A Time for Hope by T Gephart
Synopsis:
Lexi Reed was unstoppable, or so she thought. As the PR manager of international rock band, Power Station and living in New York, she was a long way from her old life in Melbourne, Australia. Having captured the heart and married one of the sexiest men alive (Power Station’s guitarist, Alex Stone) Lexi was living beyond any fantasy she could have ever imagined. Having finally allowed the walls from her past to fall, Lexi had not only learnt to trust again but had given herself completely to Alex, her one true love.
Lexi happiness was short lived when heartache and trauma throw everything she knew into turmoil. Her world came crashing down around her, and now Lexi is struggling to regain her sense of self. Unable to regroup and heal under the scrutiny of the media and her well-intentioned loved ones, she can’t seem to find the road back to the old “Lexi.”
Alex is devastated. His beautiful, intelligent and once confident wife is now distant and guarded, the product of the brutality she has suffered. He feels powerless but is determined not to lose her.
With her gorgeous rock star husband by her side and her eclectic but devoted circle of friends, Lexi starts over. In order to find a way to reconcile the past and build a future, she must let go of all her safety nets and trust those around her.
In this final installment of the Lexi series, we join Lexi and Alex on their journey of rediscovery. Relationships are tested, terms are renegotiated and lives are irrevocably changed. With the hope that their love for each other is strong enough to carry them through, Lexi and Alex gamble everything in search of their happily ever after.
Carmie's Review
A Time For Hope is book three in the Lexi series and can be read as a stand-alone or as part of the series. I loved all the books in the Lexi series and recommend that you read them all. The characters step right off the pages and into your heart - all larger than life. You feel like you have met the members of Power Station and have a ring-side seat to their crazy fish-bowl world.
The story opens with Lexi recovered physically from the attack but emotionally unstable and tired of feeling like a victim. She wants, no needs, everything to go back to the way it was before but doesn’t know how to make it happen. It’s killing her inside to have lost the intimacy that she shared with Alex; Alex doesn’t want to inadvertently take Lexi back to the attack with his lovemaking and wants to be sure Lexi is ready before resuming sexual activities.
Alex surprises Lexi with a visit from her friend Taylah, who was introduced in book one. The ladies head out for a day of shopping with Lexi’s bodyguard present and a night of clubbing. Lexi has an epiphany as a result of some great advice from Taylah.
“I wasn’t shocked at Taylah’s candor, hell, I’d never known her to hold her tongue and what she was saying made all kinds of sense to me. Everyone was tip-toeing around it but there was no point in trying to hide it. I would always wear the scars of my past, it’s what I did with them that counted now. It had felt good to make some decisions today. Not over-thinking, just doing. I was back in the driver’s seat and the only person stopping me from moving was…myself. That’s a tough realization to come to – I was my own worst enemy. What she said was true. Deep down I knew what I had to do but for whatever reason I was scared; wondering if I’d measure up to my previous self. The self-doubt was the chain that weighed me down. No more. I was worth more than that, damn it. I owed it to myself.”
Lexi’s love for Alex is bigger than the past and she knows it’s worth fighting for. The depths of their love for one another is astounding and comes across the pages clear as daylight. Lexi shared this thought with us. “Yep, I was never going to get used to this, to him. Not just because he was Alex Stone, ‘cause that shit is so far off the crazy chart that I can’t even comprehend it. I met, fucked, fell in love and married Alex Stone – sexy, alluring, talented, incredibly good looking and smoking hot in bed Power Station guitarist. I lived it and I still can’t believe it happened! But the truly remarkable part was that I was with a man (no matter who he was publicly) that loved me, accepted me and I loved him right back.”
Their night of clubbing set into motion a few other sub-story lines.
The club they went to was one that Taylah recently redecorated. They meet the owner, Nick, no last name and he seems familiar to Lexi but she can’t put her finger on it. Alex notices Nick’s interest and his protective urges come out full force. Lexi does meet up with Nick and finds out he orchestrated the meeting with her; He is the older brother of Riccardo Cassius, an ex-flame of Lexi’s. Riccardo has kept tabs on Lexi and got Nick to promise he would watch her because he still cares about her. Nick offers to make Lexi’s attacker disappear as a belated wedding gift.
As Lexi works through her healing it becomes more and more apparent that Alex needs some healing too. Lexi and Alex start butting heads more and more about his protective urges. Add the pressure of an upcoming tour, the media presence and the lingering issue of the attack (the court case) will Lexi and Alex be able to keep their life and love together or will it careen wildly out of control?
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About The Author:
T Gephart is an indie author from Melbourne, Australia.
T's approach to life has been somewhat unconventional. Rather than going to University, she jumped on a plane to Los Angeles, USA in search of adventure. While this first trip left her somewhat underwhelmed and largely depleted of funds it fueled her appetite for travel and life experience.
With a rather eclectic resume, which reads more like the fiction she writes than an actual employment history, T struggled to find her niche in the world.
While on a subsequent trip the United States in 1999, T met and married her husband. Their whirlwind courtship and interesting impromptu convenience store wedding set the tone for their life together, which is anything but ordinary. They have lived in Louisiana, Guam and Australia and have travelled extensively throughout the US. T has two beautiful young children and one four legged child, Woodley the wonder dog.
An avid reader, T became increasingly frustrated by the lack of strong female characters in the books she was reading. She wanted to read about a woman she could identify with, someone strong, independent and confident who didn't lack femininity. Out of this need, she decided to pen her first book, A Twist of Fate. She enjoyed the process so much that when it was over she couldn't let it go.
T loves to travel, laugh and surround herself with colourful characters. This inevitably spills into her writing and makes for an interesting journey - she is well and truly enjoying the ride!
Based on her life experiences, T has plenty of material for her books and has a wealth of ideas to keep you all enthralled.
T self-published her first novel through Smashwords, is about to release her second novel on the same platform and is currently writing the third book in the Lexi Trilogy.
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Giveaway
One winner will receive a signed paperback of A Twist of Fate and the entire series in eBook. Two runners up will both receive $5 Amazon Gift Cards,
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