Amy Porter has had a thing for her twin brother’s best friend since she was a teenager. After being considered “one of the boys” throughout her childhood, he’s the first guy to look at her and see past the tomboy she used to be. Unfortunately, he’s also completely off-limits. She does her best to move on as the years go by, but it’s not until her life takes a drastic turn that she finally accepts the fact that they aren’t meant to be. However, as her world crumbles around her, Nate always seems to be close by to help her pick up the pieces.
Nate Miller knows that Amy is the one girl he can never have. No matter how badly he wants her, he won’t risk destroying his friendship; especially when her brother goes overseas with the Marines and makes Nate promise to look out for her. As life continues to get in the way and keep them apart, the only logical choice is to give up… but giving up is the last thing he wants to do.
With so many obstacles stacked up against them, can they make it or are they headed for a breakdown?
Breakdown by Ellie Grace is a love story that stands the test of time, pulling the reader into an emotion so deep and true; that regardless of the circumstances or situations that life throws at the characters, their love never falters. This was a 4 star read for me and I would recommend it to others. I cannot wait to read the next book from this amazing author that I have just discovered and you will feel the same way once you turn the first page of this book.
Amy has been in love with Nate for as long as she can remember and in turn Nate has loved her since he was eighteen. There was one thing that stood in the way of their happiness; Amy's twin brother Dex. Dex was your typical over-protective brother; making sure that no guy would get within reach of his sister's heart, never close enough to break it and that included his best friend Nate. Sharing one amazing kiss in high-school that rocked them both to the core; Nate walked away from Amy and the feelings that she stirred within him because he could never risk losing Dex and the extended family that he had with his best friend.
Amy tried to forget about Nate, believing that he didn't have feelings for her and that is why when they kissed and she confessed her feelings for him, he walked away saying it was a mistake. She went to college and began dating like a normal girl her age, enjoying herself without the over-protectiveness that Dex always provided. Everything changed for her the weekend that she came home to visit Dex who was on leave from training with the Marines. Bringing her boyfriend to meet the family, a man she thought she loved, she saw his true colors. The characteristics that she began to severely dislike grew in abundance when she discovered that she was pregnant and he wanted nothing to do with her or the baby. Determined to do it on her own, she gave up all hope on anything every happening between her and Nate and she focused on her baby and building a life for herself. Needing to be away from Amy and his feelings, Nate leaves town to take a job traveling the world looking for authentic classic car parts for a restoration company.
Its tragedy that brings Nate and Amy back together 4 years later, while attending the funeral of their friend Teddy, who died while deployed overseas with Dex. Nate returns home for good, knowing that the small town he grew up in is where he belongs. Amy having built a life for herself and her daughter there sees him for the first time and every emotion and feeling she had rises to the surface. And it is here where the real love story of Nate and Amy begins. Through trials, tribulations, mis-understandings and things unsaid; Amy and Nate slowly but surely make there way back to each other, to begin a relationship that they should have began so many years before. This story will break your heart and make you smile all at the same time. You will fall in love with Nate and even a little with Dex, who this reader hopes is the main character in the next book!
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Breakdown a great journey of a young girl trying to break away from being the shadow of her twin brother Dex and being hopelessly in love with the brothers best friend Nate. This story will send you in a tailspin of emotions because you will love Nate but you will want to strangle him for not going for what he wants because of a friendship. This story will have serious heart break and make you cry happy and sad tears. I would give this book a 4 star and most definitely will be recommending to others.
Amy has always been the girl that all the guys seen as just a friend, why you ask because her twin brother happens to be the most protective man on the planet and always warns all the guys away from his sister. Amy is torn because not only does she despise her brother for what he did she wants Nate her brother's best friend to notice her, and when her and Nate share an amazing kiss and he pushes her away she is devastated. She does what every girl would do in her position she goes away to college and tries to live her life. She even manages to be in a relationship that she finds that she will cherish because she finally found a man that sees her as Amy the girlfriend not just a girl as a friend. But when she brings him home for the holiday break her impression of him will soon change and she finds herself in a very twisted situation when she comes up pregnant and he leaves her to deal with it on her own.
Nate believe it or not isn't a playboy, he wants the true love the happily ever after but can't seem to find someone worthy of that love. Well he knows one woman that would fit that profile but she is off limits.. Amy... after he finally gave in a kissed her when they were teenagers he knew he made a mistake because not only is she off limits it just made him want her more. So he leaves town and makes a life for himself .. but when he comes back home when tragedy strikes and finds a broken Amy will he be able to still live with himself if he didn't finally give into what he has always felt for her?
I'll consider myself the luckiest man on earth if I ever have something half as special as they have. Unlike all my friends, who go through girls like they go through socks, I'm looking for that one person who will be my lifelong best friend. I see real, true love every day when I look at my parents, and that's what I want, too. I want the real thing.-- Nate
Will Amy and Nate finally realize life is too short to give up on what you want? Or will circumstances and fate keep getting in there way?
I look forward to so much more from this author! And I really hope we get Dex's story because hot damn a sexy bad boy Marine is a wet dream come true! Thanks for a great story and hope for more in the near future.
Ellie Grace is an avid reader, chocolate lover and caffeine addict. When a story popped into her head that she couldn’t seem to shake, she decided to pursue her childhood dream of becoming a writer. When she’s not writing, she’s usually curled up with a book by one of her many, many favorite authors.
