Pieces of a Life (Life 3) by Jewel E Ann -review tour

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ABOUT THE BOOK: Release Date September 13, 2022

The summer before fourth grade, Colten Mosley moved into the house across the street from mine, and we became inseparable.

He played the piano and baseball.
I had a penchant for dead things while at the same time imagining what it would be like to kiss Colten.
We were filled with curiosity and overly active imaginations.

We were also forbidden to be more than friends.
But that didn’t stop us.

Weeks before graduation, he annihilated my heart, and it’s been seventeen years since the day I knew I’d hate him forever.

Now he’s back in my life—a single dad and a homicide detective looking over my shoulder while I perform autopsies as one of Chicago’s most gifted forensic pathologists. Then fate throws us a curveball.

Colten saves my life, but he can’t erase the images that now keep me awake at night. And I can’t explain them.

Am I still the girl he’s always loved? Or nothing more than pieces of that life?

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REVIEW: PIECES OF A LIFE is the third instalment in Jewel E Ann’s contemporary, adult LIFE romance series, and the first in the Colten and Josie’s preternatural romance Duet. This is thirty-five year olds, Detective Colten Mosley, and forensic pathologist Josie Watts second chance romance story line. PIECES OF A LIFE can be read as a stand alone without any difficulty. Any important information from the previous story lines is revealed where necessary.

WARNING: Due to the nature of the story line premise including descriptions of murder and death, there may be triggers for more sensitive readers.

Told from dual first person perspectives (Josie and Colten) using present day and memories from the past PIECES OF A LIFE follows the rebuilding friendship and relationship between thirty-five year olds, Detective Colten Mosley, and forensic pathologist Josie Watts. Josie and Colten have been best friends since fourth grade but days before their high school graduation, Colten rejected Josie’s promise of forever and their own happily ever after, destroying our story line heroine in the process. Fast forward seventeen years, wherein Chicago PD Detective Colten Mosley is now working closely with forensic pathologist Dr. Josie Watts, on a series of murders that may or may not be connected to a serial killer but Josie struggles with ghosts from the past, ghosts that have haunted our heroine since the day Colten walked away with what was left of her broken heart. What ensues is the second chance romance and relationship between Josie and Colten, and the potential fall-out as Josie continues to struggle with Colten’s reappearance in her life, a life that is now affected by a shooting that leaves our heroine, once again struggling to move on from the past.

Josie Watts heart was destroyed when Colten pushed her out of his life, opting for the Marines instead of a future together. For seventeen years, Josie held a deep-seated, hate-filled, raging grudge against our story line hero, blaming him for everything that has gone wrong in her life but Josie never knew the circumstances surrounding Colten’s decision to move on without her, a decision that affected Josie’s personal, private and business life to the present day. Colten Mosley has never stopped loving the girl next door but life went on, and he is no longer the man he was when he walked away.

The relationship between Josie and Colten is a second chance romance; a rekindling friendship that struggles in the face of secrets and lies, life and death, family and relationships, fractured hearts and broken love. Colten wants desperately to reconnect with our story line heroine but Josie continues to battle between head and heart, having had her heart broken by the boy she refuses to love. The $ex scenes are intimate and passionate without the use of over the top, sexually graphic language and text.

We are introduced to Josie’s parents, Colten’s mother, as well as the local ME and some members of the Chicago PD.

PIECES OF A LIFE is well-written, thought provoking story of lost love. The premise is captivating-the world building is detailed, twisted, haunting and tragic; the romance is sensual; the characters are determined, charismatic and strong. PIECES OF A LIFE ends on a cliff hanger-you have been warned.

Previous Reviews
The Life That Mattered
The Life You Stole

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Reviewed by Sandy

Jewel is a free-spirited romance junkie with a quirky sense of humor.

With 10 years of flossing lectures under her belt, she took early retirement from her dental hygiene career to stay home with her three awesome boys and manage the family business.

After her best friend of nearly 30 years suggested a few books from the Contemporary Romance genre, Jewel was hooked. Devouring two and three books a week but still craving more, she decided to practice sustainable reading, AKA writing.

When she’s not donning her cape and saving the planet one tree at a time, she enjoys yoga with friends, good food with family, rock climbing with her kids, watching How I Met Your Mother reruns, and of course…heart-wrenching, tear-jerking, panty-scorching novels.

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