Release Date: 23 October 2018
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Trailer park born and raised. It’s my legacy. That’s how my mama lived. And that’s how her mama lived. It’s the life I was born into and it’s the life I swore I would leave the second I was old enough to make it out.
Only legacies have a funny way of sneaking up on you. An innocent decision the night of high school graduation led to a series of complications in my plans to escape.
Seven years later, I’ve resigned myself to this small town and the roots I’m tied to. Nothing could make me leave. And nothing could make me spill the secrets that keep me here.
Until he walks back into town with a chip on his shoulder and a stupid hunch nobody else in town has been smart enough to follow.
Levi Cole is my opposite. Born on the right side of the tracks with family money to spare, he’s the kind of black sheep that can afford to be rebellious—because his family will always pay for his mistakes. He’s also the only living heir to Cole Family Farms, after his brother Logan was killed in duty seven years ago.
He sees something in my life that he thinks he has a right to. But he’s wrong. And obnoxious. And he needs to take his stubborn good looks and that intense way he looks at me and go back to wherever it was he came from.
I know better than to trust men like him. I was born and raised in a trailer park, I know nothing good happens to girls like me—girls with trailer park lives and trailer park hearts. Especially from gorgeous, kind, pigheaded men like him.
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He stared at me, unspeaking, unmoving. The hurt in his eyes and the frown on his face devastated my already broken spirit.
“And I don’t even know what to tell you,” I cried some more. “Because my mistake led me to Max and for that reason I can never really regret it. But I hate how I hurt you. I hate that my mistakes meant pushing you away. I hate that I finally know how I feel about you and it’s too late.”
His eyes flashed with something so intense I gasped for breath. “How do you feel about me?” How could he ask me that now? How did he not know? How had he not always known? “Don’t make me say it,” I whispered, my voice dragged over gravel. “It hurts too much.” “Ruby,” he pleaded, his voice just as fragmented. “Say it. Please.”
I didn’t bother brushing away the tears, there were too many of them, my grief was too heavy. “I love you,” I whispered. “I’ve always loved you. I’ve just been too afraid to say it.”
To admit it.
My Review 5 STARS
**My thanks to the author for providing me with a free copy for an honest review**
Holy Cannoli, this book was epic, and has left me with a book hangover!
The chemistry between Levi and Ruby is certainly juvenile during high school, but when Levi comes back into town and finds Ruby still there and single, the game is on and the secrets that have been hidden come out.
Ruby is a very hard working woman like her mother, but because she was raised in a trailer park, she never believes that she is worth much and fences herself off from those that could have been her friends. She becomes blind to what others could have really wanted if only she put herself out there and took a risk.
Levi is a strong character and challenges Ruby from the moment he see's her in high school. When he comes back to town he is the only one that makes a connection that known else has about her son and forces Ruby to open not only her mind but her heart to new possibilities and the fact that she is worth more than what she has settled for and believed she could have.
This book was honestly one of the best books that i have read this year and certainly had me in tears at one point.
I would certainly recommend this author and cannot wait to see what she comes out with next.
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