Book Excerpt Tour: You Can't Force Love by Marie Drake

Title: YOU CAN’T FORCE LOVE
Author: Marie Drake  
Publisher: RedBird Books
Pages: 286  
Genre: Realistic Fiction

“A battered butterfly, he’d build Kimberly up, nurture her strength and watch her return to flight. He repressed the visions dancing in the back of his mind; her naked body brandished red flags and spurred him to stampede. Bulls and butterflies did not mix.”

Jordan Fry’s obsession is born in “You Can’t Force Love” by Marie Drake, Book I in the Locked Hearts Series.

From different towns and social backgrounds, Jordan Fry and Kimberly Orvine experience life-altering abuse, lose a parent and land in the same foster home. Angry, and self-deprecating, fiery redheaded Kimberly is deadset on lousy behavior and suffering the consequences, punishing herself for former sins. Scared by his inner darkness, pyromaniac Jordan has vowed to change for the better. He focuses on Kimberly as the key to his success, but she intends to make him break his promises. Unaware of Jordan’s atrocious actions in the past, she’s dangerously close to unleashing the evil he struggles to contain during their epic battle of wills. Can they both survive?

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Paul leaned in the window and kissed Debbie. “Move your dirty feet off the dash,” he told Jordan and slapped the car’s roof.

“Did you pack your duffel bag?” Debbie asked. Jordan nodded. “Off we go.”

Twenty minutes after crossing the river, they inched up Noreen’s Pennsylvania driveway to her small, brown, gingerbread house, and Jordan groaned. Noreen waited on the front porch; Jordan anticipated the squeeze and the shake she’d give him, and bent over his duffel bag, he pretended to check zippers and straps. She hurried down and spun him around, thick arms bear-hugged him and leaned from side to side; he grew dizzy. Puffy brown hair tickled his face. “Come inside; I have cookies and milk,” she said.  Her chirpy voice hit a nerve, and Jordan clenched his teeth.

 

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Award-winning author, Marie Drake lives in a small town near Lake Ontario with her husband, four sons, and three rescue pups. With many years of experience in the Foster Care community and advocating for other victims and survivors, she specializes in realistic and psychological fiction depicting the lives of abuse sufferers; their obstacles, their triumphs, and their downfalls.

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