Happy Birthday, Daniel. I was told not to send you another text, but I never was any good at listening. I love and miss you. I always will.
When I lost my partner of eight years, I felt like my world was crashing down around me. In order to feel some relief from the overwhelming emptiness, I’ve found myself sending him texts every year on his birthday, even though I know he will never answer. It makes me feel like there’s a piece of him still alive, at least in my heart.
I’m sorry, you must have the wrong number.
That is, until someone responds to my text. Jace is charming, sweet, and everything I could ever want. But how can I accept someone new in my life when Daniel’s only been gone two years? Even so, Jace starts to consume my world. It feels like I can finally breathe as he helps me understand that my life doesn’t have to revolve around my grief.
Soon, I find myself laughing again as he pulls me away from the hopeless cycle I’ve been caught in, and I love spending time with him, whether it’s playing video games together or discussing our comic book alter egos. But I still need to let go of this guilt and allow Jace to show me that I can love another without replacing what I’ve lost. Jace rewrites my entire world with every word and smile he gives me, and it’s becoming harder to not give in and hand him my heart. Maybe Daniel did respond after all.
The Last Text is a 37k word novella about overcoming loss, finding hope, and friendship that leads to new love.
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🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 5 stars
🔥🔥🔥 Heat Level: 3.5
Heartbreakingly beautiful and healing with the perfect Alice humor. A must read!!
I’ll admit I cried for the first half of the book. Alice address the grief and loss and guilt Merrick feels so well and with so much care you feel it too. I felt for him as he remembered Daniel, I cried with him as he gave into the loneliness and I laughed and loved with him as he let Jace into his life and heart to help him heal and find a new happiness to move forward while cherishing his Daniel and their time together.
Jace was such a shining light. His smile seems infectious and his joy is an ever-present glow around him, you can’t help but be charmed. I loved there unique and sad meet-cute and their friendship, to trust, to love story.
This is the perfect uplifting story to devour in one sitting and give you some extra hope, happiness, and all the feelings when you need to escape.
Another smash hit for Alice ❤ ❤ ❤
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