Elena Matthews ~ Look After You
Synopsis
The birth of your firstborn child is supposed to be the best day of your life, a
joyous occasion. Well that’s what twenty-eight year old Ava Jacobson thought.
That is until her life takes a drastic turn for the worse and her daughter is born
three months earlier than planned, weighing only two pounds, two ounces.
A distraught Ava is thrown into the deep end of motherhood and instead of
being able to hold her baby like other moms, she has to sit back and watch her
daughter fight for her life in the hospital’s neonatal intensive care unit, while her
fiancé, Sebastian Gilbert is in the midst of a messy war in Afghanistan. Ava is left
to pick up the pieces with the help of her only friend, Caleb Summers.
When her vulnerable state hits an all time high, she finds solace in an unexpected
pair of intense green eyes. Eyes that belong to her daughter's doctor, Ashton
Bailey, and she falls, like she has never fallen before. However, for the sake of
Sebastian she desperately tries to fight against her newfound feelings for Ashton,
but eventually the pull between the two is so strong that it is impossible for her
to stay away.
Then when Ava is convinced things can't possibly get any worse, a cloud of
blackness closes in on her as the secret demons of her past come back to haunt
her, with news that will irreversibly shake her entire world forever.
As Ava’s roller coaster ride she calls life begins to circle the drain, she quickly
learns that even through the darkness of evil, there is always that one person
who will look after you and have the ability to pull you away from the brink of no
return, when nobody else can.
Author Bio:
Independent author Elena Matthews was born in Manchester, United Kingdom,
where she lives with her other half, but even after eight wonderful years, she
is still waiting for that epic proposal. Elena enjoys spending quality time with
her friends and family, especially her four-year-old niece, who is the apple of
her eye. (A little monkey too!) Elena is positive she is the love child of Jekyll and
Hyde. Thankfully, the joys of being an auntie, means she can hand her back to her
mum and dad when she's all tired out! (Elena, not her niece.)
Elena spent three years of her life at Salford University studying media
production, to decide at the end of her degree she no longer wanted to pursue a
career in the media. Instead, it took her another two and half years to realise her
calling. Writing. Now she lives and breathes her writing. She even had to tell her
colleagues at work whenever she is found daydreaming at her desk, it’s because
she is conversing with her characters.
Excerpt
Two pounds, two ounces. That's how much my baby girl weighed when she was
born.
That was ten hours ago.
This wasn’t supposed to happen yet. I was supposed to have another thirteen
weeks of pregnancy before I gave birth to my baby. I was supposed to have
her nursery painted in pink with teddy bears surrounding the walls, her crib
assembled with gorgeous soft blankets. I was supposed to have a baby shower,
being showered with gifts and guessing the size of my baby. I was supposed to
have time to come up with a name or at least discuss the possibility of names
with my boyfriend. I was supposed to work up until my maternity leave, have
at least a month of waddling around like a penguin and complaining about back
pain or Braxton Hicks contractions.
I wasn’t supposed to give birth to her by C-section ten hours ago without my
birthing partner and my boyfriend, without any warning, without understanding
why my body had decided it wasn’t fucking good enough to carry my baby full
term, without having her in my arms like most other moms do the minute their
baby is born, without…without…without…fuck!
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