Jessica Harper is the epitome of perfection. She’s a good daughter, makes excellent grades, and always strays on the safe side of life. The last thing she thought would ever happen was falling in love with her best friend’s brother. But sometimes fate just has a way of bringing two people together.
Wide receiver for the University of Arizona, Gabe Garcia, seems to have it all. When his feelings for Jessica come to surface, Gabe will give up everything to be with her.
But what happens when a tragedy abruptly changes the course of your life? For Jessica and Gabe, everything they thought they knew about each other will be questioned. Sometimes, there are scars in life that are cut too deep to completely heal.
Will their love prove to be unbreakable, or will it shatter and prove fate is just another lie?
I’ve found it’s easier to share my body but not my soul. I need no one, yet I crave her.
Self-assured and independent, she doesn’t need me—but she wants me, and undeniably I want her too. At war with myself as I battle the secrets of my past, I don’t know if I can allow her to see the darkest parts of me, the parts I’ve left untouched—undone.
As she chips away at the walls I’ve built for years, I fear those secrets will hold me hostage from love—forever.
Q: How did you come up with Gabe’s character?
A: Oh my gosh, my sweet Gabe. In building his character he was like the person I think every person or woman would want or need in their life. I just put all the characteristics of somebody that is not the wealthy millionaire. Real life kind of person but still has all those amazing honorable characteristics. So, I just wanted somebody that was real, we all have that billionaire but in reality how many of us are going to land one? Gabe in my head was a realistic person that you could probably meet one day. He’s just so sweet and perfect.
ME: He really is, he felt so real, the way he communicated with her and it really could happen. To find that person that is right there for you.
Rebecca: Sexy firefighter.
Q: The situation/pivotal moment in the book was a complete
surprise. Was it difficult to write the
conversations between Jess and Gabe?
A: So, as you saw in the book I did not spend a lot of time on THAT that was kind of the catalyst for the rest of the story. So, you that scene inn its self was not hard but when I was writing the after math that was hard. I sat and cried, you in vision yourself as that person and those conversations with the person that you care about. That was tough but was also the driving factor in sending her where she needed to go. So it was tough, but I never wanted the book to be about that particular incident, that was just the pivotal moment that had to send her to find herself and grow.
A: So, as you saw in the book I did not spend a lot of time on THAT that was kind of the catalyst for the rest of the story. So, you that scene inn its self was not hard but when I was writing the after math that was hard. I sat and cried, you in vision yourself as that person and those conversations with the person that you care about. That was tough but was also the driving factor in sending her where she needed to go. So it was tough, but I never wanted the book to be about that particular incident, that was just the pivotal moment that had to send her to find herself and grow.
ME: I found that the short conversation that they had, without giving it away, when she wanted him to do that, I found it so hard to read and I could understand her feelings
Rebecca: She wanted to remember him and not THIS. She needed that and being him, any person in their right mind would have done what he did. In her state he could just not be that person at that moment. I think the hardest part in the whole book was to write her relationship with her father. When she finally left, there was that first time that they really communicated and supported her and her decisions. For me that was hard with the whole back story and Gabe’s family practically raising her. That was a pivotal moment that sealed her relationship that the readers did not know about the whole back story with her father. He really did love her and care for her, he just did not know how. He was still grieving and dealing with his own demons.
Rebecca Shea is the USA Today Bestselling author of Unbreakable. She lives in Phoenix, Arizona with her family and her beagle, Miles. From the time Rebecca could read she has had a passion for books. Rebecca spends her days working full-time and her nights writing, bringing stories to life. Born and raised in Minnesota, Rebecca moved to Arizona in 1999 to escape the bitter winters. When not working or writing, she can be found on the sidelines of her sons football games, or watching her daughter at ballet class. Rebecca is fueled by insane amounts of coffee, margaritas, Laffy Taffy (except the banana ones), and happily ever afters.
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