When she meets the handsome and very charming Sam Cooper, she loses her heart completely and utterly and then has it broken. Suddenly her life falls apart and is changed forever. Now she has to pick up the pieces and start again.
Seven years have passed and three weeks before her wedding to the dependable Simon Brennan, she comes face to face with the man who stole her heart and broke it. Now she must decide between her past and her future. But will a secret she is hiding find her having the choice made for her instead. Will she find the one who will love her.... Forever and Always?
4 Star Review
After an explosive fight with her father seventeen year old
Melanie O’ Leary decides to spend the summer with her aunt Maggie in Boston. When Maggie surprises Melanie with a surprise
trip to the cape, where they will spend the whole summer, Melanie spends her
first few days on the quiet beach alone in her thoughts. Then she meets the
charming Sam Cooper, and her life is forever changed at that moment. They fall
in love at first sight and spend their summer days and nights wrapped up in
each others love in their own little world.
Then it suddenly all comes crashing down around them and a heartbroken
Melanie flees home to Ireland where she is faced yet with more heartache that
will leave her forever changed.
“I barely know you,
yet you are all I can think about. I have never felt this way about anyone else
before. And it terrifies me that I could fall in love with you so easily.”
Seven years later, Melanie has moved on and put the pieces
of her broken heart together. She is engaged to Simon, who adores her but could
never hold her heart the way it once was held by Sam. Three weeks shy of her
wedding day Sam comes barreling through her life again, and Melanie finds
herself in turmoil trying to decide between two possible futures. Sam has never
moved on and once he finds Melanie again he plans on never letting her go
again!
“Now that I have
found you again, I could never let you go. But you could break my heart so
easily, and I’m scared I will never recover if you do.”
Even though she loves
him fiercely, can Melanie trust Sam with her heart again and what will his
reaction be to the secret she has been keeping all these years? Can she break
Simon’s heart when she promised to marry him, and he accepts her as she is?
"When are you going to
see just how much I love you? That I have never stopped loving you for a moment
over the past seven years?”
I really loved this book. I will say that I enjoyed the
second half much more than the first, as I seemed to be able to relate more
with the characters when they were older. As I was reading I thought that Sam
and Melanie fell in love way too quickly, with declarations of love a day after
they met! But, in retrospect I see that
their young love, shaped them and stayed with them all those years, making the
past and future parts of the story meld together perfectly. Parts of this novel were heartbreaking and
sweet and I genuinely enjoyed going on this journey with Sam and Melanie. I
loved the epilogue, it tied everything together in a happily ever after bow
just as I like it!
“Forever and always?” He asked.
“Forever and always.” She
replied.”
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