** spoiler alert ** 
 I finished this series yesterday. I will update my full review at www.letusread325.blogspot.com 
 I liked this series. The first book was awful. I don't mean the writing. I mean the stuff that went on in this book. Anthony was horrible, controling and abusive. And Claire stuck with him. it made no sense. The man who has had you trapped in his house, making you his slave and you suddenly decide you're in love with him and marry him??? Then he sets you up for murder! 
 By the time I got to the the last handful of chapters I had decided I wasn't reading the rest of the series. This book was so twisted and really uncomfortable to read. I couldn't believe he gave claire an out and she, instead married him! It seemed so far fetched how he'd been watching her all along, had her parents killed along with other people, kept her trapped in his house and controlled her every move. But then, at the same time it seems sick that this probably really has happened somewhere in real life. 
 When I got to the very end, there was a huge cliff hanger that made me just have to read the 2nd book. It started out the way it should. Claire was a woman scorned. She was walking away from him, living in hiding. She has a chance to start over. She meets Harry and they have, what seems to be the beginnings of a good relationship. Then Tony swoops back in and controls her life again. I mean, she just lets him in every time. She doesn't seem to fight back at all. If I knew a man killed my family, had my brother in law's career put in limbo, killed my first love... etc... I sure wouldn't be considering having feelings for him again. 
 But then, again at the end of the 2nd book there's such a cliff hanger that I may as well finish out the series. 
 The 3rd book was a lot more peaceful and confusing. Claire is in an institution, totally mute and lost in her own thoughts. While I found this book to be really good I feel like it was a long book, yet we only got a glimpse of what happened to put her in the hospital. And then fact tht Amber was the one who killed Simon and not Tony?? barely mentioned. And Harry, we got a little more info about him in the end but he was kind of dropped as a character. I also felt like the story line of Sophia fell flat. All this build up to have her killed in a fire... it was a little too much. 
 All in all, this was a good series. It was full of energy, and while th ebooks were long, they went fast. I was impressed with how Tony changed from the beginning to the end. He really was able to let his guard down and give in to his feelings. Claire must have seen something in him that no one else did because, like I said I sure wouldn't be giving him a second chance knowing what he had done to my family. 
 I give this series 4 stars. They were incredibally well written, and I sure escaped into the books myself.