He's essentially alone, struggling to stay sober. Out of prison, 6 months clean off heroin and opiates, Jude's back home and life is not easy. I've always believed that good people sometimes make bad decisions, and those bad decisions lead to extreme consequences. And that's the reason Steadfast hurt me so much. My grandmother was an alcoholic who later turned to drugs, dying in her early 60's.Īddiction runs in my family. He's traded his family for powdered substances and liquor. He's lived in and out of rehab and jail his whole life. I've weighed how desperate, lonely and hollow someone must feel to trade family, life and love for drugs. I've thought about the "why's," the "what leads them there's." I've spent time trying to put myself in their shoes. I've often wondered why people can't just say no. Whether it's personally, or with a family member, it's prevalent.
His demons are dark and Sarina doesn't gloss over them.Īddiction is something most of us have some experience with. It's probably one of the hardest books I've read. And forbidden love is a law unto itself.įOLLOW ME ON: FACEBOOK | INSTAGRAM | TWITTER | BLOG No one wants to see Sophie and Jude back together, least of all Sophie's police chief father.
But the looks he sends her now speak volumes. She knows it’s foolish to yearn for the man who returned all the heartsick letters she wrote him in prison. And he’d never turn up volunteer in the church kitchen. The bad boy who used to love her didn’t have big biceps and sun-kissed hair.
It’s hard not to stare at how much he’s changed. But an ex-con in recovery for his drug addiction can’t find a job just anywhere.įor Sophie Haines, coming face to face with the man who broke her heart is gut-wrenching. He’d steer clear of Colebury, Vermont forever if he could. A man is dead, and there's no way he can ever right that wrong. Jude lost everything one spring day when he crashed his car into an apple tree on the side of the road. She’s the only one who ever loved him-and the only one he can never have.
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