Never Goodbye
by Kerri Williams
Book Tour Hosted by
Book Geeks Unit
I absolutely love that quote right there, I would fight for my soul mate. I would fight for my husband. I love books that tell the story of true love and all the obstacles that stand in their way only to have true love win, in the end.
Synopsis:
If you had one chance to be with your soul mate, would you
fight for it?
Sometimes the hardest fight isn't finding love, sometimes
its fighting against the ticking clock of your life.
Stalked by the shadow of a foreboding disease, seventeen
year old, Harper Kennedy finds herself starting a new life in Albany Missouri.
With a ticking time bomb, a wall of quotes, a shell of a father and a brother
who has no one else, Harper tries to get life in order for those she may be
leaving behind.
EXCERPT
In one swift, deliberate
movement I have her under me. My hands braced on either side of her head; they
look big compared to her petite face. Her long hair is spread across the red
blanket and I know I’ll keep that damn rug forever. I want to tell her about my
tattoo, about my mother, but not now. I study her, her wide bright, blue eyes.
They’re most phenomenal in the world; like the colour of the Blue Jays in my
mother’s nesting box. I gaze at her for the longest time, our breaths mingling
and that in itself has me thinking how much more I want her. Not just as
friends, screw friendship. I want her to be mine, to hold her, to kiss her, to
keep safe. I don’t even realise I’m getting closer to her until she licks her
lips, almost touching mine and I can see she can’t deny what she’s feeling any
more than I can. As soon as her eyes flutter closed I close my lips down on her
and taste the deliciousness of my blue bird.
Meet Kerri Williams:
Some
might say I shouldn’t be alive today…I like to think that I’m exactly where I
should be! I’m a cancer survivor. A very lucky and thankful survivor. I had to
fight hard and go through more than most teenagers and I hope I reflected some
of the emotion into Harpers story. But firstly, let me tell you a little about
my fight against non-Hodgkin lymphoma. I was a typical teenager, 11 years old
and just started high school and liking boys. I loved running and one day
during a track run my groin began to hurt. Nothing outrageously out of the norm
for a runner who didn’t stretch well and I put it down to a strain. I had a
lingering cold, just like normal kids in the mountains, but what wasn’t normal
was the lump in my groin. At eleven I didn’t know it shouldn’t be there. I
thought it was just a gland, no biggy. I was very wrong. I went on for weeks
with this cold and antibiotics, I and my children have been through them just
this winter. The only difference was, this wasn’t just a cold. My last visit to
the doctor, he was placing me on stronger drugs and asked if there was anything
else bugging me and that’s when I said those three dreadful words…’My lump
hurts.’ You can imagine the look between my mother and the doctor. From there
it all happened quickly and was quite scary. I was rushed after hours for an
Ultrasound and then straight to the Hospital. I didn’t even get to go home and
grab Pyjamas, a book or anything. The very next day I was shipped to
Campbelltown Childrens Hospital for more tests. Four scans and loads of needles
later lying in a cold, hard hospital bed I remember my Dad coming into the
room, his eyes bloodshot and he was crying. That’s when I learned I had two
weeks to live. You couldn’t get much crappier odds then that. I cry now
thinking of my Dad. For my parents who had their own pain. As a mother now,
it’s more heartbreaking then going through it myself. I have no idea why, but
they started me on aggressive Chemo anyway, denial maybe, I don’t know. It
doesn’t matter now either, because it saved my life. I went through endless
days of being sick, I would get sick as soon as I entered the hospital which
was all in my head, but tell an 11 year old that. The smell for many years
still made me sick. Scans, needles, drips, doctors and nurses. Day in, day out.
That was my life and my monster. But you know what hurt me the most? Losing my
hair. Pft. Sounds ridiculous, right. But imagine a teenage girl with long brown
hair who attracted boys turning into a girl with no hair and was dying. Yeah I
had beat the clock, but essentially, that’s what I was…a dying girl fighting
for a little bit of normal. Needless to say, I beat that clock, beat it to
pulp. I have had a couple of scares since, but I’m still kicking it strong and
even showed all the specialist wrong by having two wonderful and gorgeous girls
of my own after they swore I would not be able to have children. Although hubby
thinks he is Superman and I let him. He is another story all together, he is my
Vaun. I met Michael when I was sixteen at a party and let’s just say, from then
on we have been living out a dream. He didn’t care about odds, illness or my
lack of child bearing capabilities, he wanted me. He loved me. And so, here I
am, surrounded by love, disease free and using it all in a book for you to
read. My fight against the monster and my survival with love is all there for
you to read mixed in with a great dash of fiction. Since writing this I have
found a beautiful boy who is fighting his own monster and his family need our
help. So I’m donating 50 cents in every e-book and $1.00 in every print to go
to Chase and his family for as long as it works. His story I have added after
mine. Show him the love too. I hope you enjoy my story and I look forward to
hearing your feedback and reviews. Love, Kez
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