Title: I Found You
Author: Jane Lark
Genre: New Adult
Publication Date: December 5, 2013
Publisher: HarperImpulse
Event Organized By: Literati Author Services, Inc.
Synopsis
“Dark, gritty and wholly mesmerizing, I Found You is a haunting and compelling read you will not easily forget!” – Bookish Jottings “So interesting, so versatile, so exhilarating… It kept me up all night.” – Goodreads “A fabulous book. Definitely not like any other romance…” – Goodreads “It’s a romance, but so very, very different to the norm.” – Jeannie Zelos Book Reviews ‘Emotional, romantic, and heartbreaking’ – Imagine a World
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Tomorrow is for regrets. Tonight is for being together.
On a cold winter night, Rachel and Jason’s lives collide on Manhattan Bridge. She’s running from life, he’s running toward it. But compassion urges him to help her.
His offer of a place to stay leads to friendship and trouble. There’s his fiancée back home in Oregon and a family who just don’t trust this girl from the wrong side of the tracks.
But when the connection between them is so electric, so right… everyone else must be wrong. And as the snow begins to settle on the Hudson, there’s nothing but the possibility of what could be – of this, right here, right now. Them.Add to Goodreads
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Excerpt:
Jason
The beat of the
music pounded through my earphones, drowning out the loud rattle of
the subway trains. I was in the zone. My heart was racing, my feet
striking the pavement with the rhythm of the baseline, as I ran.
The
monotony of city life swamped me in the day, but running brought me
back from it at night.
God,
I missed home, and fuck it was cold.
Too
cold to snow. I heard the words Dad
always repeated. I’d always thought it a myth. Was it ever too cold
to snow? I didn’t know, but people had been saying it all day.
The
pavement was dry, not icy. Dry with cold. There was no moisture in
the air, only the cloud of my breath, as my lungs filled and then
exhaled with the pace of my strides.
Maybe
it was true. God, there were so many myths in the world. Like, New
York was the place to be. It still felt like new shoes to me, like it
just didn’t fit.
The
tarmac felt firm beneath my sneakers.
I
looked forward, trying to increase my pace and energy, burning away
the doubts and disappointments I’d felt since I came to the city.
At
the end of the bridge there was a figure, caught in the middle of a
beam of orange lamplight, like some illuminated angel. I generally
only saw other guys jogging on the bridge path. It was rare to see
anyone else.
It
was Thanksgiving in little over a week and Christmas in a few weeks.
Lindy was pissed I wasn’t going back home, but she’d made up her
mind to come to me for Christmas.
Was
that good or bad?
The
figure was facing the Brooklyn Bridge, probably looking at the
reflection of the lights glinting and shifting on the dark water. It
was mesmerizing when you focused on it.
The
Manhattan Bridge was never busy, probably because of the noise of the
trains. The environment didn’t inspire pleasure, so it wasn’t a
place for tourists. But it was a good path for running, long and
straight, and normally empty.
I
ran harder, my eyes focusing on the figure.
The
person hadn’t moved. They held their hands up, gripping the metal
grill above them.
The
pose seemed odd. A little desperate. It wasn’t casual.
My
imagination shifted, no longer picturing angels but a horror movie.
The way the lamplight shone down on the figure, could be like they
were in the sights of a hovering helicopter, or a beam from a UFO.
I
thought of Christmas again, and ached for home. But I wasn’t going
home. I had to conquer New York.
The
light shining down on the stranger, suddenly took the form of a Godly
benediction once more. The person’s arms shifted, stretching out,
similar to a crucifixion pose, hands wide and high, as they looked
upward.
I
was getting nearer.
My
fingers were numb with the cold, even inside my gloves, and my ears
burned as jack-frost nipped beneath my hood. Running should’ve kept
me warm, but it was twenty-one degrees Fahrenheit, way below freezing
point.
Fuck,
now I could see the person ahead was standing in a t-shirt. Their
out-stretched arms were bare.
“Hey!”
My heart rate thundered as I ran on, wondering what sort of
city-nutter I was running toward. What were they doing wearing a tee
in this weather? It didn’t look like a homeless dude, but…
My
breaths grew more uneven.
The
guy ahead hadn’t heard me.
I
pulled my earphones out. “Hey!”
Still
no recognition. It was like they were in some sort of trance.
My
feet pounded on the concrete.
It
wasn’t a guy, it was a girl. I’d seen the long hair way back, but
hadn’t been sure. Plenty of guys had long hair. Now, I could see.
I
knocked my hood back. I didn’t want to scare her. “Hey!”
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