Stay busy. Stay focused. Sam's plan to keep the past behind her was simple. But summertime, it would seem, has something else in store.Born and raised in the quaint mountain town of Saratoga Falls, where everyone knows everything, Samantha struggles to escape the harrowing night that changed her life three years ago. While she finds solace in the hard work that keeps her father's ranch afloat, her guilt and heartbreak makes it impossible to completely move on or to forget. But when Sam's past comes rumbling back in a lifted, cherry-red pick-up truck, it's all Sam can do to keep her wits about her. A heatwave, a pair of familiar blue eyes, and a camping trip with friends will leave her questioning everything she's become in the wake of the most horrific night of her life.Everyone knows that Reilly, the all-American boy-next-door, had a troubled home life. He couldn't wait to leave for the army after high school, but that was before he fell in love with Sam and captured her heart only to break it when he was deployed. Now, Reilly returns home to close the darkest chapter of his own life, only to learn it's what has happened to Sam in his absence that will haunt him the most. Sam, Reilly, and their quirky friends will venture down a winding path of self-discovery and second chances in Whatever It Takes, a small-town love story, bursting with raw emotion, unwavering friendships, and plenty of heart.
Author Biography
I've always been a little...quirky. When I was a kid, I helped establish a bug hospital on my elementary school soccer field (none of the insects survived, unfortunately) and as a teenager I preferred writing to being very social. I wrote my first new adult manuscript in high school before "new adult" was even a genre, and I've been writing stories of love and friendship, history, and adventure ever since. I dislike categorizing my writing as "romance" because I feel like what I'm trying to convey through my characters and story is so much more than that. But, alas, it is what it is. When I'm not plotting my next storyline or dreaming up new, brooding characters, I'm usually wrapped in blankets watching my favorite action flicks, reading, eating Mexican food, or going road tripping with my own leading man. My fiance has helped provide me the space I've needed to explore the stories bubbling to life inside my mind. He's also inspired the many book boyfriends strutting around inside my head, waiting to be written onto page. We live in the Napa Valley with our rescue cat, Beast, and on the days I'm not fundraising at a local non-profit, I'm brainstorming my next solo project or working on the next project of my dystopian series, The Ending.
