Synopsis.
Twenty-three-year-old Camryn Singer never imagined that she would return to the place where she lost everything. To grant a dying wish, she moves back to the small Jersey beach town where she grew up, hoping to somehow find the missing pieces of her life. Determined to keep her wounds unopened and her heart guarded, she instead slams head-first into Cole Stevens.
Sexy surfer Cole has always used the waves to numb the pain of his past. But when he runs into Camryn on the beach one day, he wants nothing more than for her to heal his scars and light the spark back in his life.
Will Camryn and Cole be ripped apart when the ghosts from their pasts come back to life, or will they discover that it’s not until you’re lost, that you can be found?
SJ's Review.
My. Oh. My. This book was full of drama... Drama at its best...
So you have Cam who is mother too Gavin, who is also fathered by Todd. Todd lift cam when he found out she was pregnant. A pregnant teenage girlfriend didn't fit into him great life plan.... Well that's what Cam assumed! How wrong could she have been? Let's face it, if your madly in love with someone you aren't going to see their faults until it's too late... It's always too late! When Todd left Cam she upped and left without a second thought. Jersey held too many bad memories for her... She was never going to return! That is until her mumma dies :(
Queue Cole! Cole is... Well... Sexy, but also just as broken as Cam. Cole has been in love with Cam for ten years.... He lived his life hoping one day she would come back to him, Cam doesn't even know who Cole is. She was far to wrapped up in Todd back then!
When these too meet there is an instant attraction... Cam can't stop thinking about Cole and Cole treats Gavin like he's his dad...
Enter Gavin's Dad... Todd! Todd never wanted Gavin so why now? Did he realise he should be in his son's life or is it the fact that he's trying to hurt Cam? Or Cole? It's obvious there is more hate between Todd & Cole than the love they both had/have for Cam. Poor Cam doesn't know how to keep Cole out of her past, it's obviously hurting him having Todd around. Was that Todd's master plan in all this?
As the past gets unravelled so did my heart and my emotions. For people so young they have experience so much loss in their lives!! Not only were revelation made, secrets outted but old relationships were rediscovered!
Will Cam and Gavin have the happy ever after she always wanted with a family that she loves or will it forever just be the two of them with the addition of Auntie Li & Uncle Carter? Gavin has made it this far as a happy go lucky little boy with so much love and happiest in his heart. How will he react when his dad shows up? How will Cole feel about this? After all Gavin & Cole have built a pretty strong bond over the time they have spent together!
You wouldn't have a massive love story without you big dramatic part near the end now would you ;) so this big dramatic but involves Cole & Todd. These two had been after a show down since the beginning, it had all been building up into one big finale. Let's face it, I'm right. So the time comes and it breaks my heart... Further more when the ambulance arrives, my heart shatters. It's shatters for Cam & for Gavin who witnessed the whole thing!
Can the person in the ambulance recover? And can the person who inflicted the pain be forgiven by Gavin? Does he want to be forgiven?
So without giving too much more away... The final secrets are thrown on the table in the hospital when Todd decides to tell Cam why he left? This.... This made me angry... So angry!!!!!
Just want to say a little about Lil and Carter. These two are a couple, a brilliant couple. Lil has always been Cam's best mate. She even upped and moved across the country to follow Cam when she run away from Todd, and then she upped and moved back to again follow Cam.. What. A . Friend!! These girls have such a friendship that I love. I love the relationship they had. More of friends but sisters. Sister through it all.
"We'll always have our vaginas."
Who will Cam get her HEA with? Will Cam forgive Todd who broke her heart and left her like a candy wrapper in the parking lot 5 years ago? Or Cole who has been nothing but a sweetheart from the moment they met?
"Without you I'm lost, my soul empty, my life incomplete."
This book. I loved it :)
Ok maybe I'm a sucker for a love story... But who isn't? The book had the right amount of sex without being over the top, the right amount of drama with you thinking 'ok really, enough now' and it had the right proportion of the good guys & bad guys. Come on who wants a story full of good guys?
All in all I give Found In You a whooping 5 stars!! This book will not disappoint! If your looking for a book to make your easter read this should definately be it...
About the Author.
I am a middle school teacher who recently traded in my chalk for a laptop to follow my dream of writing contemporary romance novels. I live with my husband and two daughters in the suburbs of Philadelphia.When I'm not writing, I spend my time reading and relaxing with my family at my home-away-from-home, the Jersey shore.
After I graduated from Villanova University in 2003, I never imagined my path would lead me in this direction. Writing was a hobby, an outlet for me to live in a world of happily ever after. Now as I watch my dream become a reality, I believe that happy endings do exist.