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Desolate by A.M. Guilliams Series: The Existing Series Book 1
on June 14, 2016
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Magdalena DeLuca based her life around one sentence. Seven words that forever changed her outlook on life. She attempted and failed numerous times to remain hopeful. When her world came crashing down yet again, she just knew the one sentence that haunted her had finally become her reality.
Weston Corbin was faced with harsh consequences when the one person he believed would never leave suddenly walked away, leaving him with more questions than answers. With no other option, he went back to a place that he never should’ve left. Home.
Happenstance brought them together. Fears bound them for life. Can two strangers show each other how to live instead of merely existing? Or will what they think they know overpower any semblance of a normal life?
Magdalena has spent most of her life in fear of losing everyone she loves and she pretty much has. A fortune teller when she was a teenager told her she would lose everyone she cared about she ignored it. When her best friend died and then her parents and grandparents she was terrified she would lose her husband and son. One night they go for ice cream and don’t come back and she is beside herself so when the police knock on the door she knows why they are there. Her husband and son have been shot in a store robbery and her worst fears have come true. She spends months in depression and decides to go to her grandparents farm they left her and try and get it straightened out. Clyde has been there forever and when he brings in help in the name of Weston she is very standoffish but Weston is drawn to her and wants to help her. Weston has his own problems because the mother of his child decided she can’t do it and left him with the daughter. Weston keeps trying to get Magdalena to get over her grief and little by little she is coming around. Her grief over her loss was heartbreaking and I just loved how hard Weston tried to make her see that life is worth living. – Reviewed by Linda Rea
