Buckle up! You are in for the ride of your life with Sandie Jones’ new book Killing Me Softly. It’s a love story but also about the perfect couple whose lives come crashing down around them due to a terrible, tragic incident which changes everything and each of them. Still trying to hold on to each other, they seem to begin to make irrational decisions as well as start to mistrust each other. Can unforeseen outside influences hinder or help them stay together or completely tear them apart.
Charlie was an up-and-coming chef, who has just been promoted and Freya, his wife is a social worker. But during a congratulatory dinner for Charlie, Freya hears something she shouldn’t have and an argument breaks out. There had been a lot of drinking, words said which cannot be taken back, then…
An accident
A coverup
They decide to leave London and move to a small town where no one knows them. Charlie decides to try and open his own restaurant, and Freya gets a job trying to find money to help sick children. At first, they try to pretend nothing is different, but then the pressures of this new life and their secrets start to wear on them. They begin to look at each other differently. And seek solace it seems from other places.
Freya’s mother is no help. A narcissist who seems to have it out for her daughter, she begins to interfere with their lives. As much as Freya tries to stop her, she seems to insist and poke her nose into their lives.
Told in their own named chapters they explore Charlie’s perspective and how he is doing and feeling and the next what Freya sees happening and what she feels. Both need someone to talk to, besides the other. But unfortunately, they stop talking to each other.
This is when the cat and mouse game truly begins.
How much can each endure. Both begin to make mistakes. What would YOU do if you loved someone so much you would never be able to let them go?
Would you protect them forever? What if you can’t! What happens them?
Killing Me Softley’s ending will kill you! The adrenaline rush you will feel as you read the story is exhausting! Sandie Jones is a genius! Read this book now!
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Amazon.com: Killing Me Softly: A Novel: 9781250910073: Jones, Sandie: Books
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