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Forever Innocent
by Deanna Roy
Publication date: October 1st 2013
Genres: Contemporary, New Adult, Romance
Publication date: October 1st 2013
Genres: Contemporary, New Adult, Romance
“Our baby died on prom night, and nothing was ever the same again.”
Corabelle doesn’t feel like any of the other college girls. On what should have been one of the happiest nights of her life, she and her boyfriend Gavin watched a nurse disconnect the ventilator from their seven-day-old baby. During the funeral two days later, Gavin walked out and never returned.
Since then, her life has been a spiral of disasters. The only thing that has helped is her ability to black out whenever the pain gets too hard to bear, a habit that has become an addiction.
When Gavin shows up in her astronomy class four years later, he is hell-bent on getting her back, insisting she forgive him. Corabelle knows she can’t resist the touch that fills the empty ache that has haunted her since he left. But if he learns what she has done, if he follows the trail back through her past, her secrets will destroy their love completely. And once again, she’ll lose the only person who always believed she was innocent.
Corabelle doesn’t feel like any of the other college girls. On what should have been one of the happiest nights of her life, she and her boyfriend Gavin watched a nurse disconnect the ventilator from their seven-day-old baby. During the funeral two days later, Gavin walked out and never returned.
Since then, her life has been a spiral of disasters. The only thing that has helped is her ability to black out whenever the pain gets too hard to bear, a habit that has become an addiction.
When Gavin shows up in her astronomy class four years later, he is hell-bent on getting her back, insisting she forgive him. Corabelle knows she can’t resist the touch that fills the empty ache that has haunted her since he left. But if he learns what she has done, if he follows the trail back through her past, her secrets will destroy their love completely. And once again, she’ll lose the only person who always believed she was innocent.
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Deanna Roy is a sucker for romance and drama and dumps hefty amounts of both in her novels. She is also a powerful advocate for baby loss moms and has founded multiple support groups for women, from teens on up, who endure this impossible heartache. Her other novels include Baby Dust and Stella & Dane: A Honky Tonk Romance.
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Excerpt
Gavin took my
hand and led us across the rooftop to the far corner, away from the other
students working on their astronomy labs.
ìLie here with
me,î he said and set his backpack down. He squeezed my fingers as he let go, and
I wished we had walked some great distance, just to feel his hand on mine a
little longer.
I laid my pack
next to his and we stretched out on the bumpy surface of the roof, staring up at
the stars.
ìSo how long
have we both lived in the same city and not known it?î he asked.
ìI got here a
year ago.î
ìA whole year."
He turned his face to mine. ìSeems like the world wants us to at least be
friends again.î
I didnít know
which words to get stuck on. Friends. Or at least. ìSeems like it.î
ìYou think
weíre the only ones who still think about Finn?î
Just hearing
our baby's name out here in the open, with the heavens wide above, made my
throat get tight. ìI donít know. He really only ever belonged to you and
me.î
I kept my eyes
up on the stars. The Big Dipper rested neatly in the sky, surrounded by lesser
bits of light, and I understood now how it all fit together. Some moments of our
lives were vivid and strong, hanging among all the other memories, not to be
forgotten. Our baby was that constellation for us, and no matter where we
looked, no matter what other stars dotted our sky, he would always be there, the
biggest and the brightest of them all.
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Thanks for being on the tour, Sassy!
ReplyDeleteNo, I married the love of my life at 19 and we have been married for 18 years. Thank u for the giveaway.
ReplyDeleteNo, My first chance and I didn't work out, and I still haven't found another. Thanks for sharing the great sounding book and the giveaway. evamillien at gmail dot com
ReplyDeleteNope. Never found anyone to be in love with yet. Sad as that sounds. Thanks for the excerpt and giveaway!
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