Author: Ella Fox

Genre: Contemporary Romance

 

Donovan Beckett is a recluse who wants no commitments or entanglements of any kind. He works hard to ensure no one can penetrate the wall he’s carefully constructed around himself—until the day his new neighbor stumbles into him. 

It isn’t anything like instant love. Far from it. 

Eden Avery doesn’t want to be curious about her neighbor. He’s the most infuriating and closed-off person she’s ever met—not to mention the rudest. She doesn’t want to find the uptight bastard irresistible and she shouldn’t be able to sense the minute he’s within spitting distance, but does. She really shouldn’t fantasize about his hands on her body, but that’s happening too. 

They can fight it all they want, but nothing can stop the mutual attraction that’s about to disrupt both of their lives.

Eden Avery’s life has dealt her blow after blow in the last few months of her life – actually it has never been the same since her mother and grandmother deaths – so when an amazing opportunity shows up in her desperate situation, so holds on to it like a lifeline.

What she could never imagine is that in this new adventure in a charming Inn in the most adorable small town would bring her face to face with a man like she never met before.

Jet black lashes frame the most beautiful deep blue eyes I’ve ever seen, and right now they’re transmitting one message loud and clear—stay the hell back. I’ve never come across anyone less inviting in all my life.

It’s official. In addition to being crazy gorgeous, Donovan Beckett is the most infuriating man alive.

And what a first meeting it was! Donovan Beckett really left an impression!

Donovan showed all his growly and ‘keep away’ self. But there was something deep down that made Eden – and ourselves – look closer. She felt something in him calling to her, and she could she clear as day he was a broken man. A man that pushed everyone away so that they couldn’t look deeper and see his pain.

Donovan Beckett is a tidal force and for a second there he let me ride the wave. For reasons I can’t readily identify, that feels like a victory.

Eden, though, could see right trough him, and that is what scared him the most. This tiny beautiful woman, with one look, shook his world to the core, and he just didn’t know how to react to all she made him feel. It was not only the pull they instantly felt towards one another, he just knew she had the potential to change his all life. One that until now he wasn’t living, but barely surviving…

Keeping other people at arm’s length—fuck, well past that—is easy for me. So easy that it’s more than just my default—it’s become second nature. Except when it comes to Eden Avery. 
She’s single-handedly putting cracks in walls I need in place in order to survive.

I’m celibate and damn good at it because the idea of being touched makes me ill. Until now. Until her. I want to fuck, mark, protect, and claim her as mine.

Ever since then I’ve been far, far nicer to her than I should be because it feels like being an asshole to her is equivalent to kicking an angel.

I will not reveal his background, because that would be spoiling this extremely emotional journey for you, but from the start you – along Eden – can imagine he’s hiding something monumentally painful that shattered him to the reclusive and shadow living. 

Ella Fox truly outdid herself with this story, the emotional charge, and all the raw feelings we could feel in these two, cemented from the start that this two broken souls needed each other to heal. Two halves fated to become one.

Never in my life have I felt anything like the carnality and emotion of this, the sensation of being untethered to anything but him so extreme I briefly wonder if there’s an earthquake, then realize it’s not the earth shifting beneath me. It’s just Donovan.

All this emotions they brought up on one another, and the intensity of their attraction, and though that intrigued Eden, and like the bright sunshine that she was, she was compelled to get close to Donovan, and help his heal in some way, even if only in a friendly way, Donovan, the prickly man himself, tried his best to keep her away. He thought himself to broken beyond hope, and Eden too good and too pure to be tainted by the shadow of a man he was.

This tiny beautiful woman practically has a goddamn halo and I’m nothing but a broken-down husk of a man who shouldn’t be anywhere near her.

I never forget what I’ve lost—ever—but when my focus is on her, a big part of me wants to be better—to actually try living instead of just pretending to.

Not only is their love story, the stuff epic ROMANCES are made of, but I have to stand out the incredible secondary characters that I hoping – and begging – Ms. Fox will give us more inkling into, and maybe a book of their own for all that younger crew (specially Julie and Morrow) that like Maggie and Ron,  welcomed Eden into their fold, and became her family in every way. They gave the story the perfect lightness and fun to go along with the heavy emotional moments and made the book a journey through out the ALL the possible emotions, and something that I devoured from start to finish.

Once all was unveiled and Donovan allowed himself to feel, and heal his heart, with Eden’s help, I have to say, OH BOY… Was he the PERFECT ALPHA! His love and devotion to Eden was everything a girl dreams of, and a true confirmation of what we saw from the start. They were the definition of soulmate!

Deep, deep down in the depths of my soul, the very thing that makes me who and what I am, I feel him.

“What’s happening right now?” I ask softly. 
“What’s happening is I can’t fight it anymore. You’re fucking mine,” he answers, his voice deadly serious. “No more resistance, no more bullshit. We’re happening.”

I have no words to describe how much I ADORE this emotional and unforgettable journey Ms. Fox took us on, in Disrupt. Eden and Donovan, along with their amazing story are now on my top of favorite reads of this year. Their über emotional, sweet, complex, sexy and extraordinary tale is just as EPIC as her love, and will be forever branded in my heart. I can’t wait to see what Ella Fox will give us next! <3 <3 <3 <3 <3

The man who spent so much time trying to get away from me somehow became my whole world.

As long as there is life, there’s a chance to make it right. I won’t ever lose sight of that.