Water Bound by Christine FeehanMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
Water Bound is the 1st book in Christine Feehan's Sisters of the Heart Series, a spinoff from her Drake Sisters Series.
The synopsis of the series:
Six women of varying age meet in special grief counseling group composed of victims of violent crimes. Each has suffered unbelievable loss. Working through their grief, they learn to love one another and trust only each other. Pooling their resources, they purchase a large farming community. Each has their own home and five acres, sharing the rest of the farm. Though not related by blood, they form a loving family, calling themselves sisters of the heart. These stories are of the sisters and the men who dare to love them.
This is such a beautiful and poignant story about two broken people who help each other find peace and love in their lives.
Rikki, autistic and broken has finally found a place where she is able to lead a normal life, surrounded by her loving and caring sisters. She has a magical connection with water and spends most of her time in the ocean and water friends as she hunts for sea urchins, which she sells for a living.
When she rescues a strange man, near death in the sea, she will have to face all her fears and uncertainties to finally find a human being who she feels so connected with.
Lev Prakenskii is a man without a past or an identity. Trained from childhood by the Soviet government to be a killer, he’s now become expendable and he’s on the run to escape being killed. Rescued from certain death in the swirling waves of Sea Haven, struggling with no memory of who and what he is, he will find himself questioning his life and feelings when he meets his rescuer….
He has made brief appearances in previous books, Turbulent Sea (Drake Sisters #6) and Hidden Currents (Drake Sisters #7) and we know that his brother, Ilya is married to Joely, one of the Drake Sisters. We do get a glimpse of some of the characters that we have met before, which I really enjoyed.
The beginning of the book started a bit slow but I liked the slow build-up of the romance between Lev & Rikki. Even though he was a true alpha-male, he showed a gentleness towards her that was really great.
One of my favorite quotes:
“I know what it's like to battle every day of my life, just for acceptance, just to survive.”
An exciting start to a new series by one of my favorite authors.
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