Disgrace, an all-new romantic and emotional standalone from Brittainy C. Cherry is available NOW!
Synopsis:
Each day I prayed for my husband to love me again.
After fifteen years together, he walked away from me, and into the arms of another.
I didn’t know how to cope. I didn’t know my worth. I didn’t know how to exist without him by my side.
All I wanted was for him to come back to me.
Then, Jackson Emery appeared.
He was supposed to be a distraction for my mind. A summer fling. A confidence boost to my bruised heart.
We were perfect for one another, because we both knew we wouldn’t last. Jackson didn’t believe in commitment, and I no longer believed in love. He was too closed-off for me, and I was too damaged for him.
Everything was fine, until one night my heart skipped a beat.
I didn’t expect him to make me laugh. To make me think. To make my sadness somewhat disappear.
When our time was up, my heart didn’t know how to walk away.
Each day I prayed for my husband to love me again, yet slowly my prayers began to shift toward the man who wasn’t right for me.
I prayed for one more smile, one more kiss, one more laugh, one more touch…
I prayed for him to be mine.
Even though I knew his heart wasn’t destined to love.
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Disgrace is going to strike a cord with every person who has struggled in life, struggled in finding their place, struggled in finding out who they are meant to be. What sets Ms. Cherry’s books apart from most other books is her ability to create a story that readers, young and old, will feel deep inside their hearts, a book that will resonate. At one point in their lives they to would have struggled within themselves and somehow this book will touch on that time in your life and make you reflective.
So apart from having some uncanny ability to create stories that make her readers reflective on their lives; she creates a wonderfully poignant story. Grace and Finn have a marriage that is crumbling, this in itself makes Disgrace so relatable. How many marriages crumble these days instead of flourishing? How many spouses turn to others instead of their spouse? Too many to count! Jackson comes along at a time in Grace’s life when everything feels it’s in utter chaos. Most can tell from the synopsis that there is cheating in this book. Not generally a read for me. I tend to stay away from those with straying spouses just because of my personal moral beliefs. Plus the complete lack of disregard and disrespect for someone they had said to love and honor... well, it ticks me off, and really I feel you should always care enough about them or even yourself to be honest and treat others how you’d like to be treated. Sorry... total tangent! This is why I don’t do cheating books!
So even with all that said and the moral conflict, I felt like this book was still an entrancing story. Disgrace was heartbreaking and emotional. The characters were so dimensional and just captivating. This just proves to me that Ms. Cherry can write any storyline and it will be fantastic!!! I hope she continues to write stories that make me look inside for insight, and stories that make me question. I will say that Disgrace is a bit different from Ms. Cherry’s other books. So I can see that some people may struggle with the storyline while others will fall deeply into the pages written by Ms. Brittainy C. Cherry.
I received an ARC of this book with the hope that I would leave an Unbiased Opinion. I was not required to leave a review, positive or otherwise, and my opinions are just that... my opinions.
Excerpt:
Jackson
“I’ve read about boys like you in books, ya know,” she whispered, her fingers slowly spinning spirals on my chest.
“Oh, yeah? What did those books teach you about boys like me?”
“Well…” She bit her bottom lip, and with a small inhalation, she whispered, “They taught me to stay away.”
“Then why are you so close?”
She tilted her head up, looking me straight in the eyes. “Because in those stories, the heroine never ever listens.”
“And then there’s trouble?” I asked.
“Yes, and then there’s trouble.”
From the way she said those words, I knew trouble was exactly what she was in search of. We were the classic cliché. She was the good girl next door, I the monster from around the block. We were perfect opposites for the perfect storm, and she was asking me to be her next flaw, her greatest mistake.
And, well, who was I not to live up to her request?
“I could destroy you,” I warned.
“Or save me.”
“Is it worth the risk?”
“Isn’t it always worth the risk?”
The more she touched me, the more I wanted to touch her back. I wrapped my hands around her wrists flipping us around so she was now against the wall with her hands above her head. “I have rules.” I leaned in closer, lightly brushing my lips against her neck. God, she smelled good, like peaches and my next sin. “You can’t break these rules, either.” My tongue rolled from my mouth and circled against her neck before I gently sucked her skin.
She shivered at my touch. “What are they?”
“Rule one,” I whispered, my mouth moving across her collarbone. “You never stay the night.”
“Check.”
“Rule number two,” I said, dropping her left arm to the side. Taking my hand to the bottom of her blouse, I slowly raised it up and massaged her skin. “You never develop feelings.”
“That’s easy enough,” she replied, her breaths uneven as I teased at the top button on her jeans. “I don’t believe in feelings anymore.”
I didn’t know why, but that made me sad for her. I, too, didn’t believe in falling for people, but that was my norm. Grace seemed the type to believe in something bigger than love, so the fact that her belief was completely gone was a bit surprising.
Maybe we had more in common than I thought.
“Rule number three…we don’t talk about my life.”
“Like ever?”
“Never.”
“Okay.”
“And lastly, rule number four…” My mouth brushed against hers, and I slid my tongue slowly across her bottom lip. “If your favorite pair of panties get ripped, don’t expect me to replace them.”
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