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After eight years in prison, twenty-four year old Jordan Kane is the man everyone loves to hate.

Forced to return to his hometown while on parole, Jordan soon learns that this small town hasn’t changed since he was sent away. He is the local pariah, shunned by everyone, including his own parents. But their hatred of him doesn’t even come close to the loathing he feels every time he looks in the mirror.

Working odd jobs for the preacher lady, Jordan bides his time before he can leave this backwards town. But can time or distance erase the pain of living?

Torrey Delaney is new in town, and certainly doesn’t behave in a way the locals believe a preacher’s daughter should. Her reputation for casual hook-ups and meaningless sex quickly spreads. And that’s on top of her budding friendship with the hardened ex-con handyman – the good Reverend is less than thrilled with her estranged daughter’s path.

As friendship forms, can two damaged people who are afraid to love take their relationship to the next level? Can Torrey live with Jordan’s demons, and can Jordan break through Torrey’s walls? With the disapproval of a small town weighing heavily on them, they struggle to find their place in the world. Can they battle the odds, or will their world be viciously shattered?

Is love a life sentence?

Until I read Lifers by Jane Harvey-Berrick I never knew what went on in a person’s head as they were being released from prison. I never thought about the obstacles one might face after spending years incarcerated. This book opened my eyes to what a person may have to go through, to what they feel, as they try and integrate themselves back into society.
I loved the fact that this book by Jane has both Jordan and Torrey’s POV which is great to read in books, I felt it gave a bit more prospective of the characters and their journey

Jordan makes one fatal mistake one night and it costs him his life, literally, that is until he meets Torrey. Jordan needs someone who will look beyond the mistake, beyond the prison and who will help him see that he can be forgiven, he can be loved and it is ok to feel love.

Torrey the Preacher’s Daughter--- what a firecracker she is, she is headstrong, impulsive and speaks her mind, but she is also a young lady who has been so hurt by people who were supposed to love her, to always be there for her. Trusting and acknowledging love by people and herself is a huge step and a hard one to take for Torrey.She needs someone who is not afraid to hear what she has to say straight up, who will love her unconditionally and never leave her, someone who has the strength to put up with her and her ways. Torrey and Jordan they may not know it at the beginning but they both need each other.

“Yes, I drank alcohol. Yes, I’ve gambled in dens of iniquity and Yes, I’ve had sex with a really nice guy who just needs a break”

Yes they begin their journey as friends, and it progresses from there, Jordon loves how Torrey does not hold back, she says what she means, she stands up for him, no one has ever done that before, she listens and talks to Jordan who is blown away by it. Torrey loves the safeness she feels around Jordan, she knows he would never hurt her; she is at peace with him, not to mention his smoking hot body, oh yes she loves that too and his tattoos.
There are problems and lots of drama along the way but one thing these two know is that they need each other and want to be with each other, the obstacles they can deal with as long as they are together.

“I could guess what they’d be talking about and I was certain that the preacher’s pretty daughter wouldn’t be talking to me again anytime soon. That was okay. I didn’t deserve anything good to happen. Just talking to her like a normal person was the best conversation I’d had in eight years!

Jordan tried everything to stay on the straight and narrow after coming out of prison and luckily he had Torrey to help him, however, niggling at the back of his mind was always will it last will she still talk to me when I mess up, the insecurities were real and he did not want to lose that. He is also torturing himself insisting that he had a ‘debt’ to pay but will he lean on Torrey in these times, will he open up and accept things, will he make his peace?.

This book will make you laugh, it will make you angry at how people can be but it will also make you cry, it has so much emotion, determination and heart warming situations in it that you just want to find Jordan and hold him tight all night

“For the first time since I’d met her, she looked scared-scared of me. A Sharp, stabbing pain threatened to split my chest open. She was scared of me. But maybe that was a good thing even though it killed me. She needed to know about the darkness inside”

My favourite quote from the whole book has to be this one:-“Do no fear those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul”

I loved this book in that although we go through life with trials and tribulations just like Jordan and Torrey had, it is how we chose to deal with those situations in life that make our lives what they are. I have no doubt in my mind that while reading this book there will be times you will identify with something in there, a feeling, a situation, a saying that has hurt you but how we deal with it is what makes us who we are.
This book had me hooked from the first chapter, I would highly recommend it

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I lived in London for over 10 years and have a love affair with New York. It's only since I have moved to the countryside, that the words have really begun to flow. I live in a small village by the ocean and walk my little dog, Pip, every day. It’s on those beachside walks that I have all my best ideas. Writing has become a way of life – and one that I love to share.