Samantha Connelly has been on the run since she was seven years old. Forced into Witness Protection after her father saw something he shouldn’t has caused her to learn to blend in. She’s moved, changed her name, and her appearance more times than she can count over the last nineteen years all along wondering if it will ever end. Her handler, Kevin, along with her parents have assured her that it won’t be forever, but as the years tick by she’s slowly given up hope that she’ll ever be normal.
Now at 26, Sam has moved to Chicago and is working at the Rusty Nail as a bartender calling herself Mallory. Her father passed away two years before leaving her to finish what he started…put away the ‘bad guys’. Living on the run in hiding has been harder than she ever imagined, and finding love has always been out of the question. Who would want to be with someone they couldn’t be honest with? She’s resigned herself to being alone, until… Brian walks in.
Brian Sellers is everything Sam has been trying to avoid her entire life. He’s clad in leather and torn jeans, donning several tattoos…all-in-all a bad boy. When their eyes connect one evening, everything she’s ever told herself falls to the wayside as an indescribable draw pulls her to him. He’s sexy and domineering, and something about him reminds her of a boy she used to know.
The more time she spends with Brian, the more she wants him, but…Brian is not everything he seems to be. When Sam happens to see the tat on his wrist, the same tat that her father saw all those years ago, she realizes she’s flirting with the enemy. Brian has no idea that he’s hanging out with the one girl his boss wants dead.
Can Sam hide her identity from the first man she’s had real feelings for? What will Brian do when he finds out who she really is? Can love really conquer all?
Being Nobody is the first book in The Witness series.
Heather D'Agostino weaves a story so amazing in book one of her new Witness Series, Being Nobody, that you will be captivated by the very first page and the intrigue will keep you turning each additional page with such anticipation that you will not be able to put it down! A book like none other that I have read, the reader is presented with the topic of the life in witness protection, and what it means for a person to constantly have to reinvent who there are in order to stay alive. This was a 4 star read for me and I will wait with baited breath for the next book to be released because I am dying to know what will come of Sam's future.
"Sam, Emily, Jessica, Susan, Mallory and all the other girls I'd been in my life would have never gone off with someone like this. I was tired of being nobody. I wanted to be somebody and I wanted to be somebody with Brian."
After her father becomes the only surviving witness to a crime when she was just seven years old, Sam is thrown into a life of witness protection with her parents so ensure that they stayed alive while the guilty parties were found and brought to justice. Always having to live a lie and leave at the drop of a hat was difficult for a young girl growing up, never getting close to anyone, never having friends and knowing that you could never let anyone get close enough to learn about who you really were. Sam, who now goes by Mallory, is living on her own in Chicago, just minutes away from her mother, where she works as a bartender. Not being able to attend college because she was never in one place long enough to attend school, she doesn't have many choices for a career and she yearns for something more in her life. Mallory seems to get her wish to have someone to love when she meets Brian at the bar where she works and he came in as a patron.
Sam only loved one other person in her life when she was seventeen years old and living in New York as Emily. She always felt that Devlin could see through her, see through the lies to the person that she really was, see that she was more than the facade that she always had to maintain. Her heart was broken when circumstances forced her to relocate yet again and she had to leave Devlin without so much as a goodbye. Thinking of him throughout the years, Sam made sure that any interactions that she had with the opposite sex were simple, and only for sex, no relationships were allowed, because with relationships came questions and a trust that she couldn't afford to have. That is until Brian took a seat at the bar one night.
Sam was drawn to a familiarity with Brian and she immediately wanted to trust him. The chemistry between them was palpable and after spending the day with him she discovered her worst nightmare. His wrist bore the tattoo of the criminals that had put her family in witness protection in the first place. Knowing that she needed to walk away from him but not knowing how to, Sam slowly began to let Brian in and she learned to trust him, even though she knew he was hiding secrets of his own that he refused to talk about. After realizing that she is in love with him and not wanting to walk away, she turns her back on her mother and chooses a life with Brian instead. It is only when he discovers her box of identities that she actually fears for her life and calls her handler to be relocated, and it is then when everything she thought she knew and everything that she believed changed in an instant. The ending of this book had me gasping in shock and cheering at the same time, making me wish that the next book was available for me to read right now! You NEED to run to get this book, you will be far from disappointed!
"I wasn't nobody any more. Brian had finally made me somebody. I was somebody to someone, and it felt better than I could have ever imagined."
