Noah’s reaction and subsequent behavior really bothered me. Baxter, a gay man who has not yet come out to his friends, is in love with Noah. There’s a subplot involving Noah’s best friend, Baxter North, another of the core group of friends. Addy recognizes Noah as the fraternal twin brother of one of her attackers and vows to keep her distance but, shockingly enough, Noah has other ideas.

Noah Rackman, a professional mountain biker and owner of the local bike shop, stumbles upon Addy and rescues her. Addy never reported the attack against her, and her kidnapper warns her not to now. The story opens with Addy being trapped in the same mine, having been kidnapped from her room in the middle of the night. Fifteen years ago, Addy was gang raped in an abandoned mine outside of town during a graduation party. They’ve grown up unusually close and almost all are still living together in Whiskey Creek.Īdelaide Davies has returned home to Whiskey Creek for the first time since her high school graduation to care for her aging grandmother. The series revolves around a group of friends who grew up in the small town of Whiskey Creek in California’s Gold Coast. Home to Whiskey Creek is the fourth book in Brenda Novak’s Whiskey Creek series (There’s a starter novella as well). This is one of those books that sounds super intriguing from the blurb, but fail in the follow through. He only knows that he's finally met a woman he could love. He has no idea that his very presence reminds her of something she'd rather forget. Noah Rackham, popular, attractive, successful, is shocked when Adelaide won't have anything to do with him. But she can't, not without revealing an even darker secret. There are too many people here she'd rather avoid, people who were involved in that terrible June night fifteen years ago.Įver since the graduation party that changed her life, she's wanted to go to the police and make sure the boys responsible-men now-are punished. She's there to take care of her aging grandmother and to help with Gran's restaurant, Just Like Mom's. Adelaide Davies, who's been living in Sacramento, returns to Whiskey Creek, the place she once called home. Sometimes home is the refuge you need-and sometimes it isn't. This story was nominated for the RITA® in the Contemporary Romance category. This RITA® Reader Challenge 2014 review was written by Bean. Publication Info: Harlequin MIRA July 2013

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