Title: Faith (Hades Angels Book 1)
Author: Elizabeth Hayes
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Release Date: September 26, 2018
Cover Designer: Shari Ryan
Hosted by: Buoni Amici Press, LLC.
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When I was diagnosed with breast cancer my life changed in an instant. My once clear path was now going 100 miles an hour into the pitch black unknown. I couldn’t stop nor change it. I was in the driver seat, yet I couldn’t steer back on course. My life was never going to be the same. I lost friends and refused to make new ones. I refused to let anyone in.
I lived an empty void of existence.
The day the doctor muttered the word remission my path changed yet again. I knew, however, at any moment it could change back. I needed to find myself and purpose in life.
One day it all changed. I found myself in a place most would look down on. A place where I wasn’t pitied or treated like a piece of glass. It’s was where I met him. Where I would find myself. This is my story and how I became Faith.
Cassy’s Review:
Copy of book received from author for review purposes.
This was a nice coming of age story. It deals with a tough subject matter in which I feel the author did a good job writing about. This book features a heroine who doesn’t realize how strong she really is. At 18 Laura was diagnosed with breast cancer. Instead of living the normal life of a young adult trying to find themselves, going to college, parties, and just being young and care-free. Laura went through a double mastectomy, chemo and radiation. She was a slave to her cancer for 3 years. Just when she had given up, she was finally given good news. she was in remission. Living with scars at such a young age, alters a young woman’s self image and worth. Instead of hiding out and letting what she’s been through take over her life, Laura decides to work for a gentlemen’s club. There she can be anyone she wants to be. Like a phoenix rising from her ashes she reemerges as Faith. She has a new identity where no one knows her past. When She meets Bryce, she tries to push him away, still having the fear that her cancer could come back. Laura is scared to let him close to her for fear that she’d just leave him. Will Bryce be able to knock down the walls, Faith/Laura has built up? And will Laura be able to get past her altered body image issues from not only the physical scars cancer has left behind but the emotional scars no one can see?
I quite enjoyed reading this story. It’s different than other romances I’ve read. 4 stars from me.
Today was the first day of my double life. The first day I was doing something for me. Yet I couldn’t help the fear that had worked its way in. Fear of showing myself in a different light. I was putting all my insecurities on the table. Sitting on the end of my bed looking at my suitcase I had packed everything into, it was now or never. I stood up and threw my shoulders back grabbing the handle and dragging it out the door.
The entire drive I questioned everything I was about to do. Yet nothing made me turn around. I wasn’t going to let a little fear scare me from doing anything. Not anymore. Especially knowing that I may not have another chance at doing anything. My next test results may end up what I feared most but that was the old me, living in fear. Today was the first step in changing that. I would take that fear and make it my bitch.
I pulled into the parking lot of Hades Angels and found a parking spot. Stepping out of the car, I felt my nerves slowly start to drift away. I smiled and pulled my suitcase out of the back seat and made my way inside the club.
“Hey, you’re here!” Ella smiled at me as I walked past her.
“I am.” I smiled back.
“Just so you know, I like to bet the DJ whether or not new girls will show up and work and you just made me twenty bucks.”
“You bet whether or not I was going to show up?” I questioned her.
“Yup, and here you are. I win.” She laughed. “Have fun!” she said as I walked past her.
I just shook my head as I walked to the dressing room. When I opened the door, there were a few girls already there. I found an empty chair and set my suitcase down.
“Hey, you’re new, huh?” One of the girls said as she sat down in the chair next to me.
“Yeah.”
“I’m Melody.” She smiled then turned to look at herself in the mirror.
“Faith.”
“So Faith, are you new-new or new-to-here new?”
“I’ve never danced before.”
“Oh, so you’re really new-new.” Her eyes lit up as she looked at me.
“Yeah.” I smiled back and sat down in the chair.
“Okay, so since your new-new, let me give you a little piece of advice. Keep the innocent, I don’t know what I’m doing, as long as you can. Guys like that shit.
Elizabeth Hayes lives in the middle of nowhere Iowa where she freeze’s her ass off in the winter and sweats to death in the summer. She lives with her husband and two kids. Five dogs, ten cats (even though she is allergic), fifty plus chickens, two little pigs and a few fish.
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