Blog Tour::: Enough Time: Truth.Redemption.Trust by Alexis Riddley

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Title: Enough Time: Truth.Redemption.Trust

Author: Alexis Riddley

Genre: Dark Erotic Thriller

Alexis's Muse: Marshall Arkley

Cover Designer: Tiffany Huegele

Release Date: October 13, 2015

I was raw, exposed like a nerve with no protection from the present, nor the horror of my past. Winston West was a man I no longer knew. He was an illusion, an enigma of a life that I once led. So how was I alive? Oxygen was inhaled, life sustained, but I was dead inside. Such a cliche.

To the outside world I was strong, confident, determined. But when you got close, and really looked at the man in front of you, that’s when the ugly showed itself. The demons of my past played over and over in my head. I saw the world through jaded eyes.

Life with Charlie was bright, vibrant. Moments and memories existed in technicolor. That was gone. An epic sequence of events which ended in a collision of fantasy and reality. I couldn’t even say her name; that was too real, too painful. I had made her a vow, a promise and I was struggling to keep it. No more lies, no more secrets.

I thought the sins of the past were buried deep. That they would never resurface. I was dead wrong. One phone call, one insignificant event in a life so off course, begins to shatter what sanity I had left.

I was prepared to give up. Chalk my life up to a mistake of biblical proportions when she appears. I didn’t want to like her, let alone need her. Funny thing is, I wasn’t the only one harboring secrets. Could I become the person I needed to be, that she deserved? Was I even worthy of redemption?

What she offered to me was something I never thought I deserved.

Hope.

Amazon US

5 of 5 Hearts

Just in case you do not want any spoilers, here is how I sum this up for you. From the darkest dark there comes light. With a little hope and faith, anyone can persevere. This book made my little heart happy.

The moment Alexis Riddley announced she was releasing another book; I did a little happy dance. I could not wait to dive into the mysterious Winston West’s head. Alexis’s first book was such a mind twist in the best of ways, that I could not wait to wait and see what she had for us this time. With Enough Secrets, what I thought was going on and what truly was going on was never the case.

I must say Alexis did not let me down with how I envisioned Winston West in this book. From Winston’s heartache to his snark, it was exactly how I seen him in my mind. Even when the saucy Kacie throws him for a loop, it is how I could see this once broody man handling the situation.  

“I need you to know that my heart is torn into pieces. It’s like you are pulling back all the layers that I have hidden behind my entire life, even with Charlie. You expose me.” Winston West

When this book starts, poor Winston was doing his best to survive and not succumb to his grief. Man oh man!! I wanted to scoop this man up into a monster bear hug and tell him everything will be okay.  I could feel his pain and just wanted to make it all better.

The more desperate I was to be someone’s everything, the more I became both of our nothings. ~Poet Darcy

Winston was lost and when you are lost, you make mistakes not even though you do not mean too. It killed me reading some parts when I knew in my heart Winston would regret his actions. Even if they were hot has hell when he did them. He was doing whatever he could just to tread water until a saucy woman named Kacey Reese came crashing into his life.  I absolutely loved how Kacie pushed Winston and made him strive to be more than he ever imagined he could be. I smiled so many times as Winston came back to life and fought to be more.

My girl Kacie Reese was a firecracker to be reckoned with. She was good at what she did and everyone knew it. Kacie had her own demons she hid from the world. Not wanting anyone to know she suffered too. Kacie needed Winston more than she ever wanted to admit in the beginning. I loved the tango she played with him until she gave in and wanted more. She just had no clue that Winston’s secrets could run so deep.

“Kacie, what are you doing to me?”

Watching these to fight to me something together was something special. I loved how Alexis Riddley unraveled this story. The ending of this book was just freaking beautiful.  Not everything is butterflies and roses in life and Alexis showed us just that.

Everything comes full circle in life even if you do not think it could ever happen.

Alexis Riddley spends her day’s knee deep in the grind of corporate America, but her love of reading is what pushed her to put pen to paper. Bringing to life the stories that once existed only in her head. Alexis loves the outdoors, adventures, and music. Oftentimes music is the catalyst or the trigger for memories, and emotions that she uses in her writing. Alexis rarely watches television, but is a total comic book freak, superheroes, the whole lot of them. She is obsessed. Alexis is willing to try anything, at least once, as long as it keeps the soul free and the mind open. She is a kid at heart who refuses to let age define her and limitations contain her. Alexis is a romantic, with a twisted mind and sexy imagination. She still believes that happy endings exist, just that sometimes they do not come in the pretty packaging you may have expected.