Pain Lived, Love Found, by Thalia Lake
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This is a BWWM standalone novel. Sloane Paris grew up in dysfunction. With no one to protect them or help them, Sloane and her siblings survived the best way they could; until they could get out from the hell hole they called home. For Sloane, her escape was college, followed by a successful career that she worked very hard for. She left little to no room for love. In fact, she made it a rule to never let a man get close enough for her to fall in love. However, a chance meeting with a handsome stranger would make her reconsider that rule. Luca Santorini is a successful businessman with a thriving business. He comes from a large, loving family that is the complete opposite of Sloane’s. Family meant the world to him, and he hoped to have one of his own one day. He had been meeting with new financial advisors on his retired father’s behalf, and he had the task of choosing which firm he would sign with. Before the meeting, he saw a woman in a coffee shop that intrigued him from just seeing her big beautiful eyes and amazing smile. All he knew was that her name was Sloane and that he would never forget her name or those eyes. Call it fate, but their paths crossed again, and this time Luca wasn’t going to let Sloane Paris just slip away. Luca quickly found out that he had his work cut out for him, but he felt Sloane was more than worth it. While getting to know one another, Sloane managed to do something no other woman has been able to do - she won Luca’s heart. Luca was still trying to win hers, but he wanted more than her heart. Luca wanted to know who or what was the cause of the constant sadness in Sloane’s eyes so he could do everything in his power to put an end to it. He wanted Sloane to trust him enough to share with him her deep, dark secrets, but will Luca be able to handle it once she opens up to him? Will he be able to break through Sloane’s emotional walls and help her let go of the pain she lived and accept the love she’s found with him?
Pain Lived, Love Found, by Thalia Lake - Amazon Sales Rank: #85358 in eBooks
- Published on: 2015-05-25
- Released on: 2015-05-25
- Format: Kindle eBook
Pain Lived, Love Found, by Thalia Lake About the Author Thalia Lake was born and raised in the midwest into a big family. She discovered her love of writing at the age of 9 and have been writing ever since. A bleeding heart romantic to the core, she loves writing and reading romantic novels that focuses on the emotional side of falling in love. To her, there’s no greater joy than exploring the process of two people meeting and falling in love, willingly or unwillingly, which ultimately proves that you can’t always control who you fall in love with. She became drawn to interracial romance stories in high school during a time when there weren’t many interracial romance books in libraries or bookstores that dealt with a black woman and white man falling in love. Her interest in the subject and the emotional intricacies that go with being in an interracial relationship is what moved her to write about it. Thalia is happily married to a wonderful man with whom she has four beautiful children with. Outside of writing, she enjoys spending time with her family, watching and playing sports, baking, reading, and listening to music.
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15 of 18 people found the following review helpful. A story that reflects real life issues! By Mspraise1 This is my first book by author Thalia Lake but it will not be my last and this morning I clicked her first book Choosey Lovers because she blew me away with this book.This story for me was just a vehicle to present real life issues that are alive and kicking. This review will be more of a testimony and validation to the story that Author Thalia tells and to allow her to know that these themes are happening in women’s lives in truth, as I am sure she is already aware. The story is about Sloane Paris and her dysfunctional family and the pain and destruction that their dysfunction brings to all their lives. Then Sloane finds love and she is truly able to move on with her life.As the author was laying the foundation for this story and explaining to us about the pain in Sloane’s life, I found that the story was literally speaking to me and touching my heart. It was ministering to some issues that I have long believed. I was only 50% into the story at this point but it was so powerful to me!! I have enjoyed reading a lot of stories. However, there are some reads that are not stories to me but real life. This book is one those!As many women from my generation as possible (1960s) should read this story and examine/reflect on their lives growing up and make sure that we do not make the same mistakes as our mothers made. Mothers are the nucleus of the family and if we get it wrong, we can do so much damage. This part of the story was really shouting to me! If this book never speaks to anyone else Author Thalia, it spoke to me LOUD AND CLEAR! The tears were silently slipping down my cheeks as the story revealed/exposed and mirrored back my own life story.Coming from a Caribbean background this story is mine and many of my friends' reality too. I did not experience sexual abuse I did encounter, physical, mental and emotional abuse. I experienced this under the guise of “spare the rod and spoil the child” a corner stone in the background I grew up in. The abuse I suffered was not done out of cruelty but out of good intentions to raise me right! However, the results and impact were the same as in the Paris Family damaged/broken/wounded children. Regardless of the motivation the results are the same!!As women we do not talk about these themes enough. We do not challenge what happened to us, once we have grown into adult women. Therefore we allow the abuses in their many forms to continue. I personally challenged both my parents but my Mother in particular about her role, in allowing certain behaviours to be perpetrated against us as her children. The conversations with my parents were very difficult because they did not want to own it! If they owned what they did to us, then that would mean acknowledging that harm was done and that overwhelmed them. However, they were able to admit that they would not like me to pass on to my children what they did to me. The scales fell off my eyes and I was able to break the cycle of dysfunction and not pass it on to my family.I too married outside my race and therefore this was not such an issue because my husband did not have this dysfunction in his background. Nonetheless, I still gave my husband some boundaries that he should never cross, since I took my role as wife/mother and the influence/power that this role has in the family, very seriously. I wanted there to be no doubt as to what was acceptable and what was not. This does not mean that we do not correct our children when they are wrong but we administer the punishment which fits the crime and we do it in love and not anger!I have longed believed that if Mothers played their rightful roles in their families and protected their children from the actions of their partners/spouses some of the damaged/wounded individuals we have in the world today would not be broken in this way and thus not pass on their brokenness to future generations.Although, I was able to forgive my parents with the help of God, my faith in him and other women who shared a similar experience to mine, I totally hold my Mother responsible/accountable for what happened to me as a child. I wish I had gotten professional help for my mental/emotional abuse in particular when I was a young woman. Back then this would have brought shame, disgrace and attention to the fact that there was something wrong with me, which in turn would bring attention to my family, which was not allowed.God had a plan for my life and I met a man who was able to love me with all my rough edges, who did not expect me to pretend to be someone who I was not and loved me for me warts and all. Just like Luca did for Sloane. To me an alpha male is not someone who commands/dominants you, it is a man who is strong enough to love you when you push back, get angry about issues that has nothing to do with him, who is patient, kind, tender, loving when you are acting out and never mishandles you or puts angry hands on you or demeans you in any way. That is what an alpha male means to me and thank God he gave me one of those!Author Thalia, I know this review is long and even if no one else takes the time or patience to read it all the way through, I hope you do because I want to validate your story as being my story.Thank you for having the courage and boldness, to write this story, which is the story of many black women that I know and could be the same story for many women not of colour also. I broke the cycle in my life with no outside help but I hope many other women after reading your book will break the cycle in theirs and get any help they may need.Your book ministered to my broken/wounded/healed soul and validated my stance as a wife and mother in my own family unit. I recognise my role and will not shrink back from it. I stopped the cycle of damaged/broken people in my life.I would highly recommend that all women read this book!
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful. Wow! By Bludevil This book was recommended to me by a member of my Facebook book club and I am so happy she did!This book brought all my emotions to the forefront; the tears I shed while reading this story could fill a bucket!The dysfunction is so prevalent in many families; we just try to hide our head in the sand about all the mental and physical abuse because for generations, that's how we survived it.....by SUPREME DENIAL!I love Luca and how supportive he and his family were to Sloane; Mama Anna is the mother in law I WISHED I had!I will definitely be following this author's work!
13 of 17 people found the following review helpful. Standing Ovation, Thalia Lake........Standing O!! By Barkbad OMG!!!! I am so feaking happy right now, guys!!! I'm amazed. I'm shocked. I'm speechless. My joy of reading is finally coming back! As you can see from my reviews,I'm an interracial romance (BW.....M but BW is a must - no apologies) FANATIC!!! At one point, I was knocking out 3/4 books a week - not free reads but books I actually paid for. Reading those books were my favorite hobby, and I so enjoyed it! But something happened this year - it wasn't giving me that enjoyment anymore. I hit a serious IR romance block. I have a list of about eight (8) authors that are one click buys, but some of those authors don't publish on a regular basis. Also, some of those author have series books out, and I refuse to commit to such books. I read a great IR vampire romance three (3) years ago, and I'm still waiting for part 2 of that book. I can't do that to myself again; I will wait until the series conclude and buy all the books. And a lot of my "dependable" authors stop being dependable, so I just stopped checking for their books. And of course the roll-my-eyes books.....you know the ones I speak of; How to marry a Billionaire, the 25 pages for .99 cents, the 69 pages for $2.99, and of course those crappy free reads. So I went from reading 3/4 books a week to maybe 3 books a month.However, somehing happened in the past month or two: I decided to make a real effort to give new authors a chance, with the help of you reviewers, of course. And my joy of reading is returning - thanks guys!!!! This is my first book by this author, and she hit a freaking homerun!!!!! This story was phenomenal!!!!!! And a don't use that "p" word often. Seriously, this is an amazing read!!!!! Luca and Sloane are going on my all time favorite couple list!!! This is how I like my IR romances - a committed couple with the right amount of drama from outside forces.....but my couple HAS to stay together. I can take over the top drama as long as the couple rides it out together......I don't do breakups. And the side characters, even the beyond evil ones, brought this story together!!!!! I didn't want this book to end. And although it was one of my free reads, I'm buying it......I can't say goodbye forever to Luca and Sloane - such a dynamic couple!!!!!! I have to re-read their story when the mood hits!Buy this book you guys!! Trust all the stellar reviews! I really wish Amazon would allow 0 - 10 stars because this book deserves so much more than 5 stars. Standing ovation, Thalia Lake .......Standing O!!!!!!!!!I struggled with whether or not I wanted to write this, but here goes. I actually would like to see a romance for Sarah. I still feel some kinda way about her.....I was beyond disgusted at her actions, but I know there is something beneath it all. There was something horrific that set Sarah on her destructive path. I would like to know more about her, and although it would be difficult to make her into a likeable heroine after reading this story, I know you have the talent to make this happen, Thalia. I understand that Sarah is probably in her late 30s, maybe even late 40s, but that's still young enough in my book for an epic romance! And please keep with the IR theme because that's all I read. Thanks in advance, Thalia!And again, job well done on this story!!!!! I'm about to start "Choosey Lovers".....I'm in my "Thalia Lake" zone now! I'm impatiently waiting for your next book!!
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