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He broke my heart. No, he didn’t break it. Jackson Davis destroyed me, changing the course of my life forever. A decade later, I was living in Manhattan when a hurricane put the city on lock down. I got a message I never thought I’d receive, Jackson was dying and alone. In a city of millions, I was the only person who could sit by his side. I didn’t want to go, but being the good girl I am, I couldn’t let someone suffer alone. Tatted up and broken, he woke up in a hospital only to see me—the one person he needed to atone his sins to—standing before him. Turned out, he would recover from his injuries, but not from the pain he caused in the past. Trapped by the storm, I had nowhere to go but stay with him. After a night of reckoning, I found myself needing to getaway. So, I ran away. On the island of Hawaii, I planned to start over and try to fix my broken heart once and for all. Except he followed me willing me to live in the present and find a way to navigate into the future. But could I ever forget the past?
Author
When I was little, my mom was part of the Double Day book club. She had piles and piles of books lying around the house; most of them with Fabio-esque men and a scantily clad woman set in a different century. I made up stories in my head just from looking at the covers. When I as 9, I wrote stories using my best friend as a muse. They were romances...but for the 9-year-old. She was the only one who read them. When I was 14, another friend gave me a Marian Keyes novel. I fell in-love with her wit, and humor with a dark side. This was my first experience with realistic fiction. When I was 19, Nicholas Sparks forever changed my views on relationships. I learned what true love could be beautiful and difficult at the same time. I wanted it. When I was 22, Jeannette Wells made me feel more emotion from an autobiographical novel than I thought possible. I wanted to be her. When I was 30, Jamie McGuire and Colleen Hoover introduced me to the world of self-publishing. For the first time I thought: I could give this a try someday. When I was 32, my someday came. ———————————————————— Jeannine Colette is the author of the Abandon Collection – a series of stand-alone novels featuring dynamic heroines who have to abandon their reality in order to discover themselves . . . and love along the way. Each book features a new couple, exciting new city and a rose of a different color. A graduate of Wagner College and the New York Film Academy, Jeannine went on to become a Segment Producer for television shows on CBS and NBC. She left the television industry to focus on her children and pursue a full-time writing career. She lives in New York with her husband, the three tiny people she adores more than life itself, and a rescue pup named Wrigley. Want to hear about new releases and get exciting emails from me??? Sign up for my monthly newsletter! www.jeanninecolette.com/newsletter Jeannine and her family are active supporters of The March of Dimes and Strivright The Auditory-Oral School of New York.
