Life is a series of reoccurring ripples in time.
The moment I saw her…something shifted.
The moment my lips touched hers…life got messy.
The moment my heart got involved…everything changed.
Vi Harris tests every bit of my strength.
She is my test.
My challenge.
At a time when I should be focusing entirely on myself, this radiant woman with a bright, cheeky smile and a cracked sense of humor waltzes in and spins everything on its axis.
Vi has the potential to make me weak at a time when I’m determined to show everyone just how bloody strong I am.
She’s everything I am not…yet somehow, she sees through my darkness.
She’s everything I am not…yet somehow, she sees through my darkness.
My pain.
My despair.
She doesn’t see me as broken.
She sees me as the man I’m fighting so hard to be.
She doesn’t see me as broken.
She sees me as the man I’m fighting so hard to be.
The man that I’m still struggling to see myself.
The follow up book to Not The One: Hayden's Story
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Not The One – Released Dec 7, 2015
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As the only survivor of a rare birth, Reyna Miracle has never felt like she belonged. When a horrible tragedy strikes during her graduate courses at Oxford, she spirals down a dark and sexy path with Hayden, her deceased best friend's brother. But when Liam Darby, a mistake from her past reappears, Reyna's world begins to crumble as the two men fight for a love that she can't even accept for herself.
“You’re so confusing, Hayden,” I reply, my voice embarrassingly breathy as he stands only a foot away from me now. His eyes are glossy with obvious lust. Pure, undiluted lust. “You kiss me and run away, then kiss me and tell me I can do better. I
don’t know what you’re even saying.”
He licks his lips thoughtfully. “I’m saying that tonight when you showed up looking the way you did…” he pauses as his eyes drift down my body. His heated expression makes me feel every drop of hot blood coursing through my veins. “I wanted to have you right then and there. But not in a club full of people. I wanted you in the privacy of your bedroom…where the curves of your hips, the rise of your chest, the moisture on your lips…are for me and me alone.”
I exhale at his guttural tone and am embarrassed when a throaty noise comes out of my mouth. He takes this noise as permission and moves in closer, his posture hunched as he looks down at me. “So, I’m sorry for some things, Vi. But I’m not sorry for interfering. To ask me to just walk away when a prat like Ethan Simmons worms himself within inches of your mouth…your fucking mouth that I’ve touched with my lips…lips that I have claimed as mine in a thousand different fantasies…No, Vi. No. I’m not going to be sorry for that.”
“But you said—”
“Stuff what I said. I can’t stay away from you.” The words rush out of his mouth as he harshly grabs me by the waist. His bruising, firm grip shoves up the stretchy fabric of my top as his lips find mine in a desperate, needy kiss. He greedily yanks the cups of my bra down and caresses my nipples in such a way that I rip my mouth away from his and let out a strangled cry. I’m not all together certain I’ve ever heard that sound come from my mouth before.
He releases my nipples to pull my top off over my head, revealing my lacey red bra tucked firmly beneath my breasts, pushing them up for his lustful perusal. He drops an open mouthed kiss on each of them before standing back up straight. Groaning in frustration, he pauses his assault and looks into my eyes. A warmth blossoms in his gaze as he wraps his arms around me, holding me close. “I’m terrified, Vi…of so much. But I don’t have the strength to walk away from you again. You make me weak.”
I exhale with relief and anxiety over his comment, feeling my emotions at odds. I’ve been wanting Hayden Clarke to let me in since he first kissed me outside my building. But what does it mean when he says he feels weak around me? Am I capable of hurting him? I lick my lips and guide him down to my level. “Maybe with time I can make you strong.”
I have put off my review until the last possible moment, because the
fact is that I don’t know how to put into words how much I loved
#myhayden. This book was just…wow. Amy did a magnificent job at conveying his
story and did it so perfectly. I was
worried at how she would pull it off after all, Not The One is a hard act to
follow. But, pull it off she did. And magnificently, I might add.
So many times my heart broke for this man, and what he has been
through. He hasn’t had an easy road to
tow, and every day he fights a silent, solitary battle. He has the self-doubt down to a T, and while
he is working hard to become a man worthy of another individual’s attention he
finds Vi. God I loved her. She was everything that Hayden needed and
more. They have to battle for their HEA,
but That One Moment hits, and you can’t help but cheer and hope that everything
falls in to place for Hayden.
I swear to everything bookish that Amy Daws sits down at night and
plots ways to make her readers cry. She
probably thinks to herself, “How can I top the last time?” I don’t care.
I will gladly hand over my tears to her if she continues to give me
stories as beautiful as Hayden and Vi’s.
She writes so gut-wrenchingly beautiful characters, and I can’t wait to
see where she takes me next. This series
quickly became one of my very favorites, and I can tell you right now that That
One Moment will be on my top 10 list for 2016.
That One Moment is as beautiful as it is tragic, and everyone needs to read it. It’s a story of struggles, second chances, finding your worth and climbing out of the darkness. It’s about unyielding love. It’s about that one moment when everything falls into place, and you allow yourself to break free of those chains that hold you back and tell you that you don’t deserve to be happy.
I urge you to read this book.
That One Moment is as beautiful as it is tragic, and everyone needs to read it. It’s a story of struggles, second chances, finding your worth and climbing out of the darkness. It’s about unyielding love. It’s about that one moment when everything falls into place, and you allow yourself to break free of those chains that hold you back and tell you that you don’t deserve to be happy.
I urge you to read this book.
Amy Daws is a commercial producer and lives in South Dakota with her husband and daughter. The long-awaited birth of Lorelei is what inspired her passion for writing. Amy is a lover of all things British and her award-nominated romantic comedy series, The London Lovers Series, is centered around Americans in London. It's emotional and self-deprecating with lots of humor sprinkled in. On most nights, you can find Amy and her family dancing to Strawberry Shortcake’s theme song or stuffing themselves inside children’s-sized playhouses because there is nothing they wouldn’t do for their little miracle.
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