His pain and longing are palpable and after holding onto those feelings for so long, he can't just forgive. Even Roe's well-meaning, but meddling mother and grandmother urging him to give Ezra a chance, doesn't seem to move him. Roe is not going to make it easy for Ezra, who will be lucky if Roe even talks to him. Sure, they're both adults, but those promises they made at seventeen meant everything to Roe, but obviously (to him) meant nothing to Ezra. Meanwhile Roe, who still finds Ezra as irresistible as he did over 20 years ago, can't believe Ezra thinks he can just waltz back into his life after breaking all the promises he made when his parents took him and moved to California. But first, he needs to figure out just why Roe is so angry, considering Roe is the one who cut off contact all those years ago. Getting over feelings of loss, betrayal and abandonment won't be easy for Roe, but Ezra is determined to show the man he's loved all his life that he means to keep the promise he made so long ago. If you like second chance romance, this one is for you.Įzra and Roe have plenty of history to overcome. Is first love only a dream and a promise merely words, or are Ezra and Roe meant to last a lifetime?

Pretending to be together to make an old lady happy should be no big deal, but after an unexpected explosive night together, decades-old secrets and lies are exposed, shattering Roe’s control and Ezra’s heart. When Roe’s beloved grandmother suffers a stroke, the past becomes the present, and Ezra comes up with a plan. After all, Roe is the one who cut off contact. But Roe won’t talk to him and Ezra doesn’t understand why. He doesn’t know why Roe stopped writing, but he’s determined to find out. Now, more than twenty years later, Ezra has come home. Ezra will never be his and he needs to move on. Nothing has to change.Īfter months of unanswered letters, Roe makes one final attempt to contact Ezra with disastrous results. In the meantime they’ll write and keep in touch. Ezra promises Roe that once he finishes college, he’ll come home and the two will be together. When Ezra Green sits next to Monroe Friedman in their high school English class, friendship blooms into first love, and even Ezra moving to California won’t keep them apart.

Broken Silence by Felice Stevens