Love Found
by Caylie Marcoe
Publication date: November 13th 2014
Genres: Contemporary, New Adult, Romance
Haley Cavanaugh’s heart is broken.
Shattered into a million pieces, and that’s just how she’d like it to stay.
She doesn’t believe she deserves happiness. She doesn’t understand how to move on while her life is falling apart and her reality is destroyed.
Enter Eli Park.
Eli is someone Haley thought she knew, but who turned out to be so much more than she remembered. He sees through her pain and refuses to be pushed away, even when she lashes out.
Eli’s patience is both frustrating and surprising. Haley was so sure she wanted to go on feeling nothing, but Eli stirs emotions she can’t deny.
Will Haley allow Eli to help her through this horrific time so she can find herself again? Or will she lose the only person who can help heal her heart?
I
swung back and forth for a while, letting the breeze settle my nerves. I don’t
know how long I was out there for, but eventually, I heard a car pull up. The
door shut and footsteps thumped up the stairs.
“Hello,”
a masculine voice drifted towards me.
I
opened my eyes and was greeted with crystal blue eyes, messy brown hair, a
lopsided smirk and six feet of tall, lean man.
“Er…um…hi,”
I croaked out. Okay…the man was gorgeous. Pretty sure I was blushing.
“Haley?”
gorgeous mystery man asked.
I
nodded. I didn’t know who this guy was, but he seemed to know me. And if I
opened my mouth to ask him, I’m sure I would sound like an idiot again.
He
gave me that adorable lopsided grin again. “Eli.” He pointed at himself, like I
should know who he was. Eli was leaning against the porch railing, staring at
me with amusement in his eyes. Maybe if he wasn’t so damn attractive I could
get my brain to start working again. But for now, I could only stare.
“You
don’t remember me, do you?” he asked. “The four of us hung out together when I
roomed with Noah in the dorms.”
Holy
shit. This man in front of me couldn’t be
Noah’s roommate. There was no possible way he was the same guy. I hung out with
the kid all the time, and this guy…no, not him. Not him at all.
“You
look nothing like you did freshman year.” I blurted out. Then quickly turned
red and clamped my hand over my mouth.
Oh
God, he’s going to think you are the biggest idiot.
Eli
laughed. “I was a lot scrawnier back then. Had longer hair. Wore thick framed
glasses all the time.” His voice still sounded the same. That was something at
least. “When I moved back home to help my mom, I worked with my uncle at his
construction company. I guess that helped me gain a little muscle.” He shrugged
like he was not confident with how he looked.
The
more I stared at him, the more he was becoming familiar. Freshman year, he was
this quiet, slightly nerdy kid. He always wore comic book t-shirts. He had
spent most of his time on his computer or playing video games with Noah. Kyler
had kept telling me that he had a crush on me, and she even begged me to go out
with him a few times, but I always came up with reasons I couldn’t. Mostly
those excuses dealt with my crush at that time—Drew. Blah. I was so
not going to think about that douche when Eli was standing in front of me.
I
mean, I enjoyed hanging out with him as a friend, but dating? He was definitely
not what I thought my type was. Though, what I thought my type was turned out
to be a bunch of jerks, so maybe I should have given the nice guy a chance.
“You
okay?” he asked gently, pushing off the railing and taking a seat next to me on
the swing. “You seem lost in thought.”
I
shrugged, not knowing what to say.
“You
don’t remember me, do you?”
“Oh
no, I do.”
Born and raised in the frozen tundra of Wisconsin, Caylie fell in love with reading at a young age. With her lively imagination, she created numerous stories in her head throughout her childhood and teenage years.
Her first novel, Choose Us, released in April 2014 and became an Amazon Bestseller.
When she isn't slaving away at the keyboard, Caylie is an avid reader, and lover of coffee... copious amounts of coffee. She also has an unhealthy addiction to coffee mugs, chapstick, water bottles, football, and tv shows--binge watching is her favorite.
She chases her two kids around the house all day, and has a husband whom she adores.
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ReplyDeleteI can empathize with both the main characters. I can't wait to read their story.
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