Cover Reveal: Lost to Me by Jamie Blair

Lost To Me

by Jamie
Blair

Release Date: 08/19/14

Summary from Goodreads:

Lauren Kelling’s prom
night is a memory she’ll never forget—in her nightmares. She had the dress, the
hair, and romantic first time plans with her boyfriend, Kolton Seidel. But what
should have been the best night of her life bleeds into terror when she’s
brutally attacked.


Now, Lauren relives the events leading up to prom, unraveling the clues that
should have warned her of the trauma to come. Like Kolton ’s malicious
ex-girlfriend, who’ll do anything to rip them apart. Or Kolton’s mentally
unstable brother.


After the tragedy, Lauren wants to hide, disfigured inside and out, while
Kolton drowns in a sea of guilt. Only together can the two of them lay rest to
the past and heal each other, through a love too strong to break.

About the Author

Jamie Blair lives in Northeast Ohio with her husband, their two kids and
a cat that broke into their house and refused to leave. She won a young
author's contest in third grade, but it probably shouldn't count since her mom
wrote most of her entry. LEAP OF FAITH is her first novel. She promises her mom
didn't write one word of it. 

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Book & Author Details:

Leap of Faith by Jamie Blair 

Published by: Simon & Schuster BfYR

Publication date: September 3rd 2013

Genres: Contemporary, Young Adult

Synopsis:

Can true love be built on lies? A teen on the run seeks relief and redemption in this gripping, romantic read.

Leah Kurtz has finally found a place to call home, a town where she and baby Addy can live in peace, far from the drug-infested place she grew up. Chris is one of the best parts of her new life, the only person who’s ever made her feel safe. And now that she’s found him, there’s no way she can tell the truth:

Her real name is Faith, not Leah. She’s seventeen, not nineteen. And the baby isn’t hers—Faith kidnapped her.

Faith’s history catches up with her when a cop starts asking questions and Chris’s aunt spots her picture in the newspaper. She knows it’s time to run again, but if Faith leaves, she’ll lose Chris. If Chris is in love with a lie, though, did Faith ever really have him in the first place?

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AUTHOR BIO:

Jamie Blair spent most of her teen years choreographing moves for her dance team routines, kissing boys on the couch after her mom went to bed, and pondering the mood enhancement qualities of Lemon Heads when consumed with Diet Coke. Writing under Kelli Maine, she’s the USA Today bestselling author of Taken. Leap of Faith is her debut New Adult novel.

Author links:

Website: http://jamieblairauthor.blogspot.ca/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/JamieMBlair

Goodreads: http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/5418337.Jamie_Blair

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Jamie-M-Blair/280042602029930

Excerpt:

After a few minutes of Chris flipping through the channels with the remote while we eat, I have to break the silence again.  “How was work?  Where do you work, anyway?”

“I have a glamorous job roofing houses for RJ Roofing.”  He leans back and rubs his stomach.  “I’ve been there a couple of years.  It’s not bad.  They’re good people to work for.”

“That sounds horrible to me.” 

He lifts one eyebrow.

“I’m terrified of heights.  I couldn’t ever go up on a roof.  Plus it has to be about a hundred and fifty degrees up there.”

He chuckles.  “It is.  And you come home covered in tar and dirt.  But the pay’s good.”

“How long have you played the guitar?”  I look down at my hands. 

I can’t stop asking questions. 

I hate that he won’t ask me his own questions even if I won’t answer them anyway. 

He stretches both arms over his head and yawns.  “About five years.” 

I nod and tuck my hair back again.

“Here.”  He reaches into his pocket and shoots me with a rubber band.  “For your hair.  It’s not going to stay behind your ears.”  His smile’s easy. 

Tonight, his eyes match his dark blue shirt.  I like his chin length hair down.  It makes the angles of his face softer.  Faint stubble has grown on his chin.  No wonder I’m obsessed with him.  He’s hot.

My eyes make their way back to his, and I can tell he knows what I’m thinking.  I shift to peer at the TV, feeling my pulse race.  I ball my hair on top of my head and wrap the rubber band around it.

“Faith,” he mumbles. 

I jerk around.  “What did you say?”

“The tattoo on the back of your neck, it says hope and faith.”

I reach around with my hand, covering my tattoo.  It’s a banner inside angel wings with our names on it.  Hope and Faith.  My sister and I got them last summer.  It took me forever and five days to talk her into it.  She got hers as a tramp stamp, thinking she could hide it.  More people have seen hers than mine since her track pants sit low on her hips.

“Yeah.”  I swallow my fight or flight instinct.  “Do you have any tattoos?”
In one swift movement, he whips off his t-shirt.  There, in the middle of his tan chest, beside a smear of paint, is a cross with two dates inscribed on it.  One across, one down.  Its intricate design has my fingers itching to touch.  Instead, I crawl on my knees around the table to get a closer look.

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Guest Review: Leap of Faith by Jamie Blair

Today, I'd like to welcome my special guest reviewer Jessica! Jessica is an avid reader who also enjoys music and travel. She has a pre-law degree and like me is married to a police officer. She was also game to help me tackle my TBR pile, so hooray for Jessica =)

Goodreads Summary:

Can true love be built on lies? A teen on the run seeks relief and redemption in this gripping, romantic read.Leah Kurtz has finally found a place to call home, a town where she and baby Addy can live in peace, far from the drug-infested place she grew up. Chris is one of the best parts of her new life, the only person who’s ever made her feel safe. And now that she’s found him, there’s no way she can tell the truth:

Her real name is Faith, not Leah. She’s seventeen, not nineteen. And the baby isn’t hers—Faith kidnapped her.

Faith’s history catches up with her when a cop starts asking questions and Chris’s aunt spots her picture in the newspaper. She knows it’s time to run again, but if Faith leaves, she’ll lose Chris. If Chris is in love with a lie, though, did Faith ever really have him in the first place?

Publication Date: September 3, 2013

Jessica's Review:

The idea behind the story was a good one, Faith taking off with her newborn half-sister in order to save her a lifetime of misery and being surrounded by drugs and who knows what else, but that was the only thing good about the book. There wasn't any real character development to allow the reader to get an attachment to the characters and the descriptions of the characters were vague at best. The story felt rushed, introducing other characters and then just breezing through their stories, and then the book just suddenly ended. Also, by the end of the book, I was so disgusted with Faith and her solution to her problems that there is no way I would pay for the next book to see what happens.

2/5 Stars

Thanks to the publisher for a copy of this book for review!