Adult Contemporary Romance, touching on YA/NA through flashbacks
Release: March 2, 2015
***This book contains language and sexual content****
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Synopsis
This is a love story that is told through Adelyn Winters’ and Trey Masterson’s POV and reflects the time they met in high school to the present day.
I’m in limbo. If you look close, you’ll see that I’m basically going through the motions. If you look even closer, you’ll see that I’m empty and frustrated as hell with my life.
And then it arrives. That four by six card that tells me ten years have gone by when I wasn’t paying attention. I’m paying attention now.
Pulling my dusty box of memories from the closet shelf, my index finger slowly sifts through the keepsakes that represent the aura of Trey Masterson. The boy who moved from Missouri to Vermont and swept me off my feet the first day of our sophomore year. The boy who I never thought I’d have a chance with but he only had eyes for me. The boy I fell in love with and never stopped.
When we see each other again at our high school reunion, every feeling I ever had for him bleeds from my heart and leaks into every cell of my existence, and I finally feel like I can breathe for the first time in years. I don’t quite get the same reaction from him. In fact, his reaction is downright…cold?
Never knowing the reason of our undoing after I went away to college, I just want some closure. But we can’t seem to carry on a conversation without sparking a slew of emotions - each word igniting all the hurt that’s been buried for ten years.
During the week of our stay in our small town in Vermont, we keep crossing paths but jealousy, bitterness and tragedy threaten to hinder any hopes of possibly rekindling the passion we once shared.
Review
This is a sweet story about second chance at love, about rekindling a relationship that went up in flames due to misunderstandings and misconceptions.
Two people who loved each other dearly early in life, get separated and ten years later come back to their high school reunion. Little by little the story unfolds and we find out not only what happened that caused the separation, but also what they've been through those long lost ten years.
I'm usually not a fan of books that keep changing from the present to the past but I have to say that the author did an excellent job with the transitions throughout the story, making it seamless.
The characters are very likeable and I really identified with Adelyn and the choices she made. My heart went out to her, she made what she thought was a good choice, but in the end the heart wants what it wants and her decision cost her dearly. I liked Trey too, but his wishy whashy thing with Amanda really made me mad at times. Ugh Amanda, one of those characters that I just can't stand, no matter if she redeems herself at the end.
Two things that I found bothered me a bit, the unnecessary details at times when the story went back to the past, inconsequential things that the story could've done without because the big issues were there and there were well expressed. The other thing that I thought was a bit redundant was when the author made a statement and then felt the need to clarify what she said with "meaning this or that," in my opinion there was no need for that when it was clearly told what she meant in the first place. But these are just things that the critical eye in me saw and maybe will no bother other readers.
All and all, this is a very sweet story. Sometimes soulmates need to separate to grow, to experience things that perhaps they needed to learn before they get together with the one they are meant to be.
Now, can we talk Luke, Trey's brother? That boy needs a book STAT! I hope he gets it and I can't wait!
About the Author
Stacy Wray has always enjoyed writing growing up and wrote for her high school newspaper. It wasn't until recently when her husband challenged her to write a book that she decided to give it a go, writing "The Girl from the Kitchen Store" in September 2014. Her second book "Unclaimed Regrets" was released in March 2015. With her two children full grown, she spends extra time reading, re-modeling her home room-by-room, and hanging with family. She works in the family business in accounting in Kokomo, Indiana and is currently working on her third book "Finding Karma."
I’m in limbo. If you look close, you’ll see that I’m basically going through the motions. If you look even closer, you’ll see that I’m empty and frustrated as hell with my life.
And then it arrives. That four by six card that tells me ten years have gone by when I wasn’t paying attention. I’m paying attention now.
Pulling my dusty box of memories from the closet shelf, my index finger slowly sifts through the keepsakes that represent the aura of Trey Masterson. The boy who moved from Missouri to Vermont and swept me off my feet the first day of our sophomore year. The boy who I never thought I’d have a chance with but he only had eyes for me. The boy I fell in love with and never stopped.
When we see each other again at our high school reunion, every feeling I ever had for him bleeds from my heart and leaks into every cell of my existence, and I finally feel like I can breathe for the first time in years. I don’t quite get the same reaction from him. In fact, his reaction is downright…cold?
Never knowing the reason of our undoing after I went away to college, I just want some closure. But we can’t seem to carry on a conversation without sparking a slew of emotions - each word igniting all the hurt that’s been buried for ten years.
During the week of our stay in our small town in Vermont, we keep crossing paths but jealousy, bitterness and tragedy threaten to hinder any hopes of possibly rekindling the passion we once shared.
Review
This is a sweet story about second chance at love, about rekindling a relationship that went up in flames due to misunderstandings and misconceptions.
Two people who loved each other dearly early in life, get separated and ten years later come back to their high school reunion. Little by little the story unfolds and we find out not only what happened that caused the separation, but also what they've been through those long lost ten years.
I'm usually not a fan of books that keep changing from the present to the past but I have to say that the author did an excellent job with the transitions throughout the story, making it seamless.
The characters are very likeable and I really identified with Adelyn and the choices she made. My heart went out to her, she made what she thought was a good choice, but in the end the heart wants what it wants and her decision cost her dearly. I liked Trey too, but his wishy whashy thing with Amanda really made me mad at times. Ugh Amanda, one of those characters that I just can't stand, no matter if she redeems herself at the end.
Two things that I found bothered me a bit, the unnecessary details at times when the story went back to the past, inconsequential things that the story could've done without because the big issues were there and there were well expressed. The other thing that I thought was a bit redundant was when the author made a statement and then felt the need to clarify what she said with "meaning this or that," in my opinion there was no need for that when it was clearly told what she meant in the first place. But these are just things that the critical eye in me saw and maybe will no bother other readers.
All and all, this is a very sweet story. Sometimes soulmates need to separate to grow, to experience things that perhaps they needed to learn before they get together with the one they are meant to be.
Now, can we talk Luke, Trey's brother? That boy needs a book STAT! I hope he gets it and I can't wait!
About the Author
Stacy Wray has always enjoyed writing growing up and wrote for her high school newspaper. It wasn't until recently when her husband challenged her to write a book that she decided to give it a go, writing "The Girl from the Kitchen Store" in September 2014. Her second book "Unclaimed Regrets" was released in March 2015. With her two children full grown, she spends extra time reading, re-modeling her home room-by-room, and hanging with family. She works in the family business in accounting in Kokomo, Indiana and is currently working on her third book "Finding Karma."
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