SuitabookFirst love and return
Jessie is still affected by Michael’s earlier departure when he comes back and asks to re-enter her life, possibly as a friend.
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Bruce Hart - Author
Carole Hart - Author
This is a relationship-focused story about Jessie confronting the return of someone she loved, while he tries to rebuild his life. It offers emotionally intense romantic conflict rather than a straightforward happy-ending romance.
The perfect relationship, the one you always dream about...I thought I had it once. Three years ago. When I was just turning fourteen. His name was Michael. Michael Skye. He was beautiful and talented and seventeen. And gone. After he said he loved me. And, "Whatever happens, we go on forever." After we made love. Sweet sweet love. Michael was gone. Off to California. To become a rock star. With a hit record on the radio. And a hot video on MTV. And everything he ever dreamed of. And more than he could handle. And now he's back. Crashed and burned and back. Just when I thought I'd finally gotten him out of my mind and out of my heart, Michael's back. Back in town and back in my life. If I let him.
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Sign in for personalised guidanceThis is a relationship-focused story about Jessie confronting the return of someone she loved, while he tries to rebuild his life. It offers emotionally intense romantic conflict rather than a straightforward happy-ending romance.
Jessie is still affected by Michael’s earlier departure when he comes back and asks to re-enter her life, possibly as a friend.
Michael returns after struggling with drugs and a damaged career, seeking to rebuild his life and career.
Before reading, consider whether the reader is comfortable with a relationship beginning when Jessie was fourteen and Michael seventeen, references to sex, drug-related difficulties, sprinkled foul language and an ending that may leave questions open.
This is a grounded book brief while Suitabook strengthens the analysis: some draft conclusions still depend on unresolved evidence.
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Now or Never by Hart, Bruce, Hart, Carole (9780380759637)
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