I’m a sucker for books that take place in the forest or remote places like the side of a mountain. Noah and Caleb are in their early 20s and Jake is presumed to be in his mid 40s. When we meet Tiernan she is on the cusp of being 18, a legal adult. Penelope Douglas sure knows how to tug at a persons heartstrings though. However, the dialogue (apart from the steamy scenes) felt a little flat. The atmosphere she set for the book was breathtaking and at times I almost felt like I was on the mountain as well. Credence is the first Penelope Douglas book I’ve ever read and I feel like I was left feeling underwhelmed.

– sexual situations that could be perceived as incestuous. She also realizes that lines blur and rules become easy to break when no one else is watching. As the three of them take her under their wing, teach her to work and survive in the remote woods far away from the rest of the world, she slowly finds her place among them. Sent to live with him and his two sons, Noah and Kaleb, in the mountains of Colorado, Tiernan soon learns that these men now have a say in what she chooses to care and not care about anymore. Jake Van der Berg, her father’s stepbrother and her only living relative, assumes guardianship of Tiernan who is still two months shy of eighteen. But has anything really changed? She’s always been alone, hasn’t she?

The shadow of her parents’ fame followed her everywhere.Īnd when they suddenly pass away, she knows she should be devastated. Shipped off to boarding schools from an early age, it was still impossible to escape the loneliness and carve out a life of her own. The only child of a film producer and his starlet wife, she’s grown up with wealth and privilege but not love or guidance. Tiernan de Haas doesn’t care about anything anymore. Genre & Tags: New Adult, Contemporary Romance, Taboo, Love Triangle, Ménage, Dark, Possessive Hero, Reverse Harem, Tortured Hero, Age Gap, Forced Proximity, Forbidden Love, Jealous Hero, Multiple POV, Emotionally Wounded Hero(s)

Credence by penelope