Wow this book was awesome. We have Soledad Hermosa Barnes aka Beautifully Confident. Soledad Barnes was married to Edward Barnes who works for one of the biggest cookware companies in the world. He handles their money and has little oversight. Then enters Judah Cross a Forensic accountant who is called in to see if the money is going where it is supposed to and or if their something fishy going on with the accounts in the company. Judah Cross, who was once married to Tremaine has two sons who are both autistic and are on different levels on the autism spectrum. Adam and Aaron are twins and are both autistic. Adam is academically gifted and talks more than his brother Aaron. Aaron hardly has any speech. Aaron has this device with pictures and words that speak for him. They are different but brilliant in their own way. So, Judah has the boys during the day because Aaron needs to be near his father and Tremaine their mother has them on the weekends. As this story opens this is three years later than we found out about Judah and his sons, and it happens to be Christmas holiday. We find Soledad who is best friends with Yasmen who we met in the first book of the Skyland series and their friend Hendrix. Soledad is married to Edward Barnes who is an accountant for a worldwide bakeware business. Her husband and her seem to be not on the same page. She wants her husband's attention, and he has excuses for not wanting to touch for even kiss her. She is led to believe that he is so worried about a project he is working on with his assistant Amber and even called her name in his sleep. That should have been a big flag that something is wrong in her marriage, but she is so worried about all her children that she is just beginning to think that maybe there is something wrong with her marriage. Soledad and her husband Edward have three daughters, Lupe, Inez and Lottie. Soledad is part Puerto Rican and part African American, and her husband is Caucasian. So, the daughters all look different. Inez the middle child looks more like her father than Lupe and Lottie. When Edward and Soledad go to the party, he leaves her to go check with Amber on a project they are working on, so he says. At the company Christmas party is where Soledad and Judah Cross find their selves drawn to one another. Edward gets jealous when he sees his wife and Judah talking but we find out why that is so important is because Edward is a cheat and a liar and is embezzling funds from the company that he works for. Judah does not like him, and Edward doesn't like him. We find out later that Judah is a good upstanding man and Edward is a liar and a cheat and his betrayal to his wife and family have reverberating effect on his family. Edward wanted to blame Judah Cross for what happens to him, but we all know that when you lie and cheat eventually it will come to light. So this is the story of Judah Cross a good man who is doing his best to care for two autistic twin sons and Soledad dealing with three girls who lose their father because of the deceit that he has done and she has to find a way to keep them in Skyland in a house and in the private school they go to and how she figures out a way to take care of her own with the things she has done in her family as an influencer. She became an influencer and shared what she does online and even one of her products a dressing for salad went viral, in fact it is called the viral dressing. This book is the development of the relationship between Judah Cross and now Soledad Charles because she has divorced her husband and taken her maiden name back. This book was really awesome. Once I learned that it was in my Kindle, I hurried to read it because Kennedy Ryan is such an amazing writer. This book was well worth the purchase and as I have done with her other books, I will probably be purchasing the paperback version of the book. We found out that a person can have the companionship of another person even though they have been betrayed by another as long as ..."they first love their self. She found out that her mother who had children by two different men had enough love in her to love two different men one who had passion and the other was safe, but she couldn't have done that unless she loved herself first. Then we have the cast of characters from Before I let Go the first book in the Skyland series, Yasmen and Josiah and their daughter Deja and then there is Soledad and Hendrix and Yasmen are all a part of the Skyland community in Atlanta. Loved, loved this book. Highly recommend this book and it was an awesome read, a book that makes you go back and read again like Reel, Before I Let Go and most of Kennedy Ryan's books.

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