Sunny Shelly’s Review: Orion, by Raeah Wilding

Title: Orion

Series: A Constellations Novel Book 1

Author: Allie Juliette Mousseau writing as Raeah Wilding

Genre: Military Romance

Release: November 7, 2017

Photographer: Michael Stokes Photography @MichaelStokesPhoto

Cover Designer: Sommer Stein at Perfect Pear Creative @PPCCovers

Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35500124-orion

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Blurb:

When U.S. Marine Corp Sgt. Orion MacKinnon loses both his legs in the bloody sands of Afghanistan, he forsakes his soul along with them. After retiring to a remote location in the snowy mountains of Alaska with his Special Forces canine companion—a German Shepherd named Zeus—he becomes a recluse and vows never to wear the prosthetic legs he keeps buried out of sight…
until a lone hiker becomes trapped beneath an avalanche on his mountain.

The woman Orion calls Hope can’t recall a shred of her former life. As he tends to her wounds she slowly begins to unravel the tight seclusion he has wrapped around himself.

She can’t remember her past. He only wants to forget his.

However, the two have more in common with the forces that brought them together than they realize, including the sinister presence that will threaten their very lives.

When their pasts collide, will they survive the future?

Sunny Shelly’s Review: 4 Stars

Orion was the first book I’ve read by Raeah Wilding, so I wasn’t sure what to expect. The blurb pulled me in, but the story kept me turning pages. This book was so much more than a love story between an injure war vet suffering from PTSD and an amnesiac who has no idea who she is or why she was on his secluded Alaskan mountain.

The connection between Orion and Hope, as he calls the mysterious woman, was so sweet. She is literally the woman of his dreams — which I first thought was slightly hokey, but by the time I got to the end of the story, the dreams just worked overall.

I was not expecting the intrigue and suspense involved in this story, but it kept me up into the early hours of the morning because I just had to read one more chapter. And then there is shattered, wounded, broken Orion. How far he’s willing to go to deal with his crippling PTSD to be with Hope is a testament to how deep his love for her runs.

I received an advanced copy and voluntarily left a review.

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Buy Links:

Amazon: http://bit.ly/OrionAMZ

B&N: http://bit.ly/OrionBN

Kobo: http://bit.ly/OrionKobo

iTunes: coming soon

Excerpt:

This is going to hurt both of us irreversibly. There’s no analyzing or rationalizing or examining—no making any fucking sense of this at all—there is only this raw reckoning, a natural force that threatens to consume me. And goddamn it, I want it to. I want it to do its fucking worst.

Author Bio:
Raeah Wilding (also writes as Allie Juliette) writes sexy, emotionally charged New Adult and Adult Romance.
She can usually be found daydreaming and writing about sexy, heroic, alpha males and strong-willed, intelligent women and plotting ways to make them
fall in love.

Allie is the USA Today Bestselling author of the
Brothers of Ink and Steel series and
the Amazon Bestselling True North series.