Love isn't free
You pay its price with your heart.
Title:
Eight
Series:
Love by Numbers #6
Author:
E.S. Carter
Release
Date:
June 13, 2017
Blurb
I'm sorry for
your loss.
Why do people say that?
When someone you love is taken from you, when a part of you dies along with them, you haven't lost them like you would your car keys or mobile phone. They aren't stuck down the side of the sofa or left in the ignition of your car for you to find later. You haven't absentmindedly put them somewhere and forgotten. You will never lose them because they live in you.
The soul crushing hurt that burns your lungs with every breath you take comes from knowing where they are and not being with them.
The ugly and real definition of grief is being left behind.
I'm sorry they left you.
I'm sorry you are alone.
I'm sorry it hurts to breathe.
Loss; it doesn't even compare.
She was my first love.
She is my last love.
I am an empty husk who pretends to be filled with enough love for those of us she left behind.
Our little girl and newborn son need me.
I am both mother and father now.
I am hollow and empty.
I am a shell.
So why does the girl with the face of an angel and eyes that mirror my emptiness, look at me like I'm her everything?
*Book #6 in the 'Love by Numbers' series. Can be read as a standalone.*
Why do people say that?
When someone you love is taken from you, when a part of you dies along with them, you haven't lost them like you would your car keys or mobile phone. They aren't stuck down the side of the sofa or left in the ignition of your car for you to find later. You haven't absentmindedly put them somewhere and forgotten. You will never lose them because they live in you.
The soul crushing hurt that burns your lungs with every breath you take comes from knowing where they are and not being with them.
The ugly and real definition of grief is being left behind.
I'm sorry they left you.
I'm sorry you are alone.
I'm sorry it hurts to breathe.
Loss; it doesn't even compare.
She was my first love.
She is my last love.
I am an empty husk who pretends to be filled with enough love for those of us she left behind.
Our little girl and newborn son need me.
I am both mother and father now.
I am hollow and empty.
I am a shell.
So why does the girl with the face of an angel and eyes that mirror my emptiness, look at me like I'm her everything?
*Book #6 in the 'Love by Numbers' series. Can be read as a standalone.*
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5 Stars!!
This is my first read from E.S Carter and I will definitely be reading more. Just the cover of this book had me falling in love and reading the blurb sealed the deal. It's a beautiful and heartbreaking story going through the stages of grief.
People fight their way through Grief in different ways and this is Josh's story.
After losing his wife on the same day she delivered their new born son he finds t difficult to cope, he's angry and he needs someone to blame. Finally realising he needs to be there for his children he moves them to Ibiza to escape the memories and start a new life where he meets Hallie.
Hallie works for his brother, she hasn't had the easiest of lives and carries around a lot of her own heartache.
Are Josh and Hallie just what they each need to move on with their lives and will Hallie finally get the loving family she craves.
This book is part of a series but each one can be read as a standalone, although reading Eight has made me want to go back and read the rest of these books. This is definitely I book I will be recommending!!
This is my first read from E.S Carter and I will definitely be reading more. Just the cover of this book had me falling in love and reading the blurb sealed the deal. It's a beautiful and heartbreaking story going through the stages of grief.
People fight their way through Grief in different ways and this is Josh's story.
After losing his wife on the same day she delivered their new born son he finds t difficult to cope, he's angry and he needs someone to blame. Finally realising he needs to be there for his children he moves them to Ibiza to escape the memories and start a new life where he meets Hallie.
Hallie works for his brother, she hasn't had the easiest of lives and carries around a lot of her own heartache.
Are Josh and Hallie just what they each need to move on with their lives and will Hallie finally get the loving family she craves.
This book is part of a series but each one can be read as a standalone, although reading Eight has made me want to go back and read the rest of these books. This is definitely I book I will be recommending!!
Playlist
Also
Available in the Love by Numbers series
*NB: Books one
and two are a duet, and should be read in order. All other books in the Love by
Numbers series can be read standalone.
#1 Nineteen
#2 Twenty-One
#3 Three
#4 Thirteen
#5 One
Author
Bio
ES Carter
lives in Cardiff, South Wales. The home of castles, dragons and folklore.
Her family joke that she was born with a book in her hand, and the urge to write stories soon followed.
At eleven, she won her school's literary prize. At ages fourteen to sixteen - her poetry phase after falling in love with Dylan Thomas and e.e. cummings - she had a few poems published, but life, love and family overtook her dreams, and she was in her thirties when she began the scary journey of self-publishing.
Her debut and internationally best-selling series, 'Love by Numbers', are a set of interconnected stand alone romances, all with varying themes of love. From second-chance to romantic comedy and M/M romance. These stories do not need to be read in order, in fact, she is often guilty of advising readers to start at the last book and work their way back through.
Contemporary romance is not the only genre she writes, her second series, 'The Red Order', is as dark and twisted as you can get, but there is beauty there too if you can open your eyes and look.
With many more stories bursting to be set free, she hopes you stay along for the ride.
She loves to connect with readers, so please feel free to friend/follow her on Facebook, IG and Twitter or join her reader's group, E's Elite <3
Her family joke that she was born with a book in her hand, and the urge to write stories soon followed.
At eleven, she won her school's literary prize. At ages fourteen to sixteen - her poetry phase after falling in love with Dylan Thomas and e.e. cummings - she had a few poems published, but life, love and family overtook her dreams, and she was in her thirties when she began the scary journey of self-publishing.
Her debut and internationally best-selling series, 'Love by Numbers', are a set of interconnected stand alone romances, all with varying themes of love. From second-chance to romantic comedy and M/M romance. These stories do not need to be read in order, in fact, she is often guilty of advising readers to start at the last book and work their way back through.
Contemporary romance is not the only genre she writes, her second series, 'The Red Order', is as dark and twisted as you can get, but there is beauty there too if you can open your eyes and look.
With many more stories bursting to be set free, she hopes you stay along for the ride.
She loves to connect with readers, so please feel free to friend/follow her on Facebook, IG and Twitter or join her reader's group, E's Elite <3
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