Forever Innocent by Deanna Roy
Release Date: September 26, 2013
Description from Goodreads:
"Our baby died on prom night, and nothing was ever the same again."
Corabelle doesn’t feel like any of the other college girls. On what should have been one of the happiest nights of her life, she and her boyfriend Gavin watched a nurse disconnect the ventilator from their seven-day-old baby. During the funeral two days later, Gavin walked out and never returned.
Since then, her life has been a spiral of disasters. The only thing that has helped is her ability to black out whenever the pain gets too hard to bear, a habit that has become an addiction.
When Gavin shows up in her astronomy class four years later, he is hell-bent on getting her back, insisting she forgive him. Corabelle knows she can’t resist the touch that fills the empty ache that has haunted her since he left. But if he learns what she has done, if he follows the trail back through her past, her secrets will destroy their love completely. And once again, she’ll lose the only person who always believed she was innocent.
Corabelle doesn’t feel like any of the other college girls. On what should have been one of the happiest nights of her life, she and her boyfriend Gavin watched a nurse disconnect the ventilator from their seven-day-old baby. During the funeral two days later, Gavin walked out and never returned.
Since then, her life has been a spiral of disasters. The only thing that has helped is her ability to black out whenever the pain gets too hard to bear, a habit that has become an addiction.
When Gavin shows up in her astronomy class four years later, he is hell-bent on getting her back, insisting she forgive him. Corabelle knows she can’t resist the touch that fills the empty ache that has haunted her since he left. But if he learns what she has done, if he follows the trail back through her past, her secrets will destroy their love completely. And once again, she’ll lose the only person who always believed she was innocent.
Excerpt
Gavin took my hand and led us across the
rooftop to the far corner, away from the other students working on their
astronomy labs.
“Lie here with me,” he said and set his
backpack down. He squeezed my fingers as he let go, and I wished we had walked
some great distance, just to feel his hand on mine a little longer.
I laid my pack next to his and we
stretched out on the bumpy surface of the roof, staring up at the stars.
“So how long have we both lived in the
same city and not known it?” he asked.
“I got here a year ago.”
“A whole year." He turned his face
to mine. “Seems like the world wants us to at least be friends again.”
I didn’t know which words to get stuck
on. Friends. Or at least. “Seems like it.”
“You think we’re the only ones who still
think about Finn?”
Just hearing our baby's name out here in
the open, with the heavens wide above, made my throat get tight. “I don’t know.
He really only ever belonged to you and me.”
I
kept my eyes up on the stars. The Big Dipper rested neatly in the sky,
surrounded by lesser bits of light, and I understood now how it all fit
together. Some moments of our lives were vivid and strong, hanging among all
the other memories, not to be forgotten. Our baby was that constellation for
us, and no matter where we looked, no matter what other stars dotted our sky,
he would always be there, the biggest and the brightest of them all.
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♥Jessica(:
Oooohhh, the cover is really, really pretty! Simple, well-done and awesome! And the book sounds really good!!!
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ReplyDeleteDeanna
Thanks for being on the tour, Jessica! :)
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