Title: Forever and Always by Emma Scott

Page count:285

Genre: Coming of age

Rating:4/5 stars

Published: October 2017

Summary:

Darlene Montgomery has been to hell and back…more than once. After a stint in jail for drug possession, she is finally clean and ready to start over. Yet another failed relationship is just the motivation she needs to move from New York to San Francisco with the hopes of resurrecting her dance career and discovering that she is more than the sum of her rap sheet. As Darlene struggles in her new city, the last thing she wants is to become entangled with her handsome—but cranky—neighbor and his adorable little girl…

Sawyer Haas is weeks away from finishing law school, but exhaustion, dwindling finances, and the pressure to provide for himself and his daughter, Olivia, are wearing him down. A federal clerkship–a job he desperately needs–awaits him after graduation, but only if he passes the Bar Exam. Sawyer doesn’t have the time or patience for the capricious—if beautiful—dancer who moves into the apartment above his. But Darlene’s easy laugh and cheerful spirit seep into the cracks of his hardened heart, and slowly break down the walls he’s resurrected to keep from being betrayed ever again.

When the parents of Olivia’s absentee mother come to fight for custody, Sawyer could lose everything. To have any chance at happiness, he must trust Darlene, the woman who has somehow found her way past his brittle barbs, and Darlene must decide how much of her own bruised heart she is willing to give to Sawyer and Olivia, especially when the ghosts of her troubled past refuse to stay buried.

 

My thoughts:

I have read a few books by Emma Scott and they just keep getting better an better. I haven’t read one of her books that I haven’t liked yet.

Darlene, we first get to meet in The Butterfly Project, she’s Becketts best friend. You get to know some of her story in that book. In this one we see her move from NYC to San Francisco for a fresh start and she doesn’t know anyone. She can find a place where she can rent and that’s where she meets Sawyer. Darlene’s story is heart felt because of the struggles that she has gone through. She has had to over come some hard stuff, but she’s a fighter and she made her way to the top.

Sawyer is a single dad of his beautiful daughter Olivia and she’s so adorable. Sawyer is pretty stressed out because he’s a law student who is studding for her bar exam, and even with all that he is still able to be an amazing dad to Olivia. Sawyers story is heartbreaking.

When Sawyer an Darlene first meet its cute because you can tell that there’s something there between the two but they both don’t want to get involved with one another because of everything that’s going on in their life now is crazy. The way that their relationship progresses is so relatable that I think that everyone should check this book out an see for yourself.