Books by Month : June

Seven days to fall in love, fifteen years to forget, and seven days to get it all back again…

Eva Mercy is a single mom and erotica author who feels her life stagnating but stays in her safely built boundaries to suppress memories from her childhood and make her daughter’s childhood better than her own. But things quickly change when Shane Hall pops back into her life after fifteen years. Both of them became successful writers by transforming the pain of their youth into literature. Shane, recently sober, just wants to apologize to Eva for what happened between them fifteen years ago. Eva, afraid the smallest change will break down everything she built for herself and her daughter, just wants him to leave again. Until they spend another week getting lost in each other. They’re adults now, could this time be different?

This is a beautifully raw romance, written in a strong, intimate voice. Although Eva and Shane started things off very intense as teenagers, reconnect as adults and immediately fall back in love, I still think there’s a lot about their relationship that is very real and showcases the messiness that love truly is. Love isn’t all fluff and sex. It’s also being there for your person at their lowest. It’s not giving up. It’s a constant choice you make each day.

I think the biggest message here is that you don’t have to be perfect before you find love. You can and will have your own flaws and demons that are brought to the table. But you have to be up front about them. You have to be aware of them and be willing to tackle them together. You can’t attach yourself to someone in the hopes that loving them or them loving you will fix you. You still have to do the work, but you don’t have to do it alone.