BOOK: You Loved Me At My Weakest
SERIES: Love Series (Book Two)
AUTHOR: Evie Harper
RELEASE DATE: November 24th, 2014
Synopsis
Emily
Broken, used and worthless.
They are the words that have been branded into my
mind for the past five years.
Now freed, but they stole my smile and left me with
only tears.
My dreams of the future died right before my eyes.
I'm fighting to find my way back, but I’m too weak.
Kanye
I won’t let her walk this road alone.
I’ll hold on for her. The dark can’t last forever.
Her heart beat keeps time for the rest of my life.
Our fate will not be denied or erased.
It will be beautiful.
“How great your love is for me.” I whisper.
“Forever Emmy”
Excerpt
Found, saved, released… freed.
Should I have a smile on my face? I
should be happy, right? I’m going home. I’m going to see my family and I’m
going to be safe from now on. No more hands touching me. No more bruises to
watch fade away from my skin.
But I’m broken, ruined, and worthless.
What can I offer them? I’m tainted. Darkness has touched me more times than I
can wrap my mind around.
This suburban family doesn’t know what
true evil is. I’ve laid beside the devil countless times and he’s turned me
black. Inside and out.
The world around me grows louder and I
come out of my thoughts, staring at the ground. I turn my head to look for
Kanye, who is standing behind me. We just stepped off the plane that brought me
home. He’s watching me, again. Each time I glimpse a look at him, my breath
catches. He hasn’t changed at all in the last five years. Still the most
handsome man I’ve ever laid eyes on. His wild, short blond hair and deep blue
eyes that tell me he’s so much more than just a pretty face; his thoughts are
always deep and meaningful. His body is still fit and muscular. My head still
only comes up to his eye level.
Shouts distract me from my examination.
I look around and find my parents sprinting toward me. Across the airstrip not
listening to any of the men screaming behind them to stop. My mother drops her
handbag, items spilling from it; however, she doesn’t stop to pick it up.
Time slows for just a moment as I watch
my parents. My mother’s short brown hair whips in the air. Her eyes wide with
tears falling. I can see one of the teardrops hit her red shirt, and there it
sits, a lone wet tear, a teardrop for me.
My father’s cheeks are puffing in and
out heavily. His arms pumping hard, I watch as each vein pops up as he pulls
and pushes his arms backwards and forwards.
I tilt my head to the side. They’re
running toward me, to embrace me. To comfort me? How long will it take them to
realize their Emily is gone. How long until they realize I’m repulsive. And I
will lose them, all over again.
I’m scared of their touch. Light,
loving, forgiving.
Oomph! They’ve crashed into me
and time sets back to present and harsh reality.
My dad picks me up, circles his arms
around my body, and cries into my neck. My mother hugs me from behind. I feel
her tears soaking through my shirt.
I’m scared. My chest feels heavy. My
heart begins to swell. It expands and the ice around my heart starts cracking,
breaking off in tiny pieces.
My mother’s sobs turn into screams at my
back and larger pieces of ice break off. I’m left with just a swollen heart,
who just let everything in. Pain, suffering, torment, relief, love. I can feel
it all and it’s too much. But I can’t turn it off.
My chest starts heaving, but my mouth
refuses to open and let out the cries that are now clawing at my lips to let
them have a voice. A voice… they’ve never had a voice. Someone who cared what
they cried, someone who would fix the hurt they were feeling.
It’s happening. My body melts into my
father’s. My eyes sting and blur. Slowly, I open my mouth and there they are.
The cries. They’ve gone ignored and unwanted for so long. They are mine. My
cries of pain, torment and my relief.
My father jolts at the agonizing sound
that’s ripped from my throat. My mother stands back and repeats my name on a
whisper.
Hands wrap around me from behind and I
know whose they are. The one person who at this moment is going to send me over
the edge. Kanye.
I fall into him, his warmth, and strong
arms. We collapse to the ground and he holds me to him. My head to his neck and
his hand under my knees.
Kanye repeats on a whisper while rocking
us on the ground, “I’m sorry. I’m sorry. I’m sorry.”
I continue to let my precious cries go,
while the man I love and the man I cried out for so often apologizes for the
pain he didn’t inflict. Pain I can see he has inflicted on himself.
I’m letting my pain go and sharing it
with the world. Now everyone around me knows just how much agony I’m in. And
they’re listening; they will try to help. They can’t. But at least someone
cares. That’s all I ever wanted.
Teasers
~I Love Story Time Review~
5 Stars!!!
I just want to say that I am honored to have had the opportunity to receive an ARC for this book. I absolutely LOVED You Loved Me At My Darkest and
I could not wait to read Emily and Kanye's story. Evie Harper has hands
down become one of my most favorite authors. I don't know what they are
feeding the people down under, but Australia is producing some HOT men
and AMAZING writers!!
"I'm
not going anywhere, no matter what words you sling my way. I was here
twelve years ago. I'm here now, and I will be here fighting for you
until the day I die." ~Kanye
Going
into this book, I knew it was going to be an emotional read. Emily had
been through so much. Beaten, raped, and broken, Emily had survived 5
years in hell. Saved and now home with her family and the man she never
forgot, she faces the challenges of stepping back into her old
life...into her old self. As Emily fights the darkness that threatens to
consumed her and struggles to believe that she is worthy of Kanye's
love, a demon from her past is hell bent on finding her and reclaiming
her as his own.
"My
stomach churns, but it's not my tummy. It's anger swirling around my
scarred soul. Rage. Now more than ever., I need to reach Donovan. And
when I do, I may not make it out alive, but neither will he." ~ Emily
I
really enjoyed Emily's story...I read it in one sitting! It was
emotional. It was heart breaking. It was everything that I had hoped
for! If you loved book 1, you will not be disappointed. But this time,
this girl gets her revenge and boy was it sweet! Evie Harper has written
another amazing novel. Bringing back the characters I loved from You Loved At My Darkest and leading me into the next novel in this series, You Loved My at My Ugliest, has me completely hooked. I would highly recommend this book...this series!
I am Emily Roberts.
I am a survivor.
I am happy.
I am loved, greatly
♥ Review by Lys
About Evie Harper
Evie is an Australian
author whose passion for reading lead her into writing. Evie spends her days
writing angsty, heart breaking love stories and creating happily ever afters.
When Evie isn’t writing you can find her reading or spending time with her
husband and two children.
Books By Evie Harper
YOU LOVED ME SERIES
Book #1 - You Loved Me At My
Darkest
SYNOPSIS
Lily
Ripped from Heaven, Burned in Hell.
Caught and caged in beauty.
Beauty comes at a cost.
One man holds the key to our survival, to our
freedom.
Find out how I lived and lost the greatest thing
on earth.
Love.
Jake
I didn't see her coming and that will be my
downfall.
She will ruin me, take everything from me, and
give me everything I can't have.
I can't help her. I won't.
She is innocence. She is strength.
She is my piece of heaven in hell.
I’m not letting her go.
~Review By I Love Story Time~
5 Stars!!
An AMAAAZING debut novel by Aussie author Evie Harper! You Loved Me
At My Darkest was a well written, emotional, and incredibly suspenseful
story about Lily and her younger sister Sasha. The storyline is
non-stop…I could not put it down. A MUST read for fans of dark romance!
Lily
and Sasha, two very close sisters from Australia, are recovery from the
heartache of losing their parents in an automobile accident. Trying to
move forward and lead the lives their parents would have wanted for
them, they set off to travel the world. First stop…New York City. As
they enjoy the sites of the city, little do they know that they have
been marked, watched, and admired from the moment they stepped off the
airplane.
“Stupid girls, you have a fox chasing you, and you are going to be so easy to catch.”
Kidnapped by Marco, a sex slave king pin, the
sisters must hold on to the only thing they have, each other. Lily,
carrying the weight of the world on her shoulders is determined to save
them from an unforeseen evil; a life of abuse.
“My eyes sting with tears that I won’t allow to fall. Rage and
desperation surge through my blood like a torrent of forceful water,
heating my body and clenching my fist. I don’t want to tell my sister
she may get hit, that she may be touched.”
Jake, Marco’s right hand man, is lost and broken
himself. Due to a tragic past of his own, he is not the person he once
was and is left as just a shell of who he used to be; enabling him to be
disconnected, unattached and without emotion; a perfect solider for
Marco. Of course, that is up until the moment he locks eyes with Lily,
the only girl that can see the storm of emotions brewing in his eyes.
“She’s the fire, and I am a stupid motherfucking moth who wants what I can’t have. And what I can’t have is Lily Morgan.”
You will love Lily. She is a fighter with a smart
mouth and an unwavering will to survive. Even as Marco tries to break
her, she never loses her determination to break free from the hell that
she and her sister are trapped in.
“As much as I want to fall back into bed and hide away from the
world, I’m not going to give Marco or anyone else the power to destroy
me. It’s my time to be brave. I might still cry and I might still fall,
but at the end of all this, I will be free and I will bring them all to
their knees.”
I absolutely loved this book! It was so
emotional. I could relate to Lily and her need to do whatever it took to
keep her sister safe as I have two sisters that I would die to protect.
My heart broke for Lily and Sasha for what they had to endure. Their
journey will stay with you long after you finish this book. Evie Harper
did a beautiful job bringing her characters to life. You will feel
everything! I look forward to reading more from Evie and I am hoping
that there will be a book about Joseph and Alexa and Kanye and Emily.
Their stories have yet to be told! This was definitely 5 star MUST read
for me. I would recommend it to any reader that enjoys a dark, gritty,
suspenseful storyline with an unexpected hero and a bad ass heroine.
“Never say never”
♥ Review by Lys
PORTLAND STREET
KINGS SERIES
Book #1 - Collision (Street
Kings) – Out early 2015
SYNOPSIS
Unwanted or left alone in the world, it didn’t matter.
We were put in the system and then handed over to monsters.
We ran away and grew up on the streets.
The streets became our home.
We grew up the hard way, learning that every mistake had a consequence.
Now we make the laws and we live or die by them.
There is no greater authority in this city than The Portland Street Kings. It is kill or be killed in our world.
Don't take a step in unless you’re sure you can survive.
We are The Portland Kings, you threaten our family and we will show you no mercy.
Giveaway
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