by Alexa Jacobs
Release Date: October 30th 2015
Summary from Goodreads;
Olivia Reynolds was free. Twenty years old, living in New York City, and having absolutely no idea what she wanted to be when she grew up, every day would be an adventure, or at least that was the plan. When a phone call from her brother lands her back in her home town, and dealing with an unexpected tragedy, she comes face to face her brother’s best friend Dean and realizes that the feelings she had buried long ago were still there. Dean Winston has lived with the fact that Olivia walked out of his life two years ago, and was never coming back. With her back in town, he struggles to be the friend that she needs him to be, and not the lover that she once wanted him to be. With lines between childhood friends and secret lovers once again blurring, Olivia must decide between the possibilities of her future and the ties of her past. Some strings just refuse to be cut.
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was the air that he breathed. There was no world beyond the bed they were on.
He let himself fall into the spiraling abyss of pleasure as he felt his body
release inside of her. Her head rested on his shoulder, and rather than
releasing her, he pulled her closer.
“Dean?” she quietly whispered up to him as she struggled to
steady her heartbeat.
“Yeah?” The breath of his voice tickled her ear.
“What just happened?” she asked.
“That damn dress, that’s what just happened.”
“I’m pretty sure that damn dress is on the floor in shreds,”
she said breathlessly.
“Oh, that’s a shame. I really liked that dress.” He smiled
in the dark, and the room fell silent for a few minutes.
A few hours later, in the quiet of the night, listening to
his steady breathing as he slept, she said the words she had never said out
loud to him.
“I love you. I’ve always loved you.” She kissed his arm and
his cheek.
He moved just a bit, and she slid silently off the bed. She
watched him for just a few minutes, feeling the ache return to her heart, where
it had been her constant companion for the last two years. When he woke up in
the morning, he found that he was alone. She had gone. He pulled the pillow
from the now empty side of the bed and covered his face with it. When the
subtle scent of her hair caught him, he screamed into the pillow.
Rising Ridge Sountrack
Feeling Good – Bassnectar Remix
Chapter 1:
Welcome to New York Olivia! Every
morning that she wakes up in her little apartment in NYC, she looks out her
window and sees the freedom that she has been longing for all her life. The birds
in the trees know how she feels. It’s a new day, dawn and life for our girl and
she is feeling good.
The Funeral – Band of Horses
Chapters 2 & 3:
A mixed bag of emotions are revealed
between Olivia and Dean during the travel back from New York to Rising Ridge.
She is dealing with the death of her parents, and her up and down relationship
with them. She is internalizing her feelings for Dean, which she has only ever
seen as something she does to drag him down. With both relationships, she very
much feels the coming up only to be held under, the coming up only to show
you’re wrong.
Tonight, Tonight – Smashing Pumpkins
Chapter 6:
Olivia sees her relationship with
Dean as nothing more than stolen moments. She loves him, would give him
anything in the world that he asked of her. He asks for nothing, just be with
him here and now. Yesterday does not matter, and tomorrow is so far away. This
is the time that we have, make the impossible possible. Even in the moments of
a dream, all she ever has is tonight.
Kinda I want to – Nine Inch Nails
Chapter 7:
To know Elle is to love her, and her
wildly free spirit. Of course she would be bopping along to this song while
grocery shopping when she runs into Connor. She has spent a lifetime loving
this boy from a far, and she can’t make sense of it. She can’t shake the
feeling, she’s allowed herself to be no closer than from across the way, yet
she simply cannot make the feeling go away. It’s the moment she begins to
think…maybe, just for tonight.
I’d Rather be with you- Joshua Radin
Chapter 8:
Connor tries so hard to be the man
that everybody needs him to be, and they all see him as brave. But he wants to
be bold. He wants to just jump sometimes, or scream. When he looks at Elle, he
begins to realize that he needs like a girl like her in his life. He needs to
just jump like she does, be the man that she sees him to be. She is the pieces
of him that he is missing.
Fly Away – Lenny Kravitz
Chapter 9:
Because Rohan is so fucking cool,
and of course this is the song playing when he takes Olivia out on a date. As
Olivia gets to know Rohan, she begins to relate him to the freedom that she
craves. He encourages her to do, be, see, go. Fly away, so very high.
Fade into you – Mazzy Star
Chapter 10:
Olivia has made up her mind that she
is leaving Rising Ridge, and she is leaving everything and everyone behind.
That includes Dean, and the relationship that they never had. She looks at him,
and sees nothing, as they never had the love that she feels in her heart. But
it is there, it is the truth that she sees when she looks at him. She knows
that he will live his life, that he will remain just a shadow of hers. She
wants to take that breath that is true.
The Story – Brandi Carlilie
Chapter 12:
The story of Didier and Lorraine. It
lasted a lifetime, and as he sees it, every one of his stories begins and ends
with the love of his life. They were just made for each other.
Mr. Brightside – The Killers
Stay the Night – Zedd & Hayley Willams
Almost Lover – A Fine Frenzy
Chapters 13 & 14:
It started out with a kiss, and what
oh what has happened since then? He’s jealous of her, she’s jealous of him and
they can’t quite keep their hands off each other.
They find each other in these
moments, upside down. So give in, let go. Olivia knows that she and Dean are
never going to be right, they will always be a little broken, but sometimes…who
cares. Just stay the night. She’s trying to convince herself more than she is
trying to convince Dean.
Olivia finds that she needs to say
Goodbye to Dean, for good. She loves him so much, but for both their sake, she
must let go. He was always almost the greatest love of her life, and that is
where he is doomed to stay.
Whatever you like – Anya Marnia
Chapter 21:
Elle has made up her mind, she is
going to get her man. She’s going to do or be whatever it is that he wants her
to be. She dresses exactly how she thinks he’d like, she makes him dinner, and
gives him a glimpse of what he could have. He can have whatever he like, she
just wants him.
Crash into Me – Dave Matthews Band
Chapter 23:
Dean sees Olivia as something that
does exactly this, crashes into him. She shows up in unexpected corners of his
mind, and in his heart. She has a hold of him that he cannot explain, when he’s
with her, he just gets lost. Even though he knows he’s bad for her, he finds
himself unable to deny her requests, or his own desires.
LA Woman – Brightside
Chapter 24:
Enter Anna. Enough said.
All I wanted – Paramore
Chapter 26:
Even in New York, settling into the
life that she waited a lifetime to have, Olivia realizes something is missing.
She wanted freedom. She wanted a career. She wanted to see the world. No..not
really. All she wanted was him.
She is Love – Parachute
Epilogue:
Olivia has realized that Dean is her
one constant. He is the home that she is looking for. He let her go, and
have her ways, and explore. He is love, and that is all that she needs.
Give it Away – Red Hot Chili Peppers
Dr. Feelgood – Mötley Crüe
Everlong – Foo Fighters
Kitchen Music:
Because…Rohan. It’s okay to swoon a
little.
About the Author
Alexa Jacobs was born and raised in the suburban outskirts of Baltimore, Maryland. She met her husband through friends in high school, and began what turned out to be a short lived career in the financial industry. With her first child, she became a stay at home parent and threw all of her energy into becoming the queen of Pinterest before Pinterest was a thing.
When her second child headed off to kindergarten, Alexa thought that it was time for a career change.
After a decade with at least one child underfoot 24 hours a day, it was time for her to discover who she was going to be when she grew up.
Turns out, she was a mom who sat by the window and cried the entire day on that first day of “freedom” from early parenthood.
A few months, and many kindergarten volunteer days later, she sat down at the computer and dusted off the rough draft of a story she had crafted years ago. That draft turned into her debut book, Rising Ridge.
Alexa is a member of the Romance Writers of America, and participates in many writer circle groups.
When her second child headed off to kindergarten, Alexa thought that it was time for a career change.
After a decade with at least one child underfoot 24 hours a day, it was time for her to discover who she was going to be when she grew up.
Turns out, she was a mom who sat by the window and cried the entire day on that first day of “freedom” from early parenthood.
A few months, and many kindergarten volunteer days later, she sat down at the computer and dusted off the rough draft of a story she had crafted years ago. That draft turned into her debut book, Rising Ridge.
Alexa is a member of the Romance Writers of America, and participates in many writer circle groups.
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