The past few years I’ve been in survival mode,I’ve closed myself off to the world,Being shattered and abandoned by love,I now live and breathe pain,This isn’t living, but it is all I know,Until she appeared.Leah Williams is beautifully broken.Her fragments mirror my own.She enrages me.She stills me.We don’t make sense.We’re flawed and caustic.She could be the one who destroys me,But she’s the … could be the one who destroys me,
But she’s the only one I want to let in.
This isn’t the future either of us envisioned,
But Destiny became the ultimate decider.
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A beautifully written and heart wrenching must read. Scott and Leah’s story moved me to huge, ugly cry tears that were both sad and happy ones
Second chance lovers romance. Good quick read. HEA for two people who lost their first loves. It was entertaining light reading.
Why is it that you can’t give a book more than a 5 star rating?? This book deserves so much more than that. After reading Infinity, I couldn’t wait for Destiny. And this book is everything I expected it to be and truly more. It tells the story of Scott and Leah, both widowers. They knew each other thru her husband and became friends. Both of them are unsure how to move on in their lives, they feel lost. But something sparks between them, but are they ready for that? Can they follow thru in their feelings? Should they? Do they deserve to love again? This writer has blown me away again with her beautifully written words. This book is so emotional that I actually felt the characters hurt, anger and love. Please do yourself a favor and read this book. It is just magnificent!
Leah is still healing after losing the love of her life Leo. She’s not handling it the best as she’s drinking, a lot. But she has their son LJ to think of, and every time she looks at him, she’s reminded of her lost love. It’s been 3 years and she still feels the hurt, every day. As Leah puts it “My world has been shrouded in a darkness so heavy it’s been a battle for any kind of light to make its way into my world”.
Scott lost the love of his life, Riley, 6 years ago. He’s a lost soul who’s barely making it through each day, nursing the pain with alcohol. He’s a broken man with nowhere to turn.
Scott and Leah work together, and they’re not the best of friends. The only thing keeping them in each other’s circles outside of work is LJ. Scott knows what it’s like to grow up without a parent and he’s doing his best to be there for LJ.
But Scott is starting to see Leah in a new light, and she might be seeing him in just the same light. But he knows he’s no good, that he can’t give her a future, heck he can’t even give her much of a present. So even if there are some sort of feelings swirling around, he can’t act on them. Until he does, and then his rage and anger get the best of him, and he pushes her away. It’s not easy for Leah, she hasn’t let anyone in since Leo and she’s trying her best to handle Scott’s mood swings, but it’s becoming much too hard.
If there were ever two people that were meant for each other, it’s Scott and Leah. They’ve both been hurt by love and they’re nursing that hurt. But Leah has such a bright and shining personality, it’s impossible not to be drawn to her. Sometimes I wonder what she sees in Scott when he flies into a rage, but then he does or says something that’s outside of his hurt, and it all clicks together. These two are so much stronger than they will ever know, they’re both wonderful characters.
I loved how Destiny is told in alternating viewpoints from Scott and Leah, it allows us to see inside their minds, their reasonings, and sometimes, it told us how they each viewed a certain event. Every bit of excitement or hurt, you felt right along with them because Joseph is so talented at pulling emotions out of her readers. This is such a wonderful book, I can’t recommend it enough.
This book is a very strong read that will have you rethinking about a second love that will be able to happen this book will grab you from your heart and wanting you to hold on to the ride of emionals.