Easy and predictable, just the way he likes it, Blake Daniels flies through life the way he burns through women: on his terms, no regrets.
With his fighting career in full swing, he's on the threshold of title contention. But when his training is compromised by injury, the stakes grow impossibly higher. The rage that fuels his punches also chips away at his focus, and he risks losing everything he cares about.
He won’t let that happen. Not again.
Layla’s through with men. After a marriage that never should’ve happened, she hopes to reclaim the pieces of the woman she lost years ago.
Emotional abuse has left her insecure and terrified. A master at faking what she’s not feeling, she masks her self-doubt in false confidence.
She’ll never let another man hurt her. Not again.
Chased by shadows of the past, Blake and Layla know what they don’t want, but their hearts have a different plan. As a web of lies and betrayal threatens to destroy them, they’re forced to make a choice.
Is love enough to heal even the deepest wounds?
Or will they be left Fighting to Forgive?
When we first met Blake in book one, Fighting For Flight, he
is this manwhore who jokes around and doesn’t take anything seriously. He is stupid funny if that makes sense? His jokes at times are groan worthy but you
can’t help but laugh at him. What you
don’t know about Blake is that he holds a secret about something that you would
never expect from this bad boy fighter. When
he meets Layla for the first time, he is of course in total Blake fashion an
ass that doesn’t stop him from trying to get with her. What he doesn’t know is that Layla hasn’t had
a good past and is trying to make a new life for her and her daughter. I started singing Another One Bites The Dust by Queen because I could see that Blake
was starting to fall for his stubborn little mouse. I will admit I loved every second of his
downfall, well almost.
When he gets injured training for his upcoming fight, he
doesn’t let that stop him. He gets
treatment and continues on, but ever so slowly that rage that tends to simmer
below the surface and ends up erupting like a pissed off volcano hell bent on
destruction. Why he blows up is a damn
good reason, but his actions are something he is not only scared of but ashamed
of as well. Trust me Blake has a reason
why, and while I figured out what was happening prior to being told, it will
make you question your absolute trust in certain individuals that are supposed
to protect you.
Layla’s past will make you feel so strongly for her, and the
more you find out the more you want to hurt her husband for what he did. What I wouldn’t give to kick him in the balls
with a pair of steel toes boots, multiple times. I saw a lot of myself in
Layla, I won’t get into specific things but her love of music, the way she
dressed and her sassiness reminded me of well me. I love her daughter’s name as well. Guns and Roses fan will appreciate it greatly.
Layla and Blake healed each other while at the same time
battling demons and building a relationship that was so strong that even the
worst things couldn’t tear them apart. I will admit that I had tears in my eyes
a couple of times because you can’t help but feel for what they both go
through. Fighting To Forgive is so
much more than a book about a MMA fighter, it is a book of protection, healing,
betrayal, heartache and finally a book of how love can heal so many different
types of wounds.
