What a great story about loss and getting over a profound grief! Dayna lost her big brother to cancer and it really broke her up. She left her small town of Dupont Beach and went to Boston to study, but what she was really doing was hiding from her grief.
Once she graduated, she got the urge to go back home, to her parents house, and face her sadness. Her boyfriend Josh came with her, but it was immediately apparent to me that he was a Mr. Right Now, not a Mr. Right. And he was quickly turning into a Mr. Wrong! He didn’t mesh with the family, he didn’t like the small town, he had other ideas how he liked to spend his time. So he left for his permanent job in Toledo and they left their future in the air.
Dayna’s parents are so sweet and accepting, and they clearly had already dealt with their loss. Her brother’s best friend Carson, was in town for the summer, and you can tell how close he is to Dayna’s parents, and he’s like an older brother to Dayna. He brought one of his ace hockey players who had been in slight trouble at Lakeshore U and was in a time-out at his house. He has history of anger management (as in, lack of) but he’s such a promising player that he’s being handled.
When Dayna meets Aiden Dumfries, something inside her lit up. The sadness she was carrying inside starts to disappear, she’s coming back to life. He has a bad reputation, but inside the bad boy is a little boy who grew up under his father’s criminal reputation and was constantly on the defensive. Once he feels he has Dayna and her family on his side, all his sharp edges start to smooth out.
I loved this story of a couple who have broken pieces but together make up a complete whole, and each one fill out the hole inside of the other.
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About the author
USA Today and Wall Street Journal bestselling author of over forty mature young adult and new adult novels, LA COTTON is happiest writing the kind of books she loves to read: addictive stories full of teenage angst, tension, twists and turns.
Home is a small town in the middle of England where she currently juggles being a full-time writer with being a mother/referee to two little people. In her spare time (and when she’s not camped out in front of the laptop) you’ll most likely find LA immersed in a book, escaping the chaos that is life.
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