Wynter’s Horizon by Dee C. May – a Review

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Description:
College senior, Wynter Murello, has a secret. One so devastating, she can’t even share it with her closest friends. The weight of it drags her down as she tries to forget. And slowly, she begins to come undone. Making mistake after mistake, Wynter finally hits rock bottom when the only other person who knows the truth catches her in his trap. As she spirals down, fate throws her a rope. She meets the mysterious Reginald Beck: handsome, kind and just a bit mysterious. While something about him and his world scares her, their connection is undeniable.

Beck feels it too. She triggers an attraction he has never before felt—and a memory he can’t place. Intrigued and attracted to Wynter, he pursues answers, uncovering secrets about her life—and his own. But some decisions have lasting consequences, and time is running out for the two. Beck’s past is coming back to haunt him, and his supernatural powers have been exposed. Beck and Wynter must confront the truth or risk losing each other, forever.

Review:

Wynter’s Horizon is Dee C. May’s debut novel.  We meet our heroes early on, as both were stuck in limbo, between life and death.  Wynter, having been in a car accident, bloodied and was looking for her friend, who had already passed on.  Beck, close to dying, as he was being tortured. 

But the story picks up in the present, with both having survived and back the real world.  Wynter is in college, hanging with her friends, and secretly still blaming herself for her friend’s death.  Since her friend was the one drunk, and driving, why is Wynter blaming herself?  Seems Wynter was kissing her friend’s boyfriend, and the friend saw the picture, so Wynter feels guilty.  The bad part of this is that the boyfriend, Jason, is a scumbag, and uses Wynter’s guilt to his advantage, and she blinds herself to his deceit.

There is a supernatural twist to this story, as Beck is not totally human, but a very very strong military prepared mercenary, who also has an issue with an uncontrollable temper.  He meets Wynter, and finds himself totally attracted to her.  This is a story of coming to terms with your life, finding the right person, and moving on.  Beck and Wynter belong together, you want to see them make it, especially if they get past their own issues. 

The side story is a former colleague of Beck’s is trying to kill all members of Beck’s team.  So Beck has to go with his friend Quinn to help try to find the killer.  Of course, this leaves Wynter, who knows nothing of Beck’s life, alone for Jason to continually make Wynter feel guilty, forcing her to have sex with him, then treating her like a slut. 

This was an interesting story, but there were some things I did not like, that made it harder for me to fully enjoy the story.  I did find Dee C. May’s writing excellent, and she has made some very good characters, that I would love to learn more about.  With that said, I found the story was very slow to start, going back and forth between Beck and Wynter’s POV; I hated Jason so much, and what he was doing to her, that it did ruin it for me; along that line, I wanted to smack Wynter quite a few times, as her friends tried to do, for being so stupid; and the ending was sort of open ended for a possible sequel. Despite those things, if May doesn’t have Jason in her next book, then I will most certainly read it, as I do want to see Beck and Wynter’s romance develop even more, and see more of those great secondary characters.

Reviewed by Barb

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