Safe at Last by Maya Banks Review

Safe at Last by Maya Banks

A Slow Burn Novel

The third book in the beloved #1 bestselling author’s sexy, romantic suspense Slow Burn series…

They say young love doesn’t last, but a girl from the wrong side of the tracks with unique abilities and the hometown golden boy were determined to defy the odds. For Zack Covington, Anna-Grace—his “Gracie”—was the one. Until one night forever alters the course of their future, when a devastated Gracie disappears without a trace, leaving Zack to agonize over what happened to the girl he loved. As the years pass, his desperate efforts to find her uncovered nothing.

Now working for Devereaux Security, he stumbles across a painting featuring a special place only he and Gracie would know. The image is too perfectly rendered for it to be coincidence. His Gracie must be alive. When he finally tracks her down, he is shocked—and heart-broken—to discover the wounded shell of the girl he once knew and still loves. Her psychic gifts are gone, and worse, she believes he betrayed her all those years ago.

Zack has enemies, and once his weakness is discovered, Gracie becomes a target for revenge. He’ll have to save her before he can earn her trust and her love. And he vows they’ll never be torn apart again.

Disclosure: Paperback copy received from publisher in exchange for honest review. All opinions are completely my own.

My Review

His familiar scent, unchanged in twelve years, enveloped her. Being in his arms gaver her a deep sense of … homecoming.

And nothing had ever felt so sweet.

Safe at Last by Maya Banks is an engaging, suspenseful story with well rounded characters.

I will start with the fact that this is my first time reading Maya Banks. This is the third book in the Slow Burn Series, but even reading without the first two novels, I didn’t feel lost or disconnected from the characters.

Most of the story deals with tragedy and deceit that happened twelve years ago and the fact that both Zack and Gracie each lost so much at that time. They were both separated and didn’t know what happened to the other until fate intervenes and throws them together.

I’m unsure of how to describe Gracie, as she lost so much and had to deal with so much at such a young age that she is near hysterical every time she sees our hero. I think that Maya Banks has such a way with words and has given us a perfect hero that needs to be saved himself.

Once we’re inside of Gracie’s head we see how all of this heartache has made her the scared woman that she is today. I don’t know if anyone could be strong after the ordeal she lived through.

Safe at Last weaves second chance romance elements with suspense and paranormal elements to bring us a well rounded story. Once I started the book, I couldn’t put it down. It seems that the next couple may be Eliza and Wade because there seems to be a spark there.

★ ★ ★ ★ Stars