If you had one chance to be with your soul mate, would you fight for it?
Sometimes the hardest fight isn't finding love, sometimes its fighting against the ticking clock of your life.
Stalked by the shadow of a foreboding disease, seventeen year old, Harper Kennedy finds herself starting a new life in Albany Missouri. With a ticking time bomb, a wall of quotes, a shell of a father and a brother who has no one else, Harper tries to get life in order for those she may be leaving behind.
But fate is cruel when it delivers temptation in the form of Vaun Campbell into her life; Vaun who is kind and sweet and completely out of her league on so many levels. How can Harper find love only to have it ripped away so soon? How can she put Vaun, who has faced more than his own fair share of loss and grief in the past, through all that again?
~~Melissa’s Review~~
First off I knew beforehand that I would need to have some tissue lying around and man on some parts that is exactly what I needed.
We meet Harper, she is a 17 year old highschool student with a secret. Not a secret like any other high school girls but one that not only changes her life but changes and effects her family and friends. Her family moves to a new town to be closer to where she can get help.The only person she knows is her cousin. Her cousin is an outgoing and spunky teenager and she knows what Harper is up against but she tries to get her just to live in the moment. In walks Vaun and Harpers world immediately changes.
From the moment Vaun meets Harper he knows she is different and after spending time talking with her he knows there is more to her than any other girl he has ever been with. Vaun himself has a past where the one thing that mattered most to him was taken by a nasty disease. His world seemed to come full circle with Harper in his arms and he knew he would do anything to keep her their. Only she had another plan.
Harper’s plan was to not get close to anyone so when the time came, no one would be broken over what happens to her. She already felt like she would be letting her father and brother down and knew she could have someone in that mix. Vaun had another idea, and idea where he would be her everything. Her rock.
I immediately fell in love with Vaun. He has already been through so much that when he found out what was going on with Harper any normal teenage boy would have run. Not Vaun. He stayed and became the one thing Harper needed in her life.
The author did an amazing job with this story, she kept me wanting more and not expecting what was going to happen. I understand that some people might think that they are only 17 and haven’t known each other very long how can they be thinking that they are each other's soul mates. But I think when forced into a situation like Harper was you really do live life day to day and look for the best in people and sometimes you find just what you need.
I give this awesome book 4 HUGE STARS
~~Melissa’s Review~~
First off I knew beforehand that I would need to have some tissue lying around and man on some parts that is exactly what I needed.
We meet Harper, she is a 17 year old highschool student with a secret. Not a secret like any other high school girls but one that not only changes her life but changes and effects her family and friends. Her family moves to a new town to be closer to where she can get help.The only person she knows is her cousin. Her cousin is an outgoing and spunky teenager and she knows what Harper is up against but she tries to get her just to live in the moment. In walks Vaun and Harpers world immediately changes.
From the moment Vaun meets Harper he knows she is different and after spending time talking with her he knows there is more to her than any other girl he has ever been with. Vaun himself has a past where the one thing that mattered most to him was taken by a nasty disease. His world seemed to come full circle with Harper in his arms and he knew he would do anything to keep her their. Only she had another plan.
Harper’s plan was to not get close to anyone so when the time came, no one would be broken over what happens to her. She already felt like she would be letting her father and brother down and knew she could have someone in that mix. Vaun had another idea, and idea where he would be her everything. Her rock.
I immediately fell in love with Vaun. He has already been through so much that when he found out what was going on with Harper any normal teenage boy would have run. Not Vaun. He stayed and became the one thing Harper needed in her life.
The author did an amazing job with this story, she kept me wanting more and not expecting what was going to happen. I understand that some people might think that they are only 17 and haven’t known each other very long how can they be thinking that they are each other's soul mates. But I think when forced into a situation like Harper was you really do live life day to day and look for the best in people and sometimes you find just what you need.
I give this awesome book 4 HUGE STARS
Excerpt:
In one swift, deliberate movement I have her under me. My hands braced on either side of her head; they look big compared to her petite face. Her long hair is spread across the red blanket and I know I’ll keep that damn rug forever. I want to tell her about my tattoo, about my mother, but not now. I study her, her wide bright, blue eyes. They’re most phenomenal in the world; like the colour of the Blue Jays in my mother’s nesting box. I gaze at her for the longest time, our breaths mingling and that in itself has me thinking how much more I want her. Not just as friends, screw friendship. I want her to be mine, to hold her, to kiss her, to keep safe. I don’t even realise I’m getting closer to her until she licks her lips, almost touching mine and I can see she can’t deny what she’s feeling any more than I can. As soon as her eyes flutter closed I close my lips down on her and taste the deliciousness of my blue bird.
MEET KERRI
Some might say I shouldn’t be alive today…I like to think that I’m exactly where I should be! I’m a cancer survivor. A very lucky and thankful survivor. I had to fight hard and go through more than most teenagers and I hope I reflected some of the emotion into Harpers story. But firstly, let me tell you a little about my fight against non-Hodgkin lymphoma. I was a typical teenager, 11 years old and just started high school and liking boys. I loved running and one day during a track run my groin began to hurt. Nothing outrageously out of the norm for a runner who didn’t stretch well and I put it down to a strain. I had a lingering cold, just like normal kids in the mountains, but what wasn’t normal was the lump in my groin. At eleven I didn’t know it shouldn’t be there. I thought it was just a gland, no biggy. I was very wrong. I went on for weeks with this cold and antibiotics, I and my children have been through them just this winter. The only difference was, this wasn’t just a cold. My last visit to the doctor, he was placing me on stronger drugs and asked if there was anything else bugging me and that’s when I said those three dreadful words…’My lump hurts.’ You can imagine the look between my mother and the doctor. From there it all happened quickly and was quite scary. I was rushed after hours for an Ultrasound and then straight to the Hospital. I didn’t even get to go home and grab Pyjamas, a book or anything. The very next day I was shipped to Campbelltown Childrens Hospital for more tests. Four scans and loads of needles later lying in a cold, hard hospital bed I remember my Dad coming into the room, his eyes bloodshot and he was crying. That’s when I learned I had two weeks to live. You couldn’t get much crappier odds then that. I cry now thinking of my Dad. For my parents who had their own pain. As a mother now, it’s more heartbreaking then going through it myself. I have no idea why, but they started me on aggressive Chemo anyway, denial maybe, I don’t know. It doesn’t matter now either, because it saved my life. I went through endless days of being sick, I would get sick as soon as I entered the hospital which was all in my head, but tell an 11 year old that. The smell for many years still made me sick. Scans, needles, drips, doctors and nurses. Day in, day out. That was my life and my monster. But you know what hurt me the most? Losing my hair. Pft. Sounds ridiculous, right. But imagine a teenage girl with long brown hair who attracted boys turning into a girl with no hair and was dying. Yeah I had beat the clock, but essentially, that’s what I was…a dying girl fighting for a little bit of normal. Needless to say, I beat that clock, beat it to pulp. I have had a couple of scares since, but I’m still kicking it strong and even showed all the specialist wrong by having two wonderful and gorgeous girls of my own after they swore I would not be able to have children. Although hubby thinks he is Superman and I let him. He is another story all together, he is my Vaun. I met Michael when I was sixteen at a party and let’s just say, from then on we have been living out a dream. He didn’t care about odds, illness or my lack of child bearing capabilities, he wanted me. He loved me. And so, here I am, surrounded by love, disease free and using it all in a book for you to read. My fight against the monster and my survival with love is all there for you to read mixed in with a great dash of fiction. Since writing this I have found a beautiful boy who is fighting his own monster and his family need our help. So I’m donating 50 cents in every e-book and $1.00 in every print to go to Chase and his family for as long as it works. His story I have added after mine. Show him the love too. I hope you enjoy my story and I look forward to hearing your feedback and reviews. Love, Kez
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