SYNOPSIS
For months now Jayde Kimberland has been touring from city to city with her best friend, Arianna Moore, as The Daughters of Darkness. Living the dream most musician would kill for, they were known as the opening act for the platinum selling rock group, From Yesterday.
With Arianna battling demons of her own, Jayde found what she thought was her Prince Charming within rocker bad boy, Cash O’Brien. As the tour came to a close, the distance between them pulled like the tuning key turning to tighten one of their guitar strings. When Nate Daniels walks back into the picture, she’s faced with the possibility of having the life with the man she loved years ago or trying to hold onto a reckless, Cash.
Everywhere Jayde turns she is hit with a curve ball, shattering everything she tries to build. But one person is there to help pick up the pieces no matter what. But as tragedy reveals its ugly head, she finds herself lost, lonely, and confused on what the future may hold. Will she be able to let go of the past and find happiness within her future or will she have to forever deal with the shattering effects of a love long gone?
ARC received for an honest review
Though this is book 2 in the Behind the Words series, Jayde can be read as a standalone book. I have not read the first book (Arianna) yet, but this did not detract anything from this book.
From the minute I read the Prologue to Jayde, I knew I would be shedding a tear at some stage, and that we would be taken on an emotional rollercoaster.
And I was so right!
Feeling she and her boyfriend Cash are drifting apart, she surprises him on the road one day, only to find him in a compromising position, and her heart is shattered. She gets some unexpected news and life sure throws her a curve ball!!!
Nate has been a big part of her life for a long time, and he is the person she turns to when everything turns to crap. She goes ahead and makes some pretty big life changing decisions ~ not always the best decisions.
While I loved Nate and how much he loves Jayde, I just LOVED Cash. Yeah he f&*ks up, yeah he is a damn mess, but there was just something about him that you just can't help but love. He loves Jayde enough to let her go, no matter how much it hurts him to do so.
When tragedy strikes, Jayde hits pretty much rock bottom, and leans heavily on those around her to pull through. But can her heart take any more? Who will be the one to heal her and make her smile again? Or will the secrets and lies from the past keep everyone at arm's length and her heart untouched?
Uh uh, you will need to find out for yourself.
From the prologue to the epilogue, Ms Stewart drew me right into their world. Jayde is a story of love. Betrayal.Tragedy. Loss. Second chances and redemption. It is heart breaking but heartwarming.There were twists and turns in the story that kept my on my toes the whole way through. I am a bit of a sucker for a second chance romance, and this was just a beautiful written story that I couldn't help but love everything about it.
Now I need to go back and read Aria and Bryden's story, while impatiently waiting for Poppy (and I am assuming Riley's story from what happened in Jayde!!) to come out!
My black lace dress clung to my soaked body as I sobbed
uncontrollably against the old oak tree. With one hand pressed against my heart
I squeezed my eyes tightly shut, trying to remember the last thing he had said
to me. “I love you, Jayde, with all my heart. Give
Sawyer a kiss for me, I’ll
be home after the show.”
My body continued to heave as my knees gave out and I crumbled to the ground.
The sky roared with thunder and lightning; usually I would have been scared
shitless to be out in this stuff but right then I didn’t care what happened to me. I just wanted
it all to be a horrible dream…and
I would wake up with a racing heart but find him beside me in our bed instead
of buried in the ground.
“This can’t be real!!” I
wailed loudly into my hands, where my head was now resting. I had no energy to
lift my body from the ground, not that I wanted to. But if I didn’t get out of the storm I would most likely
be sucked up into it. I remembered losing my parents at a very young age but
the one thing I did not remember was how badly my heart ached from having
someone ripped from your life at the drop of a hat.
Everything was perfect…too
perfect. Any time in my life when things seemed to fall together, something had
always come along to wreak havoc and remind me that my life would never be
perfect. I should have gone to the show; if I was there…I could have stopped it from happening and
we would be together…in
our home. One big happy family.
“Baby girl…” That voice cut right through me. Was it
bad of me to want to allow him to help me? After everything he had done…and after everything I had done? I didn’t even bother to look up; I continued to
pour every ounce of emotions I had out through my tears and onto my soaking wet
self. “Let me get you out of this storm…You’re
going to be sick and Sawyer needs you.”
He scooped me up into his arms; the warmth of his skin caused me to gasp. I
circled my arms around his neck and rested my head against his shoulder. “I know this sounds cliché and I’m
fucking horrible with words…but
it’ll get better with time, Jayde. I promise
you…” His voice was thick with emotion.
His kindness only caused me to cry even harder. I was a
horrible person…I
didn’t deserve happiness, and I definitely didn’t deserve him being kind to me right now. I
heard the car door open just before he lowered me into the passenger’s seat. When the door shut I finally looked
at him through the rain streaked window. His hair was shorter than usual but my
heart still fluttered uncontrollably at the sight of him. What the hell is
wrong with me? I shouldn’t
feel this way, not today… I
curled my legs up into the seat with me and wrapped my arms around them
tightly. Resting my head against my knees I stared out the front window as the
driver’s door shut.
“Is there anywhere you want
me to take you?”
His voice was just above a whisper. Without moving my eyes from the front
window I shook my head no. “Do
you want to go home?”
Home…Where all the memories were… The thought of walking back into that
house caused a horrible sob to rip from my chest. Wasn’t there a limit of tears a person could
produce? I buried my face into my knees to ride out the emotional rollercoaster
I was on yet again.
“I’m staying at Aria and Bryden’s place while I’m in town. How ‘bout I take you there?” I didn’t
respond, after a few long seconds I felt the car shift into gear. He pulled his
jacket from the backseat and draped it over me. I hadn’t realized my body was shaking so badly
until then. I rolled onto my side facing the door, gripping the jacket tightly
around me, and fell into a silent cry, the kind where your body shook
aggressively but you didn’t
produce any noise. I felt his warm hand touch my arm lightly causing even more
goose bumps to run across my skin. “Seeing
you like this is killing me right now…”
His hand ran up and down my arm briefly before it was gone and the coldness was
back.
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