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Inseverable

Carolina Beach #1

Cecy Robson

Releasing June 21st, 2016

How can you imagine forever with someone who's leaving everything behind?

Callahan, a former army sniper, wants to make an escape from his past and everything he experienced at war, but most of all, just not feel. Feeling leads to pain and he's suffered enough. When he inherits a house on South Carolina's Kiawah Island, he packs his bags, lured by the peace and seclusion he thinks it will bring. But, Callahan never counted on meeting anyone like Trinity . . .

Trinity has always been the cute, and funny one, who most guys overlook inpursuit of her "hot" friends. She became used to being everyone's pal, until the day the young man she was attracted to, was drawn to her in return. He became her first great love, and first crushing heartbreak when she found him in bed with one of her closest friends.

To move forward, and to carry out her commitment to helping those in need, Trinity enlists in the Peace Corps, but not before returning to Kiawah for one last memorable summer. She just never imagined it would be so unforgettable.

Callahan doesn't want to get close to anyone-let alone Trinity. He finds her perkiness insufferable and her attempts to entice a smile distracting. After all, he's in Kiawah to leave all feelings behind. But when it comes to Trinity, who feels everything, it's hard not to feel something.

Neither expected to fall in love. And no one could have predicted how inseverable they'd become.

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Prologue

Callahan

Three days.

That’s all I have left until this shit ends.

Three days shouldn’t feel like forever, not compared to the eight years I’ve bled to the Army. Thing is, good men have been killed in less time. In as quick as a blink, a squeeze of a trigger, or a small breath right before a grenade blows is all the time it takes to shove someone right out of life and well into death.

That’s what makes three days as long as it is. Three days is plenty of time to die.

My eyes tear when the wind picks up and shoots grime through the small hole of my lookout point. This blown out piece of cinderblock is only big enough to allow me a view of the street below, but not so small I don’t get smacked in the face with more filth. The tarp flaps above me as I spit out another layer of the dirt-sand mix spackling my teeth. Christ Almighty, I need a swig of the water resting near my elbow. But my thirst, like everything else has to wait.

I have a job to do.

I adjust my hips against the cracked cement of my bed, bathroom, and home all rolled into one, thankful that the agonizing ache stretching over the lower half of my body has settled into a now familiar numbness.

Out of all the points I’d scouted, and all the accumulated years spent in this position, I should be used to it. And in a strange way, it should almost be home. Yet nothing ever has been home.

But in three days, maybe something finally will be . . .

I shove my thoughts away and breathe as my fellow Rangers stalk along the street. It’s then I see them, a mother and daughter walking straight toward my team. Less than one city block separates them from the men counting on me to keep them alive.

The hell? How did they get past the other sniper unreported? Rogers is new on watch. But the quick paces these two are taking should have clued him in that something’s up. I train my scope on their faces; their expressions are blank, unreadable. ‘Cept that’s not what keeps my attention.

The little girl can’t be more than five. So why the fuck isn’t her mother holding her hand? I lift my radio and bark a warning, dropping it beside me as I lock my scope dead center on the woman’s head.

The radio crackles and Modreski chimes in, yelling at his team to hold their positions. He asks me what my plan is, knowing if something’s caused the short-hairs on my neck to rise, he and the boys damn well need to listen. But I don’t hear him, with a breath and a squeeze of the trigger, I leave a kid without a mother.

Just beneath the sleeve of her abayah―the dress completely covering her body―I see it, a detonator that would trigger the explosives likely strapped to her chest. A few Rangers I know―Simons and Boreman, rush forward. I start to mutter a curse, pissed at her for making me shoot her in front of her kid. But the curse lodges in my throat when I see the kid isn’t looking at her mother lying next to her dead.

She’s watching my advancing team as she lifts the detonator clasped tight in her hand.

Sunshine and rainbows meets dark stormy clouds is how I would describe Trinity and Callahan. Trinity is funny, sweet, loving and loyal even though she has suffered heartbreak and betrayal. Callahan's time in the Army as a Ranger has left him emotionally scarred and suffering from PTSD. The last thing he needed or wanted was overly happy girl trying to be his friend. Slowly, she begins to break down his walls with her quirky and loving ways over the course of the summer. But she's keeping a big secret from him, one that threatens the possibility of forever for them. Like all Ms. Robson books, the writing is great and full of funny, emotional and sexy moments. Great beginning to a new series!

I received an ARC via NetGalley for the purpose of an honest review. I was not compensated for this review, all conclusions are my own.

Okay. INSEVERABLE takes place in South Carolina, more specifically, Kiawah Island. So I had to go all country up in this business. I’ll list all the songs from my playlist, but elaborate on the songs that spoke to me, Callahan, and Trinity.

Anything But Mine – Kenny Chesney

This song is the first song Callahan sings to Trinity. That’s right y’all, in addition to being a sexy ex-Army Ranger, Callahan sings and learned to play some songs by ear on his guitar. *insert bouts of swooning here.

Chasing Cars – Snow Patrol

The melody speaks so much of Callahan, someone who wants to forget the world and everyone in it, until he finds Trinity to lie with and return to that world that’s been so unkind to him.

Don’t Happen Twice – Kenny Chesney

Heaven – Jason Aldean and Bryan Adams

This is the song Trin and Callahan dance to. I LOVE the intimacy and vulnerability they share during this moment, and how it leads to that next step that brings them closer and tears down the walls.

I’d Lie For You (And That’s the Truth) – Meatloaf

There is a big secret that Trinity keeps from Callahan, more for his sake, but it’s one that threatens their relationship. Sometimes, we do things for all the right reasons, only to have all the wrong consequences. This is one of those moments.

Into the Mystic – Van Morrison

God Love Her – Toby Keith

Oh, yes. God love Trinity and her crazy antics.

Don’t You Wanna Stay – (Jason Aldean and Kelly Clarkson)

Stick to Your Guns – Bon Jovi

Did I mention Callahan is a former sniper?

One Night Love Affair – Bryan Adams

Ever have a disastrous one night stand? Let’s see how yours compares to Trinity’s.

Take Me There – Rascal Flatts

This is the song that always reminds me of Trinity and Callahan. She’s such a sweet, and hometown girl. And while Callahan fights his initial attraction and wants to keep Trin at arm’s length, eventually, he wants to know everything about her, just as the lyrics in the song.

Washing of the Water – Peter Gabriel

I needed a song that could put me in touch with Callahan’s pain from his experiences at war. This was it.

Wherever You Will Go – The Calling

Remind Me – Brad Paisley and Carrie Underwood

I love this Bar – Toby Keith

Summer of ’69 – Bryan Adams

Want to Want Me – Jason Derulo

I Won’t Let Go – Rascal Flatts

And he doesn’t . . . but the way he hangs on will steal your heart.

I hope you’ll give INSEVERABLE a chance, and that you fall as hard in love with Callahan and Trinity’s journey as they did.

Cecy Robson is a new adult and contemporary author of the Shattered Past series, the O’Brien Family novels and upcoming Carolina Beach novels, as well as the award-winning author of the Weird Girls urban fantasy romance series. A 2016 double nominated RITA®finalist for Once Pure and Once Kissed, Cecy is a recovering Jersey girl living in the South who enjoys carbs way too much, and exercise way too little. Gifted and cursed with an overactive imagination, you can typically find her on her laptop silencing the yappy characters in her head by telling their stories.