Forget Me Not by
Sarah Daltry
Forget Me Not Flowering Series Book
1
“No one tells you when you start school just how homesick you will
be, or how hard it will be to start life over with no direction and no friends
or family. No one says that becoming your own person is terrifying.”
Lily had a crush on her brother’s best friend, Derek, for years –
which led to their steamy night ten months ago in her bedroom. Now, she’s off
to college and she and Derek are still going strong. However, when school
starts, Lily realizes it’s hard to maintain a relationship, while also trying
to live her own life. She and Derek find themselves falling apart and she has
no idea where to turn.
Enter Jack. Everything about him is wrong for Lily and she knows
it, but she can’t stop herself from being attracted to him. When things implode
with Derek, it’s Jack who’s there to pick up the pieces – and to show Lily an
entirely new set of experiences she didn’t know she was missing.
Of course, Jack has his own problems and once Lily gets to know
him better, she starts to wonder if she can handle all of Jack. When Derek
reappears on the scene, Lily is forced to decide between two guys and herself.
Can she find herself without losing the people who matter in the process? .
This is a work intended for readers 18+ as it features explicit
sex between people in college. See where it began in the short story, “Her Brother’s Best Friend.“
Excerpt:
He moves closer and already my body is
responding. He smells like cigarettes and leather, two smells I never thought
were sexy until now. I want to fall into his body, to be wrapped in his arms,
and I fight it. It’s wrong and it makes no sense. I have everything I could
ever want. Jack is just a distraction.
“I’m not that kind of girl,” I tell him.
He steps closer still and kisses my neck. His
lips are soft, which is unexpected, and it sends a shiver through me. Jack
brings me in to his chest. I can feel his heart beating; it’s quickening and it
matches mine. I feel his tongue sliding down along my collarbone. There is
nothing like this, but I need him to stop. And yet, I never want him to stop.
“I’d love to know exactly what kind of girl you are.”
Almost as if they are not my own, my hands
slip between his jacket and his shirt. The heat of his skin burns me even
through the fabric of his clothes. His lips continue to travel downward, but as
they reach the curve of my breasts, something in me wakes up. I tear myself
away from him and back up a few inches.
“I have a boyfriend,” I repeat. “I can’t do
this.”
“Where is he?” Jack asks. His eyes are
burning.
“What?”
“Where is your boyfriend? You’ve mentioned him
before, but you run into me a lot for someone who’s so in love.”
Lily of the Valley Flowering Series Book 1.5
"No one tells you
about pain. They tell you that it hurts, that sometimes it's consuming. What
they don't tell you is that it's not the pain that can kill you. It's the
uncomfortable numbness that follows, the weakness in your body when you realize
your lungs may stop taking in air and you just can't exert enough energy to
care. It's the way taste and color and smell fade from the world and all you're
left with is a sepia print of misery. That's when the shift starts - the
movement from passive to active. I fall asleep, hoping that the morning will
bring back the pain. At least the pain is a thing."
Plagued by a dark past, Jack sees college as a way out. Desperate to escape the area where he grew up, the people who know his secrets, and his own family, he deals with his problems through alcohol and meaningless sex.
When he first sees Lily, she's the epitome of everything he hates. Yet something about her makes Jack rethink everything he knows and assumes about other people. Now, with the help of his best friend and lover, Jack has to decide if he wants to pursue something that he knows will only end badly.
Can Lily be one of the few people who can see Jack for who he really is - or will his darkness be too much for her to handle?
About the Author:
Sarah
Daltry writes erotica and romance that ranges from sweet to steamy. She moves
around a lot and has trouble committing to things. Forget Me Not is
her second full length novel, although she also has several story collections
and two novellas available. Her other novel, Bitter Fruits, was
available shortly, but is now in the contract phase with a major
publisher. When Sarah isn’t writing, she tends to waste a lot of time
checking Facebook for pictures of cats, shooting virtual zombies, and simply
staring out the window.
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What
is New Adult?
Forget
Me Not, along with Lily
of the Valley, Star of Bethlehem, and the rest of the planned Flowering series, is a New Adult novel.
However, that distinction seems to be unclear to a lot of people, who label
things like Fifty Shades of Grey as
New Adult. I don’t see any book featuring a character in their late teens or
early 20’s as New Adult. I think there are specific elements that need to be
present to categorize as book as truly NA.
For starters, I used to be a YA librarian/reading
coordinator. Through my work with YA literature, I was taught to identify what
is YA and what is not. Again, just because the characters are teens DOES NOT
make the book YA. YA is often about the problems and concerns about young
adults, just as NA is about the problems and concerns about New Adults. So what
are those? For YA, the common themes are fitting in, identity, social pressure,
etc. The themes in NA are often basically the same, except the stakes are
higher usually. If you are struggling with your life choices at 16, for
instance, you often still have time to learn from your mistake. At 22, the
consequences could be farther reaching.
Forget
Me Not is about college. It’s about going away from home
and being on your own for the first time. It’s about figuring out what you
want, about suddenly not having to answer to anyone, but also about not having
anyone to turn to, either. People say Lily is whiny, but I don’t see her that
way as well. She’s not emotionally unstable; she’s just a kid. She’s used to
things being basically on a plan, and now they are not. She made a choice to be
independent of her brother and boyfriend, but she has doubts now that she is.
Is the book romance and sexy? Yes. But I don’t think
that’s really what it’s about. It’s real NA, real coming of age. It’s about
choosing your own life, about embracing your sexuality and your independence,
about growing up and facing things that are outside of your scope. Because
that’s what it means to be a “new” adult.
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