Love's Bitter Harvest

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Romance- The Ward Way

Matt and Katherine McCall were high-school sweethearts and in love from first kiss. But time changes people and sometimes the strongest seed of love can only harvest bitterness.

Fast forward four years--Katy has a new life far from the one she had with Matt. And she thought it was all worth it. 

Matt McCall's last four years were full of loss, doubt and sorrow. And now? He's only half the man Katy left behind.

Can love survive in hardened, bitter tainted soil? Or does it eventually die under the coldness of heart-break.

From critically acclaimed author Jas T. Ward, Dead Bound Publishing is proud to present-

Love's Bitter Harvest
Romance-The Ward Way

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Can a person fall in love with a story from its author's note? Well apparently I can.

Matt and Katy were this high school sweet hearts, made for each other category couple.

But everything changed when Katy made a decision. A decision that tore them apart (not that it’s her fault, there’s some part of McCall’s pride to blame too).

And with that their love for each also changed into this bitter, almost hatred for each other.

But when she happened to see Matt who's filled with all this bitterness, sorrow and loss she stays with him against his will and forced hatred because she thought she owe him that much. But love once again bloom against all the doubt, sorrow, loss and McCall’s pride.

 This might seem like a simple plot but the immensity of words and its pain is so real you can’t help but get engulfed into this heart breaking beautiful story. 

Matt wanted to hate her with all his heart because she broke him for good but deep down his love for her never died even he wished that was the case.

“Matt let out a soft sigh at the sight of the only woman he had ever loved lying there. The only woman he had ever lived for and would have died for sleeping so peacefully before his eyes. The only woman who had ever broken his heart and left him a broken man—long before the accident; it was just the nail that sealed the coffin of his grief and pain. A coffin that had been dug up through the mud of his soul the moment Katy had walked through that door, each step closer like the scrape of a shovel on the lid of his agonized entombment.”

“Katy couldn’t watch Matt like that—so desperately sad and lost. She turned around and curled up in the bed, dragging a pillow against her to bury her face. She had tried not to cry and had made herself a vow not to do it ever again after she had done so for days when she left Matt and their life behind. For four years she had kept that vow, until tonight. She could only guess why Matt had gone from one emotion to the next and how he had taken her right along with him, without even knowing it. The Matt she had always known was strong and stubborn. The same one that let her leave that spring day so long ago—never bending or swaying even when it was so desperately needed. To see him as she had just seen him and know she was responsible? More than Katy could even try to bear.”

I think this is precisely what’s been going through her head when she wrote this book.

  And this was me pretty much the whole time.

(No wine involved)

But the reason for 3.5 stars is that, though it’s beautiful and I got romantic flashbacks. I wanted more funny and happy ones too. Because without that I didn’t feel 100% connected with the characters.

Personal note to author: Sometimes funny/happy flashbacks are good.

And my personal favourite is that how both Matt and Katy valued their love more than their pride and career in the end.

I mean I always had this question like if love is all awesome and great why someone has to sacrifice their love for something like career for love life? I mean both are equally important right?

The answer lies within this book in the form of Matt’s parent’s love life, Matt and Katy’s love life.

I’m not explaining this because I obviously don’t want to spoil that awesome feels you get while reading the end part.

This story will not be all happy, rainbows and sunshine in fact it’ll be lot a painful, bitter and soul crushing. But the journey is worth it because we can see that no matter what love is always strong enough  to bloom anywhere and will make sweet harvest that will last forever.