I’m now reading book 6 in the series. I almost want to cry. I’m going to miss this series. I hope she keeps writing books for this series. I read this book in less than 12 hours. I couldn’t put it down. I was excited to start reading this last book because it was time for the wedding that I have been dying for, the wedding between Derek Malveaux and Nikki Sands. This book had everything and more. All that was missing was a baby in a carriage.
The book starts off with Nikki watching Petie and Violet, Marco and Simon’s adopted baby, while Alyssa and Simon went to their final fitting for the wedding. Simon was to be the maid of honor. While on the phone with Simon, Petie dumps out Nikki’s purse to play. Nikki gets them away from the stuff and to the kitchen table for a snack. While Petie is eating his snack, Violet is playing with Nikki’s hair and is soon asleep. Nikki and Petie fall asleep soon after. When Simon comes to pick up Violet, they realize that Violet’s hands are stuck in Nikki’s hair with gum she got from Petie, who found it in Nikki’s purse. Simon has to take Nikki for a haircut. The first place she goes to makes her look atrocious. So Simon takes her to his stylist and he makes her blonder and gives her a pixie cut. She was mad and almost didn’t take to Simon. On the drive back, he informed her that Patrice was back in town and with a new husband. When she gets back she sees that Derek is back with his friends, so she slides in the side door and calls Derek to come back to the bedroom to see her hairdo. He likes it. Then he introduces her to his friends, Savannah and Tristan , and Lily and . Savannah turns out to be a real bitch. At the dinner, Zach Kincaid, another one of Derek’s friends, shows up. From the start of the book, Nikki has been receiving texts and letters that ask “Do you believe in fate?” And they are signed . Derek has also been getting them.
Fast forward and we see Nikki yell at Savannah and Patrice, Andres show back up and with none other than Renee Rothschild. The day of the wedding arrives and since Nikki’s aunt couldn’t make it, Simon got to walk her. As he walks her in, a shot rings out and Simon is shot. After Simon is carted off, Detective Robinson takes control. The gunman left two pictures. One of them had Nikki’s face x’ed out and the other one had Kenny’s face x’ed out. Kenny didn’t attend the wedding. After that, Derek and Simon went home to rest. The next day, Nikki reads the paper and sees what Renee wrote about her and goes to confront her. She finds her at Andres’ place. She confronts her. Andres can’t believe she would do a thing like that. Renee blames her for stealing Derek from her. Renee storms off and Nikki leaves too but not before Andres can profess his love to her. She gets back to the estate and sees that it’s guarded off. Nikki gets to the top of the hill and sees the coroner van. She spots Jonah and he lets Derek know he found her. Derek comes running and hugs her, fearing something had happened to her. He lets her know that Kenny’s body has been found in a wine barrel.
At dinner with Lily and Savannah the next night, secrets come out. Savannah has been sleeping with Kenny for years, and Kenny could be the father of Lily’s oldest son.
When Simon comes home from the hospital, Simon and Derek decide to buy her out. So Derek has a little talk with her. It didn’t go as planned and he decides not to tell Nikki about it. Nikki decides that if her wedding was to happen, she was going to have to figure out who killed Kenny and who wanted her dead. Wanting the wedding to happen as well, Derek decides he’s in. Andres gives Nikki a clue. Some photos from his computer that Renee took. Simon goes with her to confront her and learns that someone snuck into the wedding and told pictures. Apparently she’s writing an unofficial biography.
As Simon and Marco are dropping off Violet with Derek and Nikki, Simon let slip that Andres gave Nikki the photos and said that he is still in love with her.
In bed that night, Derek gets mad that she didn’t tell him and Nikki gets mad that he didn’t tell her that in order for Patrice to be bought out, she wants Nikki to sign a prenuptial agreement and forfeit any money. They decide to be truthful with each other from there on out. Deciding to be honest, Derek drops a bombshell and Nikki packs her bags and decides to leave. She goes to stay at a hotel and cries. The next day she wants to get to the bottom of things and talks to Lily. Lily tells the truth and after talking with Jonah, she goes back home, where she sees Derek crying. When he sees her, he says that “they need to fix it.” He also tells her that Tristan has been arrested for stabbing Savannah.
The next day, Nikki goes to see Savannah, where Savannah pretty much tried to say that Tristan didn’t do it and she even says Nancy’s name. After doing some research she realizes that Nancy didn’t do it. As she realizes that, she also realizes that she’s not alone. She’s tied up and the killer lets her know why he did what he did. As he’s talking Derek walks through the door and the killer points a gun at him. A shot goes off just as the killer cuts Nikki’s throat.
Nikki wakes up in the hospital surrounded by Simon and Derek. Marco and Violet are in the cafeteria. Derek tells her what happened and lets her know he killed the murderer. He asks her if she still wants to get married and she says yes.
I’m not going to tell you the rest since I’ve pretty much told you the entire story. I’ll leave a little mystery to the review.
This was my favorite book of the series. Maybe it’s the romantic in me. Or maybe it’s because I’ve wanted them to be together for so long and its finally happened.
This book deserves 2 Kudos times 2. Hands down one of my favorite books. I hope she continues to write the series because I can’t get enough. Awesome Awesome job Michele Scott. Awesome!
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