Watch Over My Life: Emotional Love Story (What Will Be Book Series)
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She plans to keep it that way even when Jake Williams comes crashing into her life. As her brother’s childhood friend and now her boss, she despises everything about him. So, when she wakes up naked in his bed one morning, she wonders how she has ended up there.
Their one-night stand sets off a series of surprising events that will bring the pair closer than ever, and she gives away something she never knew he wanted.
Her heart.
Her life becomes everything she has dreamed of, but dreams don’t last forever. Somebody always wakes you eventually.
And when Jessica wakes, she is forced to face a past that is haunting her, and secrets best left unspoken - secrets that will change both of their lives forever.
Losing Love
Losing Love and Watch Over My Life are both standalone books in the What Will Be Book Series and can be read in any order, but it is recommended that you read both before the release of the third book in 2022
When I was nineteen, I had a plan. Work hard, become a teacher, and spend the rest of my life with my childhood sweetheart, Nick. But here’s the thing with plans—they’re fickle. I didn’t plan for Nick to die that year, or all the choices I’d have to make.
Six years on, I didn’t plan to stumble into Alex Hale—the man with piercing blue eyes and a smile that made me melt. I didn’t plan to fall in love with him. With heat and passion, he reignited the fire I had lost.
But I made choices in my past that will jeopardize everything. It’s a past that taught me our words can hurt, but it’s the ones we don’t have time to say that can destroy us.
If By Chance (Coming 2022)
It is recommended that you read both Watch Over My Life and Losing Love before this book (coming in 2022)
Memories can do different things to alter our perception of reality. Attached to those memories are strings, and each string holds the emotions we felt during them. They can make us laugh and cry. They can anchor us. They can drag us back when all we want to do is run to the future.
Memories dance in the shadows. They cast doubts over everything we know is true. Memories can break down walls and build impenetrable barriers.
These memories I speak of; they’re not mine.
They’re his.
And I saw his memories flicker beneath warms eyes.
He fights with it. For me, he battles with a presence no longer here.
But I can’t compete with a memory.
Because his memory is her.
Acknowledgement
To my parents, for the support, encouragement, and unconditional love.
To my sister, for sharing my tears, and most of all, the laughter.
To my husband, for always holding my hand and showing me the meaning of true love.
And to the most amazing son, thank you for teaching Mommy what pure, unconditional love is, and to never be afraid to be silly.
I would like to thank everyone else who made this possible. To all at Gala & Co Publishing, thank you for giving me the opportunity and making a girl's dream possible.
To my editor, Joanne, for listening to my many breakdowns and guiding me along the way.
And to you, my readers, thank you so much for your support. I will never be able to describe how grateful I am. I can't wait to bring you on the rest of this journey.
Watch Over My Life will always have a very special place in my heart, and Jess is a character I will always hold dear. And not just because it was the first book I published (obviously, that's a big reason). But I originally wrote Watch Over My Life when I was eighteen. But I was young, and had no idea how hard it would be to break into the publishing world.
Three years after finishing the book, I was diagnosed with the same illness as Jess. Thankfully, my story turned out differently and a year later I welcomed my little boy into the world.
After my illness, I lost confidence in most things, and my writing was no different. It wook me a long time to build the courage to go back to it. But after years of stories floating around in my head, when I was twenty-seven, I sat down at my laptop and began writing again. I rewrote Watch Over My Life and it was very bittersweet to be able to sprinkle some of my own experiences in there.
I never in my wildest dreams realized where it would get me, and what an amazing journey it has been.
About The Author
Laura Ashley Gallagher
Laura Ashley was born and raised in Limerick, Ireland, where she spent a large part of her childhood studying music and drama. She began writing creatively at a young age.
Drawn to people's stories and a lifelong storyteller, she went on to study journalism.
Laura Ashley specializes in crafting stories with heaps of romance and maybe even a few tears.
When she is not writing, she is spending time and having fun with her husband and young son.
There are many organizations offering information and support around the issues involved in the book. The following do invaluable work:
The Irish Cancer Society www.cancer.ie
Marie Keating Foundation www.mariekeating.ie
Safe Ireland www.safeireland.ie