Orange Blossom
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Title: Orange
Blossom
Author: Sarah Daltry
Cover: Shoutlines Design
“I’ve never understood a year. A year
was always a measurement of something bad for me. A year in my father’s prison sentence,
a year since my mom’s death, a year left of school before I could get far, far
away from here. Now, as I look down the end of my college career, with only a
little more than a semester to go, a year seems like something magical. It has
been a year since Lily chose me, since she sat with me on the old swing set and
made a decision that I was worthy of her. And every minute of the entire year
has been better than the last.”
You
already know their stories: Lily, the perfect princess, always living someone
else’s life. And Jack, the broken boy, who had stopped believing in hope.
Somehow, though, they found each other and what was one night blossomed into a
love story.
Now,
a year later, Jack and Lily are dreaming of the future. Despite all of his promises
to himself that he would never be indebted to anyone, Jack makes a new promise
– this time to Lily – that he will be there for her forever. But when life
unravels for them, he starts to pull away, and Lily worries he’s out of reach
for good.
When
Jack does the unthinkable, Lily is left destroyed. Is it possible to have a
happily ever after? Does love ever really save anyone?
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Teaser:
Excerpt:
“I don’t have a ring, and I don’t have
anything planned. I was going to plan something. It was going to be big and
special and important, but I can’t. I can’t wait to tell you. I love you, Lily.
You make me happy, as if that’s something that can even be real for me. I know
you can probably think of a million places more romantic than the cemetery, but
this is my family, and this is me, in all that I can offer. It’s nothing much,
but you’ve made me believe that it might be good enough for you. You’ve changed
my life, Lily. And I want to make you a part of the rest of it. Forever. I want
you forever.”
She’s crying as she looks down at me on
the ground. “What are you saying, Jack?”
“Marry me, princess? Not now, or really
anytime soon. I don’t know when. I have very little to give you. I don’t even
know when I can afford a ring. I was going to go look for one this week, although
it will probably be tiny and nothing that can represent how much I love you and
how much you deserve. I know I’m not what you pictured when you were a little
girl and you wanted a husband or whatever, but Lily, I love you more than
anyone else can. And I want you to be my wife, whatever that means, because I
can’t imagine one day of a future that doesn’t have you in it.”
She lifts me to my feet and hugs me.
“Yes, of course. I don’t care about a ring or even a wedding. I just want you.
Forever. Nothing else is important to me. I will never not love you. Whatever
you want to call that, I’m happy to be a part of it. I have two years left of
school, but I can promise you that, in two years or fifty, at the end of it,
you’re the future for me.”
We kiss and I wish it was epic and
fireworks shot through the sky, but it’s not. It’s just me and Lily, holding
each other like we do most nights, but I’m kissing my fiancée and that has some
kind of importance to it. I believe my mom would be happy for me, because I
need to believe it. The whole night, the holiday, the setting, the awkward
proposal even, it’s all how it should be, because, although it’s not something
people tell their kids twenty years down the road, it’s so real to us.
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Review:
I really enjoyed this read. It was great to get back to Jack and Lily. I really can't wait for their happily ever after. It was really nice reading their story. The pain and struggle of growing up and dealing with tough past. Growing into the person you were meant to be and to be with. I love Jack and Lily. I really can't get enough of this series. I am eager to see the next installment of this series. This book really brought home the relationship. It is growing to that point where HEA is the only thing left!
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