Ryan Revisited by Sam Davis
When
you don’t
have any idea who you are, how do you decide who you want to
be?
Who is
Ryan Ester?
The Southern-belle-in-training her estranged father wants her to
be? The
laid-back Montana girl she became after her parents’ divorce? Or
someone she
has to discover on her own?
When
Ryan’s only
shot at going to college is on her father’s dime, Ryan leaves
Bluffs,
Montana to return to the antebellum South she once called home. As if
the move
wasn’t hard enough, Ryan’s first love, who recently left her a
broken-hearted
mess, has a scholarship to none other than Ryan’s destination,
the
University of the South.
Ryan
Ester may
not know who she is, but she sure as heck knows who she doesn’t want
to become.
As she tries to navigate scandal, heartache, and the unbearable
pressure to
look and act perfect every waking second, she resents being pushed
by everyone
who wants to decide for her. For the sake of her own sanity and the
hearts of
those she cares most about, she will have to find a way to forge her
own
path.
RYAN
REVISITED is
the story of a young woman’s search for identity. For serenity.
For the
perfect landing spot for her aching heart.
Author’s
Note: RYAN
REVISITED is also suitable for Mature YA readers as it does not
contain
graphic sexual situations.
“You’re changing,
Ryan. This
isn’t you.”
“If you’re so
disgusted
with my choices and you think I’ve changed so much, then why do you
even keep
talking to me?”
“Because I keep thinking ...” Manny looked
into my
eyes. “I keep hoping I’m
wrong.”
Excerpt 2:
“You
just don’t
understand. You don’t understand how it is,” I told him.
“I’m not trying to
interfere in
your life, Ryan. I get that you have a life at U South that
doesn’t
include me, one I don’t fit
into.”
“No, you don’t get
it. I don’t
live a double life.”
“Don’t worry about
it, Ryan.
I’ll stay in the life where I belong—I won’t try to find a place in
your other
one.”
“Don’t be so
dramatic.”
Before I could stop my father’s words, they came out at Manny.
“Who are you,
Ryan?”
How could he say
that to me?
After everything I was so honest about with him, how could
he?
“Goodbye,
Manny.”
I turned around and walked to my room, slamming the
door behind me.
Refusing to
ever hear Manny ask me that
again.
Sam
Davis loves
to write tucked away in her cave with a large sweet iced tea and
the
occasional (grossly understated) chocolate vice. She lives in Texas now
with her
hunky husband and three young daughters, but she was born in Georgia
and went to
high school under the beautiful Big Sky of Montana. Due to Sam’s
nearly
alarming obsessive personality and lack of gumption to act her age, she
spends too
much time reading YA and NA books, watching the CW, using emoticons
and
hashtags, shopping at Nordstrom BP, and writing anything and everything,
anywhere and
everywhere. She loves to eat, Jillian Michaels (in that order),
Nutella,
going to the movies, the written word, Jesus, Auburn football, Ron
Pope, Big
Sky Country, and every kind of person.
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