Monica Murphy. (2016). Never Tear Us Apart. Random House Publishing Group.

Monica Murphy. 2016. Never Tear Us Apart. Random House Publishing Group.

Monica Murphy, Never Tear Us Apart. Random House Publishing Group, 2016.

Monica Murphy. Never Tear Us Apart. Random House Publishing Group, 2016.

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   • bioText: Monica Murphy is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of One Week Girlfriend, Second Chance Boyfriend, Three Broken Promises, Four Years Later, Owning Violet, Stealing Rose, Taming Lily, and the eBook novella Drew + Fable Forever. A native Californian, she lives in the foothills of Yosemite with her husband and three children.
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The first novel in this darkly sexy contemporary series from bestselling author Monica Murphy kicks off an emotionally powerful two-part tale of forbidden love.
Crazy how eight years can disappear in an instant. One look at Katie Watts, and I’m a fifteen-year-old again—the one who risked everything to save a terrified girl from her twisted kidnapper. She’s grown-up now—beautiful, quiet, composed—and telling her story to the world. A story that involves me in more ways than you can imagine. She used to call me her guardian angel. Sure, I risked my life, but she was worth dying for.
I need to make contact with her. Just to ensure that she’s safe.
Somehow we reconnect. We become friends . . . but I want more. I want to make her mine. And she wants me too. Does she know who I am? Has she figured me out? Not yet. But she will. In the meantime, I need to make sure that whatever hold that animal had on her is gone.
So, yeah, I’m stealing these moments with her. Savoring them. Knowing, dreading, that she’ll soon find out who I really am. And everything will fall apart. All because of that twisted, perverted monster sitting on death row. Her kidnapper. A convicted serial killer.
My father.
Praise for Never Tear Us Apart
“All the best parts of romance and betrayal . . . I couldn’t turn the pages fast enough.”—New York Times bestselling author Jay Crownover
“A powerful story that left me raw yet hopeful.”—USA Today bestselling author K. A. Tucker

“A powerful story of friendship, trauma, coping and betrayal. The characters jump off the page into real life and will have readers gasping and feeling every emotion that they go through. Another amazing book to add to Murphy’s already stellar library!”—RT Book Reviews (4 1/2 stars)
“Murphy has written a compelling and emotional love story of two severely broken people, each of whom can be healed only by the other.”—Booklist
“Murphy imbues these characters with genuineness and plausibility. . . . [Readers] will look forward to the promised sequel.”—Publishers Weekly
“It’s poetic, addresses difficult themes, and captures the essence of our fragility as humans and the strength love provides.”—Heroes and Heartbreakers
“Beautiful, poignant, and perfectly written . . . It’s a book that burrows into your very heart and grabs hold. A book that’s different yet unforgettable.”—Dirty Girl Romance

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   • source: New York Times bestselling author Jay Crownover
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   • content: "A powerful story that left me raw yet hopeful."
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   • source: RT Book Reviews (4 1/2 stars)
   • content: "A powerful story of friendship, trauma, coping and betrayal. The characters jump off the page into real life and will have readers gasping and feeling every emotion that they go through. Another amazing book to add to [Monica] Murphy's already stellar library!"
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   • source: Dirty Girl Romance
   • content: "Murphy has written a compelling and emotional love story of two severely broken people, each of whom can be healed only by the other."--Booklist "Murphy imbues these characters with genuineness and plausibility. . . . [Readers] will look forward to the promised sequel."--Publishers Weekly "It's poetic, addresses difficult themes, and captures the essence of our fragility as humans and the strength love provides."--Heroes and Heartbreakers "Beautiful, poignant, and perfectly written . . . Sometimes you read a book that touches you on an emotional level. It's a book that burrows into your very heart and grabs hold. A book that's different yet unforgettable. A book that touches on a deeply emotional and dark subject and yet gives you the light at the end of the tunnel for it. This, this was that book for me."
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   • source: Black Heart Reviews
   • content: "Emotional, beautiful, devastating and fascinating . . . To say I loved this book is an understatement. . . . I truly recommend this story if you're looking to read something different and out of the box."--The Sisterhood of the Traveling Book Boyfriends "A beautiful kind of heartbreak . . . the kind of heartbreak that keeps you flipping pages, holding your breath and on the verge of tears. All in the hopes that what you know is going to happen, deep down in the darkest parts of your heart, will actually all work out and these characters you've come to care about will heal and love and live."
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   • content: "Never Tear Us Apart had me tangled in knots emotionally with the compelling plot, dark and twisted romance, and heartbreaking past Ethan and Katherine had to endure."
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   • source: Four Chicks Flipping Pages
   • content: "An unforgettable story that will make you feel the heartbreak, the conflict, the loss, the devastation, the love and hope that binds Katie and Ethan . . . You are hypnotized by Monica Murphy's delicate and raw prose. . . . If you are looking for a book that will steal your heart, hold you hostage and leave you with a sense of hope and second chances, then I highly recommend you to read Never Tear Us Apart."
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   • source: Bookaholics Not-So-Anonymous
   • content: "I'm a sucker for a good romance, but when it's a romance that's more than the norm and is written quite well, and has two main characters that you empathize with and whose issues you desperately want to see resolved, and a story that makes you not just feel but think about what you would do in the same situation, then it certainly stands above many of those in the same genre. . . . I highly recommend Never Tear Us Apart to any reader who appreciates genius."
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   • source: Pretty Sassy Cool
   • content: "If you're looking for a dark, riveting story that will have you unable to put it down until you turn the last page, definitely check out Never Tear Us Apart by Monica Murphy. You'll never be the same."
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    • source: Stuck in Books
    • content: "Never Tear Us Apart is a beautifully written love story that may not be conventional, but is wholly stunning and powerful."
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      December 7, 2015
      Murphy’s uneven contemporary romance relies on the overused device of alternating points of view. The perspective swings dizzily among Katherine Watts (both at age 12, when she is kidnapped, and at age 21, when she recalls her ordeal); Ethan Williams, a man who’s obsessed with 21-year-old Katherine; and 15-year-old Will Monroe, who rescued 12-year-old Katie from certain death at the hands of her abductor. The technique might have worked better if all the voices were speaking from their own present times. Instead, the characters’ younger selves are merely recollections of the past by Katherine and Ethan/Will, who changed his name to protect himself from a miserable family history. That aside, the premise and the follow-through do make for an intriguing concept: Ethan manipulates vulnerable, clueless Katherine into falling in love with him by exploiting their inescapable childhood bond. Murphy imbues these characters with genuineness and plausibility, and even readers who don’t love the structure of this story will look forward to the promised sequel. Agent: Kimberly A. Whalen, Trident Media Group.

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      December 1, 2015
      Twelve-year-old Katie Watts was kidnapped from an amusement park, chained, and raped until she was rescued by 15-year-old Will Monroe, the son of her abductor. It's been eight years, but neither has forgotten the connection they felt that day. When Katie appears on television, Ethan Williams (Will's new name) feels compelled to track her down and see how she's doing. Once again, he comes to her rescue and then convinces her to have coffee with him. The connection between them is just as powerful as before, and Ethan can't let her go, but he also can't tell her who he really is. By having Ethan and Katie take turns narrating alternate chapters set in the past and the present, Murphy (Stealing Rose, 2015) has written a compelling and emotional love story of two severely broken people, each of whom can be healed only by the other. This is the first book in a two-part series, and readers should be warned that it does have a cliffhanger ending.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2015, American Library Association.)

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Crazy how eight years can disappear in an instant. One look at Katie Watts, and I’m a fifteen-year-old again—the one who risked everything to save a terrified girl from her twisted kidnapper. She’s grown-up now—beautiful, quiet, composed—and telling her story to the world. A story that involves me in more ways than you can imagine. She used to call me her guardian angel. Sure, I risked my life, but she was worth dying for.
I need to make contact with her. Just to ensure that she’s safe.
Somehow we reconnect. We become friends . . . but I want more. I want to make her mine. And she wants me too. Does she know who I am? Has she figured me out? Not yet. But she will. In the meantime, I need to make sure that whatever hold that animal had on her is gone.
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