Gabriel Luca Maldonado, III and Francesca Leandra Solomon were meant to be. They were so in love that everybody prayed for what they had.
Everything was glorious. They would get married, have children and live a perfect life. She would be a doctor in the emergency room once she finished her doctorate, and he would be a badass Navy SEAL and save people for a living.
But then Luca is deployed across the world, and per military regulations, Frankie isn’t allowed to follow.
They’ve overcome a lot in their short relationship, and they can overcome this, too. Two years was a piece of cake. She’d finish her schooling and wait for him. And when he finally returned home, they would marry.
But two months into Luca’s deployment, the unthinkable happens, and Frankie is left alone and heartbroken, knowing that she’ll have to face the rest of life without Luca at her side.
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Fast forward two years, and Frankie is exactly where her fiancé’s father left her, in a pit of despair that she has no hope of ever finding her way out of.
She lives life one second at a time, depressed and alone, hoping tomorrow won’t hurt like today.
She finds a job, moves, and hopes that the nightmares won’t swallow her whole.
But just as she thinks that she’s getting better, one of her nightmares walks through the doors of her ER, and that nightmare has a name.
Gabriel Luca Maldonado, III. In the flesh.
Also healthy and whole, and definitely no longer missing.
Sadly, it only takes her a half a second to realize that the man that left her isn’t the same man that returned.
The old one wanted her. The new one? Well, he’s definitely not interested anymore.
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Reviews
Review by: Melanie
(5 Stars)
As it's in the blurb, it's not a spoiler
for me to say that despite being told that he was dead, Frankie gets the shock
of her life when Luca Maldonado; her fiancé, returns. He's not "her
Luca" though, he's someone new, and the pair of them have to deal with
this new "them". A few twists along the way as these two get to know
each other again, all the while strange things are happening around them and
there's the little subject of letting Luca's parents know that he's alive after
all.
I enjoyed this and it was sad and/or
sweet in places. There were a couple of
things I would have liked a little more from but as with all Lani Lynn Vale
books, this was so easy to read and is another great addition to this world I
love. I can't wait for the next one and I give If You Say So 5 stars.
Review by: Jennifer
(5 Stars)
Finally Frankie and Luca's story comes
and it was phenomenal! Wow, this is super hard to write while not really trying
to leave spoilers or anything. The blurb pretty much lets it all hang out while
simultaneously doesn't really match the story. Enter a shrug here cuz I'm not
sure how that is possible but it happened. I loved almost everything about this
story, there was one part that I really wanted a bit more of but I have never
denied being greedy when it comes to LLV. Frankie and Luca's story takes us
through all the feels, once again on one page I'm almost in tears and the very
next page I'm giggling at something. This was an amazing movie in my head and I
give this 5 super plus stars.
Lani Lynn Vale is a USA Today Bestselling Author of over thirty titles. She is married with three children, two dogs, two cats, a donkey, and a couple (a couple also meaning over twenty) chickens.
When she’s not writing, you can find her curled up in her favorite chair reading.
Lani is married with three children and lives in the Great State of Texas.
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