Before We Fall

The Beautifully Broken Series

By Courtney Cole

Synopsis

Sometimes before we fall . . . we fly.

One dark moment was all it took to turn twenty-four-year-old Dominic Kinkaide’s world black. On the night of his high school graduation, a single incident changed him forever, and he became a hardened man-famous in the eyes of the world, but tortured inside. Now all he cares about is losing himself in the roles that he plays.

At twenty-three years old, Jacey Vincent doesn’t realize how much her father’s indifference has affected her. She is proof that sometimes it isn’t one specific moment that wrecks a person, but an absence of moments. She tries to find acceptance in the arms of men to fill the void-a plan that has worked just fine for her, until she meets Dominic.

When jaded Dominic and strong-willed Jacey are thrown together, the combination of his secrets and her issues turns their attraction into the perfect storm. It could change their lives for good-if it doesn’t tear them both apart . . .

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Kelley’s Review

Before We Fall by Courtney Cole takes you on an emotional journey as you follow the lives of two very broken people on the path to redemption.  In the beginning I did not like Jacey or Dominic.  At 20 percent of the way through this read I almost put it down.  I had a hard time identifying with these characters.  They were dirty and perverted and I had their path already plotted in my head.  I decided since I was reviewing this for Romance @ Random that I would continue reading the story.

Dominic Kinkaide has been dealing with horrible guilt for the past six years because he  blames himself for a terribly tragedy that was no one’s fault.   No matter what he does he can’t get over it.  He has decided that he is only worthy of sexual perversion and will not allow himself to get emotionally attached to anyone.  He has accepted that he is a monster and shuts everyone around him out of his life.  This makes him lonely, bitter, and unbearable to be around.

Jacey Vincent is working as a high priced scantily clad cocktail waitress as she puts herself through school.  She allows men to ogle her and grope her for tips.  She is one step up from stripping.  She looks at it as a job and the money is good.  She does not plan on doing it forever but what she does not completely realize is that her image gives others the impression that she is cheap and easy.

When Jacey meets Dominic Kinkaide at a party she is working, she is awestruck.  She can see that he is wrestling some serious demons.  Sparks fly between the two of them and Dominic is intrigued but blows her off like every other woman he comes across.  He does not believe that she will be any different than any of the women who want him just because he is famous.

I really thought I had this story pegged but boy was I wrong.  These characters possess deep dark secrets worse than you could ever imagine.  Their path to redemption is very rocky and emotionally gripping.  I was up until 1:30 a.m. reading because there was no way possible for me to predict what was going to happen next.  Courtney Cole is a masterful plotter and she really took this story twisted and turned it and then dropped a bomb that I never saw coming.  She also throws in a tiny paranormal twist in epilogue that brings the reader right back to the beginning of the book.  This book was so much more than I ever imagined it could be.  The supporting cast was written so well that I can’t wait to read each of their stories.  The phrase I think that sticks out for everyone in this read is “before we fall, we fly”.

My interpretation of this phrase is that when two people begin to fall in love they fly.  Everything is wonderful and they live in a bubble and have this feeling of euphoria before they fall deeply and madly in love.  You have to fly first and feel all that is good before you can truly fall in love taking the good with the bad.

I am really looking forward to reading more books in this series.

ABOUT COURTNEY COLE:

Courtney Cole is a novelist who would eat mythology for breakfast if she could. She has a degree in Business, but has since discovered that corporate America is not nearly as fun to live in as fictional worlds. She loves chocolate and roller coasters and hates waiting and rude people.

Courtney lives in quiet suburbia, close to Lake Michigan, with her real-life Prince Charming, her ornery kids (there is a small chance that they get their orneriness from their mother) and a small domestic zoo.

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