Crossed Lines
Release Date: August 14, 2019
Blurb
Psychopath. Borderline. Crazy.
Seventeen-year-old Maryanne Mayweather wears each term like a badge of pride. Expelled from her twelfth boarding school, she lands on the doorstep of her flighty aunt Elaine and Elaine’s husband James, one more screw-up away from being made a ward of the state.
Once a successful author, the last thing James Thorne wants is to care for his wife’s bratty teenage niece, especially with his marriage falling apart. When Maryanne crafts an elaborate plan to defame and destroy him, they both discover that words are more powerful than either of them could imagine. And as their relationship goes down a path neither envisioned, the consequences are swift and far-reaching.
Some lines weren’t meant to be crossed.
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My Thoughts <3
Y’all Lana Sky has done it again with this book. It is raw, gritty, and so freaking real. Lana has a way of grabbing your soul as you are reading her books and making sure that you are with her through every word, sentence and chapter. I have always adored her books, but Crossed Lines is a little bit different (in a good way) in that it is not a dark romance but more so psychological.
The book starts with Maryanne and her guardian Thorny talking with the lawyer. Basically she has 3 months until she is 18 and can be unsupervised, she has been kicked out of one boarding school after the other and now she is with the last family member that can take her. There is a catch though, with taking her, her guardian will be given 1 million dollars once she has reached 18 and graduated. This has made Maryanne a bit resentful and she is already borderline psychopathic in that she does not care about others emotions.
James Thorne is a former writer that has his life figured out. Kinda. He sees right through Maryanne’s actions and will not allow her to continue on with how she acted with his sisters, he will not put up with it. This man is complex but married to a flighty character, it is definitely intriguing to say the least.
This book is all about those months that Maryanne and Thorny hash everything out and y’all it was freaking full of the ALL the feels. There are unexpected turns in how things play out and you find out that people wear masks and you cannot always take things the way that they seem. Sometimes you need to dig a bit to truly understand what peoples motives are to understand them. The question is, are you willing to see beneath the service?
All in all, I highly recommend this book. Though a bit taboo, the underlying message and story is just freaking good with tons of twists and turns and deep meaning. There is definitely a bit of a twist at the end though, so definitely be on the look out for that! Great work Lana!
PS: Thanks to Lana Sky for providing an ARC so that I am able to read and review this book honestly! <3
