Synopsis:
*Please note this is an updated version of a story previously published under the title ‘Inevitable’*
Seventeen-year-old Maddie Davis has spent her whole life on the move. With an unstable mother who has a knack for making bad decisions, she’s never stayed in one place long enough to remember its postcode. But this time is different… This time, she has been dragged half way across the world. Arriving in California and being forced to go back to school feels like stepping back in time. She wants to go home…
Until she meets Blaine Elwood – the stepson of an old family friend.
Blaine appears to have it all. To the outside world, quarterback Blaine is rich, confident and has the ‘arrogant bad boy’ image down to a tee. But nobody knows what goes on behind closed doors. Nobody ever can. He has vowed never to let anyone get too close – let anyone discover how weak he is. So when new girl Maddie starts tugging at strings he didn’t know existed in his heart, his only option is to push her away…
Until he realizes how much he needs her.
Together, after being forced into adulthood from an early age, they begin to learn what it feels like to be young - to smile, to laugh... to love. So when shattered secrets and splintered lies start unraveling around them, will the trust they’ve worked so hard to build be irreparably destroyed? Or will they realize they are two pieces of the same broken puzzle?
(Not suitable for under 18’s due to scenes of abuse, sexual content and adult language)
*Please note this is an updated version of a story previously published under the title ‘Inevitable’*
Seventeen-year-old Maddie Davis has spent her whole life on the move. With an unstable mother who has a knack for making bad decisions, she’s never stayed in one place long enough to remember its postcode. But this time is different… This time, she has been dragged half way across the world. Arriving in California and being forced to go back to school feels like stepping back in time. She wants to go home…
Until she meets Blaine Elwood – the stepson of an old family friend.
Blaine appears to have it all. To the outside world, quarterback Blaine is rich, confident and has the ‘arrogant bad boy’ image down to a tee. But nobody knows what goes on behind closed doors. Nobody ever can. He has vowed never to let anyone get too close – let anyone discover how weak he is. So when new girl Maddie starts tugging at strings he didn’t know existed in his heart, his only option is to push her away…
Until he realizes how much he needs her.
Together, after being forced into adulthood from an early age, they begin to learn what it feels like to be young - to smile, to laugh... to love. So when shattered secrets and splintered lies start unraveling around them, will the trust they’ve worked so hard to build be irreparably destroyed? Or will they realize they are two pieces of the same broken puzzle?
(Not suitable for under 18’s due to scenes of abuse, sexual content and adult language)
Review:
This book is not for the faint at heart. There was so much going on with everyone in this book but, it was so well written that you didn't feel over whelmed or lost.
Blaine is the hot football Quarterback that all girls want and of course he's known as the school slut that will sleep with anyone just once.
Maddie is the sweet very outspoken British girl that cusses up a storm and has a comeback for most everyone and their snide comments to her.
I was so happy that Blaine and Maddie found each other and seemed to be inseparable and unstoppable. There kept their individual struggles and pains a secret from one another as long as possible but, time revealed all.
Lori, is a great friend and I'm so glad that she is a true friend to Maddie when she needed one. This story seems so impossible for two teenagers in high school who have fell in love but, it happens and they seem to make the best of it and get through everything together without falling apart. ~Cathy~
This book is not for the faint at heart. There was so much going on with everyone in this book but, it was so well written that you didn't feel over whelmed or lost.
Blaine is the hot football Quarterback that all girls want and of course he's known as the school slut that will sleep with anyone just once.
Maddie is the sweet very outspoken British girl that cusses up a storm and has a comeback for most everyone and their snide comments to her.
I was so happy that Blaine and Maddie found each other and seemed to be inseparable and unstoppable. There kept their individual struggles and pains a secret from one another as long as possible but, time revealed all.
Lori, is a great friend and I'm so glad that she is a true friend to Maddie when she needed one. This story seems so impossible for two teenagers in high school who have fell in love but, it happens and they seem to make the best of it and get through everything together without falling apart. ~Cathy~
Meet the Author:
Nicola lives in Rochdale, England with her husband and four children (six if you include the dogs!) She is the author of New Adult/Contemporary romance novels Inevitable, Saving Amy and the Take My Hand series. When she is not busy playing with her imaginary book friends (or talking about them with real life friends!) she can usually be found carrying out her ordinary mum/housewife/all round slave duties. Oh, and if the kids ever ask, she moonlights as the Pink Power Ranger while they’re sleeping…
Social Links:
Facebook: http://facebook.com/nicolahaken
Twitter: http://twitter.com/NicolaHaken
Website: www.nicolahaken.net
Goodreads author: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/7094294.Nicola_Haken
Goodreads book: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20345398-missing-pieces
Nicola lives in Rochdale, England with her husband and four children (six if you include the dogs!) She is the author of New Adult/Contemporary romance novels Inevitable, Saving Amy and the Take My Hand series. When she is not busy playing with her imaginary book friends (or talking about them with real life friends!) she can usually be found carrying out her ordinary mum/housewife/all round slave duties. Oh, and if the kids ever ask, she moonlights as the Pink Power Ranger while they’re sleeping…
Social Links:
Facebook: http://facebook.com/nicolahaken
Twitter: http://twitter.com/NicolaHaken
Website: www.nicolahaken.net
Goodreads author: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/7094294.Nicola_Haken
Goodreads book: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20345398-missing-pieces
Book Information:
www.amazon.com/dp/B00HH1B0ZE
www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00HH1B0ZE
https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/390913
http://store.kobobooks.com/en-US/ebook/missing-pieces-15
www.amazon.com/dp/B00HH1B0ZE
www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00HH1B0ZE
https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/390913
http://store.kobobooks.com/en-US/ebook/missing-pieces-15
Playlist:
Giveaway: a Rafflecopter giveaway