When Sawyer returns to town a changed and more mature man than the lost, unsure boy who left Reena two years earlier and expresses a desire to rekindle their relationship and help co-parent their daughter, however, Reena will once again see the scope and direction of her life change in a significant manner. Despite this, however, Reena is nevertheless an intelligent, adaptable, ambitious, hard-working woman who selflessly puts her own dreams on hold to care for her daughter to the best of her ability. A self-professed “Ice Queen” who has difficulty allowing herself to be vulnerable, Reena’s fear of intimacy is furthered worsened by Sawyer’s abandonment at a moment in her life when she needed him most of all. In doing so the authors provides an intimate, intricate examination of Reena and Sawyer, both as individuals and also as a couple. Cotugno has no qualms about exploring and exposing the deeply flawed nature of her characters. How To Love is unvarnished, unapologetic, uncompromising, courageous storytelling at its finest. When Sawyer returns, unexpected and unannounced two years later only to discover he is now a father, Reena and Sawyer must confront the unresolved pain of their past if they are ever to create hope for their future. With dreams of escaping her small Florida town, graduating high school one year early and attending Northwestern university, everything is going according to plan until a passionate, turbulent, intoxicating (and increasingly toxic) romance with her childhood crush, Sawyer LeGrande, ends with Reena becoming pregnant at the age of sixteen shortly before Sawyer leaves town, unaware of what has happened. Serena (Reena) Montero has always been ‘good’: The good daughter, the good friend, the good student and the good Catholic. After everything that’s happened, can Reena really let herself love Sawyer LeGrande again? Reena wants nothing to do with him, though she’d be lying if she said his being back wasn’t stirring something in her. Reena’s gotten used to life without Sawyer, but just as suddenly as he disappeared, he turns up again. Then Sawyer disappears without a word, leaving a devastated - and pregnant - Reena behind.Īfter: Almost three years have passed, and there’s a new love in Reena’s life: her daughter.

Reena and Sawyer fall in messy, complicated love. But he’s never noticed that Reena even exists…until one day, impossibly, he does. The Book Depositoryīefore: Reena Montero has loved Sawyer LeGrande for as long as she can remember.Genre & Keywords Contemporary, Realistic Fiction, Romance, Teen Pregnancyįind It On Goodreads

Published March 24th 2015 by Balzer + Bray

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