Eight weeks after sixteen-year-old Andie Hamilton gives her virginity to her best friend, “the stick” says she’s pregnant. Her friends treat her like she’s carrying the plague, her classmates torture and ridicule her, and the boy she thought loved her doesn’t even care.
Afraid to experience the next seven months alone, she turns to her ex-boyfriend, Neil Donaghue, a dark-haired, blue-eyed player. With him, she finds comfort and the support she desperately needs to make the hardest decision of her life: whether or not to keep the baby. Then a tragic accident leads Andie to discover Neil’s keeping a secret that could dramatically alter their lives, and she's forced to make a choice. But after hearing her son’s heartbeat for the first time, she doesn’t know how she’ll ever be able to let go.
Because I Love You by Tori Rigby
Release Date: May 17, 2016
Publisher: Blaze Publishing
What Readers Are Saying:
“emotional and heartfelt read” – Laura H (The Voluptuous Book Diva)
“one of the most amazing books I have ever read and a great contemporary read” – KittyKat (Goodreads Reviewer)
“It's one of those books where everything worked really well together. The story. The characters. The relationships. And the writing. It was just so beautiful.” – Nicole (Bookish Thoughts)
Excerpt:
Jodi squeezed my hand. “Do whatever you think is right. Your gut won’t lie. Mine sure didn’t, and look how you turned out.”I smiled.
After a few more questions, like did I have any siblings—no—and where did my cousins live—just over the border into New Mexico—the guard announced our fifteen minutes were up. I fought the urge to cling to Jodi’s hand as she stood. I hadn’t spent nearly enough time with her.
“You write me. Let me know how you’re doing, ‘kay?”
I nodded, my mouth drying, and she backed out of the room with a wave. When the door from the visitation area to the cellblock closed, I covered my mouth, my chest hitching. Mom put her arm around my shoulders, and I leaned into her. I’d been so afraid that Jodi would have considered me a burden, that she would’ve hate me for ruining her life, like I originally loathed my baby for messing up mine. But that was so far from the reason she’d placed me for adoption.
“She had loved me, Mom,” I said, my voice shaking.
About the Author
Adopted at three-days-old by a construction worker and a stay at home mom, Tori Rigby grew up with her nose in a book and her fingers on piano keys, always awaiting the day she’d take her own adventure. Now, she goes on multiple journeys through her contemporary and historical romances. She longs to live in the Scottish Highlands, and her favorite place in history is Medieval England—she’d even give up her Internet and running water to go back in time! Tori also writes high-concept genre fiction as Vicki Leigh, and when she isn’t writing, she’s kicking butt in krav maga or attending classes to learn how to catch bad guys.
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"She longs to live in the Scottish Highlands, and her favorite place in history is Medieval England." Tori, I believe you and I are soul sisters! Oh, how the Scottish Highlands and Medieval England call my name. Now, I doubt I'll be able to survive the cold of the Highlands and the unsanitary conditions of the Middle Ages, but oh, how I long to be there. Of course, I had to buy your book just because you're my soul sister. Well, that and it seems just the romance I need in my life right now. :)
ReplyDeleteSounds like a powerful story! Blurb drew me in right away!
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