Calico

Calico is the emotional second-chance romance of two people who have suffered immeasurable pain.   

It is a heartbreaking story of loss, shame, guilt, and regret, but also a beautiful story of redemption, acceptance, and forgiveness.

Calico Summary

Coralie and Callan are high school sweethearts who everyone believes will get married and live happily ever after.  Unfortunately, there are too many secrets and lies for Coralie to stay in Port Royal. 

Twelve years go by and Coralie and Callan are on opposite coasts, having no contact at all, but never forget what they once had.  Neither has completely moved on from the other; alive but not truly living.  

When they return to town for Coralie’s father’s funeral, sparks still fly, but now they are more likely to cause a deadly explosion than wild passion.

Angsty, Emotional Second-Chance Romance

My heart broke several times while reading about the pain and loss both Coralie and Callan suffered.  

Life has not been kind to either of them, but once they start to actually communicate with one another, healing is able to begin.  

While I may have been heartbroken, I feel that the highly emotional and abusive situations were handled with care and the writing reflects the total devastation of the characters.  

However, there were a couple of minor things that I found incongruous in the writing (no one knew about the abuse, etc), but it didn’t take me out of the story too much. 

I was definitely swept up in the gut-wrenching emotions of the story.  It’s truly a story I won’t forget anytime soon.