Publication Date:
January 13, 2015
Publisher: Grand
Central Publishing
Series: Finding Fate # 1
Pixie Marshall wishes
every day she could turn back time and fix the past. But she can't. And the
damage is done. She's hoping that a summer of free room and board working with
her aunt at the Willow Inn will help her forget. Except there's a problem: the resident
handyman is none other than Levi Andrews. The handsome quarterback was once her
friend-and maybe more-until everything changed in a life-shattering instant.
She was hoping to avoid him, possibly forever. Now he's right down the hall and
stirring up feelings Pixie thought she'd long buried . . .
Levi can't believe he's living with the one person who holds all his painful memories. More than anything he wants to make things right, but a simple "sorry" won't suffice-not when the tragedy that scarred them was his fault. Levi knows Pixie's better off without him, but every part of him screams to touch her, protect her, wrap her in his arms, and kiss away the pain. Yet even though she's so close, Pixie's heart seems more unreachable than ever. Seeing those stunning green eyes again has made one thing perfectly clear-he can't live without her.
Levi can't believe he's living with the one person who holds all his painful memories. More than anything he wants to make things right, but a simple "sorry" won't suffice-not when the tragedy that scarred them was his fault. Levi knows Pixie's better off without him, but every part of him screams to touch her, protect her, wrap her in his arms, and kiss away the pain. Yet even though she's so close, Pixie's heart seems more unreachable than ever. Seeing those stunning green eyes again has made one thing perfectly clear-he can't live without her.
“And I am yours,” she says quietly. “Even when
you don’t want me. I’m still yours.”
“You are not my friend, Pixie. You are a piece
of my heart and a part of who I want to be.”
“Because love isn’t something that needs to be
said out loud!” Her face flushes with passion. “It’s something you just know.
It’s an unspoken thing. It’s humble and quiet and constant…” She goes back to
slaughtering the mushrooms, but lowers her tone a bit. “I mean, you can’t just
say you love someone and make it true. That’s not how it works. Real love
doesn’t need to be declared or confessed. Real love just… is. You know?”
“Winning is an effect of trying. You have to
want it badly enough to go through pain, discipline, and failure to find it. To
confront it. To claim it. But most of all, you have to fight for it. Everything
else—anything else—is absolute surrender.”
A love story that is perfect for Valentine’s
Day! Pixie, Sarah to people who don’t know her well, and Levi have a history
together. They were both involved in an accident that caused them to lose
someone that they both held near and dear, Pixie’s best friend and Levi’s
sister. They both blame themselves for what happened that night and neither can
get past it enough to realize how perfect they are for one another. So when
Pixie returns home to work for the summer in her Aunt Ellen’s inn and moves in
next to the inn’s other live-in Levi, you can imagine all the memories, both
good and bad, that were rekindled between these two. What I loved most about
this New Adult love story is that feelings were not instant between Pixie and
Levi; they had to work to get past differences and see the good in each other.
The beauty of this story is that it is written
in alternating point of views. I loved being able to see and hear both Pixie
and Levi’s thoughts. They are both obviously broken, hence the title, but it is
nice to watch them work through their brokenness and learned to be healed and
help each other heal. The fact that I knew these characters shared a tragic
event allowed me to sympathize with them even more. I have found a new favorite
author in Chelsea Fine; she writes characters, sexual tension, and emotions in
a way that will have you missing this story long after you have finished reading
it. I will definitely pursue the other books in this series to be released this
year.
***A free copy of this book was provided to me
by the publishers at Forever in exchange for my honest review***
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