Withering Hope
Layla Hagen
Publication date: January 19th 2015
Genres: Adult, Contemporary, Romance
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Aimee’s wedding is supposed to
turn out perfect. Her dress, her fiancé and the location—the idyllic holiday
ranch in Brazil—are perfect.
But all Aimee’s plans come
crashing down when the private jet that’s taking her from the U.S. to the
ranch—where her fiancé awaits her—defects mid-flight and the pilot is forced to
perform an emergency landing in the heart of the Amazon rainforest.
With no way to reach
civilisation, being rescued is Aimee and Tristan’s—the pilot—only hope. A slim
one that slowly withers away, desperation taking its place. Because death wanders
in the jungle under many forms: starvation, diseases. Beasts.
As Aimee and Tristan fight to
find ways to survive, they grow closer. Together they discover that facing old,
inner agonies carved by painful pasts takes just as much courage, if not even more,
than facing the rainforest.
Despite her devotion to her
fiancé, Aimee can’t hide her feelings for Tristan—the man for whom she’s slowly
becoming everything. You can hide many things in the rainforest. But not lies.
Or love.
Withering Hope is the story of a
man who desperately needs forgiveness and the woman who brings him hope. It is
a story in which hope births wings and blooms into a love that is as beautiful
and intense as it is forbidden.
Note: This novel is recommended
for 18+ due to sexual content and mature themes.
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I wake up covered in cold sweat and something soft that might be a
blanket. I can’t tell for sure, because when I open my eyes, it’s dark. When I
try to move, a sharp pain in my temple makes me gasp.
“Aimee?”
“Tristan.” The word comes out almost like a
cry. In the faint moonlight coming in through the windows, I see him leaning on
the seat in front of me, hovering over me. I imagine his dark brown eyes
searching me worriedly.
“Are you hurt?”
“Just my temple, but I’m not bleeding,” I
say, running my fingers over the tender spot. I assess him next. It’s difficult
given the dim moonlight. His white uniform shirt is smeared with dirt, but he
appears unharmed. I turn my head toward the window. I can’t gauge anything
outside in the darkness.
“Where are we?” I ask.
“We landed,” Tristan says simply, and when I
turn to look at him he adds, “… in the rainforest.”
I nod, trying not to let the tight knot of
fear in my chest overtake me. If I let it spiral out, I may not be able to
control it.
“Shouldn’t we … like… leave the plane or
something? Until they rescue us? Is it safe for us to be inside?”
Tristan runs a hand through his short, black
hair. “Trust me, this is the only safe place. I checked outside for any fuel
leaks, but we’re good.”
“You got out?” I whisper.
“Yes.”
“I want—” I say, opening my seatbelt and trying
to stand. But dizziness forces me back into my chair.
“No,” Tristan says, and he slumps in the seat
opposite mine on the other side of the slim aisle. “Listen to me. You need to
calm down.”
“How deep in the forest are we, Tristan?”
He leans back, answering after a long pause.
“Deep enough.”
“How will they find us?” I curl my knees to
my chest under the blanket, the dizziness growing. I wonder when Tristan put
the blanket over me.
“They will,” Tristan says.
“But there is something we can do to make it
easier for them, isn’t there?”
“Right now, there isn’t.”
“Can contact someone at base?” I ask weakly.
“No. We lost all communication a while ago.”
His shoulders slump, and even in the moonlight, I notice his features tighten.
His high cheekbones, which usually give him a noble appearance, now make him
look gaunt. Yet instead of panic, I’m engulfed in weakness. My limbs feel
heavy. Fog settles over my mind.
“What happened to the engine?” I whisper.
“Engine failure.”
“Can you repair it?”
“No.”
“There is really no way to send anyone a
message?”
“No.” As if in a dream, I feel Tristan put a
pillow under my head and recline my seat.
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Author Info
Welcome! My name is Layla Hagen
and I am a Contemporary Romance author.
I fell in love with books when I was
nine years old, and my love affair with stories continues even now, many years
later. I write romantic stories and can't wait to share them with the world.
And I drink coffee. Lots of it :-D
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