Author: Marie Drake
Publisher: RedBird Books
Pages: 286
Genre: Realistic Fiction
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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Debbie had volunteered to fill a few hours during a
co-worker’s medical appointment; Jordan
frittered those hours envisioning Rhonda’s torturous party. He yanked every
shirt from his broken dresser and fought with the drawers; they sprung their
tracks and refused to navigate the slides. After changing several times, he
settled into cut-off jeans and a t-shirt; his clothes wouldn’t matter; they’d
make fun of him. Debbie burst through the door, arms laden with grocery bags.
“Quick, help me.” Jordan
unpacked the items and handed them to Debbie; she organized the refrigerator,
and she hurried him to the car.
Debbie had used pity and guilt to secure Jordan’s
invitation to Rhonda’s birthday party. Their car rolled and stopped at a green,
A-framed house; Rhonda’s mother waved as Debbie nudged Jordan
to leave the car. “Have fun,” she told him. He grimaced and trailed Rhonda’s
mom to their cellar door.
Jordan
stewed in the corner; he shredded a streamer ribbon while classmates played
music and talked.
Rhonda Sue asked, “Who wants to play a game?”
Her best friend, busty, blonde, Theresa answered, “We have
to play Seven Minutes In Heaven.” Theresa yearned to enter the dark with Dean,
voted the most popular boy in their class. She established the game’s limits,
flashed her eager, green eyes at Dean, and added that players could change
their rules when they entered the closet.
Jordan
didn’t move; Rhonda Sue pulled him into their circle, and all the girls
giggled. “My mom made me include him,’” she said and rolled her eyes. A bottle
spun in the group’s center; gasps and groans erupted as it nearly missed
landing on him; he shrunk inside himself.
“He’ll sit alone in the closet, or with someone who’ll enjoy
seven minutes punching him,” one of the boys said. The crowd giggled, and the
boys slapped hands.
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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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