Torn Apart
Presley Elizabeth is a young woman who is struggling the best she can in life. Her past Love, Kace Rymer, is a one hit wonder of a rock star. They met ten years ago and we’re besotted with each other. His Hit song he wrote for her and whenever she hears it on the radio it brings back so many wonderful and a few heart breaking reminders of Kace. They were engaged but Kace was struggling with the life style of being a rock star. Drugs and drink were his enemy and he couldn’t seem to help himself out of this spiral of despair. Presley was so worried by his body wasting away to the abuse but there was nothing she could do. Then something happened and she broke off the engagement and hasn’t seen him since even though she loves him so very much and he has tried umpteen times to even get her to speak to him. Four years ago he got rid of all his management team, including his cousin, got into rehab and got himself a new manager, Steven. When he is asked to sing the national anthem before a football game at home he returns to where they fell in love back to her. They meet and what happens after that could very well make you cry, sigh and laugh. But oh how beautiful Rylee Swann delivers this touching story to us, the readers. She is a fabulous author the way she draws you into the pain that both Kace and Presley are going through and she lets us ‘hear’ what they are thinking. This is a heart wrenching story that takes you through all the emotions of finding love, having it torn away from you, dragging oneself through rehab and trying to get to be the person you want to be and then declaring your love to all the world to even have the slimmest of chances that you just might win the love of the most important person in the world to you. Rylee has excelled in this book to make us root for Kace and Presley despite what we thought was the ‘truth’. She really got into their heads and I just couldn’t put this book down as I was too ‘invested’ in their characters. yes, Kace was flawed but he was not totally as he had been portrayed and he did deserve a chance which Presley was brave enough to give him. I voluntarily reviewed an advance reader copy of this book.
However, as I loved this story so very much and will be re-reading it again, I have bought my own copy.
DEFINITELY RECOMMENDED.