

While most of the book is seen through Tiernan’s POV, we do get chapters from the three guys and I thought it was clever how PD changed those as the story went on in tandem with the shift of ‘love interests’. The first half of the book is a bit of a slow burn as we’re introduced to the main characters: Tiernan, Jake, Noah and Kaleb. PD also does something with these characters that had me wholly invested in their story that I literally stayed up all night to finish this almost 500-page book. That said, Penelope Douglas masterfully sets the scene in the remote mountains and it really does feel like anything can happen-and it does, obvi.

It’s taboo AF and there’s a lot of outrageous things that won’t sit well with many readers (dub con, bullying, violence) so I would highly recommend checking out content/trigger warnings before picking it up. TL DR: This book is not going to be for everyone but I’m glad I gave Penelope Douglas another try with this book. *Credence is a full length, stand-alone romance suitable for readers 18+. She also realizes that lines blur and rules become easy to break when no one else is watching. 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.Īs 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. 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. Three of them, one of her, and a remote cabin in the woods.
