There’s complicated. And there’s Rowen Sterling.

 After numbing pain for the past five years with boys, alcohol, and all-around apathy, she finds herself on a Greyhound bus to nowhere Montana the summer after she graduates high school. Her mom agreed to front the bill to Rowen’s dream art school only if Rowen proves she can work hard and stay out of trouble at Willow Springs Ranch. Cooking breakfast at the crack of dawn for a couple dozen ranch hands and mucking out horse stalls are the last things in the world Rowen wants to spend her summer doing.

 Until Jesse Walker saunters into her life wearing a pair of painted-on jeans, a cowboy hat, and a grin that makes something in her chest she’d thought was frozen go boom-boom. Jesse’s like no one else, and certainly nothing like her. He’s the bright and shiny to her dark and jaded.

 Rowen knows there’s no happily-ever-after for the golden boy and the rebel girl—happily-right-now is a stretch—so she tries to forget and ignore the boy who makes her feel things she’s not sure she’s ready to feel. But the more she pushes him away, the closer he seems to get. The more she convinces herself she doesn’t care, the harder she falls.

 When her dark secrets refuse to stay locked behind the walls she’s kept up for years, Rowen realizes it’s not just everyone else she needs to be honest with. It’s herself.

Title: Lost and Found

Author: Nicole Williams

Release date: May 7, 2013

Publisher: Nicole Williams

Age Group: Mature Young Adult/New Adult

Genre: Contemporary Romance

Tour organized by: AToMR Tours

Goodreads – http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17336849-lost-and-found

 

“Love is Organized Chaos”

AHHHHHH!!!! Nicole Williams has done it again!!  I loved Crash and Clash ( I still need to read Crush)…. I loved Up in Flames and Great Exploitations….And boy did I really LOVE Lost & Found.  Rowen and Jesse (swooooon, never thought I would swoooooon over a cowboy, but OMFG did I swooooon) now have a special little place in my heart.  Rowen is not your average leading lady, but I think she is so relatable to so many girls out there.  She is a “freak” to society but really she is a girl who has been dealt a shitty hand in life just dying to be on her own and go to art school. In order to go to said Art School her mom (agh did I HATE her mom) has on condition.  She must spend the summer proving her worth at Willow Springs Ranch ~”smack in the middle of Hickville, USA”~ and this is where we meet Jesse and his family. Like I said, Jesse is so swoon worthy, he is the golden boy, cowboy in tight jeans that is to good to be true.  Rowen and Jesse for all appearances are at opposite ends of the spectrum, but if you dig deep they are not so different all.  This is a story of acceptance, finding your self worth and family (whether they are blood related or not).  I was rooting for Jesse and Rowen and this book kept me on the end of the seat and I really could not put it down.  Any review I write will not do it justice, it is a great coming of age story, especially for girls struggling with their inner freak, they may just find out that even though a person may be “golden” on the outside, they may have inner demons just like them.  I really loved Jesse and Rowen and would love to see a continuation of their story.  I am not sure if another book is in the works but if there is I will be first in line for it!!

~Sophie

Nicole Williams is hosting an awesome Tour Giveaway:

(1) Print copy of Lost and Found – Open International
(1) Leather cuff bracelet with metal inscription “Love is organized chaos” – Open International
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About the Author:
I’m a wife, a mom, a writer. I started writing because I loved it and I’m still writing because I love it. I write young adult because I still believe in true love, kindred spirits, and happy endings. Here’s to staying young at heart *raises champagne glass* . . . care to join me?

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