehab and facing the truth.  He has not only destroyed himself but  his loved ones as well.  He sincerely wants to regain his life.  He sincerely wants to end his addiction.  He wants a relationship with his brother.  He wants Aubrey’s love.  It may be too late for all of it but he is going to do everything in his power to win them back.  He is going to earn their trust and deserve their love.

After Maxx nearly died from the overdose Aubrey’s world crashed.  The university found out about her secret relationship with Maxx.  She has been dismissed as a councelor from the support group on campus.  She has been put on academic probation and withdrawn from the counselling program.  Her academic career is in the toilet.  She is going to have to jump through hoops to regain her place in the program once again.  One of the conditions to regaining that position is that she cannot have anything to do with Maxx Demelo.  She cannot have anything to do with any of the members of the group.  Like Maxx, Aubrey feels the loss.  She loved Maxx with all her heart.  She was devastated when she found out that not only was he using again, he was an addict.  She almost died inside right along with Maxx when he overdosed.  Now she has to pull herself together and move on in life in a positive and constructive manner.  She has to hold onto her anger for Maxx otherwise she is going to end up right where she started.

Maxx is going to do everything in his power to get Aubrey back in his life.  This time he is going to do it the right way for her and himself.  He is going to prove that he is not a lost cause and that he can be the man she needs.

Maxx will struggle with his addiction.  He will have to face the harsh realities of life.  He will have temptation thrown in his path at every turn.  He will have to be strong when the chips are down.  He will find it harder and harder.  In the end it will be up to him how his life unfolds.

Aubrey tried to resist Maxx but when she sees that he is really working on staying clean and sober it changes things.  She allows herself to interact with Maxx.  She allows herself to once again fall in love with him.  The one thing she struggles with is her trust.  She doesn’t know if she can ever trust him again.  She is also facing some truths in her own life.  She is facing her sister’s death, her bad relationship with her parents, and her own personal goals in life.

Together Aubrey and Maxx will struggle to rebuild their lives.  In the end they will find out things about themselves, their relationship, and their path to happiness.  Life isn’t easy.  Life is a challenge.  What is important is how you face those challenges.

A. Meredith Walters did an amazing job writing this sequel.  She did not sugar coat the realities of being a drug addict or co dependent.  She allowed these characters to experience the pain, the hardship, and the realities in their lives.  She also allowed these characters to grow as individuals and become stronger better people.  She allowed them to face the truths and build a new life without ever forgetting their old lives.

I highly recommend the Twisted Love series by A. Meredith Walters.  It is a reading experience that will touch the reader.

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The Twisted Love Series

Lead Me Not – Book 1

In this dangerously sexy novel from the New York Times bestselling author of Find You in the Dark, a straight-laced college student meets a handsome but enigmatic stranger who lures her into an underground club scene, where she finds it difficult to resist temptation…

Aubrey Duncan understands loss. She knows what rock bottom looks like, and she is determined to crawl back up to the top after the sudden death of her younger sister. She blames herself for her part in the tragedy, convinced that she could have done something, anything, to help her.

In her effort to gain redemption, Aubrey starts fresh at Longwood University and facilitates an addiction support group, hoping she can support someone else in the way she failed her sister. But what she doesn’t count on is an all-consuming fascination with group member Maxx Demelo, a gorgeous, blond, blue-eyed enigma who hides dark secrets behind a carefully constructed mask. He only reveals what he wants others to see. But Aubrey glimpses another Maxx hidden below the surface—a Maxx who is drowning in his own personal hell.

As Aubrey and Maxx develop an attraction too intense to ignore, he pulls her into the dark underbelly of the city club scene, where she is torn by her desire to save him and an inexplicable urge to join him in his downward spiral. Worst of all, she is beginning to love everything she should run away from—a man who threatens to ignite in her a fire that could burn her alive…

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Follow Me Back – Book 2

The sequel to Lead Me Not, this dangerously sexy second installment in the Twisted Love series continues Aubrey and Maxx’s love story, from New York Times bestselling author A. Meredith Walters—who “writes the most beautifully flawed characters that still have you swooning” (Sawyer Bennett, USA TODAY bestselling author of the Off series).

Aubrey Duncan has loved…and lost. Should she follow a heart that’s betrayed her or a head that tells her to let go?

Maxx Demelo’s addiction almost destroyed him. It ruined his life and, most importantly, his relationship with the only girl he ever loved.

He has vowed to become the man Aubrey Duncan deserves. Even if he has to tear himself apart to do it. So he enters rehab, trying to fix the parts of him that are shattered as he longs to be healthy and whole.

Aubrey lost everything because she chose to listen to her heart. Now she has sworn to put herself first, to heal in the only way that she can…far away from Maxx and his demons.

But just as Aubrey is starting over, Maxx is released from rehab and thrust back into her world, determined to prove how much they still need each other. And the chaos that had defined them threatens to unleash once again…

But a heart, no matter how broken, is impossible to ignore.

Buy: Amazon / B & N / ITunes / Kobo

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