CAN’T GO BACK
When Jillian moved next door, she refused to get out of the car.
I climbed into the backseat beside her and promised to never leave her.
Now, I'm driving her a thousand miles away, so she can
leave me.
She has to go. What else would she do? Follow me and my band
from one cheap bar to another, get hit on by sleazy promoters? Because Jillian
would definitely get hit on. She's the most gorgeous, talented girl I've ever
known, and she doesn't even see it.
This scholarship gives Jillian the chance to study at the best
design school in the country. It's what she's always wanted. I won't stand in
the way of her dreams, no matter how much it hurts to watch her go. I just wish
she wasn't leaving without knowing the truth . . .
There's a drawer I never open. It holds a picture I never look
at. It reminds me of a day I hate to remember, but I'll never forget.
I'd give anything to be like the other girls on campus. Going to
parties, flirting with boys, planning for a future. But that's not me. And
hasn't been since the day my parents died. The only thing that got me through
was Griffin. Even though I didn't have my family, I always had him. Only, now
I'm not so sure I do.
It's not just the eleven hundred miles separating us now that
I'm at college. Or his band finally taking off, and all the gigs and girls
suddenly demanding his time. It's as if everything is different-the way we
talk, the way we text . . . the way he looks at me and the way those looks make
me feel.
Griffin has been the only good thing in my life since that
horrific day. But I can feel our friendship slipping away-and I'm terrified of
what will be left in its place . . .
THE TURNING POINT
It's funny how a piece of paper can change your life-a diploma,
a ticket . . . a plain, white envelope
For as long as I could remember, I was the girl with the plan.
Good college, good medical school, good career. I would save lives instead of
standing by helplessly, watching while they slipped away.
That was before my father called for the first time in fifteen
years to tell me about the terminal illness stealing his life-an illness that
might be stealing mine, too. It was before he gave me the name of a doctor and
a plane ticket to Italy. Before I flew across an ocean. Before I realized how
brilliantly bright life could be. Before I met Lucas.
He's everything I've always wanted, and the timing couldn't be
worse. I can't do this to him-he deserves so much better. My head tells me I
can't afford to fall in love with Lucas, but my heart won't listen. Lucas is
fearless about the future, while I'm not even sure I have one. There's only one
way to know what's ahead and it's waiting for me at home inside a plain, white
envelope.
All I have to do, is open it . . .
I
thought I'd live in silence forever . . . and then I met him.
I'll
never be able to hear, but music has always been a source of comfort for me.
Rather than listen to the rhythm, I can actually feel the beat pulsing through
me. It's pure bliss. So the moment I saw Thorin playing his guitar, I
was mesmerized. I'd never seen anything more beautiful . . . or intimate. I
couldn't tell where his body ended and the song began. He's everything I need
in my life . . . I'm falling fast, hard, and deep.
I want him more than anything. But while I live
in silence, Thor lives in secrets. He's holding something back-something that's
keeping this intensity, this longing from being real. And the
silence may be too loud to bear . . .
Sometimes
getting lost is the only way to find your way home . . .
I'm grateful
for many things-my work, my apartment, my amazing friends. But after that night
years ago, I'm left with an aching weight I can't escape. And it's keeping me
from living and loving the way I desperately want. So when a ruggedly handsome
cop pulls me over, I'm shocked by what just the sight of him does to
me-stirring up feelings I didn't think were possible again.
Cayden Sinclair is undoubtedly one of the good
guys. A former Marine who's so sexy I can't seem to keep my hands to myself.
But there are things I'm not ready to share, things that could change
everything between us. Cayden deserves to have the life he's always
wanted-which means walking away from him. But I don't know if I'll ever find
the strength to let him go . . .
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ABOUT MARIE
Marie Meyer was a language arts teacher for sixteen years. She
spends her days in the classroom and her nights writing heartfelt new adult
romances that will leave readers clamoring for more. She is a member of RWA and
the St. Louis Writers Guild. Marie's short fiction won honorable mentions from
the St. Louis Writers Guild in 2010 and 2011. She is a proud mommy and enjoys
helping her oldest daughter train for the Special Olympics, making up silly
stories with her youngest daughter, and bingeing on weeks of DVR'd television
shows with her husband. Marie is represented by Louise Fury of the Bent Agency.
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