I Thought of You
by Jewel E. Ann
She wanted to gaze at the stars.
It’s been twelve years since I last saw Scottie Rucker. A grim prognosis has upended my life, and no amount of my hard-earned money can fix it. So, after leaving a note on the nightstand, I search for my first love—I search for life.
When I find her in Austin, working at a quaint general store and living in an RV behind it, those twelve years vanish. She’s exactly how I remember her.
Scottie thinks our reunion is a small-world coincidence, and I’m not ready to tell her the truth. After we rekindle our friendship, she convinces me to work part-time at the store while she pursues her budding relationship with Koen, a welder and the grandson of a customer.
Scottie’s ability to live in the moment is exactly what I need. But how do I convince her new boyfriend that I’m not his competition? And what happens if my heart changes its mind?
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Favorite Quotes:
Stop interrupting the universe.
What is falafel anyway? Isn’t it like lamb balls?
He eyes me with wonder, the good kind, where I can imagine great possibilities running amuck in his mind. And I know this because it’s how I look at him.
I spent entirely too much time thinking about you when we weren’t together. And when we were together, I resented the passing of time.
…if you find someone who loves you for you, and you love them for who they are, then you’ve found what everyone else is looking for.
I don’t know what we are, but it’s all I have, so I don’t try to define it because the easiest way to lose things is by labeling them— devaluing them with the simplicity of a word.
My Review:
I loved this tale, it turned me inside out and had me picking at my cuticles, but I loved every clever turn, quirky character, and unexpected change of direction. Jewel E. Ann is a wily minx with exceptional word voodoo. Her magical arrangements of words always seem to suck me into the most unusual of vortexes with complicated and heart-squeezing character situations that I would never foresee, yet they make sense in the end. I am enamored with, and totally in awe of, her witty and cleverly bewitching storytelling.
Jewel is a Wall Street Journal & USA Today best-selling author with a quirky sense of humor. When she’s not saving the planet one tree at a time, you can find her role modeling questionable behavior to her three boys, binge-watching Netflix with her husband, and writing mind-bending romance.