Author: Marie Drake
Publisher: RedBird Books
Pages: 286
Genre: Realistic Fiction
Jordan Fry’s obsession is born in “You Can’t Force Love” by Marie Drake, Book I in the Locked Hearts Series.
From different towns and social backgrounds, Jordan Fry and Kimberly Orvine experience life-altering abuse, lose a parent and land in the same foster home. Angry, and self-deprecating, fiery redheaded Kimberly is deadset on lousy behavior and suffering the consequences, punishing herself for former sins. Scared by his inner darkness, pyromaniac Jordan has vowed to change for the better. He focuses on Kimberly as the key to his success, but she intends to make him break his promises. Unaware of Jordan’s atrocious actions in the past, she’s dangerously close to unleashing the evil he struggles to contain during their epic battle of wills. Can they both survive?
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“Strawberry, my favorite.” She tugged the lollipop from its
wrapper and slipped it into her mouth. Her eyes crinkled in the sun. She
dragged the candy over her lips with a final sucking motion, lifted her hand
and let the sunshine filter through the gem-shaped sugar. “Pretty,” she said.
Pain struck Jordan
again, stronger. It radiated through his lower body. Lily held his hand and
walked along the road’s edge. She stopped at a red and white toolshed at the
corner of her backyard. Jordan
peeked into her driveway, no car.
“Just one time, right?” Lily asked. She closed her eyes.
Jordan
smothered her with his mouth; she panicked and struggled, but he closed in and
restrained her. His mind emptied, his eyes went blank; a blinding drive took
over, and he pressed her to the ground. Tear-filled eyes didn’t dissuade him.
A horn honked, and a door slammed near the house; he froze.
Lily’s dad carried grocery bags. Jordan
rolled. She ran toward home; he traced her body’s imprint in the grass and
discovered a shimmering deep-blue earring.
A vice clamped his arm, and with a yank, he met angry eyes;
he cowered inches below Lily’s father’s face.
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Award-winning author, Marie Drake lives in a small town near Lake
Ontario with her husband, four sons, and three rescue pups. With many
years of experience in the Foster Care community and advocating for
other victims and survivors, she specializes in realistic and
psychological fiction depicting the lives of abuse sufferers; their
obstacles, their triumphs, and their downfalls.
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