Days
Like This
Release
Date: 06/02/15
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Group Press
New
Adult
Summary
from Goodreads:
Sometimes the only thing standing
between fear and hope is yourself.
Almost a year ago, nineteen-year-old Cassie Harlen had a lot to deal with. A
stack of college acceptance letters waiting for answers, a proposal from the
boy next door, and a mother whose most recent bipolar episode left Cassie hurt
and confused. Tired of cleaning up the messes caused by her mother's disorder,
of resenting her mother for not being there, and scared of being trapped by an
inevitable future-which included marrying Graham Tucker-Cassie did the only
thing she could think of to keep from ending up like her mother: she left.
Graham never knew why Cassie walked away. He woke up one morning and she was
gone-along with the life that he'd created around her. After eleven months,
Graham has a new plan for his future. One that doesn't involve Cassie Harlen.
When Cassie's mom nearly burns down her house, Cassie's forced to return home.
Back to a mother she's tried to ignore and the guy she's been unable to forget.
Graham doesn't know how he's going to spend the whole summer living next door
to the person who broke his heart without letting those old feelings push
through to the surface.
Neither does Cassie.
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Graham
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Excerpt:
Graham
I knew Cass was
coming. Hell, I was the one who called her, but until she was standing there
refusing to make eye contact—it was hard to believe it was true. We’d barely
said two words to each other since we left her house. I didn’t really know what
to say to her. Well, I knew what to say to her, but I also knew I couldn’t. It
wasn’t the time, and I wasn’t an ass. She made herself pretty clear last time I
saw her. God, I wished she’d didn’t look so damn good. If she looked bad all
this would be easier.
And
maybe I wouldn’t want to kiss her so much.
God,
I wanted to kiss her.
I
had to shake that off. I had a girlfriend, and Cassie was here, but it didn’t
change anything. I opened the door to the guest room, and turned the light on
for her. In the light of the room, she was radiant. She’d always been
beautiful, but today, there was something else, a sadness that rarely defined
her, but now it seemed so engrained.
I
knew right then what I really wanted for her: I hoped that when she left she
found the thing that made her happy. That the sadness in her eyes was only the
situation, and not what she had become. I cared too much about her to see her
swallowed in sadness.
“This
looks nice,” Cassie said. “Very different.”
When
I met her gaze, I recognized a glimmer of the girl I used to love. What did she
see in this room? The brown and blue paint that used to cover it? The pictures
of her and me that used to plaster the walls? The Clash poster that hung on the
closet door? The basketball trophies? The first time we fumbled our way through
sex when we were sixteen on that very bed? We’d improved a lot since that first
time. The last time I made her yell my name over and over, and it always felt
awesome to be the one to make her come. I had everything I could ever want, and
all of it was her, especially in that last moment we had together. I felt like
a king as she called my name as I moved inside her, I caught a glint of my
diamond on her finger. I’d thought in that moment that she’d be mine forever in
every way possible. That’d we have this for the rest of our lives. The memory
was as vivid as if it had been yesterday, even though it’d been months.
I
cleared my throat. Stop thinking about
that. “A lot has changed.”
Danielle Ellison spent most of her childhood reading instead of learning math. It's probably the reason she can't divide without a calculator and has spent her life seeking the next adventure. It's also probably the reason she's had so many different zip codes and jobs.
When
she's not writing, Danielle is probably eating cookies, fighting her
nomadic urges, watching too much TV, or dreaming of the day when she can be
British. She has settled in Northern Virginia, for now, but you can always find
her on twitter @DanielleEWrites.
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