Sometimes the simplest choice has the power to change your life.ChaseTen years ago, I turned a hard decision into a simple one. I allowed others to decide my future . . . then I lost the best thing that ever happened to me. I let go of the girl I loved in exchange for a life I was told I wanted.Then one day I woke up with no recollection of my reality and instead I believed my life had turned out … believed my life had turned out how I had once dared to imagine. Now everyone is waiting for me to remember the day I ruined my future as I struggle to recall a life without the person I so carelessly tossed away.
Somehow, I was gifted a second chance with the woman I love, and I’m going to fight like hell to keep her.
Jordan
Your brain has a funny way of convincing you what is real and what is not; even if your heart never lets you forget the truth. After Chase Adams broke my heart, my life moved forward, even though the light I once felt had extinguished. Then I received an unexpected phone call that changed everything.
Every day we make choices, but most of the time they don’t affect the rest of our lives. I wanted to love again. I wanted to trust the gift I was given, but every choice has consequences. Now I have to decide to let go of the past for the sake of my future. . . or risk living with regret.
Adult Contemporary Romance: Due to language and sexual content, this book is not intended for readers under the age of 18
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**This review is from my blog dated 5-24-16**
As many of you know I am relatively new to the book review biz, so there is A LOT I don’t know. I learned about NetGalley a few months ago and am just now dipping my toes into the water. Through NetGalley I was given the awesome chance to read Living with Regret by Riann C Miller.
Miller was a name I hadn’t heard of. And for those that actually read my blog you know how I love to come across new authors that actually pull me into a book. I also am a huge fan of football movies and books. My husband swears I own every football movie put out (I don’t but how I wish I did). So Living with Regret was right up my alley!!
Living with Regret is a second chance book. And who doesn’t deserve a second chance (ok so there are a few type of people who don’t but this is not the case lol).
Jordan Taylor and Chase Adams were high school sweethearts. The ones everyone knew were going to get married after college. The two that you never thought would split up. Until they did. As life changes and pulls them onto opposite sides of the US and into totally different lives, they are suddenly thrust back together when Chase is injured in an NFL game.
Due to his injury he rewrites history in his mind. Thinking that he is married to Jordan. His mom begs Jordan to play along, just until his memory corrects itself.
This is such a bittersweet romance. You can feel the heartbreak their distance has brought into their lives. Neither living the life they had dreamed about. Will this brief time be enough to rekindle their romance??
Watch as the past meets the future, how the mistakes of the past are brought to the forefront. Will Jordan and Chase be able to battle their past together or will it close the door on any possibility of a future for the couple?
What do you do when the love of your life needs to be protected. . . from you. He loved her and wanted to spend his life with her but he kept casting her to the side, in the name of what’s best for her. And he did it more than once. She had found a way to live, succeed, but not move on. When the call came she couldn’t say no even though she knew she should. It’s more than a love story. It’s more than a coming of edge romance. The mind knows. It knows what it wants and needs even when the rest of us doesn’t. I loved what this author did with these two. Both fighting to survive and forgetting to live. Both struggling with the decisions from the past and the ramifications until they can’t run anymore and all of it comes tumbling down. I ask again, What do you do when the love of your life needs to be protected from you?
I’ve read quite a few sports romances lately revolving around concussion, I guess it’s quite an awareness thing in American football today. This was all that and more, so much more. My first book by this author and I really enjoyed it.
Chase is an injured sportsman retiring early due to head injuries and amnesia. Jordan was the love of his life in high school and comes back into his life ten years later. There is a lot of emotional angst here caused by other in their lives who split them apart. The story is their journey back to reality, healing of bodies and souls. Can they put it all behind them and have a future together? You’ll have to read it see whether or not they had their HEA.
Living with Regret by Riann C. Miller is an emotional, second chance, contemporary, sports romance told in dual POV.
Ten years ago Chase broke Jordan’s heart by unexpectedly breaking up with her. She severed all contact with him and spent years trying to forget about him and get over the pain. Jordan is now a successful CEO of a worldwide cosmetics company. The last thing she expects is for Chase’s mother to contact her asking for a favor.
Chase has spent the past ten years building a successful football career. He was drafted at age 21, but during his third year as a starting quarterback in his sixth NFL season, he suffered one too many concussions. As a result, he has a unique form of amnesia which produced an altered reality.
In his altered reality, Chase never broke up with Jordan, in fact, he believes they stayed together through college and then got married. He is very agitated and disturbed by the fact that his wife has not been to the hospital to see him. His mother contacts Jordan and begs her to come for a visit in the hopes that seeing her will restore Chase’s memories. Jordan agrees to come and help, but everything becomes even more complicated when Chase’s memory is not restored upon seeing her and his doctors encourage her to play along.
I loved this story! It was so unique and different from anything else I’ve ever read. I was hooked right from the beginning. I had to find out if Chase would get his memories back and what would happen between him and Jordan if he did. My heart went out to both Jordan and Chase as I rooted for them to find their happy ending. This was a beautiful story about first love, reconciliation, and second chances.
Chase and Jordan, not even sure where to begin there! There were so many ups and downs! This was a very emotional read. I loved it! I wouldn’t mind seeing Lacey and Jake get their own story 🙂 I would recommend this story to anyone over 18 who like a bit of steam in their romances. Riann is a new to me author, but I will be sure to be reading more of her stuff!
Sometimes in life we find ourselves making a decision solely based on the fact that it’s better for those involved, but what we don’t realize is that it’s not really our decision to make in the first place, each person should have the right to make their own decisions, and it is wrong to take that right from them no matter how much you care for them. And no one knows this to be a truer fact than Chase Adams, ten years ago he made the decision to choose his football career over spending his future with the love of his life, because at the time he thought he would be holding her back from her own dreams by tying her down to his. So, he thought it was best for both of them to let her go, so she could be free to find her own future, and it completely devastated both of them. That day has haunted him for the last ten years, and he has often wondered if he had fought a little harder for her where they would be now, if they’d be married, or have a family, and the more he thinks about it, the more he wishes it was true. Here lately it’s all he allows himself to think about, and its starting to affect his focus on the field, and ultimately causes him to take a hit that lands him in the hospital with a mind altering injury… an injury that may just give him a second chance at love.
Getting a phone call from her ex-boyfriends mother is the last thing she ever expected to happen, after all, it has been ten long years since they last saw one another, and that encounter has been one that Jordan Taylor has worked very hard to put behind her. Chase Adams completely devastated her when he chose his football career over a future with her that day, she went to the park expecting a marriage proposal and wound up getting dumped. His mother is desperate for her help, Chase has landed himself in the hospital with a devastating injury, and she is certain Jordan is the only one that can help him overcome it, but Jordan has her reservations. She has spent the last ten years creating a future for herself, ridding herself of his memories, and going to great lengths to avoid anything to do with the heartbreaking football player. To have him in her life again and opening herself up to that kind of hurt again is far more than she knows her heart can bare… can she really let him back in again?
From the moment I started this story I knew I had stumbled onto something truly special, it stirred something deep inside of me, and had me completely entranced and wholeheartedly invested into every written word. From the get go I felt a deep connection to the characters, and their painstakingly beautiful story, I went from moments of having my heart in my throat and blinking back tears, to blushing, and smiling from ear to ear. Some of my favorite reads have been second chance love stories, and I have to say this one ranks up there with some of the best I have read, Ms. Miller has created a story that readers can really submerse themselves into and just let go, and let their emotions and heart guide the way. This was my first experience with her work, and I have to say she has totally won me over with this one and quickly turned me into a life long fan!!
Living With Regret is a poignant story, that will capture your heart, stir your emotions, steal the breath from your lungs, and take you to a place of complete literary bliss!! Highly recommend it!!!
ARC provided in exchange for a honest and unbiased review.