My Thoughts
Nicky's story begins with an extreme family scene that made my heart break for her and had me on the edge. Her sister stands up to their alcoholic abusive father and all hell breaks loose. The author wrote this scene making you feel like you were cowering in the kitchen watching it all play out. Just when you think it couldn't get worse...it does. In a shocking moment things go from bad to holy hell.
Fast forward to Nicky and Ryan. Both are damaged, but healing and love become a possibility with each other. Then there's Jerry who has been Nicky's friend forever. She has to make a choice between the two.
This story was heart wrenching yet full of hope for healing. It wasn't an easy read as it was highly emotional, but definitely a fantastic story.
I give Shadow Heart 4 hearts!
Fast forward to Nicky and Ryan. Both are damaged, but healing and love become a possibility with each other. Then there's Jerry who has been Nicky's friend forever. She has to make a choice between the two.
This story was heart wrenching yet full of hope for healing. It wasn't an easy read as it was highly emotional, but definitely a fantastic story.
I give Shadow Heart 4 hearts!
About the Book
Nobody wants to talk about them, but there are events that
occur in our lives
that become deep dark secrets we hold inside. And they
dramatically in uence
who we are and who we become.
Such is the case for seventeen year-old Nicky Young who was
raised by an
alcoholic father and disengaged mother. When Nicky tries to
make her way into
the world she is confronted by the demons of her
dysfunctional and sometimes
violent upbringing.
Unlike many of her friends, she has shied away from boys,
makeup, and clothes,
instead focusing on achievement and her goal of getting into
Stanford. But when
Nicky meets Ryan Tilton, a sexy, high pro‑ le professional
baseball player eight
years her senior, a strong desire is awakened in her.
Nicky questions Ryan’s motives for wanting to be with an
inexperienced girl. Is
he a scoundrel or does he genuinely care about her? Nicky is
both excited and
frightened, torn between protecting her heart and wanting to
trust. Ryan brings
his own demons — losing his father at the age of fourteen,
and a sexual partner
from his past who will not leave him alone.
Will their young, uncertain love be enough to help them open
their hearts and
experience intimacy they both crave so deeply or are Nicky
and Ryan on a
collision course?
Loosely based on the author’s life growing up in San
Francisco, this inspired
contemporary romance novel deals with the disturbing secrets
siblings share,
the dance between love and protecting one’s heart, and the
innate desire to
connect with another even when it means risking everything.
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About the Author
My passion is taking serious life traumas, such alcoholism,
eating disorders, and brain injury, and tell them through a love story. Love,
intimacy, and being vulnerable shows the reader just how these things change us
and give rise to fears of making healthy relationships not only with lovers,
but family, friends, co-workers and even our own children.
My message? It's only when we learn to trust ourselves,
really open and become vulnerable, that everything can change and open to us in
ways we never saw or understood before. We have to jump and risk being hurt so
we can move forward.
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