53 Letters for My Lover (53 Letters for My Lover, #1) by Leylah Attar

Title: 53 Letters for My Lover 

Author: Leylah Attar 

Series: (53 Letters for My Lover, #1)

Release Date: June 17th, 2014

Book Links: Goodreads / Amazon  

Praise for 53 Letters:

"...a powerful, beautiful, well-crafted book, a modern love story with a living heart and soul." - Indie Reader (an Indie Reader Top Book Pick)

"...will enchant fans of women's fiction who enjoy realistic romance, thought-provoking reads, juicy love scenes and unexpected twists of plot." - Midwest Book Review

"Every once in a while, you come across a book that makes your heart race from the moment you hear about it. This was one of those books for me." - Aestas Book Blog

Synopsis: Adult Women's Fiction/Romance

This is not your typical love story. It’s not so black and white. Lines are crossed. Walls are smashed. Good becomes bad. Bad becomes very, very good.

Shayda Hijazi—the perfect daughter, the perfect wife, the perfect mother. For thirty-three years she has played by the rules, swallowing secrets, burying dreams, and doing whatever it takes to anchor her family. Shayda Hijazi is about to come face to face with the one thing that can rip it all apart, the one thing her heart has always been denied: love.

Troy Heathgate—untamed, exhilarating, dangerous—a man who does exactly as he pleases. Life bends to his will. Until he comes across the one thing he would give it all up for, but can never have.

Born on the same day in opposite corners of the world, their lives collide. And nothing is ever the same again. Now Shayda is flying free and Troy has found the one thing that centers his soul, but even as they beat the odds, a cancer diagnosis puts Shayda in a painful dilemma. On the one hand is the man who makes her feel gloriously alive and on the other, her children, and a husband ravaged by the past.

Spanning three decades, 53 Letters for My Lover is a fiercely sensual, emotional ride to the heart of an epic, forbidden love that defies it all—an intimate exploration of love, loyalty, passion, betrayal, and the human yearning for hope, happiness and redemption.

AUTHOR WARNING: This book is a blend of women's fiction and romance. It involves infidelity and an attempted rape. If you are not comfortable with these subjects, this may not be the best book for you.

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Leylah Attar writes stories about love—shaken, stirred and served with a twist. When she's not writing, she can be found pursuing her other passions: photography, food, family and travel. Sometimes she disappears into the black hole of the internet, but can usually be enticed out with chocolate.

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TEASER

5 'Beetroot Butterfly and Scary Cherry' Stars

This is a slow building inferno that sets my heart ablaze. A poignant tale portrayed over years and continued to transcend time. A story of star crossed lovers.... Two entirely different individuals from varying cultures, countries and traditions. Both blessed with birth on the same day. Two halves of the same soul, tangled and knotted together through life's unruly wings. Of sacrifices, redemption and salvation.

We can never choose who we fall in love with. Love just happens. It just... soars!!!!!!

“It’s one of those moments that sears itself in your heart, where you realize that somehow, miraculously, through all the mistakes you can make, through all the hurt and pain, happiness can still find it’s way through all the cracks in your heart.

This one quote, is the perfect and all encompassing portrayal of this story, this tale, of life.

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" It started long before this, when stars were mere particles in swirling clouds of dust. And every event since has conspired to bring us together.”

Twelve years passes by as they are both separated by circumstance until they meet again.

Shayda Hijazi and Troy Heathgate still sizzle. Eyes locked, the hair on the back of their necks stand at attention, the heat that courses through their bodies at the slightest touch, the tremble that causes goose bumps to raise and the nerve rattling yearning that ignites their deepest and innermost desires.

I cross the parking lot, acutely aware of his eyes following me, and don't let my breath out until I get in the car. I hope it's another twelve years before I see him again. Maybe he'll have tobacco teeth by then. And thick, bushy hair growing out of his ears. And, please god, a beer belly. Yes, a beer belly would be nice.

Lust lurks; the female heart throb, the gentleman with dark hair and blue eyes.

"If Troy Heathgate locks in on you, you're done for. Even when you know he's so, so bad for you, it feels so, so good."

"When it comes to you, I'm blind, Shayda." He lifts my chin. "I don't see a mum or friend or wife or co-worker. Just you, Shayda."

I feel like a giddy schoolgirl, with butterflies in her stomach just thinking about the cute boy at school. This is what Troy does to me; he turns me inside out, upside down and all around. Wooooooooooo!!!!!!!

Leylah Attar you have created a teenage monster turned lust driven and desired filled woman, temped to jump straight into those page and become Shayda myself. To be able to engage my own carnal desires and passion filled yearnings, uh huhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.......

This is a must read debut book for 2014. An EPIC love story, with wonderfully enriching and well developed characters, that slap your emotions silly and brings out the romantic, fierce fighters in us all. Simply a beautiful beautiful tale.

*ARC provided on behalf of the author through AToMR PRomotions* A big big Thank You.