“Hayes and Everly, together, are an unstoppable force. This small-town, suspenseful romance was absolutely unputdownable!"— LJ Shen, USA Today bestselling author
Tattered Stars, an all new beautifully heart wrenching romance and first book in the Tattered & Torn series from bestselling author Catherine Cowles is available now!
Be brave. Just for sixty seconds. Twenty breaths.
One night changed them both forever.
Their lives shattered, beyond repair, with jagged edges and pieces askew.
Now, Everly has a chance to make things right. To bring healing to the place where everything fell apart. But it means facing the family her father almost destroyed, and the boy with the dark eyes—now grown—who still haunts her dreams.
Just one breath away from having your life ripped out from under you.
The last thing Hayes wants is another reminder of all the ways he failed sixteen years ago. When Everly drives back into Wolf Gap, his only mission is to get her to leave. For his family’s sake, and for his own, those demons need to stay buried for good.
But everything about this woman is a surprise, from her spine of steel to the sanctuary she hopes to create with the land her mother left behind. And Hayes is powerless to stay away.
As a careful friendship sparks into something more, someone watches. And they’ll do anything to tear it all apart…
Review:
Every time I go to type something about this book, whether it was a social media post, pulling it up on Goodreads, or even beginning this review, subconsciously I end up writing Tattered Scars. I know the title is Tattered Stars and I love that title for this book, but I think the scars would’ve been appropriate too. Both of our main characters, Everly and Hayes, have some mighty big scars though most of them are invisible. These scars have made such an impact on the people they have become, in good ways and in ways they are trying to grow from. I’m glad that the title is Tattered Stars though because scars would focus on the negatives these characters have endured and they are so, so much more than that! They have pulled themselves through some of the worst things a person could possibly experience and come out on the other side beautiful, strong, incredible people. The visuals I get reading their story in the mountains of Wolf Gap made me visualize the stars there at that little cabin in the woods and I can only imagine how breathtaking it would be. I am familiar with the small town life so I can easily picture so many things the author pointed out about small town living and how difficult it can be to come back from preconceived notions and ideas of someone, not even based on their own actions but actions of their family members. Everly comes back to her small town after escaping for years and has a large battle on her hands to find the peace she so desperately deserves. Hayes is the first to show her his animosity and his uneasiness about the reminders she brings of the worst time in his life. This is a story of Everly’s survival and her battle for peace and that niggling little piece of hope she so desperately tries to hold on to. It’s a story of Hayes working through so many emotions, trauma and family relationships, while feeling this pull that he can’t explain. There’s so much to this story that I can’t even begin to write all about it without giving any spoilers away, so I’ll just end with this. I was invested from page one with these characters. There was the perfect level of suspense to keep me flipping the pages as quickly as I could. The character development of not only Hayes and Everly was incredible, but I fell in love with all (well, mostly all, some… *rage*) the people of Wolf Gap, especially all of Hayes’ family members. The writing of this story was superb and if you’ve read anything by Catherine Cowles before, this book is no different than her others- incredible! I hope you’ll take the time to check this one out. *Thank you to Catherine Cowles and the Social Butterfly PR group for allowing me to read an early copy of this story in exchange of an honest review- I am so happy to provide it!
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