She promised she would.and she’s done her best over the past seven years with every choice, with every word, with every action. But underneath that exterior is a little girl hanging onto the last words her father ever spoke to her. Livie has always been the stable one of the two Cleary sisters, handling her parents' tragic death and Kacey's self-destructive phase with strength and maturity. Seemingly perfect Trent has an unforgiveable past of his own one that, when discovered, will shatter Kacey’s newly constructed life and send her back into suffocating darkness. Maybe she’s not beyond repair.īut Kacey isn’t the only one who’s broken. She starts to believe that maybe she can leave the past where it belongs and start over. But sexy Trent finds a way into her numb heart, reigniting her ability to love again. What she can’t handle is Trent Emerson in apartment 1D. Armed with two bus tickets and dreams of living near the coast, Kacey and Livie start their new lives in a Miami apartment complex, complete with a grumpy landlord, a pervert upstairs, and a neighbor with a stage name perfectly matched to her chosen “profession.” But Kacey’s not worried. She just needs to keep it together until Livie is no longer a minor, and then they can get the hell out of Grand Rapids, Michigan.īut when Uncle Raymond slides into bed next to Livie one night, Kacey decides it’s time to run.

Kacey can swallow the constant disapproval from her born-again aunt Darla over her self-destructive lifestyle she can stop herself from going kick-boxer crazy on Uncle Raymond when he loses the girls’ college funds at a blackjack table. Now she’s working hard to bury the pieces left behind-all but one. Kacey Cleary’s whole life imploded four years ago in a drunk-driving accident.

I had heard good things about that novel, though, so I read both books. Some of you may not know that I'm a bit of a NetGalley hoarder enthusiast, and it was only after I was approved for One Tiny Lie and Four Seconds to Lose that I found that they were both in the Ten Tiny Breaths family, which I had been approved for about a year ago but had never read.

Ten tiny breaths