4.5 stars! Wow! This was some book! 
 This book grabbed me from the start and I had to force myself to put it down in order to sleep. This was an emotional book, and impressive for a debut for an author. It's very hard for me to write a review of this book based on the fact that there are so many secrets that are revealed slowly (although you see them coming, but not initially, so they are still shocking), and I would not want to spoil any of those surprises with a spoilery review. 
 There were so many parts of this book that I loved. From the glimpses of Evie and Leo in the past, when they were just kids, learning to lean on each other, and love each other, until their love turned romantic: 
 And when I say he kissed me, I mean it was like a vow, that kiss. I've heard people say they lose themselves in a kiss, but it was like we found ourselves the second our lips met. It was like he took me apart and put me back together with that kiss. 
 -a romantic love cut short when Leo is adopted and moves across the country. And then the storytelling switches to Evie's life as an adult, when she meets Jake under strange circumstances, and inexplicably feels intense feelings for him, right off the bat. 
 I reach my hand out to shake his and when he grips mine back, it's like tiny sparks pass between our skin, and suddenly all I am in my hand. All the other parts of my body, not being touched by Jake Madsen, have ceased to exist. It's the strangest thing, and I wonder if he feels it too. 
 The intensity of the relationship between Evie and Jake was apparent pretty quickly, and it was clear that Jake was holding secrets back from Evie. I felt badly for Evie at times, and angry for her, knowing that Jake was hiding something. But, although a quick read, this book took over me and had me feeling so many different emotions for both Evie and Jake, and little Evie and little Leo. 
 The only reason I did not give this book 5 stars was based purely on the fact that the sex scenes were so frequent that they bordered on gratuitous. And, although Sheridan knows how to write a sex scene, with that slow build-up that the reader is feeling, almost as much as the narrator - Evie in this case - the story was the real focus of this book. I would have loved to read more about Evie and Jake's struggles in life, and a little less sexy time. Funny that I think I am probably a minority in this, as Sheridan really does have a gift for writing steamy sex scenes. 
 And there was an epilogue! Yes! I love epilogues, although recently I have read several epilogues that could have been novellas - they were either too long, or spanned too long a period of time. This epilogue was, in a word, perfect. And, so I will leave it at that.