SA Today Bestselling Novel
"No one tried to get involved with me, and I kept to myself. This was the place where everything was supposed to be safe and easy. How could Evan Mathews unravel my constant universe in just one day?"
In the affluent town of Weslyn, Connecticut, where most people worry about what to be seen in and who to be seen with, Emma Thomas would rather not be seen at all. She’s more concerned with feigning perfection—pulling down her sleeves to conceal the bruises, not wanting anyone to know how far from perfect her life truly is. Without expecting it, she finds love. It challenges her to recognize her own worth―at the risk of revealing the terrible secret she’s desperate to hide.
One girl’s story of life-changing love, unspeakable cruelty, and her precarious grasp of hope: Reason to Breathe is the first installment of the acclaimed Breathing Series.
Emma Thomas’s struggle with an abusive home life came to a heart-pounding conclusion in the final chapters of Reason to Breathe, the first installment of The Breathing Series— Rebecca Donovan’s bestselling romantic-thriller (USA Today). Now her secret life has been exposed, and her tormentor can’t hurt her anymore. Yet some are still haunted by that night. The bruises may have faded, but scars and fears, remain. How will she reclaim her life when she's barely breathing?
Emma Thomas is hiding. From everything and everyone...including herself. But she can't hide forever. Her past will find her, and her secrets won't remain quiet—not if she wants to be forgiven. Emma learns that honesty can hurt worse than betrayal, and the truth may cost her the only love she's ever known.
The highly anticipated conclusion of The Breathing Series will have readers holding their breath until the last page.
Q: What inspired you to write the breathing series?
A: I have a degree in psychology; I worked straight out of college with troubled teens. So the story its self just came to me in a dream. I could not sleep one night so I tried to force the dreams thinking it would help me sleep but it ended up being so captivating that I could not sleep. So I knew that I needed to write it. I plotted it out. Kind of outlined the thoughts I had in my head and gave it a shot.
Q: What was the most difficult scenes for you to write? I know what was difficult for me to read.
A: Surprisingly not so much as the abuse scenes but more the internal emotional scenes, the reflective scenes. The ones I rewrote a lot were her in the ocean in out of breath, the letter her mother wrote her, I balled when I wrote that because I had to be that angry, that mean, that hateful, it was gutting.
Q: Who was the most difficult character to write?
A: Well I would say complicated is Johnathon. I am afraid to write his story, I am going to but I am afraid, I am very afraid. (I Think I am afraid to read his story) It’s not a love story, I write human stories. His story is going to be dark, it’s going to be violent, and it’s going to be very angry. I am afraid to have his voice in my head; I am just not ready for it. I will be writing it this fall.
Her next book is going to be called What If. It’s done and with the publisher.
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