--- product_id: 516668369 title: "Forever Ago: A Dark College Romance" price: "€ 30.38" currency: EUR in_stock: true reviews_count: 13 url: https://www.desertcart.gr/products/516668369-forever-ago-a-dark-college-romance store_origin: GR region: Greece --- # Forever Ago: A Dark College Romance **Price:** € 30.38 **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** Forever Ago: A Dark College Romance - **How much does it cost?** € 30.38 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.gr](https://www.desertcart.gr/products/516668369-forever-ago-a-dark-college-romance) ## Best For - Customers looking for quality international products ## Why This Product - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description From the bestselling author of Blackwood Institute, Sabre Security and Briar Valley comes a standalone, dark romance tale of unconditional care and inevitable heartbreak that favours the imperfect journey of first love — not the happy ending. Hallie I’m alone in the sea of my grief until I meet Zeke, a tornado of complications who leaves destruction in his wake. I fall hard and fast, despite all the warning signs. Our love story is far from a fairy-tale. But if it hurts, then it’s real. There’s a monster hiding beneath his tattooed skin, an addiction that will tear us apart. I can’t lose him, but I’m powerless to fix wounds that simply run too deep. How do you save someone who doesn’t want to be saved? Zeke I’ve been a shadow of my former self ever since the crash, consumed by guilt. A chance encounter in bereavement therapy changes everything. Hallie invades my life with her soft smiles and fiery passion. She becomes my whole world and for the first time in so long, I have a reason to live. My demons aren’t so easily beaten. I should walk away, yet I can’t bring myself to leave the woman who took my broken pieces and brought me back to life, one kiss at a time. I’ll fight this addiction to my very last breath for her, but the road to recovery is never simple. If I’m not careful, I might just drag her to hell with me. AUTHOR'S NOTE: Forever Ago is a dark, standalone college M/F romance with realistic mental health representation and no guaranteed HEA. Full trigger warning is available inside the book. Review: Most emotional read ever! - This has got to be one of the most emotional books I’ve ever read, it was raw, gritty, absolutely full of angst and grief. It poured off the pages splintering my heart with each word. I felt it all, I’ve never cried so much reading a book, it was heartbreaking but so good. Zeke and Hallie meet at a bereavement counselling group. Hallie has lost both her parents (10 years apart), has one friend Robin (such a great side character) and feels completely alone, suffocating under the weight of her grief. Zeke is consumed with guilt over the death of his brother and struggles with substance abuse on the daily. He is instantly attracted to Hallie especially when she tells him to shut up in group and the next time they meet she punches him for talking trash about said group. Zeke soon wins Hallie round with his bad boy persona, mixed with his softer side that is just for her. Their love isn’t all sunshine and rainbows but it’s real and messy and intense. Zeke struggles with addiction trying to keep his demons away but they’re always there chomping at his heels. Hallie is such a brilliant FMC is she literally the definition of strength, some of which I believe comes from having Zeke in her life. This story doesn’t have your conventional HEA but I did shed a few happy tears. J Rose has written something that deals with grief in such an honest and deeply moving way. A powerful message that it’s ok that it hurts because it means it was real, the love you had was real. I cannot express the full extent of emotions I went through with this book but I will say highly I recommend it. Review: Love/Hate - I both love and hate this book. I do not hate because of the book, the writing, this is a first for me from this author. I was actually going to read another book and saw her suggested reading order so decided to go all in and start here as per her suggestion online. My angst is from how infuriating and sad this book is! Our FMC Hallie is swallowed by grief and doing all she can to pull herself from it. At counselling she meets the MMC Zeke. He’s on a spiral of self destruction he can’t get off. No matter how much he knows he doesn’t deserve her, Hallie calls to him and gives him hope that things could be better. This is a very difficult book to read. Zeke is struggling with grief, mental illness and major drug addiction to numb the pain. This is a very honest read, the cycle of constantly trying to help someone who doesn’t want to help themselves but hurts you in the process. I think for anyone that’s been in that situation it’s hard to read or like myself who hasn’t been but just feels like shaking Zeke and saying stop thinking you’re better leaving when you’re being told it’s better you’re around. That is the crux of mental health and addiction is it not. People who are suffering think their loved ones are better off alone and can’t see through the fog. This is a very good book but it is a hard read, it’s infuriating and gripping, real and honest and not everyone gets their HEA 4⭐️3🌶️ ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | Best Sellers Rank | 457,945 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) 8,266 in New Adult Romance (Books) 17,520 in Romantic Suspense (Books) 31,457 in Contemporary Romance (Books) | | Customer Reviews | 4.4 out of 5 stars 576 Reviews | ## Images ![Forever Ago: A Dark College Romance - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71TZTwmeOTL.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Most emotional read ever! *by S***K on 23 March 2024* This has got to be one of the most emotional books I’ve ever read, it was raw, gritty, absolutely full of angst and grief. It poured off the pages splintering my heart with each word. I felt it all, I’ve never cried so much reading a book, it was heartbreaking but so good. Zeke and Hallie meet at a bereavement counselling group. Hallie has lost both her parents (10 years apart), has one friend Robin (such a great side character) and feels completely alone, suffocating under the weight of her grief. Zeke is consumed with guilt over the death of his brother and struggles with substance abuse on the daily. He is instantly attracted to Hallie especially when she tells him to shut up in group and the next time they meet she punches him for talking trash about said group. Zeke soon wins Hallie round with his bad boy persona, mixed with his softer side that is just for her. Their love isn’t all sunshine and rainbows but it’s real and messy and intense. Zeke struggles with addiction trying to keep his demons away but they’re always there chomping at his heels. Hallie is such a brilliant FMC is she literally the definition of strength, some of which I believe comes from having Zeke in her life. This story doesn’t have your conventional HEA but I did shed a few happy tears. J Rose has written something that deals with grief in such an honest and deeply moving way. A powerful message that it’s ok that it hurts because it means it was real, the love you had was real. I cannot express the full extent of emotions I went through with this book but I will say highly I recommend it. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Love/Hate *by S***E on 5 March 2024* I both love and hate this book. I do not hate because of the book, the writing, this is a first for me from this author. I was actually going to read another book and saw her suggested reading order so decided to go all in and start here as per her suggestion online. My angst is from how infuriating and sad this book is! Our FMC Hallie is swallowed by grief and doing all she can to pull herself from it. At counselling she meets the MMC Zeke. He’s on a spiral of self destruction he can’t get off. No matter how much he knows he doesn’t deserve her, Hallie calls to him and gives him hope that things could be better. This is a very difficult book to read. Zeke is struggling with grief, mental illness and major drug addiction to numb the pain. This is a very honest read, the cycle of constantly trying to help someone who doesn’t want to help themselves but hurts you in the process. I think for anyone that’s been in that situation it’s hard to read or like myself who hasn’t been but just feels like shaking Zeke and saying stop thinking you’re better leaving when you’re being told it’s better you’re around. That is the crux of mental health and addiction is it not. People who are suffering think their loved ones are better off alone and can’t see through the fog. This is a very good book but it is a hard read, it’s infuriating and gripping, real and honest and not everyone gets their HEA 4⭐️3🌶️ ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Heartbreaking *by K***R on 28 August 2023* I’m lost for words. I loved and hated this story equally. The love that Hallie and Zeke share is timeless and it gave me so much hope at times. But that’s the thing with hope: it can be crushed as easily as it starts. The ending? That’s the part I hated, mainly because I love happy endings. This is a love story so emotionally raw that it makes you bleed slowly inside. It gives you hope just crush it easily. It makes you believe only to despair again. Mental health is real and the biggest monster of them all is our own self. It eats you from the inside and doesn’t let you out of it clutches until there’s nothing left of you. Just like Hallie, I loved Zeke and I mourned him with her. That feel of your chest caving out, the opening of the black pit, will follow me for days after this story. 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