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I was lucky enough to receive an ARC of Stripped and boy is everyone in for another great story on September 2nd. The story of Jonathan Ferro is just as riveting, suspenseful, exciting and heartbreaking as Sean and Peter's stories. Although this book (at the moment) is focused on Cassie and Jon's past meeting and present day reunion rather than crazy external forces, you can tell a crazy psycho will soon emerge just like the other books. As with all the books you get a soft spot in your heart for yet another brother, and find yourself being a cheerleader to him getting the girl and finding love and happiness. My heart also broke for Cassie, a good girl looking for love only to have dreams and ideals shattered in many areas of her life both past and present. I still feel sadness for as I think about it writing this review. With more to the series to come I am eager to find out how things play out. For those of you who just started reading HM Ward or this is your first look at one of her books, I want to give you a heads up and let you know she has several series and intertwines the characters into the various series'. This book includes characters/mentions from the "The Arrangement", Damages 1&2, Scandalous, and Secrets of Trystan Scott series. HM Ward is clever and amazing how she does this. I would recommend you at least read Damaged 1&2 and the Trystan Scott series prior to starting this one as those characters are a little more prominent and have something to do with the plot than the other two. If you don't you may find this book spoils some of their endings. However, if you can read them all prior you will have a better understanding of the all characters. I even found myself referring back to each series to figure out timelines, ages, and to see if some situations/comments match up. I only found one discrepancy :-) Kuddos and congrats to HM Ward on another amazing, yet addicting series.