Orange Blossom will be the penultimate title in Sarah Daltry's bestselling New Adult romance series, Flowering. The reading
order and information about the other titles follows.
Title: Orange Blossom
Author: Sarah Daltry
Cover Design: Shoutlines Design
18+ New Adult Contemporary Romance
Release Date: April 4, 2014
"I’ve never understood a year. A year was always a measurement of something bad for me. A year
in my father’s prison sentence, a year since my mom’s death, a year left of school before I could get
far, far away from here. Now, as I look down the end of my college career, with only a little more than
a semester to go, a year seems like something magical. It has been a year since Lily chose me, since she
sat with me on the old swing set and made a decision that I was worthy of her. And every minute of the
entire year has been better than the last."
You already know their stories: Lily, the perfect princess, always living someone else's
life. And Jack, the broken boy, who had stopped believing in hope. Somehow, though, they found each
other and what was one night blossomed into a love story.
Now, a year later, Jack and Lily are dreaming of the future. Despite all of his promises to himself that he
would never be indebted to anyone, Jack makes a new promise - this time to Lily - that he will be there
for her forever. But when life unravels for them, he starts to pull away, and Lily worries he's out of reach
for good.
When Jack does the unthinkable, Lily is left destroyed.
Is it possible to have a happily ever after?
Does
love ever really save anyone?
Series Reading Order: Forget Me Not, Lily of the Valley, and Blue Rose can be read in any order. There
is some crossover in scenes between the titles, but each stands alone as one character's story. Star of Bethlehem is a direct continuation from Forget Me Not and Lily of
the Valley. Orange Blossom and Ambrosia (releasing June 6, 2014) assume readers have read the other four titles and read as sequels. In essence, the
first three are #1, Star of Bethlehem is #1.5, Orange Blossom is #2, and Ambrosia is #3.
Title: Forget Me Not (Lily’s Story)
Author: Sarah Daltry
Cover: Shoutlines Design
18+ New Adult contemporary romance
This is a coming of age story, but it isn't always sweet and innocent. If dirty talk, bedroom
toys, and threesomes offend you... this is not your book.
"No one tells you when you start school just how
homesick you will be, or how hard it will be to start life over with no direction and no friends or family.
No one says that becoming your own person is terrifying."
I never wanted anything but Derek, my brother's best friend. When I chose a college, it didn't seem
to matter that he would be an hour away. We could survive it. After all, we were in love. But almost
immediately, things change between us. I blame myself. Maybe I'm just not sure how to be a girlfriend
and independent.
Life seems to be getting away from me - and then there's Jack, the guy down the hall. He's rude and
vulgar and my parents would be shocked by him, yet every single time I see him, I feel like I'm being
pulled toward him. It's physical, sure, but there's something in Jack's eyes - and I want to know him.
I know I don't always make the right choices, and I'm the only person at fault when everything falls
apart. How do I tell Derek, the guy who was supposed to be everything, that I don't feel like fighting for
him anymore? And do I run to Jack, when I know his past is way too much for me to handle when I've
just turned 19? Finally, where do I end up in all of this? Can I be more than just someone else's idea of
what I should be?
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Title: Lily of the Valley (Jack’s story)
Author: Sarah Daltry
Cover: Shoutlines Design
18+ New Adult contemporary romance
Jack's story isn't pretty. He's suicidal, depressed, and he uses meaningless sex and
alcohol to survive. However, the story is about finding light in the darkness, but sometimes the road
there isn't always easy to walk.
"No one tells you about pain. They tell you that it hurts, that sometimes it's consuming. What they
don't tell you is that it's not the pain that can kill you. It's the uncomfortable numbness that follows,
the weakness in your body when you realize your lungs may stop taking in air and you just can't exert
enough energy to care. It's the way taste and color and smell fade from the world and all you're left
with is a sepia print of misery. That's when the shift starts - the movement from passive to active. I fall
asleep, hoping that the morning will bring back the pain. At least the pain is a thing."
I'm a plague, a cancer. My mom is dead - and my father is in prison for it. I survived high school because
college was my way out. I needed to escape, to get away from my family and the people who tortured
me, but it hasn't grown any easier.
I don't pretend that I'm a good person. I drink far more than I should, and I use my best friend, Alana,
because together, we thrive on destroying each other - as well as the parts of us we hate. I don't believe
in love, but sex is fun and it also makes me feel something.
The morning I see Lily, the beautiful princess who smells inexplicably like strawberries every time I see
her, I realize I'm in trouble. I should hate her. I want to hate her, because the alternative terrifies
me. However, as she continues to crash into my life (often literally), I can't avoid feeling something
that is the one thing I swore I would never feel. I can't fall in love, because people like me don't live in a
world where love saves anyone.
She just won't go away, though, and I don't know if I can keep running. The voices and the darkness
hover over me and they threaten to bring me back to the safety of my hate, but the stupid scent of
strawberries lingers on the horizon, as something like hope.
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Author: Sarah Daltry
Cover Design: Shoutlines Design
Warning: This book deals with topics of abuse and
may trigger reactions in people who have experienced those things in their own lives. It remains a story
about healing, but it's not always an easy journey.
"Four. My life has been shaped by four people. Four men, to be more specific. My father, my
stepfather, my best friend, and my boyfriend. The first two shaped it in horrible ways, but what I am,
who I am, is all because of four men."
Over the last twenty years, I've learned how to keep secrets. It doesn't really matter, since everyone
already seems to think they know everything about me. So I hide. I avoid confrontation, I treat Xanax
like a magic pill that will make it all go away, and I become everything they think I am. A slut. A whore.
Nothing but trash.
I can only name two guys who have ever made me feel like I was more than that. Jack is my best friend
and I've loved him since I met him. Now, though, he's in love... with someone else, and I guess I need to
get over him. Somehow.
And then there's Dave. The guy I never gave a chance. The guy I used almost as much as people used
me, because I wanted to pretend I was someone worth loving. Two years have passed since we last
spoke, but I don't know how to stop thinking about him.
My new therapist is making me face my past, and she tells me that life inevitably changes without our
permission. I believe it, but I know what I am. I hear what she's saying to me, and I want to try again
with Dave, to help Jack find joy, to love myself, and to move on. I just wonder if anyone can do that,
really.
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Title: Star of Bethlehem
Author: Sarah Daltry
Cover: Shoutlines Design
18+ NA contemporary romance
This is a holiday novella-length story that
follows Forget Me Not and Lily of the Valley.
"With you, Jack, it was the first time I ever felt real. It was the first time anyone looked at me and saw
substance. It was the first time I wanted to make someone see me."
Jack: New Year's Eve. I've somehow managed to get here, and now I'm wearing a hideous and
unreasonably itchy sweater, because I want to impress Lily's family. I want to do anything for this girl
who has made me believe in second chances.
Lily: The house is beautiful and shining with light, but it feels empty. At least until Jack gets here.
I know how desperately he wants this - a family, love, a home. If I can be the person who can give it to
him, it's all I need, but I hope I can keep him from seeing how hollow it all really is.
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About the Author:
Sarah Daltry writes about the regular people who populate our lives. She's written works in various
genres - romance, erotica, fantasy, horror. Genre isn't as important as telling a story about people and
how their lives unfold. Sarah tends to focus on YA/NA characters but she's been known to shake it up.
Most of her stories are about relationships - romantic, familial, friendly - because love and empathy
are the foundation of life. It doesn't matter if the story is set in contemporary NY, historical Britain, or
a fantasy world in the future - human beings are most interesting in the ways they interact with others.
This is the principle behind all of Sarah's stories.
Sarah has spent most of her life in school, from her BA and MA in English and writing to teaching both at
the high school and college level. She also loves studying art history and really anything because learning
is fun.
When Sarah isn't writing, she tends to waste a lot of time checking Facebook for pictures of cats,
shooting virtual zombies, and simply staring out the window.
Sarah has also written Bitter Fruits, an urban fantasy romance, and Backward Compatible, a gamer geek romantic comedy.
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