Rhayne's review posted on Guilty Pleasures Book Reviews 
 4 STARS 
 Review copy provided for an honest review 
 Finally book three in The Bad Boys of Crystal Lake series is here and I get to revisit one of my favorite fictional towns. I missed Crystal Lake and I have missed reading about these characters that will forever have a soft spot reserved in my heart. 
 We had a pretty solid introduction to Mac and Lilly in book two. It set up the stage nicely for what was guaranteed to be an emotional yet sexy as hell story. I was not disappointed! This book allows readers to experience so many different emotions it's definitely not a light easy love story. 
 After reading the synopsis for this book I thought we were going to get a cookie cutter romance about someone feeling not worthy of having love and never getting involved in a relationship because their past demons were somehow going to worm their way in and poison anything good they find. You know the typical books where they don't do relationships, there is no future, it's strictly physical for pleasure.. Well there is all of that, but so much more. Let me be the first to say I was very wrong about it being like others I have read. 
 Mac is a survivor. I think that word is fitting for him, because it's all he is doing right now. He is just living to survive. There is no happy, no love, no real emotion. The only thing outside of his career he cares about is his lifelong friends back in Crystal Lake. He lived in a very abusive home growing up and his anger, rage and hate have consumed him. Readers get a very up-close and personal look into the very dark depths of hell Mac had to experience. It's left him scarred very deeply. 
 Lil has her own family battles she is constantly fighting. She tries to put and keep distance between them, but they always seem to find a way to find her and pull her back into their shit storms. She has no experience of love and family going together and long ago accepted that neither would ever be in the cards for her. 
 Once Mac comes back to Crystal Lake for the summer to help Jake on a building project it's only a matter of time before he and Lily connect. They have so much chemistry together it's like they are being pulled together by magnets. With both of them on the same page as far as relationships go, it's the perfect opportunity to enjoy each other's company and bodies while he is here for the summer. No commitments, no feelings, no strings....just simple sizzling sex. 
 As you can guess, that plan quickly falls to pieces and feelings get involved. She has a way to make Mac think of things he never felt worthy of having. In return, Mac is the only man who has peeled back all her protective layers and lets her lose all control. They just get to a place where they can both accept their "only pleasure, no commitment" deal is going to be trashed, when the horrors from Mac's past creep back into his life and he is forced to deal with them head on. I don't really want to get into a lot of detail here, because it's very emotional and very personal and needs to be read as the story develops for the reader to experience the raw emotion. 
 Ms. Stone always does a superb job placing her readers right inside the story and giving them a front row seat to experience all the feelings her characters feel. This was a very emotional, and at times dark book, but the love story and the battle these two learn to fight together is beautiful. It's a story about overcoming a past you couldn't control and learning to fight for the love you deserve.